I really, really dislike Ultragrrl [edited title - mod]

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Does this make me a bad person?

The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

your hostility worries me. would you settle for shooting her in the leg?

mark p (Mark P), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

The leg would do, I suppose.

The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Maybe you should adopt a British accent so she would like you better?

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

when ilxors noone bothers to notice try to make a name, stake a claim pt. 119

j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:10 (eighteen years ago) link

YOU'LL ALL NOTICE ME NOW! MUAHAHAHAHA.

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not really. I honestly do get extremely violent urges whenever I see an image of Ultragrrrl.

The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link

She seems like she's having fun, what's the harm?

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:13 (eighteen years ago) link

get in line.

Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link

See, I knew I wasn't alone. This can be the Offical "I Hate Ultragrrrl" Thread.

The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

While she seems like a nice person overall, her opinions and the writing style she uses to express those opinions are truly and indelibly horrible.

Kevin H (Kevin H), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't hate her, but she's got no tastemaker credibility based on what she likes.

Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I envy her life to a degree that it pains me.
And find her attractive.

On a Strict El Cholo Diet (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link

I mean, is she supposed to be some kind of Xgau or something? I thought she was more of a "party report" type person...hanging on the scene, and dishing, etc... like more of a gossip style columnist....

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link

here is her blog:

http://ultragrrrl.blogspot.com/

why does this warrant "shooting in the face"?

latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link

who?

hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link

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at least pick on somebody more deserving. and "shooting in the face" is just needlessly nasty and cruel sounding!

latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

She's one of these people, hstencil. I'm surprised you weren't there, knowing what a hip guy you are!

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Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I cant remember any of her posts or her name, which of course doesnt mean much as it is probably the same for everybody in relation to 90% of the posters here, including me, but her blog is retarded. I think Brainwashers hate is for scenster types or what have you, but lets avoid that topic.

jmeister (jmeister), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

It's kinda sad that I could recognize her from that Misshapes site (when I visited it the other day). I don't think I would even recognize my neighbour (not true, but you know what I mean).

I think she's okay. She's not *my type*. She loves Soulwax a little too much for my liking, but other than that, she seems fun. Why the hate? The comments on her blog are really crazy. does she still write for Spin?

nathalie's baby (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Would you shoot a face with these tits?

The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, sorta.

rett bratner (deangulberry), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

she has a post about dinosaurs! awesome!

It's been a while since I've checked out the science section of Yahoo! and to my luck, when I finally did, I found out about a new dinosaur exhbit at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. The exhibit called Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries, appears to focus on the new evidence that suggests that some dinos had feathers and wings and were way more birdlike than previously thought. For even the most basic of science nerd wannabes like myself, the knowledge that dinos and birds are closely related is old news, but it appears that this exhibit probably probes deeper inside this, and shows new evidence and theories. My friend Dave (who is in town to perform on monday at Lit as The Lost Weekend -- he sounds a bit like Nick Cave and surprisingly great -- and if you're from LA you might know him as Hardcore Dave from Swingers) and Brian have both already agreed to come with me to the exhibit, and if I can about 10 others it'll be like a reinactment of the class trip I took to the museum as a kiddie. I wonder if the dinosaurs will seem as big -- probably since I grew only about 4 inches since then.

her music taste is questionable to say the least but how could you actively wish violence upon her?

latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link

latebloomer is Ultragrrrl.

The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

cumonherface.com

Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know how people could be envious of Ultragrrrl so I don't know how they could hate her.

miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Ultragrrrrl's blog assumes that since I am using a WAP gateway I want WAP instead of HTML. :((((

Her book cover makes her worthy of disembowelment.

Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link

Ultragrrrl = classic.

Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link

(Clearly some people wish they could be so classic, miccio.)

Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link

JW: she has a book?

latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:13 (eighteen years ago) link

Yes, Ultragrrrl, you have a book.

The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link

i have never been to misshapes. i met the main dude once, he was nice enough for a rambling drugged up dude at 7 in the mornin'.

i reserve shooting in the face for people who are, y'know, actually evil.

hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link

hee hee

miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link

i just died a little.

Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link

is that the hipster ipod?

Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link

rock journalism was doing so well until ultragrrl ruined it. : (

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I TAKE BACK EVERYTHING

latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:23 (eighteen years ago) link

i'd wait until you see it have some sort of cultural influence before getting too upset.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/082232184X.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:25 (eighteen years ago) link

miccio do not invoke the wrath of decurtis. powerful forces are at work that we do not fully understand.

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link

def shoot her, with blanks, close up, so she bruises all over

breezy, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I wonder if she's always going to be known as Ultragrrrl.

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I wonder if she's always going to be known

miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link

True. I was just thinking about how "Ultragrrl" is in the title of her book, and wondering if that was a smart choice, but then figured that's how most people know her, if they know her at all.

jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:31 (eighteen years ago) link

ok, now she deserves a hard titty-twister

The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link

She's been immortalized by her countless appearances on such fine VH1 programs as "Awesomely Bad Songs of 2004" and "The Fugliest Rockstars EVA."

The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link

again, I don't know how anyone could envy her and therefore hate her. Unless you're mad she's tainting otherwise fine VH1 programming.

miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't know who this thread is about, but I find the title distasteful. I hope you can curb some of these impulses and find an untapped font of positive energy.

Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Shut it hippie.

The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link

You're not really trying, I feel.

Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link

We've had other Ultragrrl (and how bad she sucks) thread before, no? I seem to remember suggesting that she should be fired out of a large poop canon into a murky peat bog.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Also haha yeah, I am weirded out by what I'm about to say, but Ott is vastly OTM about one thing, which says what I mean here in a lot fewer words:

you have essentially written a cover story lionizing budding music magnate Sarah Lewitinn's resilience in the face of nasty blog comments. Others have noted, with varying incredulity, how totally ridiculous this is.

nabisco, Monday, 19 March 2007 23:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, you can't do Hamlet without Hamlet.

Chris Ott, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh man, I can't believe it took me this long to pick up on the "Bigmouth Strikes Again" reference with that iPod!

nabisco, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 00:41 (seventeen years ago) link

http://joebrower.com/PHILE_PILE/PIX/FR/screw_ball.jpg

da croupier, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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da croupier, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 00:42 (seventeen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
Not to revive too much here, but I have to note the following irony: the most critical letter printed about the Ultragrrl cover story came from a guy who once somehow managed to get the Voice to run a story he wrote about a side project of a band he used to be in.

nabisco, Thursday, 5 April 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

IRL CONSEQUENCES

deej, Thursday, 5 April 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost Chemical Romance?

stevienixed, Thursday, 5 April 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

FACT: wrinklepaws hates Ultragrrl

am0n, Thursday, 5 April 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

am0n, whats his opinion on Perpetua?

deej, Thursday, 5 April 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

He think's he's fluxtastic.

Dom Passantino, Thursday, 5 April 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

isn't he going by UltraPerrrp now?

Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 5 April 2007 23:57 (seventeen years ago) link

eight months pass...

i forget she is a little bit hot

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 15 December 2007 07:42 (sixteen years ago) link

she looks like trayce in that last pic.

J0rdan S., Saturday, 15 December 2007 07:45 (sixteen years ago) link

lol

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 15 December 2007 07:49 (sixteen years ago) link

would not smash

El Tomboto, Saturday, 15 December 2007 08:27 (sixteen years ago) link

of course, she looks like you in drag

Crêpe, Saturday, 15 December 2007 08:36 (sixteen years ago) link

wham bam

J0rdan S., Saturday, 15 December 2007 08:48 (sixteen years ago) link

not even close

El Tomboto, Saturday, 15 December 2007 08:54 (sixteen years ago) link

doesn't she just sort of pick bands who are tipped by nme or whatever anyway, and then go "hey guyz, there's this hot noo band..."

pc user, Saturday, 15 December 2007 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link

Aw, she looks happy.

Also, it's probably sad that one of the first things i noticed was her Burned-on-iTunes-using-default-blue-CD-cover-template CD-R scrapbook in the second pic.

Mackro Mackro, Saturday, 15 December 2007 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link

She looks a little like my sister-in-law's partner.

HI DERE, Saturday, 15 December 2007 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link

that was a really shitty article

omar little, Sunday, 16 December 2007 02:38 (sixteen years ago) link

three years pass...

Hello…
Below is the typical PR note… basic gist: There’s a cover of Air’s “Sexy Boy” in a new AXE commercial… links for posting below.
xo Sarah Lewitinn / Ultragrrrl

Hi!

Today, AXE is set to launch its new tempting fragrance Excite with a television commercial featuring an exclusive cover of Air’s 1998 classic, “Sexy Boy,” by the choir group The Fallen Angels. Here’s the link to the video and the song:

Watch the commercial:
:30 version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J6ie2ZiCGI
:60 version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qskcmabLuQ

Hear the song in full:
Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/axeexcite/the-fallen-angels-sexy-boy
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sexy-boy-single/id410813104

Would you be interested in posting this to your site? Let us know if you’d like to sample the new products as well.

For More Information about AXE and to follow AXE in the social spaces:
AXE on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/AXE
AXE on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/AXE
AXE on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/AXE
http://www.theaxeeffect.com/

About AXE Excite:
Developed by world-renowned fragrance experts, AXE Excite combines a seductive blend of gourmet notes such as caramel, coconut and hazelnut, and evolves into a lingering edgy aroma that tempts the senses.

Excite is available at most food, drug and mass retail outlets for a suggested retail price of:

* $4.99 for Deodorant Bodyspray, Deodorant Stick and Antiperspirant Invisible Solid
* $3.99 for Shower Gel



THANKS!!!

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Thank you. That is all.

bang-proof-bling-mans (forksclovetofu), Monday, 28 February 2011 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link

Yeah, there it is, up on the site.

Send the smellies round then!

Mark G, Monday, 28 February 2011 17:16 (thirteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Somewhere between cheery and strained. But surprisingly cheery.

Ned Raggett, Saturday, 28 January 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link

I used to hang with Jay Z at work, would hang with courtney love for days at a time, got kissed by members of the smiths, felt like i belonged, got kidnapped by the killers (almost famous-style), had bands play my apt, danced & laughed til i fell, watched sunrises with boys i fell in love with, felt loved by friends, felt loved by music, and survived. My days and nights were never ending.

ok a 31-year-old get all teary-eyed about 'the good old days' is bumming me out

markarles (some dude), Saturday, 28 January 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, I was thinking that 32 sounded a little young to turn into a middle-aged homebody.

Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Saturday, 28 January 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link

it happened to me, and i've never even been kissed by jay z!

scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link

^ this

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 28 January 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link

I'm 31 and vaguely intended to out tonight but now it's about an hour before I'd need to get on the bus and I'm feeling fairly content to sit on the sofa and do nothing of any use or interest instead, exactly as has happened every other time I thought I might go out over the past year. And I've never been kissed by Jay-Z or any members of the Smiths.

Schleimpilz im Labyrinth (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 28 January 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link

i'm 30 and definitely an old homebody in a lot of ways but if i sat around thinking about how much more i "felt loved by friends" a few years ago, jesus

markarles (some dude), Saturday, 28 January 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link

You are all mere babies.

I completely forgot about her. It always creeped me out how much she looks like Brian Molko.

ENBB, Saturday, 28 January 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link

(xp) true. it sounds like she was actually pretty unhappy at the time in which she "belonged" and her "days and nights were never ending" too.

I can relate to that romanticised view of former stressful, busy, pretty shitty life phase too, though admittedly on a much less glamorous scale...

Schleimpilz im Labyrinth (a passing spacecadet), Saturday, 28 January 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link

its like being a former child star or a former pop star. the phone doesn't ring like it used to...

she says in that online chat thing that she wanted to die/kill herself when she ran a label. i didn't even know she had run a label. all was not sweetness and light in utragrrrrrl world.

scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link

well i think there's something to be said for the notion that it must really be psychologically--i don't want to say "painful" because who knows--altering to be such an "it" person for a brief period of time and coasting on something that really isn't going to last, and then going back down to earth. i'm sure it's weird to know that your apex of fame has come and gone (though i guess it's only harmful if you care too much about that fact!)

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this is funny u bitter dork (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 January 2012 22:14 (twelve years ago) link

me irl

markers, Saturday, 28 January 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link

like being a successful athlete or - hey - a rock star, figuring out what to do w/the rest of yr life is a bitch

demolition with discretion (m coleman), Saturday, 28 January 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link

Wow. I really disliked her writing back then. Now though, I can't help liking her.

Nathalie (stevienixed), Monday, 30 January 2012 00:05 (twelve years ago) link

I would like to read more interviews with hip people five years after anyone who once had, stopped giving a shit about them.

誤訳侮辱, Monday, 30 January 2012 02:59 (twelve years ago) link

is it too soon for hipster grifter?

Wie wol ich bin der vogel has noch den erfret mich das (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 January 2012 03:48 (twelve years ago) link

lol

J0rdan S., Monday, 30 January 2012 03:48 (twelve years ago) link

I was going to wait at least one more year before busting out my korean abgom-jabbar dn

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 30 January 2012 04:00 (twelve years ago) link

two years pass...

motorjew??

j., Wednesday, 4 June 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link

five years pass...

I was recently called out on Twitter about this thread. Suffice to say, back in the late 90's through early 2000's, I expressed a profoundly ill-advised selection of roundly ill-advised, insensitive and objectionable comments here, usually couched within the frequently missed understanding that I should not be taken so deathly seriously.

Some people may have gleaned as much, but others did not. It is certainly not a a testament to my abilities to convey my genuine points that my venom and bluster was so routinely taken at face value. Moreover, I was probably frequently inconsiderate, unthinking and impulsive about the things I contributed here.

In short, I was a callously unthinking dick quite a lot of the time. Having big opinions about things shouldn't give one license to behave like I did, and I was out of line on more than a few occasions, this thread being just one of them.

In any case, I believe I penned a mea culpa on my blog some years ago to the same effect but it bears repeating. I am sorry. I did not mean any harm. I was foolish and stupid. I sincerely apologize to Ultrragrrl, Scout Niblett and any number of other targets i singled out for spleen-venting.

I regret it all.

Alex in NYC, Monday, 20 April 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link

"I expressed a profoundly ill-advised selection of roundly ill-advised.."

Awful.

One more thing on this: i used to blithely suggest that no one's day should be ruined by something they read on a public forum about music, as if that was some shiny badge that enabled me to be callous, boorish, pig-headed and insulting. Well, that's a pile of crap, and I again apologize. Regardless of the subject matter of a discussion, there's never an excuse for being a belittling jerk. I was and am that jerk, and I apologize again.

Alex in NYC, Monday, 20 April 2020 17:36 (four years ago) link


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