zach braff iz yer god

i can say on pretty good authority that he's definitely not seeing the playlists from his alma mater's radio station.

Cary is currently in the studio working on his first full length release which will hit stores everywhere in the fall of 2006.

Find this PR flack and shoot him.

http://plig.org/things/pictures/tn/sniper.med.jpg

weaving a mellow and sorrowful musical tapestry that is, for lack of a better term, cinematic.

Let that sink in for a few moments. It will change your life.

What a horribly bland selection.

I KNOWW!! Stick to being my favourite dorky doctor please.

Oh, PopMatters! You have now lost me as a regular reader, but I plead with you, for the sake of readers who may stumble upon your site in the future, stop publishing banal, obvious, challop-filled articles.

Their latest feature that made me question the worth of their entire publication : Bored New World: How the Zach Braff Prototype Is Slowly Killing American Music

Choice quote:

A few years later, Natalie Portman popped headphones onto Zach Braff’s head and said flatly, “This song will change your life.” The resulting sound was not only that of carefully composed dullness (thank you, Shins), but of a million wealthy white kids investing in dull acoustic music to soundtrack their own romantic melodrama. Youth culture is now practically sponsored by iTunes and Starbucks, and if that’s not a class statement, I don’t know what is. Every commercial features acoustic meanderings with a whispering, confessional androgynous voice. Entire movies are soundtracked by the supposedly self-aware acoustic stylings of Joe Latte. Percussion and humor are nowhere to be found. Neither is a pulse.

I know, they're really concerned, "Oh shit, we lost noted ILX resident Wilco fan/indie kid kshighway! What next??"

Maybe the whole article is a meta thing.

challops? isnt that what everyone thinks?

Go read the whole article, seriously. There is no way everyone on ILM agrees with all of this dude's points.

Actually, kevin, don't read it. I wouldn't want to be the one responsible for suggesting ANYONE waste 15 minutes of their life reading that.

then why'd you choose to illustrate it with a passage that reads like pretty much every post on this thread before yours

I didn't read the first part of this thread. I was just looking for a logical place to park a comment about a music-related article about Zach Braff.

And seriously, I'm sure people on ILM would agree with aspects of the dude's argument, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find someone who would endorse even half of it.

tbh ive got no interest in reading anyone's opinion on zach braff's influence on music

'noted'

The whole article's only tangentially related to Zach Braff. I looked for another passage to excerpt, but I can't find a good paragraph to pick out that would sum up the dude's whole argument nicely.

Mentally switch "mocked relentlessly" for "noted."

I'm not deluded enough to think anyone here actually values most of my contributions to the board. It's ok.

i'll tell you what, this sentence is something else, lemmetella. i had to read this, like, ten times:

"MySpace cyber-hocks chubby prep schoolers as Johnny Folk Hero, uninspired girls rejoice, and countless mix tapes are drafted for kids who don’t love each other back, while everyone everywhere who has nothing better to do—and the means to do it—sings along in the plaintive falsetto of their privileged soul."

"I'm not deluded enough to think anyone here actually values most of my contributions to the board. It's ok."

calm down. take a deep breath.

provide links to funny interesting stuff sometimes too. i like to read. but sad stories like this are kind of a bummer to read.

taking sides: Johnny Folk Hero vs Joe Latte

Is Pop Matters EVER worth reading, though?

sure

the comments are great:

"This article was a waste of time. Don’t lump Nashville in with your wannabe clever ramblings that belong in 2005. Where were you when Be Your Own Pet were screaming about fucking shit up? More recently, what about Jeff the Brotherhood, Deluxin’, even How I Became the Bomb? I’m not convinced that you’re in Nashville and if you want some smoke, go check out the 5 Spot in East Nashville. In the meantime, get over yourself."

where was *I* when Be Your Own Pet were screaming about fucking shit up? where was i indeed. i wish i could remember.

"Where were you (when Be Your Own Pet were screaming about fucking shit up?)"

Still Alan Jackson's finest moment.

this link changed your life

provide links to funny interesting stuff sometimes too. i like to read. but sad stories like this are kind of a bummer to read.

― scott seward, Monday, October 26, 2009 10:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Will do! :-)

The problem is simple: Kids stopped taking enough acid.

Is this Pop Matters dude recovering from a coma or something? Or does it always take half a decade for them to get upset about stuff?

I think the main problem with the article is that the dude is trying to bite off more than he can chew. If he wants to make a grand statement about art as self-entitlement in the Facebook age, then the examples he corrals (Zach Braff movies, anonymous Nashville singer-songwriters) are too narrow and personal. If he just wants to rant about the commercialization of indie rock and the current preference for the tasteful/acoustic/confessional over the visceral/loud/entertaining, then he could rein in his argument a lot more.

Yeah, this is where editors are supposed to do their job.

This kid is just screaming for some Springsteen.

a time-line would have been more fun for an article:

1971 - harold & maude

1976 - the boy in the plastic bubble

1980 - still life with woodpecker

1996 - tigermilk

1998 - rushmore

1999 - pink moon vw ad

2003 - postal service album

2004 - garden state

2008/9 - watching M83 videos over and over again on youtube

or maybe not. but it was fun anyway! feel free to make your own twee-line.

doh, should have ended with where the wild things are obviously.

u no in interview where ppl are always like "i grew up listening to motown/the beatles/the cure" whatever their parents liked, there is gonna be a future generation who grew up listening to the shins and arcade fire think abt it

and they will be about 1% different from the kids who grew up listening to simon and garfunkel and...I dunno, what's a 60s version of the arcade fire

http://djdiddywah.com/pix/LemonPipers.jpg

actually, that's unfair to the lemon pipers. maybe:

http://home.comcast.net/~bubblegumusic/cowsillmilk.jpg

Buffy St. Marie?

shit, but i like the cowsills way more too. hmmm, this is hard.

i just meant itll be funny when ppl are all "remember when music was GOOD like Grizzly Bear?"

they will also probably be saying stuff about kids these days being out of control

more like:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Q0RIUEKrwmI/SUuCZIVmfrI/AAAAAAAAA6E/ynCReepW8A4/s400/6308+-+Ramblin.jpg

remember the good old days when everyone could just make fun of the polyphonic spree? those were the days.

are any of these groups canadian? cause the arcade fire's defining characteristic is being canadian and if you don't believe that you should ask some 20 year old canadian who likes them.

remember the day when everyone traded in the moldy peaches cd they had mistakenly bought and vowed from that moment on to never speak of them again? thanks a lot, juno!

adam green's first two albums are still awesome imo

I assumed kshighway was saying the article was shit because it was about 3 or 4 years too late to be cutting anymore.

i am shocked that kshighway1 would revive a lazy indie-hate thread. so unlike him!