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

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Then again, people send me free stuff, and I do things like post pictures of Chinese bridal parties, so it's most likely everyone involved is just deluded rather than actively evil.

-- breezy (breezypoint7...), June 7th, 2005

"oh, too malicious"

on the mark/on the money

Not as vile as that one site that kept calling her "Jewish" as an insult. And not even in a funny way!

(Does anyone have a copy of this and feel like posting some gems?)

What are we talking about again?

I actually intened at SPIN in 1989, and my then-boss (if you can call her a boss, being that I wasn't getting paid or anything....just ripping off tons of SPIN "sportswear" and albums that Legs McNeil wasn't going to touch with a ten foot barge pole) had a similar sort've aesthetic as Ultragrrrl. She'd fawn and swoon over bands like the Wonder Stuff, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, EAT, Kingmaker, etc. etc. I mean, I liked these bands as well -- but evidently for very different reasons (while I thought he was dead cool at the time, I harbored no desire to get in Miles Hunt's trousers). She later moved onto another job that dealt more with TV/movies and applied the same sort've approach there (and seemingly completely lost interest in music).

In re-reading this, I'm realizing that I'm sounding like a pompous, sexist rock snob (I know...SHOCKAH!). Liking bands primarily because you want to sleep with them just seems kinda shallow and stupid to me.

Moreover, the whole premise of her book (not that I've read it, mind you) just sort've smacks of striving to make the right IMPRESSION. It's like those Rolling Stone guides from about a decade back (remember them? They were sized like a compact disc). They'd espouse albums seemingly solely for folks who just wanted to have the "right" discs on their shelves, so when people came over, they'd say: "Ooh, Gerald, you're so ecclectic! You have LL Cool J AND Slint!"

Then again, I haven't read her book: Maybe she talks more about resources with which to find out about new and or obscure music, as opposed to musicians who are really cute and shaggable. But I doubt it.

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.

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

You are all mere babies.

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

(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...

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.

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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me irl

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

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

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

is it too soon for hipster grifter?

lol

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

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motorjew??

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.

"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.