sorry huge, someone below the fold probably made that reference allready anyway
― dsb, Monday, 1 October 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
tim it is pretty baffling to me that you did postgraduate studies in crit theory since you are like, the clearest writer ever
― flopson, Monday, 1 October 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
Law was a pretty good counterweight - my problem in that dept is that I'm still too elliptical and roundabout at times.
― Tim F, Monday, 1 October 2012 20:09 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.startribune.com/local/west/49134952.html?page=all&refer=y
― flopson, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
I love this portrait of Claire Boucher. Sriracha on iPad:
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mej3ou7NuT1qzcdbeo1_500.jpg
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
I guess it's a good thing for music fans that they couldn't get that engine working. xp
― o. nate, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://deadgirlfriends.tumblr.com/post/39420019737/how-do-you-feel-about-trolls
― markers, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
I saw this album on a lot of year-end lists and I took a flyer on Amazon. I'm glad that I did. It reminds me of Austra, who I also adore, in that is seems perfectly accessible to me. I cannot wait to play this for the wife.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 27 January 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
TMI
― zero dark (s1ocki), Sunday, 27 January 2013 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
Okay somebody explain the Tumblr post/Pitchfork repost kerfluffle today; I don't quite know what happened there.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
Although I see this now
http://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
From what I understand, people were giving her shit for her year end list at some publication, which featured some fairly universally loved pop songs/artists. She wrote a tumblr post this morning going into a detailed defense of it. Other blogs and eventually Pitchfork picked up on it. She said her tumblr isn't any kind of offical statement or news source, and then promptly deleted everything she'd ever posted on there.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
whether or not an artist's blog post is legitimate news from a news org's perspective is one question... i don't really agree with grimes tho
― d'eejban (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
lol tumblr
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
Weird, I was reading that Tumblr post 30 minutes or so. Seemed relatively uncontroversial stuff, but then young ppl I guess.
― eskimo table (seandalai), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:19 (eleven years ago) link
gotta lock up yr diaryland, grimes
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
xp j0rdan u don't agree that listening to pop music is ok?
― flopson, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
lol, not that part
― d'eejban (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:21 (eleven years ago) link
<3 grimes
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
man that's really sad. i just read the pitchfork thing, she is smart & says good stuff.
― schlump, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
yeah
― flopson, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
Biggups Grimes! I don't care much for your music but you sure know yr onions.
― dog latin, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ sticker quote
― zero dark (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
Attacking her for these opinions is bullshit
― Raymond Cummings, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
leave britney alone
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
I don't care much for your music but you sure know yr onions.
yes
― ron paulstretch (crüt), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
& I don't care much for the music she's defending but I "get it" and am glad it exists
I like that she sees her creative process as swinging between making Dune albums and LOTR albums
― Moodles, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
didn't grimes recently say she'll be posting to her tumblr a lot more often for the fans? seems a little strange to go from that to deleting every post you've made
― ☕ (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
what is grimes hiding?
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
you can't hide from internet caches, "grimes"
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
It seems weird to delete your whole Tumblr just because someone publishes your intelligent points at length and in context but then she's smart, intense and volatile so I guess it fits.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
I think she did because people were being dicks
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:50 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, I thought she wrote it in response to people being dicks about her EOY list.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
afaik people never stop being dicks.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, it's fair game for her to take it down. it sucks for the rest of us, but clearly many people on the Internet are massive dicks who think we don't deserve intelligent discourse.
― ron paulstretch (crüt), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
the only rule is don't be a dick
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
too many dicks
― Moodles, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
xposts. four "dicks" posts in a row. sorry for the gendered language.
xposts again.
― ron paulstretch (crüt), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
dicks will never stop being dicks on the internet
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
mydickband
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
Her EOY list contained Bieber, massive dick attractor.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
i was listening to 'visions' this morning on the turntable, my kid was going back and forth from speaker to speaker laying his hands on the sound vibrations. he loves it.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
my 2yo daughter likes it too but the one song that starts with a loud robot voice scares her
― dmr, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
It freaked me out a bit too at first, if I wasn't expecting it.
What was the actual list?
― Tim F, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
Feel a bit sketchy posting this when she's taken it down, but what the hell it's only a list:
best songs of 2012Psy - Gangnam StyleMajor Lazer - get freeLana Del Rey - ride, National Anthem, Summertime SadnessUsher - ClimaxBieber - beauty and a beatCarly rae - call me maybeHaim - foreverTaylor Swift - TroubleKitty Pryde - okay cupiddid anything else really good come out in 2012?————————————————-OKAY i totally forgot about julia holter — i think four gardens is just an incredible song and the first version of goddess eyes. Also doldrums… altho maybe that record isn’t out also what that was by majical cloudz. <3also i just want to say i love the swans record, but there obviously aren’t ‘singles’ haha.
Psy - Gangnam Style
Major Lazer - get free
Lana Del Rey - ride, National Anthem, Summertime Sadness
Usher - Climax
Bieber - beauty and a beat
Carly rae - call me maybe
Haim - forever
Taylor Swift - Trouble
Kitty Pryde - okay cupid
did anything else really good come out in 2012?
————————————————-
OKAY i totally forgot about julia holter — i think four gardens is just an incredible song and the first version of goddess eyes.
Also doldrums… altho maybe that record isn’t out
also what that was by majical cloudz. <3
also i just want to say i love the swans record, but there obviously aren’t ‘singles’ haha.
― eskimo table (seandalai), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
Good list. People are dicks.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 6 February 2013 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
I suppose you could read "did anything else really good come out in 2012?" as an invitation to troll, although she may well have meant it as a genuine q to her fans.
She is right about "Four Gardens", although now I've seen it performed live with drum & bass interludes I wish Julia would release an expanded/updated version.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 22:12 (eleven years ago) link
she chose the wrong bieber single!
still don't fully get why the only excellent thing she's done caused such delete-my-tumblr drama
― lex pretend, Thursday, 7 February 2013 08:08 (eleven years ago) link
obv the people who were being dicks to her need to be shot