― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― breezy, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― breezy, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― feminazi (feminazi), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:05 (eighteen years ago) link
-- breezy (breezypoint7...), June 7th, 2005
"oh, too malicious"
on the mark/on the money
― latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
Not as vile as that one site that kept calling her "Jewish" as an insult. And not even in a funny way!
― Eppy (Eppy), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― breezy, Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link
(Does anyone have a copy of this and feel like posting some gems?)
― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― feminazi (feminazi), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 7 June 2005 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 01:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― h0t h0t h0rsey (Carey), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 03:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 04:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― latebloomer: Pain Don't Hurt (latebloomer), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 04:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 05:13 (eighteen years ago) link
What are we talking about again?
― Yakuza Ghost Six (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 05:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 12:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link
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.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cool Hand Luuke (ex machina), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:52 (eighteen years ago) link
A Too Much Joy song comes to mind.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link
On VH1 right now, SPIN's Sarah "Ultragrrrl" Lewitinn just called Eminem's "Lose Yourself" one of "the greatest pop songs....EVER!"
I didn't actually say I wanted to shoot her out of a poop canon, but I did say she made me want to blow up the world....which is still more or less true. That said, this thread did devolve into a discussion about her arguable "chunky troll legs," which seemed a bit offsides.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
No, it doesn't. I think the girls in BOND are entirely sexy and shaggable and whatnot, but I'd sooner suck a car's muffler than actively listen to their music.
Aren't you confusing liking a band and liking their music?
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Well, you don't have to listen to their music. Who are BOND? I thought you were talking about the film franchise for a moment.
― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link
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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
http://boingboing.net/2014/06/03/record-producerdj-sarah-ul.html
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 June 2014 18:05 (nine years ago) link
motorjew??
― j., Wednesday, 4 June 2014 18:09 (nine years ago) link
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