Pitchfork's Chris Ott takes No Prisoners

At least old-ILX has retreated into the foothills of social media

Big ott

http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Entertainment/images-5/over-the-top-poster.jpg

with every blow, comes another lie

can't you feel the 'fork?

Wait a minute, "The Orc"? WHAT Orc?

http://students.english.ilstu.edu/rwohara/creation/Orcs.jpg

Needs more bennies, that one.

balls otm

balls otm and i am cringing so hard at the lack of dignity on display, what is wrong with people

@shallowrewards no I don't want to sleep with you. Stop drunk tweeting and feeling sorry for yourself and take care of your family

I dunno, I like him.

― abcfsk, Sunday, August 18, 2013 10:20 PM

ban this guy. ott-sock.

It's funny. Another community in which Ott embedded himself (Hipinion) seems to think he's a total badass for acting like this.

yeah, the 'you're a gay nazi and I HAVE KIDS" combo is pretty symptomatic

strong self-hatred vibes coming through there, you don't have to be lee edelman to notice that homosexuality is thereby constructed as the decadent/self-indulgent/"sterile" alternative to a manly life of grumpy breadwinning self-sacrifice- it's a common rhetorical move when social conservatives make it, weirdly exotic coming from an indie rock "critic", here it is served with a twist i.e. "now that gays can adopt, you better man up and start a gay family or you're a decadent, bad gay". Fuck that shit.

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.rankopedia.com/CandidatePix/78767.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.rankopedia.com/Favourite-Movie-From-Luchino-Visconti/Step1/21025/.htm&h=475&w=262&sz=16&tbnid=7jc4Ih58aIGh6M:&tbnh=186&tbnw=102&zoom=1&usg=__okZUs9BZUnaOX3LBhSCxBqteycI=&docid=t0vatSPLuv_1yM&sa=X&ei=fDYSUoeiC46i4APV2YGgBQ&ved=0CC0Q9QEwAA&dur=55

shit, there's people here that think Ott "won" that exchange, so who knows.

strong self-hatred vibes coming through there, you don't have to be lee edelman to notice that homosexuality is thereby constructed as the decadent/self-indulgent/"sterile" alternative to a manly life of grumpy breadwinning self-sacrifice- it's a common rhetorical move when social conservatives make it, weirdly exotic coming from an indie rock "critic", here it is served with a twist i.e. "now that gays can adopt, you better man up and start a gay family or you're a decadent, bad gay". Fuck that shit.

Or he's straight-up trolling like a 13-year-old on his first computer, which might be as bad.

Who here thinks Ott 'won'? Ott comes across as a nasty, attention-seeking bigot, and Droste comes across as a decent, polite human being faced with a torrent of twitter effluent.

So according to droste's tweets, ott got fired from pfork? Was it just because he was a lousy critic or was there something interesting behind it?

When is Scik Mouthy's Grizzly Bear audition?

didn't he get booted after the exchange about the dude from Hello Nasty PR a whiles back?

so seriously, his argument is that Grizzly Bear benefited from the holocaust because they licensed their music to Volkswagen?

~think abt it~

and is he really dissing whiney on twitter? now he's really gone too far. that's our job!

okay, i weighed in on this subject:

scott seward ‏@skotrok
Chris Ott Is Seriously The Worst Thing Ever.
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didn't he get booted after the exchange about the dude from Hello Nasty PR a whiles back?

― the husbster (self-professed octopus expert) (stevie), Monday, August 19, 2013 11:46 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was Brent D.

is ott reading this thread? he must be. hello, ott

Ott and Weingarten need to form some kind of combustible rockcrit version of Kriss Kross.

The Mack Dad'll make you TAKE! NAZI MONEY!

never heard of this guy, but at least in the old days ppl who soiled themselves in public like this put out good records

(alb1n1, c0sl0y)

Ott and Weingarten need to form some kind of combustible rockcrit version of Kriss Kross.

― some dude, Monday, August 19, 2013 6:03 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Insane Crit Posse

was Brent D also an ilxor for a short while? my memory is so fuzzy on this stuff, thankfully.

Gathering of the Beefalos

Brent D himself posts way upthread.

Chris Ott's music:

https://play.spotify.com/artist/595bn4OFL0PEUkfW6ITeQq?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open

I've never listened to it.

that shows impressive restraint for someone who posts the link

I listened to the first track, which was basically like having a mosquito buzz my ear for two minutes

really? hmm, maybe he should start a band with whiney.

i don't think ott got fired from PF but if he did it was suicide by cop

Nice to see that Totally is up to his old tricks.

I wonder if Ed Droste ever posted on Pitchfork Smackdown.

So...failed musician and failed writer-about-music? Shit, it's no wonder he's degenerated into basement video-blogging. I'm just surprised he's clothed while on camera.

the rest of this ott album is pretty cool actually

the first track isn't representative

it's not great but there's some cool stuff going on in parts

though i think it's kinda dumb that everyone who does music as a hobby is automatically called a "failed musician" this just seems like a guy making some weird beats for fun

while i agree, i think it would be fair to call ott a "frustrated musician" as he's a musician and clearly frustrated

I'm not talking about commercial prospects. I listened to his music, and it fails. As music.

EPIC OTT FAIL

though i think it's kinda dumb that everyone who does music as a hobby is automatically called a "failed musician" this just seems like a guy making some weird beats for fun

putting it up on spotify implies that you want it to be more than a hobby though.

we are all failed musician

that's not really true. lots of people puts lots of stuff up everywhere. still hate the ott though.

quality of ott's music or grizzly bear's music or size of island's owned by either or number of courses at the meal you ate last week should have no bearing on what is fucked up twitter harassment in the name of "criticism"

oh yeah he seems like a total fucking dick no question