it's like 'he attended this school and is originally from this somewhat nearby town, which is like watching people drive through your town to avoid traffic jams.'
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link
when Ott blogs, he creates his own reality. And while we’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — he’ll blog again, creating other new realities, which we can study too, and that’s how things will sort out.
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:00 (ten years ago) link
haha
― goole, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:01 (ten years ago) link
Lots of people say they don't read Pitchfork. They do.
actual lol
― dude (Lamp), Tuesday, May 20, 2014 12:52 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
my mom has been denying that she has a problem....i went through her browser history and there it was...the url for the stream of the new hercules and love affair ;_;
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:01 (ten years ago) link
You read it when someone reblogs or retweets them; you follow “attribution” back-links to understand why every other site on the Internet is shitting out second-stage coverage of Something Pitchfork Did.
The last thing I read on Pitchfork was their update of the Flaming Lips saga...which was shat-out second-stage coverage of Something Rolling Stone Did.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
Anthony can probably even afford his own health care plan.
bennies
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 18:11 (ten years ago) link
the Chevy Cruze is actually not a bad car, terrible name but a decent ride tbh
― Now I Am Become Dracula (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
omg ums
― hella good Jewish homies (DJP), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:31 (ten years ago) link
it is GM's top selling vehicle after all
― the glimmer man (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
shallow-rewards:mbmelodies:The Needle Drop Reviews Kyary Pamyu PamyuSo this is a very conflicting review for me personally. First, the negative…
So this is a very conflicting review for me personally. First, the negative…
lmao
― original bgm, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link
http://images.dazedcdn.com/1000x800/dd/1070/3/1073071.JPG
― original bgm, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 21:08 (ten years ago) link
Never got to the positive
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 21:36 (ten years ago) link
i started writing a little bit for pfork and guess what, lots of people *don't even know what pitchfork is*. and lots of people know what it is *but don't care*.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 20 May 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
that was actually mbmelodies assessing needle dropbro's faulty ideas about j-pop
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 23:07 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHs81dv0y9s
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 20 May 2014 23:51 (ten years ago) link
A lot of people say they don't read Tyler's essays about Pavement bootlegs. They do.
― dollar rave club (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 00:39 (ten years ago) link
A lot of people say they don't read my stuff. They do.
― $90k plus bennies (CJ IN THE CUT), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/h2VO2Kz.jpg
― 龜, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 14:18 (ten years ago) link
http://m.memegen.com/y0xdkf.jpg
― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Wednesday, 21 May 2014 14:35 (ten years ago) link
i can't believe how long this guys bluster has gone on. keep negatively sub-tweeting musicians into your 40s you brave soul. you're really saving music
― hackshaw, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 19:54 (nine years ago) link
whenever i read about this dude and his "ideas" i think his social circle must be incredibly narrow and circumscribed because he writes about stuff in the "rock" world with no perspective or sense of proportion whatsoever. as if he had no idea that there were other taste groups, other realms of human experience.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:00 (nine years ago) link
more narrow than that, the "indie rock" world
it's like his world is coextensive with the walls of a college radio station
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
..and even more narrow than that, the "indie rock" world of his past
his views are completely archaic at this point
― hackshaw, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
i sort of still stand behind my theory that he's behind a certain widely hated ilx poster/troll/potential sock whom i think we all know, though some v solid holes were poked it it elsewhere
in any case, yeah, his schtick is utterly pathetic, and aside from a small cult audience of TROO BELIEVERZ all his reads/video views/twitter TL scrolls are probably of the "lol i can't believe this dude" variety. its gamergate logic with less sexism (or at least less violent sexism), applied to music and music writing.
yeah chris, everyone's a sellout, p4k has corporate sponsorship (OMG NOOOO HOW COULD THAT HAPPEN *clutches pearls*) and some obscure-ass vaguely postpunk or noise or whateverthefuck bands you saw in allston or NYC when you were in your 20s are the only real musicians. real brave of you to point that out. finally, it's hilarious to think that he honestly thinks p4k cares as much about him as he does about them.
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:11 (nine years ago) link
tbh it seems like a "twlight zone" premise: some revenant from my college radio days returns 20 years later still complaining about the same shit in the same terms, referencing the same bands, wearing the same t-shirts. it's unsettling and almost kind of uncanny.
― I dunno. (amateurist), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
how many new artists does he even take on? to my understanding he specifically targets a lot of these vaguely 90's revisionist college rock bands (Speedy Ortiz) that only a scant few people give a shit about anyway.
i guess it's his chance to have a "moment" in the scene that neglected him. whatever helps you sleep at night bud
― hackshaw, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
dude's got bennies he can get treated for sleep apnea if he wants
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
yeah man an apnea sleep mask isn't even that expensive with decent insurance
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 21:17 (nine years ago) link
that might be an actual problem of his tho
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 21:18 (nine years ago) link
he's currently harrassing craig jenkins (forgive me for not knowing his poster name if indeed he is on ILX, i'm still a relative n00b) saying he "doesn't get to decide" when he gets dragged into ott going truth to power once again on yet another p4k writer (hard to feel sympathy when it's cohen tho)
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 21:25 (nine years ago) link
he forgot take his heart attack pills
― hackshaw, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
he forgot to take his heart attack pills*
oof
tbh and this can be hard bc it's really really fun to make fun of ott but i'm pretty sure this thread is the only place where anyone actually gives a steady shit about him and if we close it he might just dissolve into dust
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
well, that and his cloud of bizarro twitter followers i guess. you have a point. but it is REALLY fun...
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 23:05 (nine years ago) link
must be cool to be an IT tech bro firing off hostile tweets all day about actual creative people who aren't doing anything particularly wrong. he has a lot of bennies in life
take away the bennies and this man crumbles
― hackshaw, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
b-b-b-bennies! bennies and the otts! [someone's probably made that joke already]
― tylerw, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 23:39 (nine years ago) link
there's a universe where using a public enemy review that happened to run the day of the darren wilson non-indictment as an opportunity to dry-rub your ian cohen beef is less "tone-deaf" than someone calling said review "well-timed," but I'm not sure where it is. probably in hell
― katherine, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
otm it is def in some corner of hell
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 23:46 (nine years ago) link
i'll give him the benefit of the doubt that having a mid-life crisis can be sorta painful. it might be time to let the dream of the 90's go, ott. there's more important things
― hackshaw, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 23:50 (nine years ago) link
Yeah! Fuck old people. They don't understand us kids!!!!
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 23:52 (nine years ago) link
the dream of the 90s is alive in ottland
― hanley ramirez ordering a pizza (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
i guess i don't see ott's current persona as being one bit different than 10 yrs ago
― i did it all for the 'nuki (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 November 2014 23:53 (nine years ago) link
meet the new ott, same as the old ott
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 01:07 (nine years ago) link
a few months ago he temporarily deleted his twitter and permanently deleted his videos and a FAN re-uploaded a bunch of them to youtube
― Murghan Troidor (some dude), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 01:08 (nine years ago) link
sorry that was me
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 01:50 (nine years ago) link
no one understands our love
Gamergate comparison otm, although: this bag of trash typed good typing about female musicians, once upon a time
― mango unchained (fgti), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 01:58 (nine years ago) link
I mean, in the "reminiscent of Cat Power" heyday of the early 2000s Ott was pretty great in how he covered this or that.
― mango unchained (fgti), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 02:00 (nine years ago) link
G'bye, tho, tbh
― mango unchained (fgti), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 02:01 (nine years ago) link
the ironic thing is his largely /mu/ fan base overlaps significantly with gaters so he is constantly fielding questions from them about how he HAS IT ALL WRONG (being against)
― katherine, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 02:20 (nine years ago) link