who is Bob Lefsetz?

Although I always found stretchy material to be somewhat see-through, undies visible, but I didn't think too much about it.

I’m a jeans and polo shirt kind of guy. That was a big breakthrough in high school, the ability to wear jeans to class. But back then we called them “dungarees.”

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0WVYYtCMAA0hSt.jpg

Me On CNN

in which bob shaves ("i'm bad at it"), is driven to the cnn studio in hollywood, is ushered past cnn security ("if you're on the list, you're golden. that's what life's all about, being on the list"), gets his makeup done, goes on some cnn show to talk about eminem (because i guess keith olbermann wasn't available?), meets one of harvey weinstein's victims ("a very attractive woman"), watches her get even more attractive when the makeup artist applies lipliner and lipstick, realizes that life's an illusion, and concludes that donald j. trump is "no match" for marshall mathers.

also, there's video of his cnn appearance.

amazing.

279 emails just waiting for Bob to reply to

I'm eating fruitcake.

I know, I know, it's supposed to be inedible, you're supposed to pass it on to some out of the loop friend as a gift, there are fruitcakes from the 1800s still circulating, but this one is pretty damn good, it came from Whole Foods with a gingerbread base and nothing involved speaks to my holiday memories since I'm Jewish, but I'm all up for new traditions, as long as you don't put a Christmas tree up in the house, who knows what's next, a cross?

A Very Lefsetz Christmas

the day has arrived when I finally agree with lefsetz

Curiosity got the better of me after reading this thread, so I signed up and it's quite the ride. This line from the latest one about Petty is just too much to not post:

And it was all in our heads. This was long before MTV. Production at shows was limited. You bought the vinyl and spun it alone in your room and transcended, you had to go to the show not to shoot selfies, not to say you were there, BUT TO PRAY AT THE CHURCH OF YOUR SOUL!

physically cringed at the new one about the Quincy Jones interview

Joanie....gotta ask yourself the tuff questions as an artist

Can you lay it on the line? Can you tell us how you feel? Can you reach down deep and puke it all up without giving a fuck?

That’s what we’re looking for.

THIS is what we're looking for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLnVgR7fLw

that is a lot to process.

I cannot imagine what other would have G. Gordon Liddy and the Residents in their video

upper miss's lefsetz imitation makes me irl lol every damn time

I wonder does he know what "eviscerate" actually means?

xpost u are too kind all honor and praise to the most high true & living L.e.f.

https://themuse.jezebel.com/this-writer-exposing-metoo-in-the-music-industry-isnt-1823000278

yeah. articulates the feeling i had when i read it in the first place like um, lef buddy, have you tried reading your own letter?

Yep

unsurprisingly the top comment is something about how taylor swift can't sing live, as if that exonerates lefsetz for sexism

Wait, are we back to "hating Taylor Swift is anti-feminist" because I thought we moved onto "liking talentless white becky Taylor Swift is neo-nazism"

nah we're all the way back to

Lefsetz is the same writer who saw Beyoncé perform at the 2013 Super Bowl and remarked that he wasn’t sure what to do afterwards, “join a gym or masturbate.” He’s the same critic who assured readers that if they wanted to “get laid” they should go to a One Direction show. “An endless sea of barely pubescent girls, screaming their heads off,” he wrote. He dedicated an entire letter to Emily Ratajkowski’s cameo in the “Blurred Lines” video because “it was the only thing that had me watching, who was the girl with the perfect breasts?”

I get so weirded out when I see Lefsetz getting taken seriously in the wider world

Lefsetz is the same writer who saw Beyoncé perform at the 2013 Super Bowl and remarked that he wasn’t sure what to do afterwards, “join a gym or masturbate.

lol what a silly old man where does he get these ideas

https://j.gifs.com/JqKEXl.gif

i enjoy having a laugh at this guy on this thread, but yeah, it is crazy that he is actually considered an authority on ... anything.

I try to keep Lefsetz in mind when other experts are given suddenly platforms for comment in the wider world.

e.g. generic tech executives with supposed insights into where AI will be in 15 years.

white masculinity is a hell of a drug

Twitter has so many "social selling/SEO/futurist" guru bullshit artists, probably one a day follows me because I work in marketing

Shooting the shit, that's my favorite thing to do in life, after skiing, ahead of reading, maybe behind. That's what bonds people to you, makes you friends, SHOOTING THE SHIT!

has ween ever made an album called "SHOOTING THE SHIT!," and if not, why not?

holy shit Lefsetz reminds me SO MUCH of gene ween

Man I hate myself for not seeing that, but yes, totally :D

guys

I am kinda like I can't even bring myself to report this to you maybe it's not news idk I hadn't heard

but find in page reveals no mention of it

I can't

ok here I go

people,

The Bob Lefsetz Podcast.

https://tunein.com/radio/The-Bob-Lefsetz-Podcast-p1064796/?_branch_match_id=502198972306470542&topicid=120376711

THIS HAS BEEN HAPPENING SINCE NOVEMBER. I THOUGHT YOU GUYS WERE MY FRIENDS

he sounds like wallace shawn

Diane Warren (EXPLICIT)

I know I lol'd at that. also in the Nancy Wilson one the second she mentions a reel-to-reel he goes OH, YEAH like you can hear him working up a TECHNOLOGY HAS CHANGED. THE MUSIC MEANT SO MUCH routine behind his eyes

he sounds like wallace shawn

kind of looks like him too

I just listened to most of the Diane Warren ep. For the most part I didn't think he came off as much worse than Maron? He was very pushy in trying to direct the conversation and there was a lot of over-talking, but I didn't get the impression that Diane was flustered by any of it.

There was that one line where he says something about there being jealous, bitter people all over America who could move to L.A. and fuck someone who looks like a cast member on Friends but they don't. And I was like "there he is."

Segueing in from a discussion about how trying to help people out sometimes backfires. Bob got mobbed by some guy's followers on Myspace 10 years ago when he refused to promote this dude's act or something.

Diane: You know, for all the people who have contempt for people who have done well with their lives, go do well with your own life. Why would you have contempt for someone that's worked really hard?
Bob: Because it's too hard to be successful. The analogy I always use...
Diane: So do the work!
Bob: But it's too hard for them. I remember, you know, they had the TV show friends. There's three guys, three girls.
Diane: That's the second time today someone's brought up that TV show.
Bob: What was the context of the first time?
Diane: Someone with an [unintelligible] I was in earlier, and I've never even seen the show. Is that weird?
Bob: Show started off good, you know? In England the shows end. Here, they run until no one's watching any more. BUT, anybody sitting at home gay, straight or otherwise: 6 people on the show, you could find someone you're interested in. And if you're not living in Los Angeles, where the show was filmed, you can sit there and say "hey, you know, if I moved to Los Angeles I could fuck one of those people." But the difference is: they don't move.

woah lefsetz podcast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i am removing bookmark from this thread

:(

life is too short to hate read a boring sexist wallace shawn lookalike