― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:07 (twenty years ago) link
― todd burns (toddburns), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:57 (twenty years ago) link
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:16 (twenty years ago) link
― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:20 (twenty years ago) link
― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:22 (twenty years ago) link
it rhymed. cut me a break.
― ben welsh (benwelsh), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:53 (twenty years ago) link
I am using IE 5 and the album reviews on the left do not have enough space between artist, title, etc. I will IM Todd about when I get back from work.
― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 19:06 (twenty years ago) link
Nice job, Todd.
― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:06 (twenty years ago) link
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 20:49 (twenty years ago) link
― Cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 22:38 (twenty years ago) link
― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 23:07 (twenty years ago) link
― samuel, Friday, 5 September 2003 02:09 (twenty years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 5 September 2003 02:14 (twenty years ago) link
matthew weiner posts here as naiveteenidol.
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Friday, 5 September 2003 02:40 (twenty years ago) link
― samuel, Friday, 5 September 2003 02:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 5 September 2003 10:00 (twenty years ago) link
It was partly me, yes, though I'm not going to take too much credit since I didn't do all that I said I would. I picked the colors, designed the logo and header and picked the fonts, laid out the individual pages, and wrote some of the code. I had nothing to do with the front page, but whoever did did an excellent job, apart from some stylesheet problems that are easily fixed (i.e. -- the text spacing and padding is all screwy).
It does look much better. Yay Todd!
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 7 September 2003 02:07 (twenty years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 7 September 2003 02:24 (twenty years ago) link
I didn't realize Pitchfork had the patent on HTML.
― Andrew Frye (paul cox), Sunday, 7 September 2003 02:35 (twenty years ago) link
the new design is amazing and the writing is just getting better and better-- every feature is slam dunk it seems. it makes me wish i hadn't lost the small shred of writing spark i used to have. i wish i could contribute more than i have been this summer.
todd (along with nick and keenan, natch) is the hardest working man on the internet, and it's finally paying off big time. bravo.
― colin mcelligatt, Sunday, 7 September 2003 03:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 7 September 2003 04:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 08:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 08:40 (twenty years ago) link
I'm sorry you didn't like the Mercury piece, Marcello. I wasn't sure how it would turn out and it was done very quickly, more as an irreverent aside than anything else. Initially it was going to be a Pop Playground but ended up too long. Comparing it to "a BNP FAP in Welling" is a bit harsh though, I think.
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 08:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:01 (twenty years ago) link
Dom: There ’s that Brummie guy with the stupid name!
Dom: Kenko Soweto?
Swygart: Soweto Kinch.
Dom: That ’s the bugger.
Dom: What musical genre is he again?
Swygart: It ’s hip-hop. It ’s jazz. It ’s craziness.
Our two correspondents think it funny to laugh at black people's names and black music. Yes, all these jungle bunnies are crazy, aren't they?
Dom: I think Dizzee Rascal ’s fans put me off really.
Swygart: Dizzee is also going down the chart fairly slowly too, only dropped nine places this week.
Dom: They ’re all white guys with deliberately messy hair and stupid tee-shirts and dads who play golf.
Swygart: Well, the ones who write about him are, anyway.
Er, that includes me, and also by extension yourselves. So insult your colleagues into the bargain.
I took Stylus off my CoM links because of this article, and also K-Punk for similar sexist rubbish. Zero tolerance.
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:32 (twenty years ago) link
Just out of interest, why is it okay to overlook such attitudes in pop music you like (ie CoM's Dizzee review) and not in tossed-off pieces of glib web-writing? Why is Church of Me recommending Boy In Da Corner despite your argument that it also contains what you upthread call "sexist rubbish"? Why apply zero-tolerance to one field and not another?
I'm not being facetious, I'm interested in your reasoning for this.
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:18 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcello (boy?) Carlin, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:23 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 10:31 (twenty years ago) link
"zarklephaser" - i've said this before!
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Saturday, 20 August 2011 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
same as my Last.fm username the last 6 years or however long
http://www.last.fm/user/zarklephaser
Well, it pains me to admit it, but we’ve had plenty of favorite commenters on the site. Zarklephaser, Grand Banks, Florenz6, meatbreak, raskolnikov, et al.: we salute you!
WTF I WAS CALLED OUT AS A FAVORITE STYLUS COMMENTER??!?!!!
(totally unexpected, thanks to whomever suggested that!)
― stephen, Monday, October 29, 2007 10:49 AM (3 years ago)
Hahaha, that was all Todd's doing, singling you and the others out. I don't think anything has had as much sustained, impassioned, profane and repeated discussion in our virtual office over the years as the comments boxes. God bless our readers. And hello, Zarklephaser.
― Scik Mouthy, Monday, October 29, 2007 10:51 AM (3 years ago)
― i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor), Saturday, 20 August 2011 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, Alfred, one of my regretable moments was on a piece of yours. Sorry about that, I actually liked almost everything you wrote, but for some reason your Boredoms piece, and the subsequent comments, caught me on the wrong day.
― grandavis, Saturday, 20 August 2011 18:27 (twelve years ago) link
This news is heartbreaking. :(
― three handclaps, Friday, October 26, 2007 9:50 PM
― markers, Saturday, 20 August 2011 18:32 (twelve years ago) link
nuts that it's almost been four years since it closed . . .
― markers, Saturday, 20 August 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
i kind of wish Stylus had polls.
― Wrinklepaws
― buzza, Saturday, 20 August 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― markers, Saturday, 20 August 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
Uggh, I got mentioned in that Stylus goodbye as well. Both OK with that and totally embarrassed at the same time.
Hey at least you got mentioned!
― Aziz Ansari & III (jaymc), Saturday, 20 August 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link
writing for this magazine was the second half of my adolescence and the reason i've gotten any work anywhere so yeah <3. the ideal writers' mag: polyvocal, always up for stuff, and unsustainable.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 20 August 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I am happy I got mentioned, I am imagining that I got noticed mostly for being a good poster, but sure wish I could take back some of my comments. Great site though, thoroughly miss it.
― grandavis, Saturday, 20 August 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
ha, i just found a stylus 'stycast' podcast on an old drive - an interview that todd did with me for stylus in 2005!
― geeta, Saturday, 20 August 2011 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
The Stycasts were great. There was a very amusing one about 60s/70s stars trying to transition to the 80s.
― Gukbe, Saturday, 20 August 2011 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
lmao @ inconceivably atrocious, bully is a stone cold classic imo
Stylus Magazine said the song was "undoubtley" Fatboy Slim's "finest moment to date", noting "the ten-minute house anthem “Song for Shelter”, whose redemptive power was so awesome that it almost saved Larry Clark’s inconceivably atrocious film Bully simply by gracing the last scene."[1]
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 8 June 2016 02:16 (eight years ago) link
what's up with the Stylus website lately? their album reviews don't seem to be accessible anymore (and even the Archives link yields a 404 error) although their features and movie reviews are still online...
― hippie lady from california who loves that god (unregistered), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
awww so glad you care
The site's slowly crumbling. I've been transferring reviews to my blog.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 16:42 (seven years ago) link
I've done the same thing with my reviews.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 3 August 2016 23:43 (seven years ago) link
i still occasionally start typing in stylusmagazine into the search bar, from muscle memory, whenever i'm wandering the internet looking for something new
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 23:57 (seven years ago) link
cuz we still rule
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 August 2016 00:26 (seven years ago) link