this situation seems to me an example of somebody making the inevitable just that much easier. unfortunately.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 February 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
lmao does android actually censor when you type the wort shit
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 7 February 2013 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
It does! Sometimes. When I do it by voice.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 7 February 2013 20:24 (eleven years ago) link
There is the part where she isn't actually sure that blogging is helpful to what she does, it feels like she was thinking about closing the tumblr and that the trolling was the final straw.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 7 February 2013 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
5*** 3*** 7*** 1*** exp **/13
omg android is amazing
― a permanent mental health break (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 7 February 2013 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
lex be honest how many people have you sent death threats to for having "Gangnam Style" on their EOY list
― dirty drone barack boy (some dude), Thursday, 7 February 2013 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
all of them, twice -_-
― lex pretend, Thursday, 7 February 2013 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
uh not the trolling, but because her posts were being used in a way she didn't intend them to be. which is a perfectly valid reason to delete one's blog imo.
xposts lmao lex
― Roz, Thursday, 7 February 2013 20:37 (eleven years ago) link
man, if only there was a place on the web where I could interact as just a fellow human being with musicians who have had critically acclaimed work
― mh, Thursday, 7 February 2013 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, are you saying we should invite Grimes to 77
― how's life, Thursday, 7 February 2013 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
we're... not on 77 right now
* mind blown *
― mh, Thursday, 7 February 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
oh man, I don't know why I said that. I hope Grimes googlers don't start coming around and asking questions.
― how's life, Thursday, 7 February 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
they seem to have calmed down, the Ned googlers haven't tried setting up any shrines for him on ILE for a few years
― mh, Thursday, 7 February 2013 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
beyonce posted here as dom passantino for years before she was banned
― unprepared guitar (Edward III), Thursday, 7 February 2013 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
Been thinking earlier today that Grimes would fit in pretty well here between being amazing.
― eskimo table (seandalai), Friday, 8 February 2013 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
wkiw claire
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 8 February 2013 00:14 (eleven years ago) link
yep
― markers, Friday, 8 February 2013 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
Not sure who is arguing for her playing the victim but either there are plenty of strawmen here or some words have been misunderstood. I was just trying to tell her what i would tell any stranger, friend, or family member to do about internet trolls: ignore them. There is no magic internet troll b gone button....yet.
It's kind of a mute issue now that she's taken it down. Personal webspace turning into office public space is a tough thing to deal with I imagine. If you're recording and playing shows and all it's much easier to just tune it out and focus on what's important at the moment.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 8 February 2013 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
And then we can look forward to seeing more posts turned into pitchfork headlines
― Moodles, Friday, 8 February 2013 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
Xpost
she could post as "underrated beyonce singles i have blogged"
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 8 February 2013 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
She won't show up if you keep saying nice things about her
― dry rub come save beef (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 8 February 2013 00:55 (eleven years ago) link
"flamboyant pussy ring included"
― Tim F, Friday, 8 February 2013 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― dirty drone barack boy (some dude), Friday, 8 February 2013 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
whooooa Tim!
― mh, Friday, 8 February 2013 02:20 (eleven years ago) link
...there's a vision.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 February 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
Local band/AmRep types Supernova once threatened to write a song about me called "My Name is Ned," while my friend Grady in Chicago wants to do the same. I say bring it on. FEED MY EGO!
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:00 PM (11 years ago)
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Friday, 8 February 2013 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
And? DID YOU?
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 8 February 2013 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
full disclosure: today is the first time I've actually felt compelled to give Visions a listen
― Drugs A. Money, Friday, 8 February 2013 06:02 (eleven years ago) link
better late than never
― markers, Friday, 8 February 2013 06:49 (eleven years ago) link
hey it’s claire
I've had a really hard time with all of this but if it means that Drugs A Money has finally listened to my album Visions then i guess it's all been worth it.
xc
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 8 February 2013 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
http://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/post/44487022558
― markers, Sunday, 3 March 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Sunday, 3 March 2013 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
Amazon is bad for people prone to options paralysis
― markers, Friday, 8 March 2013 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
woops -- that's part of someone else's post that i was responding to by modifying on 77.
― markers, Friday, 8 March 2013 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
here's what i mean to post here: http://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/post/44867177213/tried-to-read-the-news-depressed-meticulously
― markers, Friday, 8 March 2013 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
awww
― hurricane weather (forapper), Saturday, 9 March 2013 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://actuallygrimes.tumblr.com/post/45754437785
― markers, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 14:32 (eleven years ago) link
Seems like Grimes enjoys herself a good cat gif. She's not so unlike the rest of us after all!
― Moodles, Tuesday, 19 March 2013 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/f52224558bd00ce9b163b57ecaa988dd/tumblr_mjo6uhe6Ys1s3k2bro1_250.gif
i have a blood feud with senorgif, who has never acknowledged my existence. (senor gif likes to steal gifs from people, without attribution, put his own watermark on them, and then post them to wider fame and glory on the icanhazcheezburger network.)
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
so they're the ebaumsworld of 2013, those assholes
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
btw, on a grimes related note, i listened to Visions very loudly again two nights ago, and it's still so great. blows my mind that some people can't pick out the melodies. "Vowels = Space and Time", for example, is practically like earlyish madonna
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
xpost yeah. what irked me is that i wrote him a very polite message, asking if he could please include a link to my website because i was a fledgling tumblrer with about 20 followers at the time. no response.
― ( ( ( ( ( ( ( (Z S), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/Grimezsz/status/319630110389059584
― markers, Thursday, 4 April 2013 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ eating paint. but mostly I just wanted to revive this thread to meaninglessly praise the album, which is my favorite album of the past few years... so pleasurable on an immediate level, yet still "layered" enough to reward repeat listenings. also, for me, there is a very addictive sense of "spaciousness" to the sound of the thing: the ethereal vocals seem to "hover" far above the dancey bass and percussion of the instrumentals. the only album in my collection i think i've played more often is exile on main street.
― severely depressed robots are "twee" (Pat Finn), Wednesday, 10 April 2013 22:29 (eleven years ago) link
For me it's the gaggle of Grimeses chattering out each line, and the run from Crystal Ball (track 5) through Symphonia IX (8). Really captures that late-night euphoric feeling.
― hurricane weather (forapper), Thursday, 11 April 2013 10:25 (eleven years ago) link
Oh yeah, I think Vowels = Space and Time is within that stretch of tracks, and that is my number one most played song on itunes. That song especially, but many of the others too, has an R&B "warmth" to it that I think is really captivating, and somewhat unexpected among the other sounds in her toolkit. But yeah, I do agree with you that there is something very nocturnal about the sound of this album, and even "depersonalized" in the way darkness/sleep/danceclubs can be, but the album is still...somehow... i guess the word is "intimate", and very personal. I guess I can tell this is a personal album, or at least one that is personally meaningful to me, because Grimes is one of the few artists where I get bummed out when I hear her criticized.
― severely depressed robots are "twee" (Pat Finn), Thursday, 11 April 2013 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/katyperry/status/323603970801139713
― markers, Monday, 15 April 2013 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
sweet.
― Pat Finn, Monday, 15 April 2013 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
adorbies
― I have many lovely lacy nightgowns (contenderizer), Monday, 15 April 2013 03:05 (eleven years ago) link