― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 31 July 2003 19:22 (twenty years ago) link
― mei (mei), Thursday, 31 July 2003 19:24 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 31 July 2003 19:27 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 31 July 2003 19:30 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 31 July 2003 19:31 (twenty years ago) link
― amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 31 July 2003 19:32 (twenty years ago) link
― J (Jay), Thursday, 31 July 2003 19:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 31 July 2003 19:40 (twenty years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 31 July 2003 19:57 (twenty years ago) link
― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 31 July 2003 19:58 (twenty years ago) link
― J (Jay), Thursday, 31 July 2003 20:04 (twenty years ago) link
-- mei (meirion.lewi...), July 31st, 2003.
Then why give a shit about anything?
― David Allen, Friday, 1 August 2003 01:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 1 August 2003 04:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 1 August 2003 04:22 (twenty years ago) link
-- David Allen (en@senbm), July 30th, 2003.
Many reasons to give a damn, but LB doesn't convince me to.
― mei (mei), Friday, 1 August 2003 06:33 (twenty years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 1 August 2003 06:51 (twenty years ago) link
― mei (mei), Friday, 1 August 2003 06:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 1 August 2003 06:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 1 August 2003 06:58 (twenty years ago) link
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Friday, 1 August 2003 07:01 (twenty years ago) link
greil marcus's agenda pushing amounted to including two pieces on elvis and nothing on black sabbath. that and calling bangs "the best writer in america." gee, what a rotten guy. let it blurt, meanwhile, includes about a million "wow, what a slob lester was" anecdotes and next to nothing about his actual writing. conclusion: jim derogatis is a twat.
― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 1 August 2003 07:16 (twenty years ago) link
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Friday, 1 August 2003 07:26 (twenty years ago) link
― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Friday, 1 August 2003 07:27 (twenty years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Friday, 1 August 2003 07:42 (twenty years ago) link
I still kill him with gun tho'.
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 1 August 2003 09:02 (twenty years ago) link
I'm not going to read more just to check I'm as uninterested in it as I am in what I've already read.
I _am_ intrigued as to why he's so revered though.
― mei (mei), Friday, 1 August 2003 10:58 (twenty years ago) link
Gee, so I guess you just want someone to explain it to you? If you're not interested enough to try and find out for yourself . . .
― J (Jay), Friday, 1 August 2003 11:05 (twenty years ago) link
I don't want someone to explian LB to me, but rather why they like him. In fact there are a few good answers like that above, so I think my question's answered.
While we're on the subject can someone explain the appeal of REM or U2?
― mei (mei), Friday, 1 August 2003 11:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Edward III, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― Edward III, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Edward III, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― ian, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Edward III, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link
re challops
― brimstead, Thursday, 19 October 2023 20:54 (seven months ago) link
i can't really read lester anymore. he's better when you are young and dumb and reading bukowski or whoever. and he's very dude. i do like that eno thing! but he could be really dense in a cringey way. or it seems like that now. like people have said, he was young when he died. i think i was older than 33 when i STARTED writing rockcrit. i definitely stole from him. couldn't help it really. i grew up with creem. and the voice. cool thing: i read at nyu at one of those conferences and jim miller was the moderator and after he said to me "i used to edit lester bangs and i know how hard it is to do what you just did." !!!! i thought that was cool. (i didn't have the heart to tell him that it wasn't THAT hard. but i did work the thing i wrote pretty hard.)
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 October 2023 20:57 (seven months ago) link
And his drug of choice was fuckin' cough syrup, ferchrissakes.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 19 October 2023 20:58 (seven months ago) link
OG lean addict! he probably would have been a big dj screw fan if he had lived.
― scott seward, Thursday, 19 October 2023 21:03 (seven months ago) link
I don’t know what it’s particularly a sign of, but someone has to cite or write their own version of the The White Noise Supremacists article every so often. I remember that happening 20 years ago, and recently a guy who was in a popular band at that time wrote his own! Carlos D didn’t even bother to mention Lester despite hitting all the same notes
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 19 October 2023 21:06 (seven months ago) link