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Awl Music is meant to emulate the MTV experience of thirty years ago. We have VJs just like MTV did back then, and these are people you already know. Dave Bry, Jeff Rosenthal, Sarah Johnson and David Shapiro—all friends of The Awl—are programming the channel. Awl Network editors like Alex, Choire, Edith and Adam will also contribute. There will be guest VJs like Emily Gould and her "Songs About Gossip" playlist, as well as crowdsourced selections like the "Summer Jams" playlist. Everyone who programs the channel has great taste. Each one has a different taste.

http://www.theawl.com/2012/09/the-new-awl-music-app

oh, i was fine up to the crowdsourced "summer jams" playlist. so poignant! it's like when your kid comes home from school with a toilet paper tube covered in macaroni and glitter. and you have to say something nice, right? but...

http://raggedband.com/?p=1869

'A few years back...' possibly the first time in my young life ive ever read something and felt old

great dispatch

t’s all there; the ambivalence, the wit, the valley girl turns of phrase intermingled with my-only-job-as-an-interviewer-is-to-give-people-rope-and-let-them-hang-themselves quotes from his hapless subjects.

http://www.pitchforkreviewsreviews.com/post/38158812487/in-2014-there-will-be-a-pitchfork-reviews-reviews-book

Pitchfork Reviews Reviews creator and World’s First Perfect Zine editor David Shapiro’s debut YOU’RE NOT MUCH USE TO ANYONE, pitched as updating THE GRADUATE to the milieu of WFPZ contributor Lena Dunham’s GIRLS, to Ed Park at Amazon Publishing.

kid is the best damn music writer i have read in ages and i am crazy crazy jealous, like knowing what truman capote was up to his teens & 20s level jealous. just for the record.

― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, September 2, 2010 1:21 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://stetnyc.com/interviews/one-question-david-shapiro-jr-pitchforkreviewsreviews/

I am reading from my book on Sunday night at Cake Shop. Readers include the archive editor at The New Yorker, a prominent conservative commentator, other writers. It will be a great opportunity to hear nice writing, to bring a date, to see and be seen

Plot Summary for
Unreachable by Conventional Means (2013)

A recent college graduate (Brener) decides to sell marijuana on the streets of Manhattan after losing his job at a consulting firm. He soon meets the girl of his dreams (Daddario). With an unsupportive girlfriend, an increase of clienteles, and the growing threats of being caught or killed, he soon realizes he is in way over his head.

"You’re Not Much Use to Anyone, a book about being financially supported by his parents after college"

David is a freshly minted NYU grad who’s working a not-quite-entry-level job, falling in love, and telling his parents he’s studying for the LSAT. He starts a Tumblr blog, typing out posts on his BlackBerry under his desk—a blog that becomes wildly popular and brings him to the attention of major media (The New York Times) as well as the White House. But his outward fame doesn’t quell his confusion about the world and his direction in it.

This semiautobiographical debut is a coming-of-age story perfect for our time. In Sense of Wonder author Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s words, “If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart’s parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.”

that reads like The Graduate meets Girls, with a freshness of language and outlook that brings to mind The Catcher in the Rye that reads like The Graduate meets Girls, with a freshness of language and outlook that brings to mind The Catcher in the Ryethat reads like The Graduate meets Girls, with a freshness of language and outlook that brings to mind The Catcher in the Rye that reads like The Graduate meets Girls, with a freshness of language and outlook that brings to mind The Catcher in the Ryethat reads like The Graduate meets Girls, with a freshness of language and outlook that brings to mind The Catcher in the Rye

why did I have this thread bookmarked

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What was that blog that was like Pitchfork Reviews Reviews, except it reviewed all sorts of webzine reviews (Stylus, Cokemachineglow, PopMatters, etc.) and its whole raison d'etre was to just be really snide and snarky in this hacky way, where you suspected the guy was just really bitter and resentful that his P4k application was rejected?

I Love Music?

ripfork iirc

Yes, that's it -- thanks! (Wow, he kept that up until early 2012.)

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/11/supreme-skateboarding-clothing-underground-fashion-store-chinatown.html

I spend a lot of time thinking about what Supreme-related stories I can pitch. Sometimes, when I’m walking from Manhattan to Brooklyn, I walk out of my way past Supreme just to look through the windows and see what’s sold out. I try not to go into the store more than once a week because I know the people who work there will think, “This weird kid is coming in twice a week now and not buying anything…” I know the original retail prices of every item they’ve made since 2008 (and some from before that), probably like 400 or 500 items.

enrages me to no end that this guy's cashing new yorker cheqes for blogging this crap

The New Yorker employs a lot of hacks. It's no big deal.

alright, cool

i thought the supreme nyer post was pretty good tbh

and i mean between shapiro getting paid a couple hundred bucks for 800 words on supreme counterfeiters and denby getting a salary for his diarrhea

lol i was debating between posting a pic of denby or gopnik after bamcquern's post.

i think this is what wigs me out about this whole thing: Unlike other "music related viral ha-has" (like @Discographies or Hipster Runoff) whose profile got them paid freelance work at "legit" venues (Grantland, RS, NYer, etc) — I don't think I've heard a peep about this kid on any place but this markers thread.

So either a) he's being discussed on some social networking platform that I don't use (Facebook? LinkedIn?) or b) He sent a New Yorker editor a link to his Tumblr and he/she went "YES, I want THAT."

what legit venue does hipster runoff write for now?

doesn't he write for grantland, that's internet legit i guess

never gave a shit about this dude one way or another but it's kind of funny how different (and more readable) his voice is in that NYer post compared to that tumblr post. the NYer post was pretty good and interesting tbh i wish it had been way longer

Grantland:

http://www.grantland.com/contributor/_/name/carles

he wrote for thought catalog

So either a) he's being discussed on some social networking platform that I don't use (Facebook? LinkedIn?) or b) He sent a New Yorker editor a link to his Tumblr and he/she went "YES, I want THAT."

If he went through the sending-stuff route surely he would have compiled clips from the more legit pubs he's worked for? Interview, the Awl, Fuse, etc.

do you guys read the new yorker website? they publish posts like this one by writers way less known than shapiro almost every day. its not like eustace tilley and wallace shawn hanging out in there.

also the dude has a lot of good friends "in media" so to speak so maybe the "social networking platform" whiney is missing is IRL

also afaik he is in grad or law school, i don't think he's trying to be a writer

also that supreme story was a good read

Yeah, the guy made that zine that had contributions from tons of hipster-famous people:

http://pitchforkreviewsreviews.com/post/11870400613/im-putting-out-a-zine-its-called-the-worlds

He also sold a book and wrote a screenplay is being produced into a movie. However he accomplished it, this guy has a lot of connections IRL that go beyond what you'd expect from some random with a tumblr.

"a screenplay that is being produced into a movie" I mean.

"also afaik he is in grad or law school, i don't think he's trying to be a writer"

I think what he said was that when he started law school some sort of non-compete precluded him from writing non-law school stuff, then that disappeared somehow.

he was working at fuse.

still like his writing, the style, tone & sensibility as much as whatever subject he happens to choose

Spy Magazine ran a feature entitled "Logrolling in Our Time" that cited suspicious or humorous examples of mutually admiring book jacket blurbs by pairs of authors. Private Eye magazine regularly draws attention to alleged logrolling by authors in "books of the year" features published by British newspapers and magazines.

White Middle-Class Male Has Extremely "Relatable" Sensibility

If he's in law school and friends with the young literary elite, good chance he's not middle class imho

xp, well yeah [shrug]