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yeah I finally went to this site and it's just kinda sad and innocent

this is, like, one of the craziest things i've ever seen. it almost seems fake.

re: the innocence and naivete, it kinda blows my mind that he lives in nyc and not in some small town.

i mean, dude, spending enough time in a bathroom stall to type a multiple paragraph review of pitchfork reviews at WORK? and then worrying about losing your job? if i were him, i'd worry more about me finding him and slapping the living shit out of him.

hang on what, re: the wavves interview, a professional journalist actually let this kid sit in on the interview?!

the real problem is that his posts aren't speaking truth to power so much as mass-blowing the pitchfork staff on the daily

at least it's kinda sweet how much he cares about music writing, but otm

lex, I think the journalist was his friend

re: the innocence and naivete, it kinda blows my mind that he lives in nyc and not in some small town.

Totally.

Is this really that crazy? I think it's just a transparent grab at publicity and it has worked. The author is clearly one of the countless New York indie rock fans who thinks they have something unique/interesting to add to the already full to bursting world of music crit, he's just better at branding and conceptualizing. It's such an obvious idea I'm surprised it took this long to become a website. There is a potential "this guy" working a low-level corporate job in every office building in Manhattan.

oh come on, NYC is large but it's not like living there REQUIRES you to be worldly

maybe im reading into it something that isnt there but i dont nec take him as 100% naive, indie kid...the style seems too aware of itself like it's affecting that persona for the effect

im dont really get the "embarassed for him" or that he doesnt understand culture/hipness

his posting frequency and style of writing is largely crazy, yes

i think johnny is also otm

you think he's playing into some sort of a persona? no way

it's like when people thought I was a sock when I started posting here last year. I wasn't playing into a persona, I was just pretty naive

So now we're suggesting that this is performance art where he's a worldly ironic dude who is affecting the voice and persona of a naive indie music fan?

ksh otm. no way this is just a persona. (except in the sense that everything is a persona - lol Goffman, but I think he thinks he's presenting a different persona than he actually is -- that's the mismatch)

actually on second thought this blog could probably only be written by a kid in nyc

this is a calculated publicity grab like wesley willis' career was a calculated attempted at working his way onto kylie minogue's songwriting team

yea not performance art but just, you know, being hyper-aware of like hipster runoff, etc and the shit that comes w/ being wrapped up in p4k "culture"...like hes embraced all the stereotypes that go along w/ it & amplified them in his writing

oh come on, NYC is large but it's not like living there REQUIRES you to be worldly

I agree, but it would just make a lot more sense if he was this kid in Dubuque for whom Pitchfork represented a bright, shining beacon of culture.

wait can we all agree that this person should be destroyed.

yeah johnny, idk, i think you're misreading it completely

there is nothing ironic about this venture from what i can tell, tho Poe's Law is in affect

This kid writes as if he lived in the house where Winter's Bone is set.

so anyway the reason i’m reading Master of Reality is that i stopped reading Our Band Could Be Your Life for the moment because i carry a tote bag and the book is really heavy so it makes me hunch over in one direction and i don’t wanna get adult-onset scoliosis, and i guess i’ll pick it back up when i get a backpack, but for now i’m reading 33 1/3 books because they’re light.

you know, I don't necessarily think it's a problem that he's doing this blog. he's, what, 22? if he's still doing this in a year or two, sure, he'll definitely need an intervention, but as of right now he's basically just some kid "critically" & enthusiastically engaging with music writing, albeit in a really obsessive way

someone should tell him, though, that he doesn't want to become permanently known as "dude who spends all his time thinking and writing about one indie music website." if writing about music is already seen (perhaps unfairly) as somewhat lesser than actually playing music, writing about other people's writing about music way more than you write about music yourself is really down on the scale of things worth spending your time doing

i agree that it's a total and complete embracing of taboos and stereotypes, not naivete -- i never read the latter into it at all

also i think he's crazy

how heavy could that book possibly be...?

if I were as crazy as he was, I'd start reading through his posts looking for quotes to make an argument that he's tonally not ironically distanced from his own naivete. but my interest in him only extends to talking shit about him on ILX and mocking his dreams of being a famous indie review site reviewer. so maybe it's ironic! i don't have the interest to really do any investigative textual work about it, lol.

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this is, like, one of the craziest things i've ever seen. it almost seems fake.

― pounding beats of worship (the table is the table), Friday, 6 August 2010 19:12 (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Is it just me that thinks the tone and cadence of his writing is incredibly Holden Caulfield-ish?

there was an entry where he was writing about how he was talking to a stripper and he explicitly referenced Catcher in the Rye

that being said, no idea -- haven't read that novel in years

i never went through a hard rock/metal phase in high school that i think a lot of kids go through where they read guitar magazines and wear hard rock t-shirts, and i’m sort of sad i missed it because it seems really formative, you know? yesterday i was at a museum opening and i told Elizabeth that i spent all afternoon listening to Black Sabbath and it was changing me because i was getting in touch with the beast and she giggled but this record gets me so pumped up, you know what i mean? then i pulled her aside and showed her my air guitar and my hard rock face which isn’t as menacing and tough as a lot of peoples’ hard rock faces but i’m still working on it

painfully, painfully earnest

painfully, painfully earnest

Reads more like a Tao Lin IRL sockpuppet to me. Painfully, painfully self-aware.

I am making my "why did I read that" face right now

http://www.pitchforkreviewsreviews.com/post/913814425/black-sabbath-and-rick-ross-interviewed-ed-droste-the#disqus_thread

can't we just invite this kid to post here and get it over with

we would drive him to suicide in like a week

he "liked" one of my tumblr posts

can't we just invite this kid to post here and get it over with

Yeah, actually, the posts I've read make it seem like he just kind of goes around annoying his friends, acquaintances, and various indie-level celebrities by obsessively talking about Pitchfork and all of his ~deep thoughts~ about music -- so in a way, I wonder if wouldn't just be more productive for him to be on a message board!

we would drive him to suicide in like a week

― people are for loving (HI DERE), Friday, August 6, 2010

dan we have said this about SO many people over the years and they are all still here.

i think i can relate to this guy in a way. i was pretty absorbed when i first discovered the site (pitchfork not prr obv), but whereas my attraction was counterbalanced with feelings of shame and guilt related to the site's reputation irl society, he is just totally shameless and letting it all out in what seems like a pretty deep and weirdly emotional & honest public diary

someone should tell him, though, that he doesn't want to become permanently known as "dude who spends all his time thinking and writing about one indie music website."

I'm not convinced that he *only* reads Pfork; he says, for example:

Ian Cohen’s Teflon Don review is precluded from being revelatory because so much quality stuff has been written about Teflon Don already, but it is a fantastic synthesis of the discussion about the record and it’s written succinctly and intuitively.

Doesn't that imply that even though his site focuses on Pfork, he's got a pretty well-rounded reading list going?

this is just what it's going to be like from now, with those millennials, isn't it

I like that he hesitated about interviewing Ed Droste not out of concern for Droste's right to privacy or anything but because he didn't want the inevitable subsequent blog post to seem gimmicky.

also if anyone has ever read the blog stereogum it's like basically the same thing. i would bet money this dude was p prolific regular poster in their comments section before this started

also please don't invite him to post on ilx