Most tedious thing said by worthless VHS idiot JOHN MAUS in p4k interview

aw

this is disingenuous bullshit unless you have frequently been "looked up and down" by the "snobby clerk" at uh, best buy or fye.

xpost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGR65RWwzg8

♪♫ i don't know who u r, but i, i'm w/ u ♪♫

CAD: they are two different sentences. i think you are being a bit disingenuous.

i prefer this john maus ridiculousness a thousand times over manicured, professional, acc-to-script interviews. i already have baseball interviews for that. rather read something that actually reflects the artist's personality than some boring shit that conceals it.

There are plenty of compelling interview to read, most of them just aren't given by indie rock musicians.

xp i'm not sure what you mean? i'm comparing what he was actually saying in the orig. interview with his assertion that he was actually talking about megastores (which uh are also not noted as great places to buy $20 lps, another thing he says in the interview).

i thought you were referring to the clarification he posted.

er, you posted it.

oh ok i get it.

I wish everyone who is (rightfully) upset about my Pitchfork �guest list�

2011.

guys it's all cool now, if you just imagine a world emancipated from interested exchange and the extortion of surplus.

I always try to imagine a world emancipated from interested exchange and the extortion of surplus
I always try to imagine a world emancipated from interested exchange and the extortion of surplus
I always try to imagine a world emancipated from interested exchange and the extortion of surplus
I always try to imagine a world emancipated from interested exchange and the extortion of surplus
I always try to imagine a world emancipated from interested exchange and the extortion of surplus
I always try to imagine a world emancipated from interested exchange and the extortion of surplus

lol xpost

His legs must ache from all of the backpedaling.

is it the hamstrings that it's supposedly good for?

Is that the most longwinded and convoluted "sorry that you were offended" ever, or what?

i like what he said about south parc

"I did not intend that to be a factual statement"

hope john maus is taking this lesson in saying ridiculous things to a huge audience to heart.

maybe he will post here.

he did for a while, as 'dave cool'

I don't know who this artist is (but I couldn't resist the thread title so) but this guy is not a philosophy professor; at best he's a philosophy grad student, at least that's what his academia.edu page says.

gotta defend the honor of the profession

^snob

help me here, is he saying that he was getting 'tude from the clerks at megastores and not independent record stores (i.e. Kim's, etc)

http://mechanisticmoth.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/maus-art-spiegelma-el-lazo-se-estrecha.gif

that is now what he is claiming yes. tbh if i were a clerk at a record store (which i am) i would probably give tude to this douchetard as well.xp

John Maus: not even cool enough to hang with the dudes at Sam Goody

this guy behaved foolishly.

oh my god, so sad--someone get "sandman" to usher this clown offstage

Hahaha

at least I recognize I have no thought of my own, and at least the thoughts of my own that I have at my disposal offer up radical critiques of the un-thought that is constantly going on in the rock journalism conversation about subjective responses to music and this ridiculous word-painting poetry of music, and this "it sounds like this or it sounds like that." The thoughts that are not my own that I have at my disposal would completely reject that, and could completely and clearly demonstrate how that's a violence that completely stomps out anything that's interesting about the work. If there is anything worthwhile about the work, it's precisely what isn't reducible to any of these particulars or generalities... It's only something if it sounds like nothing we've ever heard before. So I've never had a thought of my own, but at least I'm not one of these clowns that talk about nothing.

- John Maus

dollars 2 donuts this guy has never held down a job in his life, having gone straight from mommy & daddy to college to grad school to being a TA to w/e.

you guys are still getting trolled ..

i wldnt be so sure.

Z: Do you have any advice for artists or producers these days?
JM: No, I have no advice at all. I don’t know a fucking thing at all. I’m an absolute imbecile in every way shape and form. I guess the only advice is to keep going, to keep trying to bring forth more than what there is.

(crickets)

JM: I suppose the earliest album that influenced me, being from the generation that I’m a part of, was of course [Nirvana's 1991 album] Nevermind which really changed everything for me and the musical landscape at large. But, in terms of significant influences there's not really a particular band that comes to mind--just this kind of singular truth that all bands circumscribe together. If you look at the Billboard in the last decade the only number-one hit that hasn’t been hip hop was Nickleback--

the unspoken thought of course being that hip hop is negligible, and not 'serious music.'

pomplamoose vs. john maus: discuss

they should collab

what is all bands circumscribe together, sounds vaguely dirty

rmde @ this thread

If you look at the Billboard in the last decade the only number-one hit that hasn’t been hip hop was Nickleback--

. . .

ffs the fact that he's a philosophy professor kind of makes sense--you'd have to have a special sort of disconnection from the everyday world to spout the kind of nonsense he's keen on.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, August 4, 2011 1:03 AM (1 hour ago)

I don't think any of the clueless/tedious shit that JM is supposed to have said is as clueless and tedious as this piece of cliched shit about philosophy professors.

okay fine, that was a rude thing to say. my experiences with academia were not good.

other unspoken thought is that everything that isn't rock must be hip hop

Trailer for this thread is like: "Two trolls enter..."

well tbf, it sounds like he's talking about "bands" there

who is this guy?

indie rock

JM: I suppose the earliest album that influenced me, being from the generation that I’m a part of, was of course [Nirvana's 1991 album] Nevermind which really changed everything for me and the musical landscape at large. But, in terms of significant influences there's not really a particular band that comes to mind--just this kind of singular truth that all bands circumscribe together. If you look at the Billboard in the last decade the only number-one hit that hasn’t been hip hop was Nickleback--

<3 <3 <3

I would totally hang out with this guy. As long as he didn't try to make me listen to his music. Shit, "Yakety Sax" was my ringtone up until like June.

By the way, the funniest thing about this thread? That the poll results won't be in for a month, when nobody's gonna be talking about this dude 18 hours from now.

I still listen to We Must Become on a fairly regular basis.

i sang rights for gays so much at work that everybody was singing it on friday.

― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:40 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rights for gays.

― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:40 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh yeah.

― ℗⎣▲✘ (ico), Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:40 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:)

― lacanthrope (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 7 August 2011 20:49 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

plax otm

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:05 (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

read the whole thread and this is the only place it got good

'It Takes Time' is kind of the perfect pop song

i need to track down everything about it (and have not been following ilx threads yesterday) but i'm seeing reports that this guy was involved at the capitol insurrection yesterday

worthless vhs idiot lmao

ariel pink was also there apparently. same ballpark lol

When I meet other Ariel Pink fans, I feel like we understand each other, until I discover they also like John Maus, and then I wonder what it is they like about Ariel Pink, because the two are not even in the same ballpark.

Has anyone seen Exit Through the Gift Shop? I think of Ariel Pink as Banksy, and John Maus as Mr. Brainwash.

Now, if John Maus turns out to be an elaborate hoax, a Kaufmann-esque artistic statement created by Ariel Pink himself, then I would be the first to applaud both of them. I still wouldn't listen to John Maus' music, though...

― PublicRadio, Thursday, April 12, 2012 4:14 PM (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink

fyi there's talk on the AP thread

ok thx!