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.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 4 August 2011 00:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
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).
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 4 August 2011 00:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
i thought you were referring to the clarification he posted.
― sarahel, Thursday, 4 August 2011 00:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
er, you posted it.
oh ok i get it.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 4 August 2011 00:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wish everyone who is (rightfully) upset about my Pitchfork �guest list�
2011.
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
guys it's all cool now, if you just imagine a world emancipated from interested exchange and the extortion of surplus.
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
I always try to imagine a world emancipated from interested exchange and the extortion of surplusI always try to imagine a world emancipated from interested exchange and the extortion of surplusI always try to imagine a world emancipated from interested exchange and the extortion of surplusI always try to imagine a world emancipated from interested exchange and the extortion of surplusI always try to imagine a world emancipated from interested exchange and the extortion of surplusI always try to imagine a world emancipated from interested exchange and the extortion of surplus
lol xpost
― some dude, Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
His legs must ache from all of the backpedaling.
― online pinata store (Nicole), Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
is it the hamstrings that it's supposedly good for?
― sarahel, Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is that the most longwinded and convoluted "sorry that you were offended" ever, or what?
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
i like what he said about south parc
― uh oh whats your fantasy (flopson), Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
"I did not intend that to be a factual statement"
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
hope john maus is taking this lesson in saying ridiculous things to a huge audience to heart.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe he will post here.
― sarahel, Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
he did for a while, as 'dave cool'
― Who? Well, I've never heard of Mogwai. (electricsound), Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― Euler, Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
^snob
― iatee, Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
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)
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
― sarahel, Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
John Maus: not even cool enough to hang with the dudes at Sam Goody
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
this guy behaved foolishly.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh my god, so sad--someone get "sandman" to usher this clown offstage
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hahaha
― james blood ulver (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
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
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
you guys are still getting trolled ..
― pigeonstreet, Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
(crickets)
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.'
― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
pomplamoose vs. john maus: discuss
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
they should collab
― Johnmau5 (electricsound), Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
what is all bands circumscribe together, sounds vaguely dirty
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
rmde @ this thread
― shastakrautpasta (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
If you look at the Billboard in the last decade the only number-one hit that hasn’t been hip hop was Nickleback--
. . .
― markers, Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― emil.y, Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
okay fine, that was a rude thing to say. my experiences with academia were not good.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
other unspoken thought is that everything that isn't rock must be hip hop
― some dude, Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Trailer for this thread is like: "Two trolls enter..."
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
well tbf, it sounds like he's talking about "bands" there
― lizard tails, a self-regenerating food source for survival (wk), Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
who is this guy?
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
indie rock
― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
<3 <3 <3
― Magic (Lamp), Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
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.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol
― markers, Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm pretty sure at this point that all the reaction is much more nauseating than the original interview was.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
so either this guy is setting up an elaborate troll facade or he's an aspie who's in too deep... in either case i don't understand why people are having such a visceral reaction to him... many of the comments here are straight up bashing and don't lend any perspective
― pigeonstreet, Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
― markers, Thursday, 4 August 2011 02:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
there's so much bad music being made right now, who has time to hate on any one particular artist?
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 13 April 2012 00:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
― buzza, Friday, 13 April 2012 00:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
imagine the inner life of an ilx troll in 2012
― ogmor, Friday, 13 April 2012 20:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
I agree with contenderizer, though, that "My Whole World's Coming Apart" is a good song. I like "Navy Seals", too.
If you split the difference between Ariel Pink and John Maus, you get Part Time:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhia_RlurkI
― PublicRadio, Saturday, 28 April 2012 01:13 (1 year ago) Permalink