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

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.

lol

I'm pretty sure at this point that all the reaction is much more nauseating than the original interview was.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emGri7i8Y2Y

i love when you say "aspie"

http://twitter.com/#!/pitchforkmedia/status/98914891456458752

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, Wednesday, August 3, 2011 10:27 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

pls point me to this "nauseating" reaction!

No specific reaction, just all the attention! Its nauseating to think of much energy and effort people are putting into stupid things he said for a pretty fluffy interview.

"think of how much"

tbh, the funniest part is how it's basically a fluffy Sufjan Beat softball interview and dude just goes ham for no reason

and you don't appreciate it, at least in a game-recognize-game type of way?

damn miss u sufjan beat, free catbird imo

good point, sarahel! tbh. i think i would probably be down with a maus-goin-ham interview if his music wasn't total schlock. double standard, i guess \o_O/

WE GOT CHEESE FLYIN OUT

I don't rate his music but give everything I've read (interviews) and seen (live performance) he is fucking hilarious, and I'm pretty sure it's intentional (to a degree).

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c2/WikipediaCounterVandalism20060611.png

is carrot top a lecturer or a student?

thought that was dj mom jeans