That's kind of like what I imagine my writing is like in my nightmares.
Like, you know that dream everyone apparently has where they suddenly and belatedly realise they're naked in a public place? My equiv is a computer screen flashing up:
Julia Holter - Ekstasis9/10You don’t give yourself over to Ekstasis so much as inexorably lose yourself within its glistening contours and fleeting visions of potentially misremembered moments of interpersonal, emotional, and spiritual enlightenment. Forget about “finding yourself”; everything, it seems, is all around us, yet each grasp at concrete experience inevitably yields a recession into the shadows from whence these feelings came. But then we remember, as if awakening from a dream: this is not ekstasis, this is ecstasy. This is not the shackle of an ontological reality, but euphoric possibility perpetually drawing us on toward its horizon, like a lost memory that lives on as desire. With Julia Holter, with this profound and inexhaustibly gorgeous album, we can transcend our own transcendence and find the greatest bliss in the joyful renunciation of what makes us us. And all we have to do is go outside.Review by Tim Finney
― Tim F, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 11:53 (twelve years ago) link
At least your dream spared you from that Heidegger drop.
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 12:02 (twelve years ago) link
I just went outside and nothing like all that other stuff happened :(
― Valéry Giscard d'Staind (NickB), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 12:03 (twelve years ago) link
xpost Some things are too dangerous even in dreams.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 12:04 (twelve years ago) link
C'mon, dude's a philosophy PhD student, he KNOWS his shit and KNOWS that an album review is the place to drop it.
― Darren Huckerby (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 12:05 (twelve years ago) link
Might be a bit off topic but I have wondered if members of Tinariwen and Terakaft might be involved in the fighting in Mali.
― badg, Wednesday, March 28, 2012 6:01 AM (6 hours ago)
No re Tinariwen and I have not read any more about other bands. On the Rolling Whirled music thread I posted a link to a piece about 2 members of Tinariwen who are in a refugee camp now and unable to join up with other band members who had already left Mali for a tour.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 12:12 (twelve years ago) link
xp lol Tim
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
cokemachineglow is the worst
― 1986 tallest hair contest (Z S), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 13:11 (twelve years ago) link
^^ cannot be said enough, i'm actually curious to know who their audience actually is. at this point i'm assuming its at least 80% people reading it to roll their eyes
― stan this sick bunt (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 13:35 (twelve years ago) link
cokemachinejagger
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 28 March 2012 13:48 (twelve years ago) link
the audience for that type of writing = 15-year-old theater kids
signed, a former 15-year-old theater kid who wishes he had a time machine so he could go back and shake some sense into his younger self
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
timemachineglow
― the outlaw josie mccoy (some dude), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
Ah, always waiting for the drop.
― mh, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
Shout outs to Heidegger, always already, presence/absence, based, proper to human existence, swag, etc.
― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
heiswagger
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
as when a skrillex drops from a fixed point to its consequences, it always sees before it an empty space where it can never set foot, no matter how it wriggles
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
That Holter review might need its own thread? IDK. Basking in its awfulness.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
a poll thread, obv
lol
― preternatural concepts concerning variances in sound and texture (contenderizer), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 16:54 (twelve years ago) link
In a recent interview with NME, Breton frontman Roman Rappak claimed that the London four-piece is "not out to make a big political statement." His declaration is hardly provocative until you learn that Breton's HQ-- functioning as studio, home, squat, party venue-- is a disused bank in south London.
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.reclusland.com/compass/wp-content/uploads/HLIC/fd2140ebc47fed75f7f18b8cd0566adb.jpg
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
― THIS TRADE SERVES ZERO FOOTBALL PURPOSE (DJP), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha
― #yolo contendere (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 4 April 2012 14:14 (twelve years ago) link
only reason any1 reads cokemachineglow is cuz sum1 at metacritic decided 2 aggregate their reviews as a joke
― caulk the wagon and float it, Wednesday, 4 April 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
LOL they just compared Zooey Deschanel to Daniel Johnston
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
On its self-titled debut, this Vancouver "garage soul" band does a faithful, playful recreation of 1960s girl-group sounds, filtered through proudly grimy production.
this is like the ur-pitchfork band description
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
I think, perhaps, that this article gives the impression, or maybe confirms the suspicion, that Pitchfork pays, not by the word, but by the, comma
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
er article sentence
― God, Music and Romeo and Juliet (DJP), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:48 (twelve years ago) link
is it just me or is it a a bit weird that pfork runs a long review of the new amadou & mariam album (one that longs for more sounds of their homeland) without the slightest mention of the military coup currently taking place in mali?
This is a good piece addressing the phenomenon of Western media ignoring the political realities of Mali in their reporting on Malian musicians (in this case, Tinariwen):http://blog.afropop.org/2012/04/tinariwen-mali-and-failure-of-western.html
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
cool will read
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 22:35 (twelve years ago) link
CMG again...err, what?
http://www.cokemachineglow.com/record_review/6879/gotye-makingmirrors-2011
― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 13:49 (twelve years ago) link
omfg
thinking maybe this site deserves its own thread, Pitchfork hasn't been on this path since like 2004
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
[The lights slowly come back up on 31, still tapping on his laptop. As the conversation between 26 and Dom fades to murmurs, Christopher’s Mom, aka HNIC (HEAD NAGGER IN CHARGE), walks in.]
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
:o
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
they've been doing this for years guys
― Number None, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
also about a million viciously mean things popped into my head to say about the dude who wrote that that I will keep to myself and replace with:
I did not enjoy that at all.
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
Rating: Whisper-Quiet-Maytag-Dishwasher%
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
tbh that was the funniest thing dude wrote
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
i really hope the dude who wrote that isn't 31.
or 26 for that matter.
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
I like how he name-drops other CMG staff writers.
― Träumerei, Tuesday, 17 April 2012 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
cokemachineglow, you are reliably terrible
― an independent online phenomenon (DJP), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
^ it's true
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
it at least got me to listen to the goyte song, which isn't bad
― yuppie bullshit chocolate blogbait (contenderizer), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/tracks/13564-honeycomb/
glad they took the time to post this gem, really hearing the track in a new light now
― thistle supporter (mcoll), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
sarcasm?
― kelpolaris, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 05:11 (eleven years ago) link
can't be
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 05:34 (eleven years ago) link
idgi
― suidavyvan eht nioj (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 05:39 (eleven years ago) link
This headline amuses me for some reason
New Yeasayer: "Henrietta"CDs of song sent to fans on the band's mailing list
CDs of song sent to fans on the band's mailing list
― Number None, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 08:41 (eleven years ago) link
Art design in this is pretty shitty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZWC6gaYIaU
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
oh come on it's great!
― caulk the wagon and float it, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
http://futureoftheleftv2now.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/based-on-novel-of-same-name.html
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 31 May 2012 14:23 (eleven years ago) link