pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

j if it makes you feel any better i complained the last two days over the lack of new reviews too but more because i'm plotting out my august bill payments

this is what i don't like about some of the people on this board. like whiney accuses me of not thinking for myself and its my fault for "taking in badly" and not his for being kind of an asshole.

But he can't stop being an asshole and you can stop taking it badly.

You're at the same point I was at about six years ago. I got thoroughly reamed out for some ill-considered posts, had a good cry about people being mean to me, took 2 weeks off from ILX, molted, grew a harder shell, and came back to be at least a 4% better poster than I was previously. Maybe even 6%. I also type out a lot of stuff and delete 75% of it without hitting the 'submit' button.

back to the thread subject at hand, does anyone find this sentence a bit... distasteful:

"Okemah, Okla.'s most famous export might have turned 100 this July if Huntington's disease hadn't wasted him back in 1967."

if huntington's disease hadnt TOTALLED him back in 67

hadn't kicked his bucket

that is a sentence crying out for editing

definitely falls under very dumb #43025984305345

Millie Gorman, 87, was wasted at St. Anne's Medical Center on July 6th, by complications of diabetes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qql0Yi4DxU

the whole review is full of clunkers

His odd non-absence has been especially felt in this year.

Not long after he made the recording, Cathy was killed in a freak house fire (stunningly, Guthrie's sister was killed, and his father badly wounded, in two unrelated fires when he was a kid).

Woody at 100 may be the most successful attempt to capture Guthrie's sprawling essence, but it's hardly the first.

HARDLY

Woody at 100 may be the most successful attempt to capture Guthrie's sprawling essence, but it's hardly the first.

this probably says more about me than the writer but that last sentence gave me a mental image of a crack team attempting to hunt down a massive blob of cum

lol.

that sentence should be reversed.

unless the article is about other attempts to capture his sprawling essence and not about woody at 100

While I wouldn't assume everybody knows about it, the last "omg" about the "property" line in "This Land Is Your Land" is kinda funny to me since I heard it on a Mojo Nixon album when I was 10 and I'm sure it's come up a few other places in my experience since. Also I thought the idea of Woody being a fleshed-out human being in Pitchforkia had been taken care of by Mermaid Avenue, which isn't mentioned at all.

i think maybe "wasted" in that instance is being used to say that his life was wasted, instead of the way a teenager would when playing modern warfare

or maybe that the rest of his life was wasted. idk.

I took it to be an attempt to make the phrase "wasted away" hip and new for an edgy young audience

right

ya

"Okemah, Okla.'s most famous export might have turned 100 this July if Huntington's disease hadn't wasted him like some odd proto-AIDS patient back in the year the first Velvet Underground album was released."

quietly composing a thank-you email to Rachael Maddux over here

lol

You know I considered posting that use of wasted here, too! I initially read it in that "we wasted those scumbags!" way. Pretty awkward. They could have said "taken."

Not long after he made the recording, Cathy was killed in a freak house fire (stunningly, Guthrie's sister was killed, and his father badly wounded, in two unrelated fires when he was a kid).

this makes Woody Guthrie sound like Firestarter

ack!!

haha yeah the "stunningly unrelated fires" thing cracked me up, like is he an arsonist, or perhaps being followed by a fire monster like that guy on True Blood?

So were there three unrelated fires that wasted Woody's family? Cuz that is pretty stunning if you think about it. Just two is less stunning.

His odd non-absence has been especially felt in this year.

ARE YOU THAT SCARED OF THE WORDS "INFLUENCE" AND "PRESENCE"

the thin line between disclosure and name-dropping

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16850-jareds-lot/

The cover of Gary War's third LP, like Maus' comment, conjures the idea of a high-minded, rock'n'roll Robocop, ricocheting heroically across a metropolis that has been reduced to a smog-laden wasteland by the ravages of human self-interest. Designed by Robert Beatty, who has done some album covers for my own band, the record's helmeted mascot feels like a distinctly backward-looking vision of the future, mid-way between cyberpunk hero and Apollo 11 passenger.

...

Recently, on a website I helped found, John Maus offered up a lengthy explanation of his Gary War claim that even went pretty deep into the harmonic logic (or anti-logic) of his note progressions.

lol

Amazing find.

anti-logic. The best of both worlds.

thats like a fine wine in that it gets better the more i think about it

I believe a lyric quoted in the actual review of the writer's band (not going to mention any of them by name) is "Too many rock stars, not enough gangsters". Apparently it gets repeated over and over in the song.

you think about wine a lot?

xp

winey g winegarden

this ppl's choice thing is a cute idea, but the website is such a mess. it fails half the time i try to login, it won't let me add albums, it doesn't have half the albums i'd want to add...

i always said the problem with posting on ILX is there's not enough polls for me to vote in here

hey Pfork: Johnny Cash did not write "Long Black Veil" fyi

but it's on a Johnny Cash tribute DVD

That poll reminded me I need to check up on a lot of music I used to love, but haven't listened to in a few years. The poll will be a fun little diversion if I get freetime at work this week, kind of like most ILM polls.

Random observation, but it would be much easier to put this poll together if, at the end of adding albums, there was a Netflix Queue-like button where you can instantly shoot albums to the top.

Centipede Hz, by comparison, feels like someone throwing a burrito on your windshield.
Centipede Hz, by comparison, feels like someone throwing a burrito on your windshield.
Centipede Hz, by comparison, feels like someone throwing a burrito on your windshield.
Centipede Hz, by comparison, feels like someone throwing a burrito on your windshield.
Centipede Hz, by comparison, feels like someone throwing a burrito on your windshield.
Centipede Hz, by comparison, feels like someone throwing a burrito on your windshield.

as fine a description of animal collective's music as i've read

whereas listening to A/C is like vomiting a burriito

I wish they hadn't turned the 5-10-15-20 feature into a video thing.

http://community.discovery.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/9701967776/m/53619010301

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/mixtape/yes-it-was-me-i-threw-burrito-your-windshield-again

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatribe_of_a_Mad_Housewife

After Homer buys nearly everything on the menu at Krusty Burger, burrito filling hits the windshield and, unable to see the road, he swerves towards the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, crashes into the main building and crushes a safety inspector. Mr. Burns fires Homer and throws him out of the SNPP before tossing his wrecked car out of the area as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhKscqC3yY8

I think this was when Ethan was leaving Corbin and I at Taco Bell, so I threw a burrito at his windshield, and he just left it. It made it to my house though!