OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

p What's up with this kohlrabi? It doesn't even seem like a proper vegetable. Is it trying to be a proper vegetable? Are people just pretending to like it? I don't get it.

― What is wrong with songs? Absolutely nothing. Songs are great. (DL), Wednesday, March 19, 2014 11:56 AM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

doesnt' taste like a proper vegetable

Except the ppl criticising it now itt are the same ppl who were criticising it then. So were they jealous before?

kohlrabi is a root not a vegetable i thought?

root vegetables are vegetables. vegetables are just any edible part of a plant that isn't the fruit.

right?

Right

yes!

is that like anti vegitransgressive normativity. cabbage-shaming is real ppl

To piss or to punch up, that is the question.

root vegetables are vegetables. vegetables are just any edible part of a plant that isn't the fruit.

right?

― Treeship, Wednesday, March 19, 2014 12:38 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is blowing my mind. vegetables are just defined by their absence of seed. fruit/vegetable

Are you guys being faux naif?

while we're at it... what exactly is a legume?

they are a musical. . . fruit

Then what are pulses?

pulses are the ones with open-ys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTxMZG-lQG4

Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad

;_; rip

Depending on what else is in the fruit salad couldn't it work? Like with cherry tomatoes or something? Wisdom ain't shit.

why do i hate that artist thing that people keep posting on my facebook so much? why am i such a jerk?

Yeah I mean some things that are technically fruits are classed as veg (aubergine,cucumber &c). When it comes to usage theres no hard & fast rule

BlogHer Food '14 is coming to Miami on May 16 & 17 -
and you are invited

really tempted to go down to the animal shelter and bring home a tiny chihuahua for my tumblr-to-book "my owner's stupid record collection"

Could be hip.

it'll be problematic when the writing voice of your chihuahua matches well to that of a 1997 taco bell commercial

I have absolutely no problem with this couple undertaking this blogging experiment and they can write it in whatever tone they want! But when people share the heck out of it, and it's brought to my attention in the social media sphere multiple times and mentioned much more than other, more insightful projects, that don't happen to conform to a male/female couple dynamic that enforces a certain status quo then yeah, I think it is worth evaluating why this person's writing is both popular and inquiring as to why they are making certain stylistic choices.

It's easy to paint our media, especially our entertainment media, as a system that is top-down with the powers that be reinforcing stereotypes and the status quo through their choices of programming to broadcast/print. The other half of the reality is that people will popularize grassroots ventures that reinforce these things, too. I'm sorry if it's ugly and I hope people aren't getting in the faces of this woman and her husband, but feedback is deserved when the stage is large.

maybe someone should just write them a nice letter saying that a lot of people are enjoying their blog because they think she is a silly woman who doesn't get music and he's an idiot manchild who hoards objects he doesn't even listen to and that's how their words are read

okay...have any other ilxors not yet weighed in on My Husband's Stupid Record Collection the Tumblr Page and Possible Future Book? *checks watch*

i've decided i don't have an opinion on this tumblr ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Monday, March 17, 2014 3:47 PM (2 days ago)

noted

Scrutiny comes with the territory. Don't really understand why she feels that she should be exempt from it.

now the third time you've weighed in about your lack of opinion xxp

how many times has the cock crowed?!????

there's been a lot of posts, just want to make sure everyone knew

I missed your previous two posts re: opinion-not so thanks gr80.

I have opinions about this tumblr. Thanks.

just want to say that this has been my favorite part of the discussion thus far

good to know.

you're welcome

: )

When can we get back to making fun of the AV Club?

even when avclub was a plausibly defendable thing their music writing was horrible

really tempted to go down to the animal shelter and bring home a tiny chihuahua for my tumblr-to-book "my owner's stupid record collection"

― open-y, ob-la-da (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:37 AM (1 hour ago

when someone on fb first posted about this blog, I was going to have my mom review my record collection. It would have sounded as culturally aware and focused on taking breaks to get beverages and snacks as this blog does, written by someone who is most likely way younger than I am.

I was just operating on the assumption that someone this woman's age and of her background (not to mention her husband's) would find the music more familiar-sounding and have more points of reference.

That kid who wrote the top ten jazz albums listicle wuz robbed

xp -- someone in philly did a series of youtube videos a lil while back where they went to this diner and asked old folks who are regulars there to listen to current pitchforky type music

sounds great.

it's actually a diner in fishtown that I've been to but can't remember the name, and I also can't remember the name of the series

it was pretty good

oh i was gonna write the whole thing myself, but in my mom's voice -- take a dozen or so pics of mom doing various mom things and photoshop the records into them -- maybe incorporate some of mom's recipes and pictures of food, because people like food more than music anyway

*logs on to twitter*

*retweets sarah hell's tweet*

i did this with a group of children at a school with a sympathetic teacher back when i was doing the tofu hut