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

xxxp i've heard about it on multiple music nerd/industry lists/threads/facebooky type things. it hits all the right notes for people who care too much about the things that we do but probably renders as near invisible to anyone who doesn't.

i applied for a grant for maura magazine last year and this site got it instead http://boxxmagazine.com/

and... well.

― maura, Wednesday, March 19, 2014 11:04 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wow

I'm not in the same music crit circles so the only people I've seen posting about this are ILXors.

the ppl that are gonna share this sincerely are no doubt the ppl who shared that stupid STRANGERS MEET AND KISS video

Rob K seems cool

i'm just so glad i love sports so i don't have to think about ILX type stuff all the time

That boxx magazine place has zero comments on basically all of their articles

yeah that's p wack maura should have got that scrilla :/

yeah but 'boxx' is more shareable, stop being counter-productive

I'm not in the same music crit circles so the only people I've seen posting about this are ILXors.

Which I guess is no doubt still the same as crüt

This thing kind of reminds me of a list of top people under 30 who are changing the media. Most of them are people who've made it big on twitter or youtube doing fairly tried and tested stuff like cookery shows or humorous vine vids, but with an entrepreneurial 'twist'. And that twist is they're all able to market their personalities through social media. Part celebrities, part web moguls, part PR merchants, they've all got their own shtick to wield and they're all doing well out of it.
Made me wonder how much I had ever been told to 'sell myself' growing up. The idea was something I had to learn slowly, especially by the time I had to do job interviews. But it never felt like something I ought to do naturally. I wonder if, especially for millenials, this is all becoming just a part of success; developing an online persona as a kind of amplification of oneself in order to get noticed. I can imagine a time in the not so distant future when the internet is full of 'branded personalities' trying to get noticed.
Guess this kind of thing has been happening on ilx since it began - the louder, more controversial, funnier posters and their respective sockpuppets commanding the most attention from the rest of the board.

*the list was in the guardian the other day

several gigging musician types and college radio people I know posted it

dog latin u may enjoy this:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/generation-like/

a non-ILX person posted it on my fb. i looked at it and then came here to see how bad you fucktards were gonna be crying about it. Real music writing is mad boring and i would never even click on any let alone read some, but if you have a clownish gimmick tumblr i will definitely read a page or two of it.,.. hope that was helpful

Gr80 sadly can't watch it in UK

Wanted to ask some M some questions. didn't come to fuck with anyone, gladiate, whatever it is you henny youngmans do…

― veronica moser, Wednesday, March 19, 2014 6:06 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

do you not got email on that thing

― j., Wednesday, March 19, 2014 6:07 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ all time

whatever it is you henny youngmans do…

Take my whiney...please

what i took away from this tumblr is that the husband has a pretty boring record collection.

dog latin v much otm, I know of a couple of ppl who've turned blogs into bookdeals and their personae were a big part of that success, afaik

what about a la-z-boy brand sofa? is that better than ikea. forget music i'm worried about where i sit every day help me please.

Ikea seems a weird signifier to pick out - everyone I know has Ikea stuff - but maybe it's different in the US?

everyone in the US has ikea furniture too

you have to have a car to get to IKEA tho

and a special plate for the metaballs

meatballs too

horseballs

they have the best horseballs though

uh…j. and s. clover: I thought my questions were relevant to an extensive discussion taking place and posted them as such… jesus christ, rock critics are so fucking defensive and thin-skinned…

no offense but you came onto a message board basically saying "I'm posing this question to one person and one person only"

he's posted here before this iirc

has anyone else googled "veronica moser" yet?

Woah

haha moser's posted for awhile and is generally a good poster albeit unlettered but this is kinda hilariously wtf

everyone in the US has ikea furniture too

― Mordy , Wednesday, March 19, 2014 8:37 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is completely wrong. ikea furniture exists inside major urban centers, but the majority of the country has no ikea stores. the nearest ikea to me is a ~4 hour drive, and the second-closest is 5.5 hours, and I live in an area of about a half-million people. so people have ikea things, but they have either made a trek to get it (which could be a signifier) or they have moved from somewhere with it (signifier)

love treeship all 'moser? where do i know that name from?'

dang treeship just made a salient point, I think

or possibly a prurient point

naw! not part of the inner circle here (which has its own biases and byways, which y'all should acknowledge if you have any balls) but I've been here for 8 years!

tell me what is wrong with saying that whatshername's shit is dumb! if I was wading into the weeds about a subject that I had no prior knowledge in the computer world, I would strive very very hard to try to say something that was illuminating re: my own impressions and how it would impact upon the wider world.

tell us more about your balls

uh…j. and s. clover: I thought my questions were relevant to an extensive discussion taking place and posted them as such… jesus christ, rock critics are so fucking defensive and thin-skinned…

― veronica moser, Wednesday, March 19, 2014 9:48 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if i meet one i'll keep it in mind.

(there are two ikeas around me. i got to one without a car once and walked around a while. we ended up buying some meatballs, some fuzzy slippers, and some spatulas. also the fish roe in a metal tube. that stuff is great. the other ikea you really do need a car to get to. you can also order some but not all ikea stuff on the internet. it comes flat! the sofas maybe not so flat, i dunno.)

we have an Ikea sofa it is excellent

Pretty sure that Ikea deliver so why would you need to drive there? (unless of course you really need their meatballs)

is that a good startup? ikea meatball delivery?

if it is, you can't have it i thought of it first

"tell us more"… that's some memespeak, straight out of willy wonka with his hand on his chin… use your own verbiage…jesus be original!

xp

What as in actually driving to Ikea to buy their meatballs and then delivering them to people?

Would that be legal?

i love ikea

Sorry, the website www.meatbal.ls cannot be found.

aww :(

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