shades of eye of argon
― difficult listening hour, Monday, 22 June 2015 06:46 (eight years ago) link
"Abraham raves doubtlessly"
I'm glad the AI that wrote the fake newspaper articles in Sim City 2000 is still around and has moved on to music criticism, really missed that guy
― undergraduate dance (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 22 June 2015 09:08 (eight years ago) link
in fact, thank you stranger for my new display name
― Abraham raves doubtlessly (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 22 June 2015 09:09 (eight years ago) link
Dammit, you beat me to it
― Continue your brooding monologue (Re-Make/Re-Model), Monday, 22 June 2015 09:14 (eight years ago) link
Monday morning treat for the real headz:
http://thequietus.com/users/7759
http://thequietus.com/articles/10111-quicksand-slip-reissue-review
Hardcore’s Youth Crews were suffering from a spot of biological decline and required something slightly decelerated to get angry to. Amongst punk’s wilting complacency and Seattle’s slow-broiling illegitimacy, missing links began to occur. Bands had too many influences and not enough coherent fluidity between them.
― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 22 June 2015 10:06 (eight years ago) link
"It was 1993 - one year before Kurt Cobain swallowed a mouthful of Remington."
The new Jim Thompson is born.
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Monday, 22 June 2015 11:07 (eight years ago) link
a mouthful of remington? http://files1.coloribus.com/files/adsarchive/part_27/279655/shaver-remington-shaver-w-doug-flutie-and-victor-kiam-1989-600-13296.jpg
― appropriation and whatnot (stevie), Monday, 22 June 2015 11:19 (eight years ago) link
I changed my coherent fluidity this morning.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 June 2015 11:20 (eight years ago) link
(have sneaking suspicion i am guilty of a number of this guy's sins myself tbh)
― appropriation and whatnot (stevie), Monday, 22 June 2015 11:20 (eight years ago) link
hey fashioned abrasive intelligence, enmeshed with instrumental chaos. It was absolute pandemonium. Yet all the mess and disharmony seemed professionally maintained. The irrefutable severity of tracks like 'Head To Wall' and 'Lie And Wait', elevate beyond anarchy. As snares penetrate incessant hi-hat slaps, sludgy riffs travel like aggressive circle pits. They permeate an authentic dissonance, accentuated by Shreifels’s husked, tonal wails.
Stop. Using. Words.
― Continue your brooding monologue (Re-Make/Re-Model), Monday, 22 June 2015 12:01 (eight years ago) link
"The soulful whines of John Legend".
Dorian, I'm spiking your Nina Simone piece and getting Tom Watson to rewrite it.
― Unsettled defender (ithappens), Monday, 22 June 2015 12:30 (eight years ago) link
why would you capitalize "Youth Crews"? like they were the Whig Party or something. maybe the capital Y is okay. it's a sub-genre...but even those don't get capitalized...hmmm....
― scott seward, Monday, 22 June 2015 14:54 (eight years ago) link
grammar rules not my strong suit...
― scott seward, Monday, 22 June 2015 14:55 (eight years ago) link
Dictionary.com has never heard of the word "consilient."
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 22 June 2015 14:57 (eight years ago) link
this is a certain kind of earnest solipsistic dude writing: the boy who thinks he can build style while retaining his authenticity by using a thesaurus, rather than reading good prose written by other humans....
― Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Monday, 22 June 2015 15:14 (eight years ago) link
http://www.cine-vue.com/search/label/Tom%20Watson?max-results=30
During the making of Metropolis (1927) Germany was caught in a tundra of political restructure and cinematic prosperity. Beneath the cindered waste cast aside by the First World War was a fatherland set for reform by the Weimar Republic and a film industry set to take the world stage. The so-called 'ethic of change' was in the air and the country's cultural isolation was dwindling. With the realities of war being all too real, the Expressionist movement was en vogue and German auteurs were at the forefront of an artistic uprising. The likes of Robert Weine and Fritz Lang were paving a macabre, fantastical path that would reshape the forms of storytelling. Deep in metaphor, heaped in rhetoric.
― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 22 June 2015 16:27 (eight years ago) link
It's fortune telling and chaos as death that riddles Wiene's fantastical landscape. At the time, Caligari was said to have unsettled its audiences. Critics applauded its ability to "squeeze and turn and adjust the eye". It was also said to be a criterion for the slowly emerging intentions of Nazism. This is by and large a warped overstatement of a film that was impossible not to influence generations of artists, thinkers and, ultimately governing societies. Wiene's film was an inspiring footnote to the ever-increasing ascendancy of twenties Dada and Surrealism.
― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 22 June 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
Approximately a year ago today, a swarm of antipathy left London in a choke-hold as a series of riots engulfed the capital. What began as a peaceful protest against police brutality mutated into a beast more brutal than anyone could have envisaged. Described as 'copycat violence' by the media, thousands upon thousands took to the streets in a tirade of hateful ignorance. And from this ignorance stemmed an easy target - youth culture. Thankfully, Tarun Thind's 2010 assured short English aims to bring vital balance to the debate.
― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 22 June 2015 16:31 (eight years ago) link
his writing is a tundra of magisterial clichés and fantastical imagery, a swarm of antipathetic words embracing the reader in a choke-hold of helpless delight
― drash, Monday, 22 June 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
Approximately a year ago today, a swarm of antipathy left London in a choke-hold
pfah, they shoulda took the train
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Monday, 22 June 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link
"As snares penetrate incessant hi-hat slaps, sludgy riffs travel like aggressive circle pits. They permeate an authentic dissonance, accentuated by Shreifels’s husked, tonal wails."
Nothing beats that feeling when your authentic dissonance gets fully permeated by.... I have no idea...snares maybe? Sludgy riffs? what is a husked wail, let alone a husked tonal wail?
― Fatalist AmandaPalmistry (irrational), Monday, 22 June 2015 21:29 (eight years ago) link
"The Shreifel's Husked Tonal Whale, a rarity in these sludgy riffs, permeates the authentic dissonance only to be attacked by a roaming gang of aggressive Circlepits, whose snares penetrate the beast's incessant hi-hat slaps."
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 June 2015 21:36 (eight years ago) link
That reads better tbh
― Fatalist AmandaPalmistry (irrational), Monday, 22 June 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link
I have a BS in copy
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 22 June 2015 22:19 (eight years ago) link
'Permeate', tbh, has needed a couple decades in the penalty box for... at least a couple decades
― demonic mnevice (Jon Lewis), Monday, 22 June 2015 23:50 (eight years ago) link
It was a revolution of the solar cycle ago when Dylan Carlson and this writer exchanged passionate thrusts of verbosity. No rheumy eruptions could be detected from where I resided, like all hominid creation, in a prison of flesh.
I'm getting this needlepointed.
― wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 11:54 (eight years ago) link
Dylan Carlson and this writer exchanged passionate thrusts of verbosity.
can believe this
― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 11:56 (eight years ago) link
Is everyone taking Tom Watson inspired user names now?
― Flagrantly ceremonious whines of John Legend (ithappens), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 12:20 (eight years ago) link
Just changed mine again so we don't get too many people being flagrantly ceremonious.
― Roaming gang of aggressive circlepits (ithappens), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 12:21 (eight years ago) link
how do we go about inviting tom watson to ilm btw
― bizarro gazzara, Tuesday, 23 June 2015 12:24 (eight years ago) link
"Swarm of Antipathy" sounds like a Suffocation song (or album title).
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 23 June 2015 12:35 (eight years ago) link
speaking of antipathy
http://www.vox.com/2015/6/25/8840233/art-metal
― j., Thursday, 25 June 2015 13:54 (eight years ago) link
"what value is there in saying that I like Rihanna and Tegan and Sara? Everybody likes Rihanna and Tegan and Sara."
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Friday, 26 June 2015 04:04 (eight years ago) link
that's the kind of thing that makes me want to stop talking about music in any medium in case there's even a sliver of a chance I come off like that
from what I understand of this dude though that isn't the kind of emotion he wrestles with right
― there was a lot of beer and people doing sit ups, (laughs) (DJ Mencap), Friday, 26 June 2015 09:04 (eight years ago) link
I thought that piece was overall quite good. Are you saying that one part ruined the whole thing for you?
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 26 June 2015 10:24 (eight years ago) link
are any of those bands particularly arty? they're all pretty accessible through the medium of weed.
deboer way too self-impressed shocker
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2015 10:34 (eight years ago) link
Think about the audience, though. This piece is on Vox - therefore it's aimed at, and being read by, half-aspie Poli Sci nerds who think listening to Sleater-Kinney means they're still hardcore, even though they spend all day fellating members of Congress in print. Introducing those people to metal is tough work, and even though to the half-aspie music nerds of ILM all these bands are gonna be the usual suspects and last decade's news, there are still plenty of people who've never heard them. Also, I like this part; it's a sentiment that needs emphasizing more often:
"If you don’t like it, you don’t like it. This is music, not church. 'It’s not for me' is one of the most freeing, most useful statements you can make."
Honestly, it's not perfect or anything, the High On Fire blurb in particular is kinda lazy (though I like the fact that he rides for Snakes for the Divine, 'cause I like that album a lot too - a clean production job really benefited them). But overall, the writing is much better - in terms of quality of prose, clarity of thinking, and absence of glaring spelling errors and grammatical fuck-ups - than 90 percent of Pitchfork, never mind the shit that usually lands in this thread. And frankly, that Tom Watson guy has set way too fucking high a bar for someone who can come up with something as funny as "The last time I tried to play a Sunn 0))) album I caught my dog writing a suicide note" to clear.
Based on this evidence, I would much rather read DeBoer on music than on politics.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 26 June 2015 12:14 (eight years ago) link
the thought is sophomoric
― j., Friday, 26 June 2015 14:38 (eight years ago) link
half-aspie Poli Sci nerds who think listening to Sleater-Kinney means they're still hardcore
yawn at ever thinking of an audience in this way
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 26 June 2015 14:39 (eight years ago) link
yeah I mean doing a piece like this with a plan to appeal to your hypothetical audience's worst hypothetical nature just seems sad and self-defeating
― there was a lot of beer and people doing sit ups, (laughs) (DJ Mencap), Friday, 26 June 2015 16:09 (eight years ago) link
point ...................................................... you
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Friday, 26 June 2015 16:49 (eight years ago) link
^ permeating slow-broiling illegitimacy imo
― 2011’s flagrantly ceremonious rock-opera (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 26 June 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
If Tom Watson never makes it here I could try to post more like him, if you like
― rahrah avis (imago), Friday, 26 June 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link
should I have any idea what that means
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Friday, 26 June 2015 17:56 (eight years ago) link
lmao freddie deboer's debut dive into the DC media spawning tank and it's THIS
i can't type lololololololol enough
― goole, Friday, 26 June 2015 18:53 (eight years ago) link
Man "half-aspie" is gross & mean
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 3 July 2015 22:31 (eight years ago) link
are you surprised
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Friday, 3 July 2015 22:32 (eight years ago) link
a 9/10 review of a deserving album but horrifying on pretty much every other level:http://www.spin.com/2015/06/review-vince-staples-summertime-06/
― some dude, Monday, 6 July 2015 00:16 (eight years ago) link
writer seems like a real charmer toohttp://defamer.gawker.com/read-the-insanely-weird-emails-this-music-journalist-se-1413243759
that kind of nonsense is what ILX sometimes sounds like at its worst
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 6 July 2015 00:19 (eight years ago) link