Is SPIN really circling the drain?

This guy sounds like an unbelievable tool.

Really? I'm enjoying the voice. A nice surprise, since I mainly remembered him as the guy who blurbed "The Fragile" in their best of '99 issue, describing it as "the hard bulletin."

His 1989 book is very good. Not so crazy about these tweets.

someone should reply at him the world's tiniest violin score

― da croupier, Monday, July 20, 2015 5:03 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This.

Also: "Pirate Bae"

CHAPTER SEVEN

After a couple days we head back downtown. The subways are running again. GWB has told us that we need to shop for America. The planes still aren't flying and I have to rebook my flight back to France. First I reschedule my Spin meeting. Breaking up is hard. I schedule the meeting for a week later and then rebook my ticket home.

I feel like the oddity of having flown into NYC on a caprice a day before 9/11 means I am probably a terrorist. This feeling will last for weeks, months. Its a time of paranoia. I miss four days of running, first time in a dozen years. When I start running again along the East River I keep seeing planes diving toward me from the corner of my eye & panic. Can't stop thinking about the air toxicity which is a real thing but also a figure for the ambient fear gripping people. I visit the memorials in union square above the closed zone but i dont find them moving, just disturbing.

Its a historical genre, right? The periods when the line blurs between the missing and the dead. i think about Chile. People start to attack Muslims, possible Muslims taxi drivers shopkeepers people in turbans. Seriously, fuck the human spirit. Some days at least. Fiends go back to getting together, little dates, everything feels furtive, drinking starts at noon.

It is a lost time. But the CDs come out, delayed a week. Tori, The Blueprint. But The Coup has its own special delay. Because The Coup original cover shows them blowing up the WTC. That's what they sent me back in June. So the review is on the street saying The Coup and I want you to throw a brick through the window of Spin offices. But the CD is nowhere to be found because they are having to print new covers and now finally it is time. It is time for me to go into the offices I have suggested get bricked & walk into the managing editor's office and quit.

you can kinda see why he didn't just plop this on wordpress

rip to his exercise routine, never forget

i mean, as far as a memoir using 9/11 as a backdrop about the time you quit a music critic goes, it's not bad. but i can see why he chose a more dramatic medium.

a music critic gig, rather

idk jeet heer can flying leap but i love shit like this

also if this all winds up being part of a larger memoir - Call Me Jane, perhaps - it'll be easier to suggest its built off viral heat

nb i own the mayor emannuel book so i'm a sucker

hey, anytime someone gets melodramatic about the Rock Crit Life my narcissism of small differences perks up. i'm certainly not sad he wrote it.

also if this all winds up being part of a larger memoir - Call Me Jane, perhaps - it'll be easier to suggest its built off viral heat

― da croupier, Monday, July 20, 2015 1:29 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the viral heat of 40 rock critics reading it

Viral Heat by Michael Crichton

well i used the word "suggest" for a reason

don't discount his poetry readership, that's like a built in market right there

Hope this contract he's going on about didn't include a NDA. Could Spin even afford to hire a lawyer at this point?

Spin dissolved and formed a new company, really doubting any NDA from ca. 2001 would hold

the talk of spin threatening billing him for 16k in chapter ten would probably be scarier if i didn't know he'd live to tell the tale

should've added a frame story

'i found these tweets in an abandoned paris walkup, they purport to be by one j. dark'

I hope the twist is that he was Jojo Dancer all along

loved the jojodancer drop in the middle of that stream. so inside-baseball

should put the next chapter behind a paywall and make people PROVE they think this is epic

behind the wall

the garbage of paris

and HOW did I escape their clutches and live to list my favorite albums - or rather, jane's - on a blog? Hear the remainder of the tale on my bandcamp.

i thought that jane dark stuff was so funny way back when.

GWB has told us that we need to shop for America

Man I forgot all about this, what a load of horsecrap.

The first thing president does is make sure the people at the very top are reassured we are spending money like/cos its our civic duty.

He really doesn't like Charles Aaron.

― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid),

he doesn't like anyone. Per Gessle maybe.

for someone who didn't like charles aaron he sure didn't mind biting his style at the time

I'm not really buying tweets 171-174 where he says he's being punished to the tune of 16k for a tossed off line in a Coup review.

That's not the end. Here's the whole thing:

https://twitter.com/bookofriot Haven't talked to him in a while but congenial etc also a really good poet

I'm saying I'm not really buying the narrative that SPIN pursued the $16k out of some sense of malice for what he said in that review, as opposed to like, the many other reasons a company might pursue money from someone

Yeah, somebody else might (may) tell it quite differently, and even in his version, looks like everything turned out okay (oops spoiler).

https://twitter.com/1000timesyes/status/623123039950098432

― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, July 20, 2015 11:14 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

loooool

I have not thought abt that song in like 15 yrs

Thank you for giving the hearty lol I thought that tweet deserved. I got one RT total on that!

what can i say, i love aaron carter

dude, you totally were watching that on the Bad at Rap thread weren't u

Of course!

<3

whiney that was a good tweet

it's all iconclastic poet michael robbins' fault!

https://twitter.com/alienvsrobbins/status/622570735211520000

what isn't

This guy sounds like an unbelievable tool.

nabisco mr snrub OTM

it's all iconclastic poet michael robbins' fault!

https://twitter.com/alienvsrobbins/status/622570735211520000

― scott seward, Wednesday, July 22, 2015 11:42 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what isn't

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, July 22, 2015 11:56 AM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

I stay with a friend in Stuyvesant Town, 20th & First in Manhattan. It's near the best bagel shop in the world, now closed

truth bomb.

Don't look for it etc etc

it's all iconclastic poet michael robbins' fault!
https://twitter.com/alienvsrobbins/status/622570735211520000

― scott seward, Wednesday, July 22, 2015 11:42 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbh this framing story is my favorite part