eh i took the bait on the zep thing. it happens. otherwise we're cool for the summer.
― got the club going UP on a tuesday (m coleman), Friday, 31 July 2015 11:29 (eight years ago) link
This SPIN "cover story" is really something else:
http://www.spin.com/featured/vince-staples-summertime-06-interview-cover-story/
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:15 (eight years ago) link
dog bites man girlfriend
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 31 July 2015 15:18 (eight years ago) link
I keep getting up from the table to call my girlfriend, who is, understandably, pissed at the dog for biting her, and pissed at me for not being with her. Staples, who is in person as genial as he is pragmatic and frank on record, offers to reschedule. He gets it. “Dogs try you, bro,” Staples offers. “Maybe your dog had a bad day.”
Lydia Davis level
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
nu-SPIN has this weird SJW slant in everything they cover (ie, the quasi-paedo pandering in teenpop writing, calling out Shamir for fat-shaming) but then is like totally tone-deaf when it comes to running racist reviews by stalkers or this "can't my girlfriend respect that a man is working" rant
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
no way i'm progressing beyond that byline
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
Gah, this is all your fault Klosterman.
It’s tempting to read too deep into this story, twist it into some hackneyed metaphor for how Staples sees no such thing as absolute good or absolute bad in the world. And from what I can tell, both from music and in conversation, he definitely does sort of believe those things. But he’s not trying to make a greater statement about the world here, he’s just trying to help me out. (Both the dog and my girlfriend are fine, by the way.)
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:41 (eight years ago) link
that is a shall we say interesting way to put a hook on that interview
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
finally a longread from the ryan schreiber of millenial rap writing
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
Actually if you cut that pointless, alienating "cool story bro" first section the rest of the profile's OK.
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
Actually if you cut that pointless, alienating "cool story bro" first section the rest of the profile's OK.― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Friday, July 31, 2015 11:44 AM (1 second ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Friday, July 31, 2015 11:44 AM (1 second ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
When it’s time to order our food, Staples orders like a quarterback calling a play. “We’re going chicken sandwich, cole slaw on the side, right?” he begins. “And I want the mac and cheese served as the side. OK and also, we need two smoked beef links. Is there a type of bread we can get to go along with that? Let’s get a sandwich roll on the side. What is buttermilk pie? We’ll talk about that in a minute. It sounds live.”
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:44 (eight years ago) link
summertime '14
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link
lol
we'll talk about that in a minute
― j., Friday, 31 July 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link
He’s only 21, but to borrow a phrase from Mobb Deep’s Prodigy, his mind is old.
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:46 (eight years ago) link
xp Why is that so terrible? It tells you something about how Staples talks and behaves. I don't love this guy's writing, I'm not going to print this piece out and frame it, but the intro's so noxious that I was pleasantly surprised to find the rest was solid.
This is when print can be better for you than online. The intro would have been cut for space reasons in a heartbeat. Editors who save you from yourself are also helpful.
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
OK, I'm dialling back that faint praise after reading "his body is a repository of small, inconsequential motions that add up to a flurry of activity."
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:49 (eight years ago) link
yeesh
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5EnGwXV_Pg
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 July 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
OK and also, we need two smoked beef links. Is there a type of bread we can get to go along with that? Let’s get a sandwich roll on the side.
paging vince staples to the 'a hot dog is' thread, sounds like he may have some valuable points to make
― bizarro gazzara, Friday, 31 July 2015 15:51 (eight years ago) link
America’s the cause. Vince Staples is the effect.
Huh?
― geoffreyess, Friday, 31 July 2015 15:56 (eight years ago) link
that wyman zep thing is so random and funny
― da croupier, Friday, 31 July 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
why the hell did vulture belch out some old school rolling stone dude going "BAH!" 74 times
i hope they have him do another for sabbath: the ozzy years
― da croupier, Friday, 31 July 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
Spin Lolla recap:
But if there was ever a valid reason to cram by an outdoor stage and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with a crowd of thousands (each enjoying various shades of sobriety), then it would be to watch an original Beatle sing “Blackbird” and “Hey Jude.”
An original Beatle.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 1 August 2015 19:05 (eight years ago) link
none of these new-fangled Beatles for me, thank you
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 1 August 2015 20:30 (eight years ago) link
eh, caveman was alright
― balls, Saturday, 1 August 2015 21:42 (eight years ago) link
caveman singing in the dead of night
― a poetic ODE to FORNICATION (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 2 August 2015 00:16 (eight years ago) link
The art of the cover version is as much about re-animation as it is performance, raising the temperature of a stark original to an incandescence that was always lurking at its heart bringing dead songs back to life, which is certainly true of The Velvet Underground's 'Ride Into The Sun' and Brian Eno's 'Here Come The Warm Jets'. A low key invocation of the former blossoms into belligerent rock roar. Whispering, halting vocals dream and distil the music bays and protests in full fury, with a fierce rhino-hide guitar solo at its core. Wah wah pedal delirium and a brisk pace customise Eno's original into a repository of exposition and extension, pushing out the parameters into a hulking mass of guitar-oriented glory with an iron-hard carapace.
http://thequietus.com/articles/18286-bardo-pond-record-store-day-trilogy-review
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 10:37 (eight years ago) link
a first-time effort surely
― j., Tuesday, 4 August 2015 13:27 (eight years ago) link
OK, the idea that cover versions of VU or Eno's tracks bring 'dead songs back to life' seems pretty misguided, but that's not the worst piece of music writing ever.
― MikoMcha, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 15:52 (eight years ago) link
it's very overwritten but its point is clear enough I think
if ppl want to treat this thread as 'rolling music writing which annoyed me for one reason or another' however then so be it
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:24 (eight years ago) link
it wouldn't even be the worst piece of music writing today https://archive.is/ZkPs3
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
that deserves to be itt, everything about it is bad
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
This dude is three years younger than me, but that's apparantly enough distance to where you would use the phrase "the elusive manic pixie dream girl type" without any self-awareness
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:02 (eight years ago) link
i'm not gonna read all these, did any of the writers seal the deal?: http://noisey.vice.com/columns/first-dates
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:04 (eight years ago) link
illusion never changed into something real
― welltris (crüt), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:09 (eight years ago) link
i guess the headline would change if someone found out that mac demarco was a patient, sensuous lover
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
30+ paragraphs by a self-professed "music writer," a (begrudging) half-sentence about his subject's music
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:10 (eight years ago) link
forget it, croup, it's noiseytown
― dick wet with chickenshit (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
so it looks like most of these are just frothy q&as, wonder why this time they decided to bless us with the writer's internal monologue. maybe they were worried readers would assume they thought of her as more than just a 18-year-old spankbank entry?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
because everyone can relate, man, we're all 18-to-34-year-old males
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
https://simpsonswiki.com/w/images/thumb/d/d7/Nuts_and_Gum.png/250px-Nuts_and_Gum.png
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:18 (eight years ago) link
lol crut
― killfile with that .exe, you goon (wins), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
Only 3 of those articles were written by men.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
yes and the rest are q&as, not first-person narratives, as i mentioned in the post the post you're quoting is referring to
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 17:58 (eight years ago) link
The title of the article is also I Went On A Date With Everyone's Crush, Natalie Imbruglia. compare that to I Went on a Date with My High School Crush: Taking Back Sunday's Adam Lazzara or simply A First Date With... Sky Ferreira
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:00 (eight years ago) link
though i wouldn't put it past noisey to follow this with a woman's hot'n'heavy I Tried To Fuck Brandon Boyd For All Of Us, though i bet incubus' music would get more than a half-sentence of acknowledgement in that
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
god that Imbruglia thing is next-level worthless
― the naive cockney chorus (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
jeeeeesus. those aren't just embarrassing, they're offensive
― let's not get too excited w/ the ouches (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:10 (eight years ago) link
not if I had anything to do with it it wouldn't xxp
― Hector Ringtone (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 4 August 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link