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

extreme hydration

I was kinda shocked to learn that this guy (who's barely capable of writing a sentence in English) actually is a professor. I assumed he made that part up, like when dudes on right-wing message boards claim to be Navy SEALs.

have you read the prose of tenured faculty?

Nope; I barely graduated high school and only did three semesters of community college.

I was kinda shocked to learn that this guy (who's barely capable of writing a sentence in English) actually is a professor.

yeah, that was my only reaction, though i was more depressed than shocked. shitty writing + shallow thinking + zero research = college professor teaching a course called "evil, death and dystopia".

http://www.fandm.edu/jeffrey-podoshen

hot topic:

Podoshen, Jeffrey S. (2009), “Distressing Events and Future Purchase Decisions: Jewish Consumers and the Holocaust,” Journal of Consumer Marketing, 26 (4): 263-276.

dark tourism a pretty catchy term:

Podoshen, Jeffrey S. (2016), “Trajectories in Holocaust Tourism,” Journal of Heritage Tourism (in press).

Podoshen, Jeffrey S., Vivek Venkatesh, Jason Wallin, Susan Andrzejewski and Zheng Jin (2015), “Dystopian Dark Tourism: An Exploratory Examination,” Tourism Management, 51 (December), 316-328.

Podoshen, Jeffrey S., Susan Andrzejewski, Vivek Venkatesh and Jason Wallin (2015), “New Approaches to Dark Tourism Inquiry: A Response to Isaac,” Tourism Management, 51 (December), 331-334.

SRO:

BOS 200 - Strategies for Organizing

BOS 341 - Marketing

BOS 480 - Issues Facing Organizations in the 21st Century

Students Please Note: I use the system-generated waitlist for admission into all of my classes after intial registration has ended. I understand that waitlists for my classes are extensive and I wish I could accomodate all interested students in my classes. Unfortunately, this is not possible. Students wishing to find a space in my classes should add themselves to the waitlist in Banner. Banner will automatically add students on the waitlist if/when space becomes available.

nothing says dangerous auth like business school

This article examines materialism, conspicuous consumption, race, and hip-hop subculture. Our study used survey data from over 1,200 individuals. Results show that African Americans scored higher in materialism and conspicuous consumption compared to non-African Americans. Additionally, those who prefer hip-hop music scored higher in materialism and conspicuous consumption than those who preferred to listen to music in other genres. Implications and historical context are discussed.

sounds like high-quality scholarship i am willing to listen to whatever this guy has to say about sjws

Cant get over Decibel actually publishing that article

sky ferreira went off on the L.A. Weekly piece

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/pop/7415477/sky-ferreira-response-la-weekly-sexist-article-madonna

metalsucks went off on the decibel piece

http://www.metalsucks.net/2016/06/21/decibels-guest-column-sjws-destroying-extreme-music-disagree/

Nice x2! Some decent writing came from poor writing

I mean the former is an aggregation of tweets

But what tweets

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http://www.metalinsider.net/columns/headbangers-brawl/headbangers-brawl-is-there-really-an-sjw-problem-in-extreme-music

I like how they let the dumbest person go first and let Bram bat cleanup.

bram's batting third. nick ("Corpsegrinder is a World of Warcraft-playing dork who spends one hour a day growling songs about murder") is in the cleanup spot.

(apologies, but as your fact checking cuz, i do feel kind of obligated)

What's craziest about that metal SJW piece is the implication that murder and arson are normal and natural, and part of the "appeal" of extreme metal. That might be true for some people, but it doesn't exactly amount to a convincing case against social justice in metal.

What's craziest is no one outside of the like 100 people in metal media cares about any of this.

So we should only post examples of bad music writing that the general public actually cares about? Good luck.

Nah, piece def belonged here, I'm more talking about everyone writing responses

murder and arson are normal and natural

Of course, just normal and natural to the EXTREME.

Personally, I'm waiting to hear the Obama press conference addressing this extreme metal controversy. He should invite the author and his critics out for beers.

are there ANY music articles that dont appeal to just 100 people in the media these days?

not really

are there ANY music articles that dont appeal to just 100 people in the media these days?

― Cosmic Slop

yes, but they're by chuck klosterman

*sobs*

so many people shared that de la soul thing. if you write sucky stuff about things you don't like lots of non-media people will read you.

The nihilism and violence of the second wave Norwegian scene was "interesting" insofar as it was a determinate negation of certain stupid tendencies within extreme music but it seems like a bad idea to argue that that sort of thing should be allowed to continue within the scene by people who should know better. The writer of that decibel piece seems like a bad person.

sorry but this is appalling https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/04/1990s-spice-girls-celebrity-culture?CMP=fb_gu

Twenty years on, the No 1 album is by Radiohead (from the 90s), our funniest TV show is Frasier (from the 90s), our most eagerly awaited new film is Absolutely Fabulous (from the 90s), the Stone Roses (from the 90s) are forever back-back-BACK

I love Frasier, but I'm confused by this reference to Frasier.

Also aren't the Stone Roses from the '80s?

http://i.imgur.com/8cNmsAq.jpg

shit just got hyperlocal

http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/yg-still-brazy

I wondered about that too. Did Frasier win some best sitcom poll? Or is she referring to the daily repeats on C4?

Is anyone eagerly awaiting the Ab Fab movie? That dead horse has been flogged to homeopathic levels.

Sylvia Patterson can be a fantastic features writer, but she was never someone I went to for critical insight. I mean, she gave Kula Shaker's K 9/10 in the NME. This tossed off clickbait is beneath her.

That YG review is something special.

I'm more disturbed that the writer considers Noel Gallagher a sage.

in which the editor of a website that doesn't pay its writers complains that writers are actually losing money every time they review a record because record companies are too cheap to send them hard copies of the music and how terribly unfair that is:

http://blurtonline.com/2016/07/fred-mills-economics-rock-criticism/

new board description...

"Still Brazy is analogous to the very biosphere we inhabit, becoming oblique in the same instant we perceive it most lucidly."

i can't read that fred mills thing. mostly it reminds me that magnet magazine never paid me 10 bucks for a review once and i was too embarrassed to ask them for ten bucks.

nothing like a tiny mix tapes review to give me an enormous dose of perspective on my own overwriting

"Assume, as a base, that a reviewer spends 90 minutes listening to a 45-minute album twice before setting down to write. Then assume he/she puts in another 90 minutes’ minimum to write, proof, revise and finalize a review. Could be more, could be less, depending on the record."

this is not the amount of time it takes me to review a record

...I pullquoted way too soon didn't I

"if you actually want to keep the album, you’ll probably want to burn it to a CDR, print out some artwork or at least tracklisting, and insert both into a jewel case. That’s at least another buck for the disc, the printer paper, and the ink used printing it."

in what oblique biosphere are people still doing this in 2016? and why are they paying those prices?

I do, sometimes.

I, also, wondered what that Frasier reference was about.

Twenty years on, the No 1 album is by Radiohead (from the 90s), our funniest TV show is Frasier (from the 90s), my favorite jeans are starting to get real worn these days (from the 90s), i subsist entirely on a diet from my storehouse of hungry man tv dinners (from the 90s), and my busted hip from a golfing mishap (from the 90s) is forever back back back