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Mine hans't really been about music for ages though.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 11 February 2005 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link

the whole thing bores me a bit, to be honest - apart from nathalie's blog, obviously, coz she's all fabulous and nice to me and stuff.

Didn't you know, I keep it going just to promote yours. ;-)

that crappy little "comments: 0" at the bottom of thousands of blogspot posts says it all.

I have a lot of fans. I especially like the VEeAgra one.

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Friday, 11 February 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link

There are a bunch of music blogs which, while ocassionally too insular, offer me lots of provocative and fascinating takes on music:

I found Jess Harvell's year-end take on music on his blog very interesting even if I don't always agree with him. Jessica Hopper writes wonderfully. Dj Rupture/Jace Clayton's take on grime, life in Spain, and various others...There a Canadien guy who lives in Senegal and post about African music who's been mention elsewhere by me and others on ILM who's great. How about Julianne Shepherd, and Phil Sherburne,Christopher Porter and numerous others(I just learned from Sasha Frere-Jones blog about the jazz covers of pavement cd)...

― steve-k, Friday, 11 February 2005 14:51 (nineteen years ago) link

The only blogs I find I read are by journalists or professional writers. The quality difference between those and the others is generally huge - not in terms of having interesting things to say, but in sheer readability. It's the experience of having to shape your writing to an audience, of editing your work and having your work edited, and all the other stylistic constraints involved in writing for the media. Eventually, professional writers develop their inner editor. This is the main problem with blogs. There's no editing. It's all just a loghorreic stream. Even if there's something interesting going on I can't be bothered to wade through all the crap to get there.

― genevieve rt, Friday, 11 February 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link

That's funny, cos a lot of the music blogs written by pro journalists usually seem really sloppy, obscure, and super-insular to me (probably because they can't get away with that stuff in print and like having an outlet for that sort of writing.)

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

When I saw them say "Blogosphere" on CNN I was embarassed for the entire country.

― David Allen (David Allen), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Why? It's a silly word, but it refers to a very real thing. People need to get over this bullshit irrational embarassment about blogs. Enough with the selfloathing nerd shtick, okay?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Eventually, professional writers develop their inner editor

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha ... urgh [chokes with laughter]

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:19 (nineteen years ago) link

"I have a lot of fans. I especially like the VEeAgra one. "

whats your blog?

― um, Friday, 11 February 2005 15:27 (nineteen years ago) link

i like the blogosphere term

― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm still waiting for "bloggo" to catch on.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

looks like naive teen idol hasn't checked out this sweet blog interview with the ying yang twins-- http://riffcentral.blogspot.com

― Nick Sylvester, Friday, 11 February 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Bloggiverse.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

People need to get over this bullshit irrational embarassment about blogs.

Is there such a thing? I must live in an insular world.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Why? It's a silly word, but it refers to a very real thing. People need to get over this bullshit irrational embarassment about blogs. Enough with the selfloathing nerd shtick, okay?
-- Matthew C Perpetua (perpetu...), February 11th, 2005.

No, it was just the word.

― David Allen (David Allen), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:44 (nineteen years ago) link

People need to get over this bullshit irrational embarassment about blogs.

No they don't, it IS embarrassing. There is a reason diaries used to have locks.

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:45 (nineteen years ago) link

The most successful blogs are very rarely diaries.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Can a mod modify every post to this thread so there's a recursive link to Leon's post re: the dangers of generalizing and/or shooting yr mouth off?

"OMG look at what those people are doing in my periphery! I don't want to see that! Get out of my field of vision as I am rooted to the ground and am unable to turn my fucking neck!"

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Can a mod modify every post to this thread so there's a recursive link to Leon's post re: the dangers of generalizing and/or shooting yr mouth off?

WHY YOU TAR EVERY POST TO THREAD WITH SAME BRUSH?!?

*hides*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 February 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link

The most successful blogs are very rarely diaries.

All the ones I read are. And I think they're successful.

Well, "online diaries"/blogs have a different motivation now since there seems to be this collective need to make yourself seen and heard, whether you have something interesting to say or not, with several important exceptions of course. I pretty much agree with the sentiment that grimly fiendish promotes upthread re: starting a band.

― mcd (mcd), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Which ones are you reading, mcd?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Shit, I'll read anything as along as it's updated frequently.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

There are a bunch of music blogs which, while ocassionally too insular, offer me lots of provocative and fascinating takes on music:
I found Jess Harvell's year-end take on music on his blog very interesting even if I don't always agree with him. Jessica Hopper writes wonderfully. Dj Rupture/Jace Clayton's take on grime, life in Spain, and various others...There a Canadien guy who lives in Senegal and post about African music who's been mention elsewhere by me and others on ILM who's great. How about Julianne Shepherd, and Phil Sherburne,Christopher Porter and numerous others(I just learned from Sasha Frere-Jones blog about the jazz covers of pavement cd)...

Links, please!

― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 11 February 2005 22:06 (nineteen years ago) link

People need to get over this bullshit irrational embarassment about blogs.

For instance, if you refer to your own blog in a post, please link it. I get frustrated by this at ILM...

― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 11 February 2005 22:07 (nineteen years ago) link

I think ppl are afraid of seeming too self-aggrandizing.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I have a blog which is over 100 pages long, is updated about once a week, has taken about 3 years to write, and which has been visited once, in all that time, for a total of zero seconds. And yet, I continue to write. WHY? Because the pointless vanity of it appeals to my sense of humour.

― thee music mole, Friday, 11 February 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Link!

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

mole, yoo r my main man!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

mole, here iz yer nu favorite band:

http://www.archive.org/audio/audio-details-db.php?collectionid=lf038mp3&collection=lostfrog

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 11 February 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

There are a bunch of music blogs which, while ocassionally too insular, offer me lots of provocative and fascinating takes on music:
I found Jess Harvell's year-end take on music on his blog very interesting even if I don't always agree with him. Jessica Hopper writes wonderfully. Dj Rupture/Jace Clayton's take on grime, life in Spain, and various others...There a Canadian guy who lives in Senegal and post about African music who's been mention elsewhere by me and others on ILM who's great. How about Julianne Shepherd, and Phil Sherburne, Christopher Porter and numerous others (I just learned from Sasha Frere-Jones blog about the jazz covers of pavement cd)...

Better now?

(My blog is called Fluxblog.)

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

matt, seriously, everybody knows what your blog is.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, yeah, I know, that's why I rarely link to it here unless I'm letting people know about a specific track. I was just responding to that guy who was complaining about people never linking to their sites.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:05 (nineteen years ago) link

dude, matt, you plug it at every opportunity! which is your right, i guess, but don't say you "rarely" link it!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

music blogs updated 24/7
http://blo.gs/3600/favorites.html

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I guess it's a matter of perspective - to me, I really do my best not to go around "plugging" it because I do think that's a bit tacky. I only link to it on message boards if it's relevant to the thread in some way. But yeah, I see what you mean.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Find threads from I Love Music, containing matthew perpetua fluxblog.

35 results found:

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link

jesus h what the fuck do you care

― miccio (miccio), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link

i read the grime blogs

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:21 (nineteen years ago) link

You would think the blogosphere could be public diaries -- musings about this passion of ours, the great testing ground for the Big Ideas that end up in print somewhere, or maybe just write-ups of records our respective publications wouldn't let us review for whatever reason.

in other words, "They weren't what I expected them to be and that made me VEWY ANGWY!"

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link

and yes, I can see why Matthew doesn't like various blogs (mine included, if mine was one of the ones he looked at). What he's failing to see (and I'm talking about him in absentia because he hasn't bothered replying to his own thread yet) is that blogs go through cycles, writing-wise. Plenty of the time they're info-dumps, list-holders, and the like; other times, there will be a meme or a topic or a controversy that various folks comment on, adding to the conversation, until it exhausts itself. right now, I'd say they're on a down cycle--even Pazz & Jop hasn't particularly excited anyone this year, one way or the other. but really they're notes-on-the-run more than anything, and I'm not sure where anyone gets the idea that they're (usually) more than that.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link

in fact, I'd say that music blogs (at least the ones I know) have largely split, from places to write for people who weren't writing to either abetting/aiding printed work, or writing-about-the-MP3s-they-post. and that the excitement over music blogging is essentially about the ones that emerged a few years back, mostly, and were heavier on writing-as-writing.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 11 February 2005 23:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Hstencil, you're being misleading now - most of those threads don't include me linking to my own site, which is what I was talking about! Most of the links that I've made to my site here have been about songs, not necessarily a "hey read my blog thing" but more "if you want the song, it is here."

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 12 February 2005 00:40 (nineteen years ago) link

either abetting/aiding printed work

Hmmm...it might be me, but I don't see Freaky Trigger that way, given the regular participants in it -- certainly a number of us are published writers but I feel it has its own ethos. That said I wasn't assuming you were referring to every last music blog out there.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 February 2005 00:45 (nineteen years ago) link

http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/warner_brothers/the_matrix__reloaded/fred_durst/matrixpre.jpg

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:03 (nineteen years ago) link

sorry I finally broke down and got a soda today. sugar rush.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link

you think he looks more like a troll, a goblin or an elf?

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Goblin.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Given the color of the cap, I would say he looks like a shithead.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

when the little man stepped in shortly afterward and asked: "Now, my lady Queen, what's my name?" she asked first: "Is your name Conrad?"
"No."
"Is your name Harry?"
"No."
"Is your name perhaps, Rumpelstiltzkin?"

"Some demon has told you that! some demon has told you that!" screamed the little man, and in his rage he ran home and wrote "Nookie."

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:13 (nineteen years ago) link

btw I just checked the Limp bizkit site and evidently Fred is recording vocals for the album in Prague.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 12 February 2005 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link

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