Hilary Duff: Joy for pre-teens, not just Humbert Humbert

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This thread has my favorite Tim F responses.

And I seem to recall a Cure for Bedbugs blog post about the new Arcade Fire album, which amounted to not much more than "Ick! Dull, dull, dull!" -- which I guess is partially an attempt to distance himself from his own 9.7 Pitchfork review of the first one.

-- jaymc, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 16:47 (7 months ago) Bookmark Link

Heart of truth at centre of thread.

Rosebud...

being all curmudgeonly . . . just makes you look old (ie irrelevant)

-- lex pretend

Old = Irrelevant. LOL.

welcome to lexworld, man.

it's all part of his hilarious ideology and you should subscribe to his newsletter.

Yeah. Like I said on another thread, he seems smart, just dogmatic. And since I'm old(-ish) (39), his comment struck me as funny and perhaps revealing about his enthusiasm for teenpop (my invisible psych degree sits framed on my wall next to my invisible music degree).

and perhaps revealing about his enthusiasm for teenpop

and perhaps his own youth as well.

Is he young? I assumed -- perhaps wrongly -- that he was an adult music writer/critic. I thought I saw a picture of him on these boards at one point (awkwardly holding a guitar, maybe?).

He's a few years older than me iirc (I'm 21), but I meant "youth" in the broad sense.

He doesn't seem that young when he's emulating the taste, writing style and enthusiasm level of someone half his age.

This thread has my favorite Tim F responses.

Yeah, they're good. This thread has my favorite Dom Passantino responses.

i feel that not everyone is treating this as seriously as they could
-- lex pretend

epitaph

Greta (Hilary Duff) is a trip, but she’s not a vacation. She’s seventeen, bright, beautiful and seriously rebellious, full of sarcastic wit that barely disguises the hurt inside. Pushed aside by her mother, Karen, who is on her third marriage and counting, Greta is shipped off to her grandparents for the summer, and she’s not happy about it. In fact, she tells them that she fully intends to kill herself before the summer is over and is currently compiling a notebook of suicide methods. Acerbic, yet winningly impulsive, Greta is a stunning force of nature, disrupting her grandparents’ staid and settled lives and the Jersey Shore community they live in as well. Greta falls for a harismatic, young short-order cook (Evan Ross), only to find out he’s been in and out of a juvenile correctional facility for stealing cars. Now he’s determined to do something with his life, but as their romance heats up, Greta has to overcome the concerns of her grandparents (Ellen Burstyn, Michael Murphy) about her boyfriend’s criminal past. But soon a near catastrophe gives Greta a wake-up call and demonstrates how deeply her own actions impact those around her. Greta’s growing love for her elderly grandparents, along with the excitement of her first summer romance, gradually strips away her defenses, revealing the promising, charismatic young woman underneath her shell.

this was kinda the last hurrah for the poptimist crew in many ways, most of them don't post much anymore or at all.

which might be why i have a million western swing songs when *logically* i could probably do with about 8

-- 696, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 14:27 (11 months ago) Bookmark Link

This is the wrongest thing on the thread, just because Bob Willis made a living as a Spade Cooley impressionist, doesn't mean Western Swing was a generic genre.

Oh where, oh where did the nerd pedophiles go; oh where oh where can they be...

livejournal? no really, I think that's the serious answer.