Clusterfuck Summary Corner

personally, i was surprised and delighted to see ghostface on so many of those pitchfork lists. he is the people's champ apparently. or maybe his album covers just look really cool when people are clicking around looking for things to pick for their lists.

"Hey you know, that clusterfuck wasn't clusterfucky enough! Why don't we do it all over again here, but this time mean and snarky, huh?"

what the hell, i'm up for it and don't feel like working anyway, you start.

lol

ghostface had the longest run of good albums of any rapper (maybe any artist even) in the 00s

xp

what abt flo rida tho

or maybe his album covers just look really cool when people are clicking around looking for things to pick for their lists.

ghost only has one good album cover though

(RIP original Fishscale cover :( )

You're right, of course, but the Bulletproof Wallets is so good it almost makes up for his other, mediocre covers:

http://www.jubel.fm/images/made/BulletproofWallets_587_587.jpg

ha ha, Pretty Toney is the one I like, but I do love your old post about that cover

That whole thread was pretty classic:

the homoeroticism in ghostface's 'run'

Also, I wish could find the inner sleeve pic of BW online, where Ghostface and Raekwon are in the same situation as in the cover, and Rae is presenting a bundle of cash to the camera, and Ghost is doing the same, except that instead of money he's holding a huge pineapple.

Sometimes I really wonder what was going on during that photo shoot...

BW needs to be marked down because I always (mis-)remembered him rocking an eagle head on it. Although I guess that can be said about everything Ghostface.

http://passionweiss.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/ghostraecook_grey.jpg

Haha, that's one the one! Seriously, what the hell is supposed to be happening there?

I don't know what's more WTF - I'm gonna boil up some banknotes, or look at my bitchin' pineapple. Maybe it's a throwback to the days when pineapples were considered so extravagant that people used to hire them and bring them to parties to show off their status.

what i wanna know is why the chef isnt cooking

The answer is in the thread I linked to above.

covered in the OG thread.

oops xpost

anyway perhaps a shout-out to their down-under fans - in Australia a "pineapple" is a $50 note

wat

wait, who hires a pineapple?

diced pineapples

Ghost's "Deadly Melody" verse:

Pass me the black velvet embassy suite killin me
Spell it Maxi Priest caught me in the days up on Delancy Street
Stand solar, deadly vengeance with a crowbar
It's like the dreads worshipin Jah, so ha-lo-ha
Pineapple crushed 850 swerve it with a rush
Plush the Canola Range spittin off the roof, holdin my change
Yo it's ragtime, universal 12 Monkey mind
It's like, stalkin through your airport [BZZZZZZT] with a chunky nine

That... doesn't really help.

12 monkeys stalkin through your airport rhyme is awesome though

it is

i wonder if chris marker ever heard that

Amanda Palmer - what's going on there?

she did a thing that seems kinda shady, ppl talking about it, kinda arguing but mostly agreeing that she's at least kinda shady

she asked for a bunch of money from her fans to pay for some shit but apparently people think she's already rich and shouldn't be asking for any more money from her fans to pay her backing band... or something. idg why anybody cares really.

Palmer has asked local musicians from each stop on her tour to come play in her band for that night in exchange for beer and hugs. Albini/musicians think that's well out of order, especially as she raised over a million dollars on kickstarter to fund the album she's supporting.

if local musicians are stupid/excited enough to play for beer and hugs whose business is it what they do? seriously.

why is it closing in on 800 posts?

Because we have a LOT to say.

Also because our own upper mississippi sh@kedown is currently schooling Neil Gaiman on Twitter about it all.

what is the letter to robert smith abt tho

about how she likes him a lot

cool story amanda palmer

to be fair, albini doesnt play into this very much.

if local musicians are stupid/excited enough to play for beer and hugs whose business is it what they do? seriously.

― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, September 14, 2012 5:11 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you should read the thread, some illuminating answers to this question

that's crazytalk, max

plz summarize illumination

light reading

She made a lot of money ($1.2 million) on Kickstarter.
She now claims she doesn't have enough to pay for a backing band ($30K for the entire tour).
She asked her fans to play for "beer and hugs"-- these fans already supported her on Kickstarter.
She asked for trained musicians, not amateurs.
These same musicians will also be required to play for the support act.
A quick survey of her accounting suggests that she is lying about her lack of funds.
An more extended examination suggests that she may in fact be a total con.

People care because:
a) lost jobs for actual musicians
b) she continues to frustrate and seem more and more grifty with every explanation
c) the semi-pro and pro musicians on this board (and their friends) object to people in their profession being exploited
d) she opens her blog posts with "hola comrades"

and beyond that there's a whole eyebrow thing too

e) she once played ukelele on the beach for hundreds of people for free

Also Scientology, nipples

Faked a suicide, recorded her junkie boyfriend's reaction, used that recording on an album

and Neil Gaiman if you feel like piling on

Covered a Rocky Horror song on The Craig Ferguson Show. With Moby. Also: Neil Gaiman.

cool story amanda palmer

lol

hola comrade smith