but that seems to be the point.
in a nutshell, this is all any of you crazy prr stans are saying
it's shit but that seems to be the point.
― l'avventura: pet detective (history mayne), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
He doesn't piss me off but he can't write. At best his semantic constructions -- paragraph placements, points of emphasis -- are so weird that I wonder if he's deliberately writing Cocteau Twins lyrics as prose.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
no one who couldn't write could sustain a tone as consistent as this dude can.
― If Airplanes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport (s1ocki), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
― l'avventura: pet detective (history mayne), Tuesday, September 28, 2010 2:07 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark
disagree. writing about a moment in which you behaved awkwardly is not the same thing as writing badly. i'd say that dude's description of his "interview" of avey tare is well-written, but reveals that the interview itself was something of a disaster. enjoyed that. it's reflective of the dude's little-boy-lost stance, which seems to be a dealbreaker for a lot of folks, fine, but when it's handled with a measure of self-awareness, it can be quite funny. i lolled at the faux stupid "i wonder if Das Racist's frequent lyrics about the internet are rooted in not having computers." an easy laugh, maybe, but good enough for me.
― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Tuesday, 28 September 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't like him because it's a slog to get to the end of everything he writes and when you do you realize you didn't actually get any insights about what he was writing about
its like listening to pavements discography over and over again
― tumlbrah (dayo), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
write it on a tumblrdad they broke me, dad they broke me
― markers, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^maybe the best post on this thread i've yet read
― buzza, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
it's depressing that there's like 20 legitimately great music writers who post on this very board and you guys don't deconstruct any of their work with a fraction of the attention and scrutiny you pay to this weirdo. like so the new "model" is to be the fucking lil b of music writing?
― fuck noOoOO (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 00:17 (thirteen years ago) link
and you can save the "HAHA SAYS THE HIPSTER TWITTER PUPPIES 1000 REVIEWS DROWN SANDWICH LOLMJIUG@IYV@"
― fuck noOoOO (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 00:18 (thirteen years ago) link
nah, that's cool. but the 20 legit greats should really spend more time posting the legit great work of their peers, so we can all talk about it. i only go on abt PRR dude cuz people keep posting the shit and seem open to discussion about it.
― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 00:25 (thirteen years ago) link
also my peeve w/ the 'quirky interview' is that any time you come up with 'weird' and 'out there' questions like that it's almost always designed to throw the spotlight back onto you, the interviewer, it's like "look how against the grain and weird I'm being, please acknowledge this cool guy whose music I listen to"
― tumlbrah (dayo), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 00:32 (thirteen years ago) link
feels like PRR dude secretly wishes that in 3 months he'll run into avey tare at some bar and be like "hey I was the guy who asked you those weird questions" and avey tare will be like "oh yeah those were interesting you wanna be featured on my next album" and PRR dude will be like "nah I got tumblrs to post on" but secretly he'll be pleased
― tumlbrah (dayo), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 00:33 (thirteen years ago) link
i still think he writes tooooo much of the filler stuff. i like that piece although alright though, it makes some good points, but it takes sooo long to get to them & then when it does it feels like there was too much build up, his timing isnt really there yet. sooo much "and then i did this and then i did this" etc. basically just needs some editing
― HOW I FOLD MY BANDANA (deej), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 00:49 (thirteen years ago) link
basically just needs some editing
OTM x 100.
― Veðrafjǫrðr heimamaður (ecuador_with_a_c), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
I quite like this guy but there are so many bloggers over the last ten years who more thoroughly deserve the weirdly intense praise he's getting.
― Tim F, Tuesday, September 28, 2010 6:38 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark
he figured out the #1 way to get peoples' attention on the internet: being meta. this is why that site called kickpork or whatever the fuck it was got all the attention it did when it launched a few weeks ago
and this from sarahel:
Maybe I'm supposed to already have bought into these details or these types being significant, but all i'm seeing/reading is a bunch of empty signifiers that don't communicate much.
is otm. it's playing to the base.
― maura, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 01:44 (thirteen years ago) link
it's depressing that there's like 20 legitimately great music writers who post on this very board and you guys don't deconstruct any of their work with a fraction of the attention and scrutiny you pay to this weirdo. like so the new "model" is to be the fucking lil b of music writing?― fuck noOoOO (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, September 28, 2010 8:17 PM
― fuck noOoOO (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, September 28, 2010 8:17 PM
PRR isn't a rock critic.
Generally, his posts fall into two categories: the morning roundup and the longer pieces about his life, indie rock culture, and music. But nowhere in here is he really, strictly speaking, reviewing music. The morning roundup is metacriticism; the other stuff, eh, is a little more complicated.
Somewhere on this thread, someone mentioned LiveJournal; I think it's helpful if we look at his longer posts as online journal entries, written from the perspective of an indie kid, about what it's like to be an indie kid and have indie kid thoughts about indie rock and other music indie kids tend to like in 2010. And I think that a lot of the people who enjoy his stuff are enjoying it because, for them, he's writing in a really fun, easy-to-read style, from the perspective of someone who's just like them, except he's out there doing more exciting things they wish they could do, like hanging out with musicians and interviewing people high up on the indie culture food chain.
I haven't fully thought this through and there's probably a lot more I could say, but I've gotta go do other stuff now.
― markers, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
uh he's a rock critic, sorry
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
which isn't a bad thing of course
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://lateshowwritersonstrike.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/webassets/mallomars.gif
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
And I think that a lot of the people who enjoy his stuff are enjoying it because, for them, he's writing in a really fun, easy-to-read style, from the perspective of someone who's just like them, except he's out there doing more exciting things they wish they could do, like hanging out with musicians and interviewing people high up on the indie culture food chain.
so it boils down to that PRR is writing slash fiction for other indie fans? which tbh is probably a long-running undercurrent in rock reportage anyway.
― tumlbrah (dayo), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
that's the best explanation i've heard for him
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZmhuQ8WWZU
― ('_') (omar little), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
and also a good explanation for why i can't stand him
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
honestly, this is kind of pathetic
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah if you respond to this you probably have to remove yourself from your interests a bit
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i liked (and still do) reading his stuff about pitchfork cuz shit i'm a pitchfork stan at heart but i find his other stuff to be long-winded & uninteresting
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
the idea that what you want/respond to from a rock critic is long livejournal esque narratives & whimsical two question "interviews" with bands that the writer gets to "hang out with" is really backwards to me
fanfic is otm
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
what i could get through of the das racist piece i guess could have been interesting if you cared about das racist but it was like a million pages long for no reason
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
fanfic! yes! or, like the bushwick equivalent of la dolce musto
― maura, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:49 (thirteen years ago) link
only without any limit on inches
― maura, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't think musto has a limit on inches either
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:50 (thirteen years ago) link
heyoooo
― kellspolaris (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
BAM
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:51 (thirteen years ago) link
http://obit-mag.com/media/image/Bowing-Man.jpg
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i think PRR would prob be more interesting if he was gay tho
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 29 September 2010 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Joshua Heller [#4549]
das racist is my favorite band. this kid is an excellent writer. he wrote this whole thing on a cellphone? baller.Posted on 09/28/10 at 6:18 pm
― buzza, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
he does have a fuckton of patience for typing on a blackberry, i'll give him that. i hate that shit.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
he should move to japan and start writing novels
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
guys I write on a blackberry too
Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
― tumlbrah (dayo), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
i knock on the door of the apartment building whose address he gave me because there are no buzzers even though there are multiple apartments in the building, and nothing happens so i text him "yo i'm here" and then i try to open the front door to the building and it is unlocked and i walk in and stand in the lobby area waiting for him, i am nervous and i am wishing i had taken an anti-anxiety pill and i wonder if i have one in my pocket so i check my pocket but i don't and i think about running outside to buy a 40 but then Himanshu comes down the stairs. he is barefoot and he gets halfway down the stairs and crouches and looks at me for a second and smiles and gives me the finger guns and goes, "yo" and he smiles and i say "hey how's it going?"
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH STFU
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 03:49 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah the idea of that being "easy to read" is not something i really comprehend
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 29 September 2010 04:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I kinda agree w/markers that the diaristic style of his writing is part of the appeal. Which is why it's slightly disorienting and maybe a little unsatisfying to read somewhere other than his own blog. Because if you want something tight and punchy and journalistic, this kid's doing it all wrong. But I do think there's something interesting and attractive about that voice on its own. For me, at least.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
attractive in the way diarrhea is attractive, yes.
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 04:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean don't get me wrong i love diarrhea
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Should've gone with "diaristic, more like diarrhea amirite."
― jaymc, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
ut the 20 legit greats should really spend more time posting the legit great work of their peers, so we can all talk about it.
uhhhh why the fuck don't YOU go and read it? it's not as though most people's journalism is hidden away on some obscure tumblr. please don't say you have to be spoonfed writing by ilxors to pay attention to it - though that would totally explain why you think this dude is all that
not one detail is interesting here. WHY WOULD I CARE ABOUT ANY OF THIS STUFF AGH SHUT UP SHUT UP. his shit is just a swamp of self-absorption. obviously HOW he writes is the, uh, "appeal" for his stans here (i still don't actually fully believe you because wt actual f), rather than what he writes because there is no insight or perception there, no actual ideas beyond the observation of minutiae, so...seriously? it's detailing like that that hooks you in? that isn't evocative of anything other than his neuroses. read some didion. read anything else. god.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 06:13 (thirteen years ago) link
So generally I think nabisco otm, but I also think lex is on some sort of other money.
― Brad Nelson (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 06:27 (thirteen years ago) link
lex is on the euro
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― fuck noOoOO (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 06:32 (thirteen years ago) link
HE WRITES SO MUCH SO HE IS A GENIUS, PRR IS SO #BASED
― fuck noOoOO (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 06:33 (thirteen years ago) link