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i mean don't get me wrong i love diarrhea

Should've gone with "diaristic, more like diarrhea amirite."

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

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?"

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.

So generally I think nabisco otm, but I also think lex is on some sort of other money.

lex is on the euro

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HE WRITES SO MUCH SO HE IS A GENIUS, PRR IS SO #BASED

whiney ^_^

the thing w/the "he needs an editor" argument is, wtf is actually left when you strip away the extraneous bs?

ilx on my dick cause i look like ian cohen. ilx on my dick cause i look like joe tangari. swag swag swag, i got ten-point-o swag. best new swag. cooking cooking cooking, get me a fork cast. i'm in the basement, mixing up the metaphors.

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"i want to tell Himanshu that to me, Das Racist is a project about immigrant disillusionment, about realizing that the possibilities for immigrants in America are not as vast as they appeared from outside it, and when i listen to Das Racist it helps me understand my dad because sometimes it is hard for him to be direct about why he wants to leave."

of course if he just posted that idea on ilx, he wd ... just be another dude w/ an idea on ilx

imo he could even writ a longer piece around that conceit -- but he wd need to keep in only the parts & details that help sketch dude from das racists' ambiguousness towards '''america''' rather than, like, "then i rang the doorbell then i waited for the door then the doorknob turned' type shit

its just very very long

but the parts that cut actually cut, and that's worth something, imo. i like the lazy scene setting, cuz it make sense of that which follows...

and the thing is, if he posted that shit (bit abt das racist's immigrant stance reflecting on his own relationship w/ his immigrant dad), he wouldn't be "just another dude w/ an idea", he'd be a dude with a good, interesting idea.

i'm in the basement, mixing up the metaphors.

A+++

No matter what I think about this guy, contenderizer offtm. Forever.

god this thread is incredibly embarrassing for ilx

i think you mean that it's a disaster for ilx

well its something for ilx thats for sure

on multiple levels probably

actually i think we can just go ahead and say that contenderizer is incredibly embarrassing for ilx

i wish he were the only one, is the thing

ouch, y'all

offtm. Forever...

sorry

altho i do think your opinions on prr are o_O

thing is, i think all kinds of stupid shit! this is not notable. ask deej...

i like clipse. axe somebody.

i like clipse too

just not 'hell hath no fury'

plus - being drunk i'll admit this - i just like liking the wrong thing. it's the armond white in me.

hell hath no fury hath nothing on lord willin, i just wanna believe, you know?

i just like liking the wrong thing

in other words, trollin', as i said and stand by w/r/t this thing

it doesn't feel like trolling from here. and i understand that i'm savaging what shreds might remain of my theoretical ILX credibility, but i can't help it, you know? must challop...

wouldn't mind the trolling if your posts were shorter tbh (and I mean this with a ;) )

word count is an issue. has been brought to my attention before.

e.g., nyah, haterz, suck it

nyah?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE4EFFDCbNw

different nyah

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned Bret Easton Ellis on this thread because so much of PRR's style seems like bad Ellis - rambling, affectless listing of social details (with lots of paragraphs that begin so… and… and… and… continue like this) that purport to provide insight into a scene but really just tell you stuff you already know. He's going to wear out these novice-blogger scenarios pretty quickly though: trying to get into a club, doing a bad interview, etc.

imagine how excruciating the blog post detailing PRR guy's first line of coke will be

:(

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

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, September 28, 2010 11:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

fair bitch, but i'm being sincere. people on ILM love to post the most hideous "music journalism" they can dig up. would like to see a few more threads dedicated to worthwhile writing. yea, because i'm lazy, but also because it'd be nice to have a forum for talking up what's great, as well as shooting down what's bad.

Yeah. He also reminds me of James Frey, bio-maker-upper extraordinaire and author of "A Million Little Pieces". "Then I went to the cafeteria and put eight slices of bacon on my plate and ten pancakes and I poured syrup on them. Then I sat down by myself and ate the bacon and the pancakes. I was still hungry so I went back through the line. There were other men there, and one of them wore a black bandana that covered his right ear. He chose three pancakes and took a cup of black coffee. I took five more pancakes and some orange juice and poured syrup over the pancakes and sat down again."

(that was xpost to Dorian)

happy never to have read james frey so that i can enjoy unmolested the sui generis brilliance of pitchfork reviews reviews lol

If the guy's smart he should cash in on the current interest in indie/hipster anthropology by rushing out a voice-of-his-generation rites-of-passage novel set in Williamsburg. People would lap that shit up.

xpost I loathed Frey's book but it had a similar effect on some people - "What an original voice! He cuts through the bullshit!" etc - before it turned out he was just purveying a different brand of bullshit.

Also, his interview with Avey Tare reminded me of the end of Almost Famous where the kid, after all that he's seen and learned, finally gets the chance to interview Billy Crudup, turns on the tape recorder and his first question is something like, "What do you love most about music?" And we're meant to find it endearing and deep and out-of-the-mouths-of-babes.

yeah, but i felt like his questions to avey were supposed to read as "i am a giant dork and i don't know how to relate to people."

But it's all so stylised that his giant dorkishness is part of the pitch - self-deprecation is such a standard ploy for self-obsessed writers now that I don't really believe it most of the time.

agreed, fair enough