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Joe Levy could play this guy in Avengers: The Movie so he's definitely the (Star)foxiest.

http://www.antaninet.it/marvel-universe/s/starfox.jpg

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 2 April 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

it would be gauche for me to reply

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 April 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Kelefa definitely wins the male division. female? hmmm. I'm not going near that.

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 2 April 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Lorraine Ali...you fools.

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:BGzT5XeFCPMJ:www.austinchronicle.com/issues/dispatch/2002-03-15/music_feature2-1.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 2 April 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Glad to see so many people getting a kick out of my sarcastic little thread. I agree that talking heads aren't critics, but I was referring to music critics who are also talking heads on VH-1,etc. And I also so desperately wanted to use my "talking head" joke. Har-de-har?

I'm one of the two lady rock critics who described Simon Reynolds (who I've never met) as a Lou Barlow dropping science. A good friend of mine with very discriminating tastes briefly had a crush on Jancee Dunn until he read her Jar Jar Binks piece in Rolling Stone. If I could have crushes on girl rock critics, I too, would pick Lorraine Ali as well as Jeanne Fury. JF's my hero.

Since I'm pathologically attracted to nerds who are music obsessives, it makes sense that I'd be attracted to rock critics, but whether I've dated, befriended, or just merely crushed on them, it invariably ends in tears. And since the dawn of geek chic, all the male rock critics that I've loved can now date skinny flatchested chicks with turned-up noses and cheekbones like geometry. In my experience, male rock critics don't like girls like me (short, not skinny, squirrely-faced, total weirdo) This is why I date hotel concierges. I get the free shows, he gets the free hotel rooms. It's a system that works.

The funny thing is, dorky guys can date hot chicks. It almost never happens the other way around.

― Sara Sherr, Friday, 2 April 2004 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Almost forgot: I enjoyed all of the talking heads on Egotrip's special on racism on VH-1. (I didn't catch all their names because I tuned in too late to see their captions). They were both stimulating intellectually and aesthetically. I wish VH-1 would run specials like this more often. It was very funny and thought-provoking.

― Sara Sherr, Friday, 2 April 2004 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The funny thing is, dorky guys can date hot chicks. It almost never happens the other way around.

I was about to disagree, but hey -- I'm young! Here's hoping you're right (about the first sentence at least).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 2 April 2004 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

. In my experience, male rock critics don't like girls like me (short, not skinny, squirrely-faced, total weirdo)

ha ha you are out of your mind

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 April 2004 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

COME TO PAPA CHUNKY WEIRD-FACED GIRLS

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 April 2004 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah I'd tend to agree. Dorky girls can be hot. Unless you are into Weird Al and Christianity and wear large novelty earings like the girl who does a radio show after me. Thats not hot.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Friday, 2 April 2004 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm just reeling because sara's description is just about everyone i've ever dated, both pre- and post-rock cricketing

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 April 2004 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Strongo, I'm not out of my mind, I live in Philadelphia. And after seeing how harsh people were towards Ultragrrrl's appearance, I was thinking, if she's considered "ugly," then boy am I in trouble, and merely pointing out the double standard in gender and appearance. Ugly dudes can date pretty girls. How many ugly or average girls do you see with hot guys? But seriously, I have no idea, I'm going by my own shitty luck before I settled down with a nice non-rock critic dude about five years ago. When I peek out into the single world via my unattached friends (male and female), I'm glad I'm not there, because not much has changed at all.

― Sara Sherr, Friday, 2 April 2004 23:39 (twenty-two years ago)

post-rock cricketing = surely the best thing evah

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 2 April 2004 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Jess is in Philly! And I've got the same dating record and I'm in State College, PA!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 2 April 2004 23:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the pressing question is why tall guys keep dating short girls (at least this is what tall girls have complained to me).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 2 April 2004 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

it's a mutt and jeff kinda thing

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 April 2004 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i am so confused by this: Ugly dudes can date pretty girls.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 April 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i mean, yeah, all the girls i've dated have been pretty. maybe there should be scare quotes around "pretty girls".

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 April 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

dan clowes to thread, obv

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 2 April 2004 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm 5'1" and tall guys usually can't even see me. Tell the tall girls to give me their legs. I'm sorry if I'm being cranky, I meant nothing but fun. It's rainy and crappy and I don't want to leave my house to go to do my show. It's good to see nerdy girls getting props. It doesn't happen nearly enough. Strongo, I've seen lots of ugly or average dudes with gorgeous girls.

― Sara Sherr, Friday, 2 April 2004 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Let's get back to this me resembling Simon thing. So since Kevin Shields ripped off my look, WHAT DOES IT ALL MEEEEEEEEEAN?

Sara, of course, rocks. This goes without saying. But I suppose I said it!

I have always assumed Mr. Seward to be a smouldering hunk of man. Surely.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think Simon R and Ned look similar at all.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:14 (twenty-two years ago)

i almost said something mean.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)

"I don't think Simon R and Ned look similar at all."

can we get someone with more html skills than me to post a side by side?

I was completely sure for a few seconds that the pic of Kevin Shields in the cardigan was Ned.

― hector (hector), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

When I had him as a lecturer, I thought Mark K-punk was sort of cute.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

simon r and ned look nothing alike

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The kevin shields/Ned thing that i saw somewhere was pretty uncanny. Yeah, maybe i am wrong about Simon though. maybe he does look more like Lou Barlow. I've only seen one or two pictures of Simon. never met him. Rob Sheffield must be the tallest rock critic i've ever met. but i don't meet too many.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

me and jess are taller, scott.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

sheffield's only 6'3''

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I have always assumed Mr. Seward to be a smouldering hunk of man. Surely.

Oh surely! (well, maybe 15 years ago before the bloat and the rot set in. mmm, maybe not even then.but as long as maria likes me i don't really care.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

no way! you guys aren't giants are you?

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i am 9 foot 11

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Holy shit, strongo! How much of that is yer head? HAHAHAHSHAQA!!!!

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:45 (twenty-two years ago)

here is a picture of maria and me all drunk on the bunnybrains website. it's old though. we are way fatter now:

http://www.bunnybrains.com/ArchivedSite/Pages/Photos/Photos(Other)/FriendsPix2.html

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't see your smoldering hunkitude in that pic!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:57 (twenty-two years ago)

i know. those are my barroom eyes, not my bedroom ones.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 April 2004 00:59 (twenty-two years ago)

i almost said something mean.

WAH

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 April 2004 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

"King of Queens" owns this thread by weird-ass default

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Saturday, 3 April 2004 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Julie Burchill could severely criticize me till I begged for mercy.

― briania, Saturday, 3 April 2004 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Sara Sherr ([email protected])

I knew I recognized this from somewhere. Then Sciarinno popped in my head.

Simon R and Ned look alike? That would be a good question when having an eye test. Answer YES, you're obv blind.

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Saturday, 3 April 2004 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Rosemary is right: Raggett and Reynolds do not, I think, look alike.

Sara Sherr quoted Lloyd Cole and nobody noticed!

Nipper, you ... disappoint me.

― the ... pinefox, Saturday, 3 April 2004 13:11 (twenty-two years ago)

okay, jeez, don't sue me. i saw a picture of simon a zillion years ago and i think his hair was longer. they are both sexy scientists if you ask me.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 April 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Simon did have longer hair of a time, like all right thinking people.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 April 2004 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

plus, i said he looked a LITTLE like you, not that you were twins or something. i mean, you guys could be cousins at the very least.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 April 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Strongo does realise he's being come onto so much on this thread he's likely to drown bukkake-style, right?

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 3 April 2004 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

BARRY!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Saturday, 3 April 2004 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel like Rick Baker's special effects have attacked me.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 April 2004 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

i feel sorta weird

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 3 April 2004 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Hi Nicole!

(still working on the sweets, btw!)

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 3 April 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I knew a guy who looked like Rick Baker. Or maybe that was Rob Bottin.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 3 April 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Skipping 445 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

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― musically, Monday, 2 April 2007 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

What do you guys think about this article about the "Rock Critical List"?

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/profiles/same_as_it_ever_was.php

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:55 (sixteen years ago)

Oh how I hate being reminded that Electrelane is no longer a going concern, but otoh, I love being reminded that Mia Clarke exists in this world.

― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 20:59 (sixteen years ago)

lmao @ "populist autism"

― velko, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 21:32 (sixteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1704933447/388919_962794060845_2416229_41824327_989081349_n.jpg
Maura!

― dow, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:40 (fourteen years ago)

Scrolling quickly through the thread, I thought this

http://www.beefheart.com/zine/001/bangsgraduation.jpg

was a young Dr3w Ga3rig.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:47 (fourteen years ago)

Cf this actual photo of a young Dr3w Ga3rig:

http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSrxU6tbjw9T4_9tFSr73mTUAGAh_lVsbbbXd3VUV1Ldku4CM_Bv-H2ziuF

― jaymc, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:48 (fourteen years ago)

dr3w ga3rig's displeased: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16232-probably-love/

― omar little, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:55 (fourteen years ago)

Wonder how much traffic Alfred's blog got from that link!

― jaymc, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

I always figured Lisa Robinson must have been cute--here's the one photo I could find:

http://i26.tinypic.com/n4h2bk.jpg

I'm a little behind the times.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 21:12 (fourteen years ago)

i feel like i spent half my childhood looking at pictures of lisa robinson canoodling on couches with lenny kaye and the ramones in the pages of rock scene magazine.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 21:38 (fourteen years ago)

MJ looks resigned to a life where canoodling will never be a simple thing.

― clemenza, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 21:44 (fourteen years ago)

Speaking of Rock Scene, can't find another of Lisa Lisa right right now now, so here's this. Debbie may never have gotten paid for being a rock critic, but she proffered some pertinent observations, for inst: "Lester thought he was a 300-pound Jim Morrison." Ooh! Close enough, and pretty mild, considering his hatchet-job-as-coffee-table-book re Blondie.
http://a4.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/51/fb025d92c59d4ad5b75851629bebffb2/l.jpg If doesn't incl credit, it's by Bob Gruen (of course!)

― dow, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 21:55 (fourteen years ago)

god i was so in love with her.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/424658_2521941175081_1449881301_31846887_1089239271_n.jpg

― scott seward, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 22:26 (fourteen years ago)

Look at that look she's giving us, those glasses even. Born to crit!

― dow, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 23:47 (fourteen years ago)

I always assumed this was the answer:

http://ichlugebullets.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/matthew-perpetua.jpg

― dlp9001, Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:31 (fourteen years ago)

Wonder how much traffic Alfred's blog got from that link!

quite a lot...

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 February 2012 02:36 (fourteen years ago)

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkg1h7YiYs1qbn8ndo1_500.jpg
Sam Shepard (ex-Holy Modal Rounders) wrote about and with Dylan, also wrote plays featuring music performed by actors (himself and Patti Smith.)Smith, writing for Creem and other rags, would list whatever she loved in Top Tens ("I saw the most beautiful girl on the subway"). Her Rock Scene Television saga got a planeload of UK scribes checking out those combustible ragamuffins, even lead to Eno's demos (Verlaine nixed 'em, but sound okay to me, for demos). But way before that, exploring what being a rock writer might mean, she was an inspiring figure already (circa '72, like this pic).

― dow, Thursday, 2 February 2012 19:17 (fourteen years ago)

sorry-you can click on that and get it, but
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkg1h7YiYs1qbn8ndo1_500.jpg

― dow, Thursday, 2 February 2012 19:18 (fourteen years ago)

Here they are onstage
http://ro-mashka.ru/photo_s/Sam-Shepard-20-15.jpg

― dow, Thursday, 2 February 2012 19:23 (fourteen years ago)

And this recent Luc Sante piece is the most astute view of Smith I've even seen (incl some description of her rock writing, her overall apporach and how it could seem like mere namedropping etc but how she developed it)
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/feb/09/mother-courage-rock/?pagination=false Good pic by Judy Linn here too.

― dow, Thursday, 2 February 2012 19:31 (fourteen years ago)

Scribe scrutinizing (credit: Judy Linn)
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/flash/Lens/2011/03/20110317-patti/480px.jpg

― dow, Thursday, 2 February 2012 19:36 (fourteen years ago)

Ellen Willis gets to work
http://www.frieze.com/uploads/images/front/Music-Crawford.jpg

― dow, Thursday, 2 February 2012 20:28 (fourteen years ago)

Willis: "H'm-m-m...Promises, promises--still..."
http://vidunderfull.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/ellen-willis.jpg credit: UMinn Press

― dow, Thursday, 2 February 2012 20:33 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/drohojowska-philp/Images/drohojowska-philp7-16-2.jpg
(Libby Lumpkin)

Grrrr! "A quitter never loses, and a loser never quits." Dave Hickey, charter Noise Boy. Marvin, His teen familiar once warbled in the Voice, " 'I ain't tryin' to come on like Hollywood/But Hollywood is what I am." And pointed out that if Neil Young had come out with such, crtis would be swooning over how poignant it was--but since Randy Bachman sang it, nertz to him,(Marvin was also hot for Kiwanis gumball machines as talismans of the New Normal). J.Hoberman was irritated by Hickey's chuckling at his own jokes in a doc, and seems delighted with himself in his award-winning collection Air Guitar, but it's only right and Mr. Natural. Also a good songwriter (and art critic, come to think of it).

― dow, Saturday, 3 March 2012 19:49 (fourteen years ago)

two years pass...

http://zicoydelia.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/burroughs3-zicoydelia.jpg

WB interviewing JP in C---Daddy. He also did Bowie in Stone (nice work if you can get it).

― dow, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 22:22 (eleven years ago)

Holly Hernandez, of Melody Maker Demo Hall fame.

― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 23:41 (eleven years ago)

Hell, jesus

― Master of Treacle, Wednesday, 3 September 2014 23:42 (eleven years ago)

Yep.

Ooh, just finally read that Luc Sante piece linked by Dow in Feb. 2012

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 4 September 2014 15:39 (eleven years ago)

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