Who's The Foxiest Rock Critic?

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Does he howl at the moon and chase down deer nipping at their flanks?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 August 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Does he awesome sideburns and hair...no, that's Wolverine. Whatever.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 22 August 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Sara Sherr was really engaging, on this thread. I don't recall seeing her much elsewhere.

thats because she's smart enough to stay away from this place.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Sunday, 22 August 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

she also has her own message board thing. or at least she did.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 August 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Now, do the young people still say "foxy?" No offense to any young people on this thing.

― Don Allred, Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I say foxy a lot. There isn't enough foxy in the world.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Don, if we're really cool we say foxaaaaaayh. But only like if we're really really cool.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Basically if you can do the Paul Stanley shuffle to something, its foxy. Foxiest song I've heard this year is the Sahara Hotnights cover of "Rockaway Beach." You can just see their hair flapping back as they lean towards the mic for the chorus. Rowr.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread is like the music writing equivalent of "chick lit".

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't there something in the Bible about "the little foxes" and the grapes?

― Lillian Hellman, Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

jess, Kelly Osbourne's "Shut Up!" came on my stereo the second I read your post.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

haha for some reason i thought about this thread at work today

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

probably because a. i was reading the new spin at lunch, and b. this girl i work with reads a lot of chick lit and leaves it around the lunch area.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

what exactly is "chick lit"?

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

is it like Laurie Moore and Ben Marcus? That's the stuff women I know are always shouting about (I like Moore).

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The answer to the titular question of this thread: Dominique Leone.

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it's all that stuff that's like book versions of things ally mcbeal and sarah jessica parker star in

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

romance novels for the '04: "can Stephanie find time to date the young pediatrician while struggling to get her copy in on time and still be there to pick up her daughter from day care?" etc

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

p.s. ultragrrl is not hot

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread is like the music writing equivalent of "chick lit".

i slap you royally with "The Female Eunuch"

― jesus nathalie (nathalie), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

ok that def of chick lit is frightening and I'm glad I never have to encounter it.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

the older women at work still rock the old-school harlequins.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

FEELINGZ ARE DUMB

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

gear mocks anthony's desires

― jess (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

gear is all man

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Somebody post a picture of him and we'll see if I agree.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

perhaps we should whine about all the people in our lives who don't realize how uncool they are.

his head kind of looks like a penis in that one pic.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

give me five years though

(I plan to get the Elton John pageboy though)

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Shouldn't that be a "Paul Stanley schaffel"? You see, I doo keep up. Snaps to you jess! (Chicklit's good for breath)

― Wannabuya Bridget Jones, Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

CeCe you're all right, it's that Allred fellow who I can't parse worth an arse.

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 22 August 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you kidding? Allred's posts are the best thing about the whole silly thread. His, and the funny anonymous dick-size one.

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Sunday, 22 August 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Hints from Heloise: drink(ing) to remember might not!

― Fab!, Sunday, 22 August 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i dig allred's posts plenty.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 August 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

And I look like a giant phallus, it's true.

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 22 August 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

better than looking like the worst parts of Lou Barlow and Phil Collins put together (my self-image is lovely, thank you)

while I find Allred's posts great I will admit that if I was going to make a sequel to my ism-jism overacademic bullshit thread it would be how post-meltzerian fun with punctuation reference-rushes are so passe.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 August 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

let's never fight again, Genesis Implosion

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 22 August 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

you should probably add an Eastern European basketball player who can't say no to twinkies to that visual mix.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 August 2004 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a sad commentary on my thought process that the tasty junk food treat wasn't the first thing that came to mind there.

― Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 22 August 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

make it ho-ho's then

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 August 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

ding-dongs.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 22 August 2004 20:26 (twenty-one years ago)

In which movie was this an actual quote?

"Anyone who can swallow two Sno-Balls and a Ding-Dong shouldn't have any problem with pride!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 22 August 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"How post-meltzerian fun with punctuation reference-rushes are so passe."

Unless you're FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT, OK???

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 22 August 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Yall tell the songs that make the whole world sing, yall got the AP Style Book and eh,eh, ver-thing, yall tell the songs yall tell the songs. O ROCK CRITICS I LUV U!

― The Big Fat Chick With A BoomBox, Sunday, 22 August 2004 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

BFC, are you on the wagon??

― Monetizing Eyeballs (diamond), Sunday, 22 August 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Why yes I am, Mr. Eyeballs. Thank U for being able to tell! HEY

― Big Fat etc., Sunday, 22 August 2004 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

god that other thread's even worse than this one! shame on all of you!

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 22 August 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

easy:

http://themusicissue.blogspot.com/

― shookout (shookout), Sunday, 22 August 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

O god i'm sorry. i did it again. shit wheres that schnapps

― Big Fat Dum, Sunday, 22 August 2004 22:21 (twenty-one years ago)

she also has her own message board thing. or at least she did.

no, that was my board.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Sunday, 22 August 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey ILMers: I've been floating in and out of ILM, and kind of lost momentum after the server went down and then returned. However, I posted on two threads this past week: Le Tigre and Franz Ferdinand. Generally, I'm too busy to fully digest and come up with anything articulate to say on ILM. Other times, I can't get past the douchbags and general asshattery that goes on. And since my internet time is limited, I'd rather not spend my time arguing with an anonymous asshat weather or not Le Tigre fans "get" Wolf Eyes or some such shit.

This thread was started as a sarcastic response about Sarah "Ultragrrrl" Lewittn's (sp?) alleged "fatness" and "hotness," and I basically was saying, "Uh hello, look at some of the male rock critics?" And then, like everything else that I write, it went from sarcastic to emo in about three posts. More importantly, I feel to some degree, especially in New York, who you hang with and where you drink/dance determine where you will work, that male rock critics are judged for their writing alone and the women get judges on their looks AND their writing. I've had lots of NY female writers tell me this is the case. Yes, there are exceptions, I've met a few of 'em (hello Chuck!), but I also know that my spirit would be crushed (further) if I made the move to Phila to NYC or even attempted to query NYC pubs in earnest. So here I am.

Scott's right: I run a Philly-centric mailing list called Dummytown on yahoogroups, and if anyone cares, I have a blog over here: http://www.herjazz.org/sara. Maria ran a short-lived message board for our booking thing, Plain Parade, and in its short lifespan (through no fault of Maria's), managed to beat ILM for the sheer number of douchebags and asshattery. But that's Philadelphia-style asshattery, for you, instead of NYC.

For the record, I like Don Allred's posts and writing and rock critic comparisons. I still like people who take liberties with punctuation.

Someone posted a link to Daphne Carr's blog, the music issue. She's a freakin genius and cute too. She runs an awesome list for female writers called Girlgroup, which never seems to have many messages, so I find myself coming back to ILM when I'm passing time. Or banging my fucking head against a wall.

― Sara Sherr, Monday, 23 August 2004 03:38 (twenty-one years ago)

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