SPEAKING OF WANK IT"S YOU AGAIN PEW PEW
Also--WTF with reading in bars? who cares?
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link
Mr. Que, you are welcome to read my blog and post any comments there. I'm always interested in feedback.
― Paul Edward Wagemann (PaulEdwardWagemann), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link
And, from someone who has walked across a parking lot from a brew pub to a Barnes and Noble many times, I would have to say that drunken magazine browsing and bookbuying is seriously underrated.
― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh fuck it, PappaWheelie OTM
― PappaWheelie has no answers to any question that requires actual thought (PappaW, Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link
you got that right, Amigo...eating tacos when you are drunk is pretty underrated too...IMO.
― Paul Edward Wagemann (PaulEdwardWagemann), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Wednesday, 27 September 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.amazon.com/Fargo-Rock-City-Odyssey-Dakota/dp/0743406567/sr=8-1/qid=1159547518/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-1444821-4239222?ie=UTF8&s=books
― darin (darin), Friday, 29 September 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.uga.edu/union/Pics/I&I%20pics/klosterman.jpgToasted teacake
http://www.mrsomalleys.co.uk/images/large/110056l_LRG.jpgChuck Klosterman
― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Whole E Shit
― PappaWheelie burried Paul. The clues are there man! (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 29 September 2006 21:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― PappaWheelie burried Paul. The clues are there man! (PappaWheelie 2), Friday, 29 September 2006 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 29 September 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― winter testing (winter testing), Friday, 29 September 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― winter testing (winter testing), Friday, 29 September 2006 23:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Saturday, 30 September 2006 00:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zwan (miccio), Saturday, 30 September 2006 13:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Saturday, 30 September 2006 13:38 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.aldeaeducativa.com/IMAGES/capote.jpghttp://www.bookreporter.com/art/covers/140w/0679643109.jpg
And so far as I know, he never wandered around the Spin offices wearing a velvet cape. But I could be wrong.
― nabisco (nabisco), Saturday, 30 September 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 30 September 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
gypsy mothra did you ever lay out this theory of yours? I remember you mentioning it before in a thread about Dave Eggers ages ago.
― Ogmor Roundtrouser (Ogmor Roundtrouser), Saturday, 30 September 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 30 September 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― hearditonthexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm a little surprised that the dude doesn't post here.
― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 14 June 2008 19:15 (sixteen years ago) link
is this guy like still a thing? i had him written off like neal pollack or something
― adam, Saturday, 14 June 2008 19:24 (sixteen years ago) link
dud
― cryfok, Saturday, 14 June 2008 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Chucky gives Chinese Democracy an A-
http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/chuck_klosterman_reviews
― oscar, Thursday, 20 November 2008 01:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, weird. He's all beardo now but still wearing the conspicuous thick-rimmed indie specs of his "toasted teacake" period. What's the cultural significance of this?! Also, A-minus would have been the grade I'd have guessed Klosterman would have given Chinese Democracy, without having a) read a word he's written, or b) heard a note of the album in question. Does that mean a) I'm spooky clued-in, b) I'm a troll, or c) dud?
― staggerlee, Thursday, 20 November 2008 02:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Now I have read a word Klosterman has written. I read the piece linked to above. The Chinese Democracy one. And I liked it very much. (Despite my having hated nearly every note Guns & Roses has produced since Appetite For Destruction, or, briefly, embarrassingly, Gn'R Lies, it almost makes me want to hear the album. And I know how Klosterman feels about wanting to divine Axl's inscrutable motives; I have felt this about treasured artists' work on failed projects produced under intense scrutiny, and sadly I'm too drunk to remember what they were.) I'm sorry I was so foolish in my previous post and I repent. Classic?
― staggerlee, Thursday, 20 November 2008 02:46 (fifteen years ago) link
i think g n' r lies is pretty awesome mostly.
― any major some dude will tell you (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 20 November 2008 02:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I haven't heard it (G'n'R Lies)since 6 months after it came out and I became a Politically-Correct Young Person Who Reviled Hair Metal And Racist And Sexist Opinions Except Those Held By Eldridge Cleaver and sold my cassette of it. Maybe it's still pretty awesome. Anyhow, I went back to that AV Club page and found it really really spooky how much Klosterman looks like late-period (sensitive, beardo, I AM AN ACK-TOR) Robin Williams in that photo, down to the slightly blossoming nose. Must close internet now and get more wine and erase memory of anonymous, penetrating stare.
― staggerlee, Thursday, 20 November 2008 02:54 (fifteen years ago) link
And I know how Klosterman feels about wanting to divine Axl's inscrutable motives; I have felt this about treasured artists' work on failed projects produced under intense scrutiny, and sadly I'm too drunk to remember what they were.)
I remember now. My subconscious was trying to give me a prod by providing the phrase about divining motives: REM. Their period of transition into superstardom post-Green I recall listening to them with more fascination for their self-awareness than their music, which was sometimes astonishingly good but increasingly often fell über-flat as they very transparently wrote for a larger and larger audience. W/E.
― staggerlee, Thursday, 20 November 2008 12:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Chinese Democracy is (pretty much) the last Old Media album we'll ever contemplate in this context—it's the last album that will be marketed as a collection of autonomous-but-connected songs, the last album that will be absorbed as a static manifestation of who the band supposedly is, and the last album that will matter more as a physical object than as an Internet sound file. This is the end of that.
"(pretty much)"
― m coleman, Thursday, 20 November 2008 13:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, that part that m. coleman quoted was definitely the part of the review (at least of the parts I actually skimmed so far) that bugged me the most -- "last Old Media album... last album that will be marketed as a collection of autonomous-but-connected songs..." Haven't people been saying that about albums for at least the last five years now? And then another one (or another hundred) come along that disprove the theory.
― xhuxk, Thursday, 20 November 2008 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
(I like the review in general, though. Even though I really have no particular interest in hearing the new GnR album unless it falls into my lap.)
― xhuxk, Thursday, 20 November 2008 14:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Dear Chuck (Klosterman): don't worry, there will be another U2 album
― Passenger 57 (rogermexico.), Thursday, 20 November 2008 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
Klosterman kind of looks like Paul Krugman with that beard.
― o. nate, Thursday, 20 November 2008 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link