ARTHUR - the magazine

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B-b-b-but I didn't say those terrible things. Egads. Now I understand why some interviewees record their interviews...

don't worry jay, no press is bad press ;)

anyway lol @ comments section guy calling little joy a coke den, the dude just sits back there and chills and reads new yorker.

have you even read the new yorker dude

jay what do you think about the cover of the new yorker

i imagine that the la times guy must have had a bone to pick or wanted to create some "controversy", assuming the context of the comments is completely missing

no kidding

but still i really don't think l.a. is any worse than nyc except in terms of public transportation and lack of snow and constant presence of cobrasnake

Cobrasnake is never at El Cholo when I am eating mind blowing Green Corn Tamales and having unbelievable non-Mary Ann's margaritas

yeah i can't imagine a better place for food anywhere.

i find it very easy to avoid cobrasnake or anything cobrasnake-related.

but i'm also able to avoid dumb and shallow people and bad experiences with the lapd. i'm unusually blessed.

ay i just moved east from LA and while im not actually living in nyc im spending a lot of time there and even tho i have a lot of affection for LA i can totally understand this sentiment:

IT IS LOUD ALL THE TIME AND IT IS AWESOME. I can get anywhere I need to go for $2. And there is stuff going on every night. Feels a lot safer than L.A. cuz there's always people on the street. Total classic Jane Jacobs scene. I'm digging it.

ESPECIALLY "I can get anywhere I need to go for $2"

yo I'm jealous of that shit

plus the fucking cops made the taco truck near my work stay away from this area for a few days

For a while, I've been thinking that those two cities cater to different age demographics

How do you see it split?

yah jay's ny sentiments make a lot of sense to me, but then i've only visited ny. san francisco has a similar "omg, people are WALKING... on the STREET" feeling to it, but you know, i've only visited.

i'm pretty sick and tired of l.a., but i'm ready to grant that it has more to do with my neighborhood and state of mind than anything. in my (limited) experience, the easter you go (before the end of the san gabriel valley), the better it gets.

i meet so many douches here though. more than in salt lake city, utah! don't know what that says about me or means...

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I'd say LA maybe feels a bit empty when you hit early adulthood and becomes awesome again in your mid-30's?

OTM

or: it's a bad place to move after going to college in some shithole to try and meet people. i'm sure n.y. is just as bad or worse. i dunno

this might be a challops but people in l.a. get SO defensive when they're compared to people in ny. hence that 400+ reply in l.a. weekly to mr. babcock's screed. and responses i've heard in local crowds to ny bands here...

l.a. gets a weird bad rap

yeah, i would totally hate living in a city that hugs the ocean and is relatively affordable and has all kinds of commensurate cultural shit going on

Have you ever lived there?

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what the hell is a challops?

"challenging opinion". the phrase was originated on glenn beck's television program in the late '00's

Have you ever lived there?

no, just visited. but i like it!

what don't you like about it??...assuming that you totally and completely hate it

What relatively bothers me in LA and what might make the Brooklyn grass so much greener is how hard it is to spontaneously hang out. Everything feels really atomised and for a city that prides itself on its laidback carefree attitude, a lot of things require planning I find.

A lot of that is related to the constant driving I guess

WELL WHY DON'T YOU GO ROLL UP AND SMOKE THE LATEST COPY OF ARTHUR, YOU SHIFTLESS HIPPIE? LET'S LET IT "ALL HANG OUT"! LET'S JUST GROOVE W/THE SPONTANEITY PROGRAMM!

I'd like to see if the reporter really 'fabricated' your obnoxious quotations. I don't buy it for a fucking second.

Arthur's response

fyi interview was not tape-recorded, journo was going from notes, and then the quotes got chopped up

but thanks for sharing

i didn't know jay was your brother. is he really your brother? wait, is your name actually shakey babcock?

lolz I wish

my name is actually Rusty Shackleford

hey, by the way, i keep forgetting to mention that i dug that album you sent me. that was you, right? yeah, very weird and cool. i was a little scared that it was gonna be some indie flaming lips kinda bummer trip, but no way it was decent!

oh but yes Jay and I are brothers. and Quitty from the Tight Bros/Nudity/a million other Olympia bands is our cousin. and Ev and Ryan from 12 Rods are also our cousins.

and now you know the family tree

I sent you a record? Great! even better that you dug it. I am not into bummer trips and the only good Flaming Lips is oooooooooold Flaming Lips

my brother looks like this.

http://a739.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/55/l_4e620128eb9062dbd19cb35ace2a9922.jpg

"quebecor, who i work for, pretty much prints everything in existence"

We used to print there, but now we've switched to Transcontinental, who are in Boucherville, Quebec. Because Quebec PRINTS EVERYTHING EVER. (One of the funny things is that some of our issues, we can't sell in Canada, but we can print 'em there).

and this:

http://a570.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/64/l_066f11729b0fa0ed6649f3492161ff51.jpg

my name is actually Rusty Shackleford

weird, that's my name, too!

i saw your ex-band play at cafe du nord circa 2001?

it was fun. there was a saxophone and stuff

you guys committed!

i don't ask for anything else

also, best flyer artwork ever!

aw thanks

why ain't Dan been posting lately, Scott?

I was gonna say - isn't that dan bunnybrains?!?

I wish everyone used their real names.