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I cringed while copy editing it. The paragraph-long explanation of the game "It" made me wonder aloud if the author was being paid by the word. Struck me as boring fellatio.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

WHITE DESTRIPLES

― free the butterfield 8 (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 15 September 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, so THAT's why it sucks. (the 2d half anyway)

yeah i don't get this. the movie is a coherent whole, separating out the second half doesn't make sense.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 15 September 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

guys, if you're having trouble: The Goog = http://www.google.com/

― Wrinklepossum's Awesome Blossom (Wrinklepaws), Friday, 15 September 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

haha leave it to wrinklepaws to decipher this horseshit

― katie quirk (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 16 September 2006 00:06 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it had something to do with Mad Max's buddy.

― Run Ruud Run (Ken L), Saturday, 16 September 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

guys, if you're having trouble

Wrinklepaws, you sweet darling innocent. Let me send you some Nigerian spam.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 16 September 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

Mmm.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 16 September 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

Nigerian spam, that is.

― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Saturday, 16 September 2006 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I can get my head around the idea of someone who went to Oberlin writing the words "As The Black Key's drummer, Patrick Carney's girlfriend" in a public forum.

― Eppy (Eppy), Saturday, 16 September 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Zack Sally on Tool?

― don (dow), Saturday, 16 September 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

More Dan Savage and party photo spreads.

― Urnst Kouch (Urnst Kouch), Saturday, 16 September 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

Steve Perry leaves City Pages
http://blogs.citypages.com/pscholtes/2007/01/farewell_steve.asp

― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Founding editor of OC Weekly resigns the same week
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-ocweekly26jan26,1,7657742.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california

― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa. That's *big* news for around here. I've met Will a few times, mostly right when it was starting, and while he had his own angle on things he always struck me as the right guy for the job. Very much another nail in the coffin -- which is really a pity because there's still been plenty of good local work done up through now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

More on Perry: http://www.startribune.com/535/story/955701.html

Van De Voorde called Hoffman "a writer and editor with experience in hard news" who would help City Pages do more investigative reporting and narrative writing -- two New Times hallmarks.

Since CP does plenty of investigative reporting and narrative writing, who knows wtf this is supposed to mean. Unless they want CP to start writing, you know, dumber.

― Make a Beck Song #1 (M Matos), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

the CP does excellent cover stories and news, esp. lately I think...last couple weeks have been great.

― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 26 January 2007 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is among the most awesomest on ILM if only for this:

trust me -- i join you all in hoping to christ the VV papers stay exactly as they are in that regard. i want matos/sylvester/eddy exactly where they are, only more so.

-- awful bliss (harvill...), October 25th, 2005.

― Roy Kasten (Roy Kasten), Friday, 26 January 2007 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

more investigative reporting and narrative writing -- two New Times hallmarks

riiiiiight.

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

oh goddamn i need to stop using 'em' on this board

― maura (maura), Saturday, 27 January 2007 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

Steve Perry was awesome.

― don weiner (don weiner), Saturday, 27 January 2007 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I wish New Times would go away at this point. They're like an ex-girlfriend that keeps stalking me to remind me of all the ways I fucked up -- and got fucked over. :-)

But hey at least there's still music ... I caught up and heard the Christina Aguilera for the first time this week. Surprisingly great.

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Saturday, 27 January 2007 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

"Married, Not Dead"--and a New Times Voice cover story yet, cuz there's not many interesting stories in, you know, New York.

― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Saturday, 27 January 2007 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

there's some new weekly that just started in Mpls called "Vita.mn"
it's wierd, i think it must be run by the star tribune or something.

i just started seeing it a few weeks ago, but this week i saw issues of it EVERYWHERE. i guess they think the city pages is vulnerable or something..

― M@tt He1g3s0n: oh u mad cuz im stylin on u (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 27 January 2007 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oy:

Yeah, it's supposed to sound that way. "Some Loud Thunder," the title track off CYHSY's sophomore release, is a fun, crisp pop song—all hand claps and cowbells and jangly guitar—fed through a haze of radio static, like it's crackling between AM channels on a long drive through the desert. A nostalgic gesture, I guess. But it's also hard not to be skeptical. This is a band that emerged in 2005 as though genetically engineered in some East Village basement to generate blogger appeal. Their first, self-titled disc was packed with all the hippest rock references—Talking Heads, Neutral Milk Hotel, etc.-—but instead of being angular and crisp, those influences sounded as if they'd been left out in to the sun too long and melted into something warped and druggy.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

ANGULAR ANGULAR ANGULAR

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 28 January 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.drudgereport.com/siren.gif

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

"something warped and druggy" = "I worked so hard to avoid using the 'like [BLANK] on drugs' cliché."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 28 January 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, plus how is Neutral Milk Hotel "crisp" and not "warped and druggy" to begin with?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, does "CYHSY" stand for Crosby, Young, Hillman, Stills & Young?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 28 January 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Also

-"Crisp" twice in one short paragraph
-"All the hippest musical references--Talking Heads, Neutral Milk Hotel"
-"Whoa, this sounds weird!" beginning

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

-everything else about the paragraph

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

-everything else about the rest of the article:

Frontman Alec Ounsworth sang like David Byrne and looked like a waiter at a vegan restaurant; like true hipsters, his band was accelerated and responsive, a psychedelic amoeba consuming rock idioms and excreting catchy little bits of digested zeitgeist. Take Thunder's dance-punk confection "Satan Said Dance," which wraps its pumping beat and twitchy chants in a swarm of electronic squiggles, belches, and bleeps, a rapturous sound that nonetheless sounds absolutely redolent of the Rapture. On top of all this, they had a silly name, and enough "DIY integrity" to flatten a polar bear. If they didn't happen to be so good, CYHSY would've been a pretty ingenious bit of meta-parody. As it stood, they were that rare rock item: a postmodern band that seemed to be genuinely, excitingly weird.

Sadly, knob-twiddling wooze-hound Dave Fridmann makes them sound very aware of all this on Thunder—the producer's atmospheric flourishes have always been heavy handed, but here they muddle tightly conceived pop tunes that would've sounded better scrappy. Too often, there's simply not enough of the band in the mix. What the record does have, though, is a collection of truly great melodies, and when the music focuses directly on them—meditating on simple chords—that new sense of sound and space offers moments of pure euphoria. "Emily Jean Stock" finds Ounsworth's strangled yelp riding the crest of a gorgeous Technicolor harmony, and the sub-aquatic "Five Easy Pieces," ripe for a Cameron Crowe love scene, is an equally beautiful bit of cycling mist. Time for a new producer. Two words: Danger Mouse.
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Wow

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

I just found an article by Bret Gladstone on jambands.com, 'bout Phish. I don't want to laugh and say HA HA HE LIKES PHISH, but in retrospect his non-avoidance of certain clichés does make him sound like an interloper in an alternarama rockcrit world he doesn't passably understand.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 28 January 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

The sad thing is that xhucx probably would have slashed it to pieces AND given the guy a chance to do better.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

like true hipsters, his band was accelerated and responsive, a psychedelic amoeba consuming rock idioms and excreting catchy little bits of digested zeitgeist

so, "a psychedelic amoeba consuming rock idioms and excreting catchy little bits of digested zeitgeist" is characteristic of any "true hipster"?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 28 January 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

How much "DIY integrity" does it take to flatten a polar bear?

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mytaxidermy.com/jpgs/gallery/rugs/polar01.jpg
PWNED BY CYHSY

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Sunday, 28 January 2007 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Jim Walsh out
http://www.mnspeak.com/mnspeak/archive/post-2775.cfm

― Pete Scholtes (Pete Scholtes), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

ITS A BLOODBATH

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

You guys realize this is the second thread of the day that's tearing apart Bret Gladstone's writing? Also see: Worst Music Writing 2007

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

(For two separate articles, it should be noted.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

"Two words: Danger Mouse" is so awful, it sounds like a parody.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I know!

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

that rare rock item: a postmodern band that seemed to be genuinely, excitingly weird.

― A-ron Hubbard (Hurting), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Chris zeigler resigned at OC weekly. This is getting stupid. Must all the talent be purged from New Times' VV papers?

― under a rock (Uncle Tom), Friday, 2 February 2007 05:44 (nineteen years ago)

"FLATTEN A POLAR BEAR"?!?!?

― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 2 February 2007 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

Ziegler was not "purged" -- he quit. Sometimes people do move on, you know.

― novamax (novamax), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

The phrase 'jumped before pushed' comes to mind. (See also Rebecca Schoenkopf.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

"Lying in a pool of herself with a broken neck."

It's a great song ... maybe doesn;t apply here, but hey, it's a nice plug for Linda Thompson anyway. :-)

― O'Connor (OConnorScribe), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

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