agreed
― incredible shrinking man on euphonium (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 16 January 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
https://twitter.com/#!/fusedavid
― buzza, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
i hope he's the new co-host of the guy from blink 182's show
― some dude, Friday, 27 January 2012 04:41 (twelve years ago) link
fusedavid David Shapiro Hi @LilTunechi! It's David. We met two weeks ago and you wanted to hang out. I'm free Sunday, text me if you wanna get together (brunch?)7 hours ago Favorite Retweet Reply
― buzza, Friday, 27 January 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
― some dude
omg
― markers, Friday, 27 January 2012 23:08 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think this guy's tone is an affectation. it really does seem like he's just hurriedly typing all of this out on his blackberry somewhere
― markers
― buzza, Saturday, 4 February 2012 06:13 (twelve years ago) link
\(^o^)/
― markers, Saturday, 4 February 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
Hi! I'm David Shapiro, a 23-year-old pseudonymous blogger and the author of Pitchfork Reviews Reviews. I'm into live music DVDs and concert recordings, borrowing my mom's car and taking day trips on the weekends, nature documentaries, BlackBerry devices, and, probably most of all, long-form music journalism and criticism. I live in Clinton Hill in Brooklyn and if you live around there, you can catch me after work at the Met Foods on Fulton and St. James where The Notorious B.I.G. used to be a bag boy. Sardines for dinner!
― buzza, Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
it's amazing how quickly that area's gentrifying. Don't remember too many 23-year-old bloggers hanging out at Met Foods when I lived there. But I did see MIA at a coffee shop. The writing was on the wall.
― da croupier, Thursday, 8 March 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
was she eating truffle fries?
― Number None, Thursday, 8 March 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
all i remember is her wrap-around reflective shades and shiny track suit.
― da croupier, Thursday, 8 March 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
Maya has in fact had her eye sockets sealed with vision-enhancing mirrored lenses that were surgically attached to her face by the skilled black-market surgeons of Chiba City.
― contenderizer, Friday, 9 March 2012 01:39 (twelve years ago) link
So it turns out there are a heck of a lot of one-hit wonders!
According to an analysis of every artist that's appeared on Billboard's Hot 100/Top 100 chart between 1955 and today, about half of the artists that appeared on the chart never reappeared. That means that almost half of pop successes are one-hit wonders! This is pretty sad for a huge group of people. But maybe when they die, they go to a heaven where it's always the week their song was on the chart and they feel awesome.
― utopian dipshit (buzza), Monday, 12 March 2012 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
DAVID SHAPIRO: What's your middle name?
WAKA FLOCKA FLAME: Why?
SHAPIRO: I looked at your Wikipedia page and it says your name is "Juaquin Bertholimule Malphurs," and Bertholimule sounds like a middle name so unconventional that it, you know, didn't sound real.
FLAME: (laughs) What's it say? Bertholimule? My middle name is James.
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/waka-flocka-flame-is-a-product#_
― buzza, Sunday, 22 April 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
i thought his middle name was Flocka
― some dude, Monday, 23 April 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
I guess Waka James Flame doesn't have the same magic
― when will Jesus bring the composition chops? (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 23 April 2012 13:08 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not super familiar w/ david shapiro on gawker
http://gawker.com/5912835/riff-raffs-got-a-record-deal-making-sense-of-the-most-viral-human-being-in-music
― markers, Friday, 25 May 2012 12:55 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.austinthirdgen.org/upload/yawn.jpg
― Mr. Que, Friday, July 23, 2010 4:23 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Mr. Que, Friday, 25 May 2012 13:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://gawker.com/markers/
― buzza, Friday, 25 May 2012 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
not sure to do w/ this news in my inbox:
David Shapiro @fusedavid is now following you
― kel ler/pharmacists (some dude), Monday, 4 June 2012 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.shaydeelane.50megs.com/images/stalking.jpg
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 June 2012 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A4cHzvi9hbA/TnwdrNGVJGI/AAAAAAAAADc/RxykQMtZAYs/s1600/following21.jpg
― go down on you in a thyatrr (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 June 2012 13:18 (twelve years ago) link
maybe i should send him webarchive links to all my reviews from 12 years ago that PF deleted from the site to kickstart Pitchfork Reviews Reviews Classics
― kel ler/pharmacists (some dude), Monday, 4 June 2012 13:21 (twelve years ago) link
He is pleasant to talk to and has the attentive eyes of a good listener--however, his attention this evening is divided among a tremendous group of people he has to greet, thank, and shop-talk. His elusiveness only works to preserve an aura of mystery cultivated over nearly the past two years, starting with the fact that his name is not David Shapiro.
Having a pseudonym (“I just picked a name that gets lost in Google”) serves as a buffer between David’s music and culture writing online, and his other career at “a very conservative institution in downtown Manhattan.” In addition to his third career as a neophyte screenwriter, David is also responsible for The World’s First Perfect Zine, a one-time publication he created with an impressive roster of collaborators from the worlds of music, film, literature, and both print and digital media. He is 23 years old.
― buzza, Monday, 4 June 2012 14:30 (twelve years ago) link
http://zachsokol.tumblr.com/post/27082616545/a-conversation-with-the-quasi-elusive-david-shapiro-of
― buzza, Sunday, 15 July 2012 21:17 (twelve years ago) link
Websites like The Awl and Gawker helped me understand that there were no meaningful limits for writing in the first person. They helped me understand that the more honest and truthful I was, the more people would like the writing.
― buzza, Sunday, 15 July 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
All I can say is that he does have a few things up his sleeve, even though he’s going to Brooklyn Law in the fall and will not be able to freelance for a year as a condition of his scholarship. That means he will no longer be publishing work at Interview, Fuse, Gawker or The Wall Street Journal, though his Tumblr is fair game.
― buzza, Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
this 'metamag' kid is like a magnificent parody of prr
― Barack 2 Chainz Obama (some dude), Thursday, 19 July 2012 01:48 (twelve years ago) link
David Shapiro @fusedavidToday is my last day at Fuse and then I'm going to law school! Goodbye music writing world, it's been fun, I will miss you
― buzza, Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:17 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2yStD2GWhU
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
"you can leave and go to law school whenever you like."
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:29 (twelve years ago) link
wonder if hes attending on the burt_stantion memorial scholarship fund
― what makes you think its a pun (Lamp), Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiuoAgyAFs0
― buzza, Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:37 (twelve years ago) link
man see u
― MUBU gai pan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 2 August 2012 03:56 (twelve years ago) link
forthcoming author of brooklyn law review review /dadjoek
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 2 August 2012 13:20 (twelve years ago) link
David Shapiro @fusedavidHey my twitter account has been hacked so if you get a DM from me, don't click the link! Seriously you will regret it
― buzza, Sunday, 19 August 2012 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
Awl Music is meant to emulate the MTV experience of thirty years ago. We have VJs just like MTV did back then, and these are people you already know. Dave Bry, Jeff Rosenthal, Sarah Johnson and David Shapiro—all friends of The Awl—are programming the channel. Awl Network editors like Alex, Choire, Edith and Adam will also contribute. There will be guest VJs like Emily Gould and her "Songs About Gossip" playlist, as well as crowdsourced selections like the "Summer Jams" playlist. Everyone who programs the channel has great taste. Each one has a different taste.
http://www.theawl.com/2012/09/the-new-awl-music-app
― buzza, Thursday, 6 September 2012 07:20 (twelve years ago) link
oh, i was fine up to the crowdsourced "summer jams" playlist. so poignant! it's like when your kid comes home from school with a toilet paper tube covered in macaroni and glitter. and you have to say something nice, right? but...
― i know your nuts hurt! who's laughing? (contenderizer), Thursday, 6 September 2012 07:29 (twelve years ago) link
http://raggedband.com/?p=1869
― buzza, Saturday, 20 October 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
'A few years back...' possibly the first time in my young life ive ever read something and felt old
― bugler, Saturday, 20 October 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
great dispatch
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 20 October 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
t’s all there; the ambivalence, the wit, the valley girl turns of phrase intermingled with my-only-job-as-an-interviewer-is-to-give-people-rope-and-let-them-hang-themselves quotes from his hapless subjects.
― buzza, Saturday, 20 October 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.pitchforkreviewsreviews.com/post/38158812487/in-2014-there-will-be-a-pitchfork-reviews-reviews-book
― buzza, Monday, 24 December 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
Pitchfork Reviews Reviews creator and World’s First Perfect Zine editor David Shapiro’s debut YOU’RE NOT MUCH USE TO ANYONE, pitched as updating THE GRADUATE to the milieu of WFPZ contributor Lena Dunham’s GIRLS, to Ed Park at Amazon Publishing.
― buzza, Monday, 24 December 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link
kid is the best damn music writer i have read in ages and i am crazy crazy jealous, like knowing what truman capote was up to his teens & 20s level jealous. just for the record.
― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer), Thursday, September 2, 2010 1:21 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Monday, 24 December 2012 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://stetnyc.com/interviews/one-question-david-shapiro-jr-pitchforkreviewsreviews/
― buzza, Saturday, 24 August 2013 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
I am reading from my book on Sunday night at Cake Shop. Readers include the archive editor at The New Yorker, a prominent conservative commentator, other writers. It will be a great opportunity to hear nice writing, to bring a date, to see and be seen
― buzza, Saturday, 14 September 2013 20:26 (eleven years ago) link
Plot Summary forUnreachable by Conventional Means (2013)
A recent college graduate (Brener) decides to sell marijuana on the streets of Manhattan after losing his job at a consulting firm. He soon meets the girl of his dreams (Daddario). With an unsupportive girlfriend, an increase of clienteles, and the growing threats of being caught or killed, he soon realizes he is in way over his head.
― buzza, Saturday, 14 September 2013 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
"You’re Not Much Use to Anyone, a book about being financially supported by his parents after college"
― katherine, Saturday, 14 September 2013 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
David is a freshly minted NYU grad who’s working a not-quite-entry-level job, falling in love, and telling his parents he’s studying for the LSAT. He starts a Tumblr blog, typing out posts on his BlackBerry under his desk—a blog that becomes wildly popular and brings him to the attention of major media (The New York Times) as well as the White House. But his outward fame doesn’t quell his confusion about the world and his direction in it.
This semiautobiographical debut is a coming-of-age story perfect for our time. In Sense of Wonder author Gideon Lewis-Kraus’s words, “If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart’s parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.”
― buzza, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 01:15 (ten years ago) link