Is Everybody Who Edits the Village Voice Really This Stupid?

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― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

BEST SPRING BREAK EVER!!!!!!!!!!
C'mon now, darlin' and sit yourself down next to me here in the Merle-pool.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Southpaw Roll Call! (where my lefties at?)

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i guarantee if either frizzell or driesell went into a bar and said 'i've been coming to this here bar for well nigh on and off for four years and i do declare i am getting right sick of these rockwrite whores and twats' and someone said 'who you talking bout lefty?' he would have the common courtesy to respond 'I'M TALKING ABOUT YOU! AND YOU! AND YOU!'. must be them declining standards amateurist was on about.

― blount, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:05 (twenty-one years ago)

imagine if the bar had dancing

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I have an image of a rockist Lucy Van Pelt with hands folded, sunglasses on, nose pierced and hair pinkpunked out; standing behind a booth with a sign that reads "RIMJOBS: $75".

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

hott

― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

forkclove were you just on suicidegirls?

― blount, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

You saw my pictorial, blount?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

you're number three in my heart after them pseudoincestuous twins

― blount, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah real tasteful use of a crucifix, FCT

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I use the name Sandy Koufax when I'm ordering a taxi. I didn't actually know who he was until this thread. So at least it's achieved something.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

No, Senator McCarthy, I'm not gonna "name names". Comprende, you inept shit-stirring weasel?

Best you return to your crack pipe, blount. It's not going to lower the level on your paranoia meter any, but it may just mercifully shut you up for a spell or two.

I do thank you, however, for making me aware of a glaring critical omission in my tossed-off "dancing should be illegal" post. When I wrote that, I never once thought to cater to those who suffer from incomprehension. Meaning I never imagined that anyone would take it seriously.

As for my alleged many posts dismissing women as "cunts/twats", etc., that's certainly news to me -- and one hell of a slander. Putting the name "Lefty" into the search engine right now turned up 33 posts (not ten, as you claim). One of the "Lefty" posts is another Lefty, at that - so 32, then). One dig at Ashlee Simpson, yes, but characteristic of my posts? I think not.

And do stop calling me (and others) "bitch".

― Lefty, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

such kneejerk curtness! such dodging and weaving!

― blount, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

you are inept at stirring shit!

― artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

so senator mccarthy when you insinuate this place is filled with KNOWN ROCKWRITE WHORES AND TWATS is it too unfair to ask 'um what exactly are you talking about?' (or will this prompt ~~kneejerk curtness~~ sincere concern about ilxors drug addictions?) or to dare call bullshit on that? also what exactly is a paranoia meter? and how does clarity lower the level on it? also: put up or shut up. bitch.

― blount, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

how many spells is a good crack pipe good for? the world may never know.

― blount, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

paranoia meter
TS http://www.yenra.com/delmore-schwartz/delmore-schwartz.jpg vs http://fusionanomaly.net/antoninartaudbymanray.jpg

(will it get through?)

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

damn blount, calm down.

(why do you feel the need to so doggedly defend chuck anyway? he doesn't really need the help.)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"Doggedly Defend Chuck" and "Lucy Rimjobs" should definitely be new nicks by the end of the day.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

who's defending chuck? (i'm sure old hands like lefty can remind you of my amy phillips bromide) chuck's totally wrong about the pixies in stairway to heaven btw, maybe in a similar way he's wrong (if he is) about drag city, which i could almost forgive cuz usually they're (the pixies) insanely overrated but it does point to an occasional kneejerk but maybe not curt and definitely never kurt flaw of chuck's which is this sort of inherent skepticism toward standard corny indie fuxx and rockcrit hosannas, which is maaaybe a healthy impulse in some, but gets in the way of eddy's strength which is the ability and willingness to actually listen, he's one of sadly too few rockwriters who regulary display evidence of definitely having listened to the piece of music he's writing about (as opposed to the trapping around it like the ascribed understood genre or the press bio or 'history' or gasp even the label!) which is why it's disappointing to see him dismiss something, usually 'college rock' or 'indie rock', for reasons that are maybe extraneous to the record. this tendency hardly defines him though. as for him as an editor: who knows? i'd say the section's gotten better, he's definitely very willing for better or worse (probably better) to give people shots, for the flagship arts coverage whatever amateurist called it alot of the music bylines have been from people who haven't been in the game for (too) long, and yeah mcnuggetsizing and 'altweakly as lifestyle calendar and nothing else' trends are depressing but it's not like there aren't plenty of other places to go (albeit not for longer, smarter pieces really)(christ now most blog entries are longer than published rockcrit) but if you want to blame someone for that yr looking at the wrong voiceguy (xgau spawned forth entertainment weekly and blender if any ONE guy did)(note: no ONE guy did)(and i LIKE xgau and ew and blender)(though yeah it's a shame there's only the bitesize option but i guess this is kinda a case of chickens coming home to roost).

― blount, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

that's some really lame aping of chuck's posting style you got goin on there.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

actually i'm aping mark s. (per usual)(LONG before chuck started posting here)(probably not before ol lefty though)(he's as old as the hills).

― blount, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:05 (twenty-one years ago)

funny, I couldn't stand mister sinkah either.

I will give you credit for actually giving a relatively level-headed appraisal of chuck's style. tho you do give him a pass on his scattershot/random references style, which is something I personally find most irritating/unhelpful. but that's just me, and my opinions of chuck are well-known, etc.

let's talk about something else now....

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Ryne Sandberg made the Hall of Fame. Fuck those haters who think he doesn't deserve it, he pwned the position in the '80s.

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i can't believe it took this long, looks like sutter stands a good shot next year.

― blount, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

http://fusionanomaly.net/antoninartaudbymanray.jpg

What's kd lang got to do with anything?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

maybe there was some confusion

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― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

What's kd lang got to do with anything?

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

tags fux0red: HTML checker let me down.

What's kd lang got to do with anything?
Dom, now you're gonna confuse people who will think it's really her!

my opinions of chuck are well-known, etc.
I think I read them on a Royal Trux Thread, 20 some-odd days ago

let's talk about something else now....
We could try, but it's this thread so

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― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

hell is other people on the internets

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

L'Eddytor et Le Neant

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Comment je me suis disputé... (ma vie virtuelle)

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

If Lou Whitaker played for the Cubs and Ryno played for the Tigers, would Ryno be selected?

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Spanglish - James L. Brooks!

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Chuck's a good editor, in my experience. And yeah, he does give new people a shot.ILXer Eddie Hurt's in the issue that just came online tonight.(They've relaunched the site, and the Search function's fucked, for the next week or so, at least re reviews archived past the last few months). The brevity of reviews, according to several things I've read elsewhere, comes from *publishers'* desire to reach out and touch mo' younger readers. Boomers are loyal, but Boomers are done. As far as buying much more than they do now, they ain't gonna (unless iPods come packaged with, say, Metamucil; h'mmm...)

― don, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Do boomers read Pitchfork?

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

And yeah, he does give new people a shot
Like that young kid J0e L3vy?? Sorry, couldn't resist.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

OH NO WHAT IF JOE LEVY FINDS OUT WHAT YOU THINK?!?!?!?!

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

HEADS WILL ROLL!!!

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I can't stop singing "What's kd lang got ta do with it, got ta do with it... what's kd lang... but a second hand emohoshun..."

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I assume that if you appear on VH1 there's at least 25 messageboards where somebody calls you a douchebag (esp. if you say the stuff Levy does) so no biggie here.

i hate reading positive reviews of Pavement. And I say this as a fan.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost:

Why does my lameass g00g13pr00f!ng always bother you, manthony m1cc1o?

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, I didn't mean to get snitty. Blame it on the curse of this thread.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

"Do Boomers read Pitchfork?" Well actually! I so wish I'd had a tape handy this afternoon, when a Boomerific lady, whose husband owns a CD store in Lawrence KS, did her thing on "All Things Considered." Seems that Hubby reads audiophilia and Serious Criticism, "of John Cale and Stockhausen," but she's "from the Old School; give me guys like Lester Bangs and Robert Christgau! That's why I read the Village Voice and Mojo and Pitchfork." She went on for a while, but I'd hate to misquote her.

― don, Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, this thread is beginning to see the light again.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i know this will sound facile and weird, but i wish rock criticism in general was more chill, like classical music criticism often is.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:29 (twenty-one years ago)

also more people should make that "i'm chill" arm gesture, the little wave thing.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

is there a formalist doctrine you'd like to prescribe for it? (xpost)

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.planetnintendo.com/goldensun/interactive/fanart/riachu/chill.jpg

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 5 January 2005 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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