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― 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
that reads like The Graduate meets Girls, with a freshness of language and outlook that brings to mind The Catcher in the Rye that reads like The Graduate meets Girls, with a freshness of language and outlook that brings to mind The Catcher in the Ryethat reads like The Graduate meets Girls, with a freshness of language and outlook that brings to mind The Catcher in the Rye that reads like The Graduate meets Girls, with a freshness of language and outlook that brings to mind The Catcher in the Ryethat reads like The Graduate meets Girls, with a freshness of language and outlook that brings to mind The Catcher in the Rye
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 1 October 2013 01:24 (ten years ago) link
why did I have this thread bookmarked
― smang culture (DJP), Wednesday, 2 October 2013 14:07 (ten years ago) link
ITEM QTY TOTALYou're Not Much Use to Anyone 200 $4,000.00 SUBTOTAL $4,000.00VIEW CART Check out now
― buzza, Friday, 4 October 2013 04:08 (ten years ago) link
Non-Union Weed Buyers | Male or Female | Any Ethnicity | Age: 18 - 75Seeking for all types for some featured roles of weed buying customers. Elderly woman, high schooler (must be over 18 years old who can play high school), apartment building residents, party girls, friends/roommates of principal actors.
― velko, Sunday, 6 October 2013 03:09 (ten years ago) link
What was that blog that was like Pitchfork Reviews Reviews, except it reviewed all sorts of webzine reviews (Stylus, Cokemachineglow, PopMatters, etc.) and its whole raison d'etre was to just be really snide and snarky in this hacky way, where you suspected the guy was just really bitter and resentful that his P4k application was rejected?
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Friday, 11 October 2013 16:44 (ten years ago) link
I Love Music?
― some dude, Friday, 11 October 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
ripfork iirc
― katherine, Friday, 11 October 2013 16:46 (ten years ago) link
Yes, that's it -- thanks! (Wow, he kept that up until early 2012.)
― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc), Friday, 11 October 2013 16:56 (ten years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/11/supreme-skateboarding-clothing-underground-fashion-store-chinatown.html
― buzza, Thursday, 7 November 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
I spend a lot of time thinking about what Supreme-related stories I can pitch. Sometimes, when I’m walking from Manhattan to Brooklyn, I walk out of my way past Supreme just to look through the windows and see what’s sold out. I try not to go into the store more than once a week because I know the people who work there will think, “This weird kid is coming in twice a week now and not buying anything…” I know the original retail prices of every item they’ve made since 2008 (and some from before that), probably like 400 or 500 items.
― buzza, Sunday, 10 November 2013 22:52 (ten years ago) link
enrages me to no end that this guy's cashing new yorker cheqes for blogging this crap
― flopson, Sunday, 10 November 2013 22:59 (ten years ago) link
The New Yorker employs a lot of hacks. It's no big deal.
― bamcquern, Monday, 11 November 2013 01:00 (ten years ago) link
alright, cool
― flopson, Monday, 11 November 2013 01:20 (ten years ago) link
i thought the supreme nyer post was pretty good tbh
― max, Monday, 11 November 2013 03:36 (ten years ago) link
and i mean between shapiro getting paid a couple hundred bucks for 800 words on supreme counterfeiters and denby getting a salary for his diarrhea
― max, Monday, 11 November 2013 03:37 (ten years ago) link
lol i was debating between posting a pic of denby or gopnik after bamcquern's post.
― balls, Monday, 11 November 2013 04:49 (ten years ago) link
i think this is what wigs me out about this whole thing: Unlike other "music related viral ha-has" (like @Discographies or Hipster Runoff) whose profile got them paid freelance work at "legit" venues (Grantland, RS, NYer, etc) — I don't think I've heard a peep about this kid on any place but this markers thread.
So either a) he's being discussed on some social networking platform that I don't use (Facebook? LinkedIn?) or b) He sent a New Yorker editor a link to his Tumblr and he/she went "YES, I want THAT."
― obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 11 November 2013 04:52 (ten years ago) link
what legit venue does hipster runoff write for now?
― flopson, Monday, 11 November 2013 05:08 (ten years ago) link
doesn't he write for grantland, that's internet legit i guess
― twist boat veterans for stability (k3vin k.), Monday, 11 November 2013 05:27 (ten years ago) link
never gave a shit about this dude one way or another but it's kind of funny how different (and more readable) his voice is in that NYer post compared to that tumblr post. the NYer post was pretty good and interesting tbh i wish it had been way longer
― twist boat veterans for stability (k3vin k.), Monday, 11 November 2013 05:31 (ten years ago) link
Grantland:
http://www.grantland.com/contributor/_/name/carles
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Monday, 11 November 2013 05:32 (ten years ago) link