The All-New STYLUS.

Shut the fuck up already.

WELCOME TO REAL LIFE, SON

I just checked the site and saw something about Ned Raggett and a Xanadu piece.

what baffles me is why if all the writers are all like 'no one else does what the site did, it filled a gap, no one else will let us write whatever we wanted' etc they don't club together and start a new site?

Isn't there like 40 or so of you?

like a phoenix from the ashes...it might've been harder work but c'mon...do you love what you do or not?

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000000ZGO.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

wbs did a great job keeping the jukebox on top and relevant i have to say.

Goddamn, those essays today really killed me.

Yeah, good stuff all around.

would have liked to see blurbs for all albums/singles but i'm just being selfish. anyway, i'm in the (fairy large 'round here, it seems) boat of people who can thank todd for my first writing gig. he's a cool dude and put up with a lot of my bullshit. RIP.

Makes me want to book a last-minute flight to NYC, to be honest.

I just checked the site and saw something about Ned Raggett and a Xanadu piece.

Uh?

Alfred off-handedly mentions Ned in his year-end essay; I don't know about Xanadu.

mike powell's essay is A++++. good thing he's been writing for the voice and such.

Powell: all-round best writer Stylus ever had.

Makes me want to book a last-minute flight to NYC, to be honest.

DO IT.

dom otm.

xp I never knew it was happening until Ian mentioned it last week!

Anyway, I won't go. I just moved into a new place and have spent too much money lately on movers and furniture and such, but I'll dearly wish I was there.

so is the site going to stay up for awhile?

It'll be up for a long while, which saved me gi-normous printing expenses.

I just checked the site and saw something about Ned Raggett and a Xanadu piece.

Uh?
Someone said something about it being a joke and I thought about the time Freaky Trigger went down.

It'll be up for a long while, which saved me gi-normous printing expenses.

-- Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, October 31, 2007 2:48 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

does that mean that there are intentions to keep the domain and server up for the foreseeable future and preserve the archive? or is there a good chance that the archive will up and disappear a year or two down the line?

Burns said it'll be up for at least a year.

I just read again the piece on Steely Dan's 'Gaucho'. Amazing stuff. My work week is about to get a little more boring.

I re-read that, too, and yeah, it's good, but with one strange thing: what makes him think that "Babylon Sisters" has anything to do with an interracial relationship? He just took the lyric about "jungle music" and took it to mean that the appreciator of said music had to be black? There's nothing in the song to suggest that. And the gaucho of the title track is not automatically of any specific ethnicity just because gaucho is a Spanish word. Weird assumptions, those.

But assumptions make rockcrit fun.

Burns said it'll be up for at least a year.

Needs a backup after that. someplace!

Hopefully some ILX obsessive has it all stored next to his lunaci picture collection.

we got rid of that harvell guy, so it should be fine now. ;)
-- todd burns (toddburns), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:08 (4 years ago) Link

^^^the real reason we went under

It was actually because people into finding out about music got sick of Dom's sub-student (and I mean even below the scarf wearing ponces who mistook sacrasm and watery venom) button pushing waffle.

^^real talk

You were the one who hired me to write at the Guardian, man.
xp

I remember Dom was a normal guy who posted here and then suddenly everyone started ripping on him one day?

Dom was never a normal guy. He was a little needler from day one. The guy reeks of attention seeking like a tramp's un-febreezed mac.

wow, writer in 'attention-seeker' claim. shit is getting deep.

"Dom was never a normal guy. He was a little needler from day one. The guy reeks of attention seeking like a tramp's un-febreezed mac."

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One day you'll unfabreezed to your own fucking funeral

Some guys seek attention by crafting a great review, some don't.

I'm tempted to email Drownedinsound and ask them why they've picked up music reviewing's version of crabs.

:-O

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I 'hired' Dom for Stylus insomuch as it was me who approached him and got him to write for us years ago, and if I was starting a new music site or magazine tomorrow with a proper budget and backing I'd hire him again. You know why? Cos he's a fucking good, funny, insightful, impassioned writer. And because he knows my address and threatened my kitten if I said otherwise.

Thinking about it, it was also me who emailed Swygart one day and said "do you fancy coming and doing your Top 40 rundown at Stylus instead of just posting it on ILM?". Strike that, poptimists.

never looked at this site. wonder what was on it.

It's still there.

and if I was starting a new music site or magazine tomorrow with a proper budget and backing I'd hire him again

Thank the lord for small mercies.

<i>I'm tempted to email Drownedinsound and ask them why they've picked up music reviewing's version of crabs.</i>

Do it! We must know what they say!

Fucking bbcode bollocks.

rip, stylus. stereogum's run a feature about the 007 50. here it is
http://www.stereogum.com/archives/stylus-says-goodbye-but-not-before-giving-us-the-f.html#more
in case anyone cares who hasn't seen it yet

guess i'll never know what was on stylus website

for all i know 'whatyouthink13' has very legit reasons to hate dom but all those posts just remind me of camronumad.gif

for all i know 'whatyouthink13' has very legit reasons to hate dom

-- deej, Friday, 2 November 2007 17:44 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Sod off Passatino, I've been so poor that I haven't been able to afford stamps and bread, and this was after university;when growing up there were times when my parents couldn't afford to buy me new shoes when my old ones were outgrown. I'm not getting drawn into some poverty dick-waving contest here. It doesn't really mean a great deal - it;s about attitudes not class or poverty. Most 'chavs' are better off than I am - no designer clothing in my house or Max Power endorsed transport.

-- Mippy (Mippy), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 09:53 (2 years ago) Bookmark Link