The printer thing is hilarious because it's more an indication that big Lef hasn't had an actual job in a long time
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 June 2014 15:54 (ten years ago) link
haha yeah, it also felt like older fellow proving he was up on things. "No one prints anymore, they just download the newspaper to their Google glasses!"
― intheblanks, Thursday, 12 June 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
But that was back when music ruled the world. When it was seen as the preeminent art form. Before nitwits like Iggy Azalea ruled and a big hit song was entitled “Wiggle,” back when there were two avenues, the mainstream and the underground, and the true music fans were members of the underground, forget all those pop charts, no one listened to hit radio back then, we all smoked dope, grew our hair and dedicated ourselves to the slow-talking deejays on FM.
Hit radio sucks today, but it's not like in the 60s, man, when hit radio sucked.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, June 12, 2014 10:32 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
honestly don't know if this is real lefsetz or parody
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Saturday, 14 June 2014 06:23 (ten years ago) link
real.
And I'm not complaining. Well, maybe I am. What I'm saying is I can't feed back, can't have intellectual discussion, because if I respond just once, I'm going to be the recipient of e-mail for YEARS!
And I know so many of you are reasonable. But I want to give you the perspective from where I sit. To know that you are not alone. That we live in an incomprehensible world where the dumb reign and the smart check out.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 14 June 2014 14:50 (ten years ago) link
Can totally see this dude going down in a government standoff, felled behind a barricade built out of boxes of unsold Seven Mary Three albums.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 June 2014 19:10 (ten years ago) link
[Ezra] Klein has a new perspective on the news. That it’s being covered like a sport, with daily winners and losers, and if you’re not paying attention, you’re left out. Klein says he’s into stories that live on the web, that have life after their initial posting, kind of like the page on the secret menu at In-N-Out, which got little traction at first, but over the years has gotten tons.(Hey, there’s a music analogy there! Your record may be number one for a week, but have the shelf life of milk, listen to Beyonce’s super-duper video album recently?) So Klein’s new site has explanatory stories, for those who don’t follow the news with a passion, like the above one on Iraq. I recommend scanning at least the headlines, because you’ll finally understand what’s happening.
(Hey, there’s a music analogy there! Your record may be number one for a week, but have the shelf life of milk, listen to Beyonce’s super-duper video album recently?) So Klein’s new site has explanatory stories, for those who don’t follow the news with a passion, like the above one on Iraq. I recommend scanning at least the headlines, because you’ll finally understand what’s happening.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 15 June 2014 09:24 (nine years ago) link
I recommend scanning at least the headlines, because you’ll finally understand what’s happening.
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 15 June 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
listen to Beyonce’s super-duper video album recently?
I am literally listening to it right now while using my printer.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 15 June 2014 14:08 (nine years ago) link
the future of music is "what is a solange"
― katherine, Sunday, 15 June 2014 14:14 (nine years ago) link
Tarfumes, get with the times! All the cool hip young ppl are listening to Journey in Spotify and scanning Ezra Klein headlines
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 15 June 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
lol
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 15 June 2014 14:50 (nine years ago) link
This all so tragically pathetic and then you still have to factor in the fact that Lefsetz pops the collars on his Polo shirts
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 15 June 2014 14:54 (nine years ago) link
The guys were not only topless, but bottomless. You could see their wee-wees only inches away. And being a guy, I’m icked out by the visuals, but I’m always comparing and contrasting, wondering how I measure up. And I must say, for all the limp dicks, I did see some tiny units, that would make Howard Stern feel like a man, and unlike George on “Seinfeld,” on this hot nearly-summer day they couldn’t claim shrinkage.And then came the women. Like I said, at first I thought it was a gay thing, men letting their freak flags fly.And the first women weren’t topless. They had halter tops.And then I saw breasts.Tiny perky ones. Lumpy ones. Huge ones on skinny girls. It was a cornucopia of tits.And being the red-blooded male I am, I surf my share of porn, I’ve seen pictures, it’s not like the sixties and seventies, the days of stag films and adult book shops. All you’ve got to do is Google.But this was different. Because these were living, breathing women. Real people. Who chose to let it all hang out.And I’m getting the sense that Felice wants to move on. But I can’t really let this opportunity pass. It’s like keeping a kid from candy. I wasn’t gonna cry if pulled away, but I was going to be disappointed.
And then came the women. Like I said, at first I thought it was a gay thing, men letting their freak flags fly.
And the first women weren’t topless. They had halter tops.
And then I saw breasts.
Tiny perky ones. Lumpy ones. Huge ones on skinny girls. It was a cornucopia of tits.
And being the red-blooded male I am, I surf my share of porn, I’ve seen pictures, it’s not like the sixties and seventies, the days of stag films and adult book shops. All you’ve got to do is Google.
But this was different. Because these were living, breathing women. Real people. Who chose to let it all hang out.
And I’m getting the sense that Felice wants to move on. But I can’t really let this opportunity pass. It’s like keeping a kid from candy. I wasn’t gonna cry if pulled away, but I was going to be disappointed.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 15 June 2014 17:29 (nine years ago) link
omg
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Sunday, 15 June 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
someone get lefsetz a doctor
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Sunday, 15 June 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
love that he got a it's-not-like-the-sixties in there.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 15 June 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
YOU COULD SEE THEIR WEE WEES
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 15 June 2014 17:38 (nine years ago) link
the nipples were different then
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Sunday, 15 June 2014 17:40 (nine years ago) link
And as the parade wound on, there were more and more women, it turned out the men were leading. And they had their coochie-coos on their bike seats. Didn’t this hurt?Then again, on the ride home, Felice kept saying that the men’s penises must have made for an uncomfortable ride. I said this was not the case, that it was no worse than usual, that our balls…sat on the saddle. But didn’t women’s, er, vaginas, wasn’t that painful?Felice said nope.
Then again, on the ride home, Felice kept saying that the men’s penises must have made for an uncomfortable ride. I said this was not the case, that it was no worse than usual, that our balls…sat on the saddle. But didn’t women’s, er, vaginas, wasn’t that painful?
Felice said nope.
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 15 June 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
it took him a second to remember the word for vagina
― I 'SCAPED A GAOL FFS (wins), Sunday, 15 June 2014 17:44 (nine years ago) link
better than saying coochie-coo to felice
― difficult listening hour, Sunday, 15 June 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
worked on mrs robinson
― I 'SCAPED A GAOL FFS (wins), Sunday, 15 June 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
ur-vaginas
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 15 June 2014 17:52 (nine years ago) link
that was so thoroughly embarrassing that I actually feel bad mocking this guy
― intheblanks, Sunday, 15 June 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
I do like his bold assertion that there is a qualitative difference between seeing nudity in person v. on the internet
― intheblanks, Sunday, 15 June 2014 20:16 (nine years ago) link
he really succeeds in communicating to his audience that it's his first time seeing boobs in real life
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Sunday, 15 June 2014 20:23 (nine years ago) link
lefsetz is what happens when you give every 50-60 year old man who writes 400-word diatribes in the comments of every major newspaper article a website and a newsletter
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Sunday, 15 June 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
Poor James Taylor, done in by tech at first, but now maybe he has a shot
Late last night doing my back exercises I decided to compare streaming services. Spotify is my default, I recreated a playlist in Beats Music and then I did the same thing in WIMP, and I was wowed.
Now let's be clear, getting lossless music from Norway ain't that easy, there are streaming interruptions, which is why I decided to sync/download the tracks, and they were a REVELATION!
I'm a big believer we get the music we deserve, that the reason compressed beat-driven music dominates is it's the only thing that sounds good on the listening devices we're employing. In other words, you're not gonna get a new James Taylor if you've got to listen to compressed music on your phone via earbuds. But if you improved the quality of the sound would that not only make people take more care in the creation of sounds, but also branch out and put an effort into that which today is so often a second-class citizen?
Now I'm not talking 256kbps, never mind 320. Lossless is equivalent to CD.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 8 September 2014 13:40 (nine years ago) link
Whenever I see this thread title I think of:
http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BODcwMTYzMzQ5Ml5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNjI5MTkxMQ@@._V1_SX640_SY720_.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 September 2014 14:16 (nine years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/05/Whos_harry_crumb.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 September 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
Lefsets saw Five Seconds of Summer and One Direction at the Rose Bowl:
The opening act was Five Seconds Of Summer, and I kept listening for the hard drives, but there were none. Yes, the popsters faking it should be very afraid, because 5SOS could actually play! And sing! And harmonize! I was nearly flabbergasted. This is not how it's supposed to be!
But they're Australian. The Aussie acts have always been superior players. Because down under you earn your stripes gig by gig, if you don't deliver live, you've got no chance.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 15 September 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
bwa-ha-ha-ha! I admit though, I haven't been to a big rock show in years upon years. Is this "listening for the hard drives" anywhere close to a real thing?
― how's life, Monday, 15 September 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b0/Iggy_Azalea_Walks_the_Red_Carpet_(cropped).jpg
― katherine, Monday, 15 September 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
You left out the best part
"And that was who were there. Students. Girls. Wanna get laid? Go to a 1D show. You won't see odds this good at the prison of "Orange Is The New Black." An endless sea of barely pubescent girls, screaming their heads off."
Lmao
― global tetrahedron, Monday, 15 September 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
OMFG.
barfs, calls police.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 00:06 (nine years ago) link
...
― katherine, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 01:39 (nine years ago) link
D:
― maura, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 01:40 (nine years ago) link
like holy shit how could you actually write that
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 02:21 (nine years ago) link
It IS Lefsetz.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 02:24 (nine years ago) link
*checks* Good GOD, folks, what about this bit:
"Let me tell you, despite being one of the lone males in a sea of tens of thousands of females, what stunned me is nobody was radiating any sexuality, nobody was dressed like a slut, nobody was making eyes trying to get ahead. This was more like puppy love, even if dirty old men would say some of these girls were fully grown."
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 02:26 (nine years ago) link
But 5SOS were not the Beatles. That’s the problem with both the youngsters and the oldsters, there’s nothing new. That’s why there’s hysteria for the iPhone 6 and shrugs for so much music. So you can replicate what’s been done before…once upon a time music was about pushing the envelope! There was no Jethro Tull before Jethro Tull, never mind the Ramones!
― You and Dad's Army? (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 02:40 (nine years ago) link
Lefsetz going to start reviewing Chuck E Cheeses soon
― bozack horseman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 02:48 (nine years ago) link
holy shit @ that ned
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 02:52 (nine years ago) link
what the fuck is this shit
― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 02:53 (nine years ago) link
iirc the post he wrote about his first electric daisy carnival was pretty bad too but this is a new level of gross
― james brooks, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 02:54 (nine years ago) link
I love this weird combination of things:
And sure, Harry Styles is an international icon…But what did impress me about Harry was how nonchalant he was. Just before he went on he was offering us cupcakes. Isn’t he supposed to be in his dressing room, angsting away?Cynics might say it’s because he doesn’t play an instrument.But that’s part of the act’s success. That it’s kind of a lark. And they and the audience are all in it together.And the production was spectacular. And the girls knew every word and sang them. And if you’re somebody who lives in Ferrari/gated community culture you’d be completely flummoxed. As you would be if you’re into retro vinyl, if you haunt club gigs, if you listen to people with bad voices sing their plaintive songs and then bitch that they can’t make any money.
But what did impress me about Harry was how nonchalant he was. Just before he went on he was offering us cupcakes. Isn’t he supposed to be in his dressing room, angsting away?
Cynics might say it’s because he doesn’t play an instrument.
But that’s part of the act’s success. That it’s kind of a lark. And they and the audience are all in it together.
And the production was spectacular. And the girls knew every word and sang them. And if you’re somebody who lives in Ferrari/gated community culture you’d be completely flummoxed. As you would be if you’re into retro vinyl, if you haunt club gigs, if you listen to people with bad voices sing their plaintive songs and then bitch that they can’t make any money.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:04 (nine years ago) link
looooooool "i was the only old man in the crowd" ... "the creepy old men in the crowd would call them women grown" this guy is so gross
― ƋППṍӮɨ∏ğڵșěᶉᶇдM℮ (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:33 (nine years ago) link
man what a dick
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 03:39 (nine years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Monday, September 15, 2014 9:26 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
holy shit
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 04:12 (nine years ago) link
no Jethro Tull before Jethro Tull
Sounds better in the original Arabic.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 04:31 (nine years ago) link