Talking of U2 and old dudes, I notice Rolling Stone's obligatory five-star David Fricke review has been published. Didn't see that one coming.
― Position Position, Thursday, 11 September 2014 17:07 (ten years ago) link
you're gonna be an old white dude one day jordan
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:05 (ten years ago) link
is that track 4 of the new album?
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link
to the tune of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF4GS9cSll4
― bozack horseman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 11 September 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
See ya:
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/269917/spin-loses-another-editor-in-chief/
― Position Position, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 13:41 (ten years ago) link
So the claim to fame of Spin's current CEO, Stephen Blackwell, who dropped EIC Marks, is just having run website death and taxes
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/6251409/spinmedia-ceo-qa-with-stephen-blackwell
Who's going to fill the positions left by departing employees, like those from SPIN?
There had been changes in the workforce on a property-by-property basis. Acquisitions are delicate, and when there’s an acquisition, a lot of times that can lead to people leaving because values might change or missions might change. When I came here and looked at the scope of what our workforce is actually doing, we’ve got an incredible team here. We’re a little light on the editorial side in my opinion, so I'm treating our brands as best as I can; how do our brands function in the market and with our audiences. The way that I’m building the team back up is with a focus on that, and making sure we have an agreeable split between how many editors and people not on editorial. We’ll be hiring eventually for people to fill those positions, and creating new positions.
― maura, Thursday, 18 September 2014 02:17 (ten years ago) link
a staff of three people seems light, yeah
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 18 September 2014 02:21 (ten years ago) link
tbf lots of places are lax about updating their About pages: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spin.com/about/
― katherine, Thursday, 18 September 2014 02:30 (ten years ago) link
Carl Wilson back at Slate too.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 18 September 2014 02:41 (ten years ago) link
the extended spin joke running through tonight's SOUTH PARK was pretty fun
― maura, Thursday, 9 October 2014 03:13 (nine years ago) link
wow what was that???
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 9 October 2014 03:21 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/bookofriot
joshua clover writing epic story of #HowIQuitSpin rn
― j., Monday, 20 July 2015 03:59 (nine years ago) link
He really doesn't like Charles Aaron.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 20 July 2015 04:18 (nine years ago) link
hashtag how i got tricked into reading a 9/11 memoir
― some dude, Monday, 20 July 2015 04:54 (nine years ago) link
yeah christ
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 20 July 2015 04:57 (nine years ago) link
It's also a "leaving New York" memoir.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Monday, 20 July 2015 05:23 (nine years ago) link
#HowIQuitSpin 129. THE ARISTOCRATS
― da croupier, Monday, 20 July 2015 06:13 (nine years ago) link
"There r some things u should know abt how I started at Spin" being tweet #107 in the series is amazing
― soyrev, Monday, 20 July 2015 06:50 (nine years ago) link
that's the only one i read
Not sure tweets are the right format for this?
― where the sterls have no name (s.clover), Monday, 20 July 2015 07:04 (nine years ago) link
Or maybe they are, is i suppose the point?
― where the sterls have no name (s.clover), Monday, 20 July 2015 07:05 (nine years ago) link
#tl,dr
― Credit: howtokeepapositiveattitudedotcom (stevie), Monday, 20 July 2015 10:52 (nine years ago) link
loving this tbh
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 20 July 2015 15:06 (nine years ago) link
lefty poet writing twitter memoir about how he quit being a music journalist is me-bait as hell
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 20 July 2015 15:08 (nine years ago) link
does it matter that he's left-handed?
― geoffreyess, Monday, 20 July 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/1000timesyes/status/623123039950098432
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 July 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
if this does not end in a rickroll gonna be disappointed tbh
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Monday, 20 July 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link
Edited version…
Spin sends me a CD to review: Party Music by The Coup. Now this is a CD to get fired with.
This is the moment of true despair. It is then that I know I have lost. Had lost long ago.
I have to break up with Spin in person. But there's a problem: I don't really have the spare cash for a transatlantic flight.
That seems like a good irony. I will fly Paris>NYC to see a French movie.
I am oddly excited for the Tori Amos covers album. but I realize w great sadness I will not getting all my music for free anymore.
A plane hits the WTC. Then another one. END OF CHAPTER FIVE
we decide we will go downstairs to the market to get supplies, staples.
one is daughter to a great poet; weve had a couple conversations, Shes told me some things.
Understand: Paris had beautiful garbage cans.
I try to cut down on ice cream, to write poems. I get an email fr Spin. They tell me I owe them sixteen thousand dollars.
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Monday, 20 July 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
I am oddly excited for the Tori Amos covers album. but I realize w great sadness I will not getting all my music for free anymore.'
― for sale: baby shoes, never worn your ass (katherine), Monday, 20 July 2015 17:02 (nine years ago) link
someone should reply at him the world's tiniest violin score
― da croupier, Monday, 20 July 2015 17:03 (nine years ago) link
This guy sounds like an unbelievable tool.
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 20 July 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
Really? I'm enjoying the voice. A nice surprise, since I mainly remembered him as the guy who blurbed "The Fragile" in their best of '99 issue, describing it as "the hard bulletin."
― geoffreyess, Monday, 20 July 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
His 1989 book is very good. Not so crazy about these tweets.
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Monday, 20 July 2015 17:11 (nine years ago) link
― da croupier, Monday, July 20, 2015 5:03 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This.
Also: "Pirate Bae"
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 20 July 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link
CHAPTER SEVEN
After a couple days we head back downtown. The subways are running again. GWB has told us that we need to shop for America. The planes still aren't flying and I have to rebook my flight back to France. First I reschedule my Spin meeting. Breaking up is hard. I schedule the meeting for a week later and then rebook my ticket home.
I feel like the oddity of having flown into NYC on a caprice a day before 9/11 means I am probably a terrorist. This feeling will last for weeks, months. Its a time of paranoia. I miss four days of running, first time in a dozen years. When I start running again along the East River I keep seeing planes diving toward me from the corner of my eye & panic. Can't stop thinking about the air toxicity which is a real thing but also a figure for the ambient fear gripping people. I visit the memorials in union square above the closed zone but i dont find them moving, just disturbing.
Its a historical genre, right? The periods when the line blurs between the missing and the dead. i think about Chile. People start to attack Muslims, possible Muslims taxi drivers shopkeepers people in turbans. Seriously, fuck the human spirit. Some days at least. Fiends go back to getting together, little dates, everything feels furtive, drinking starts at noon.
It is a lost time. But the CDs come out, delayed a week. Tori, The Blueprint. But The Coup has its own special delay. Because The Coup original cover shows them blowing up the WTC. That's what they sent me back in June. So the review is on the street saying The Coup and I want you to throw a brick through the window of Spin offices. But the CD is nowhere to be found because they are having to print new covers and now finally it is time. It is time for me to go into the offices I have suggested get bricked & walk into the managing editor's office and quit.
― da croupier, Monday, 20 July 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
you can kinda see why he didn't just plop this on wordpress
― da croupier, Monday, 20 July 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
rip to his exercise routine, never forget
― nomar, Monday, 20 July 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link
i mean, as far as a memoir using 9/11 as a backdrop about the time you quit a music critic goes, it's not bad. but i can see why he chose a more dramatic medium.
― da croupier, Monday, 20 July 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
a music critic gig, rather
idk jeet heer can flying leap but i love shit like this
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 20 July 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
also if this all winds up being part of a larger memoir - Call Me Jane, perhaps - it'll be easier to suggest its built off viral heat
― da croupier, Monday, 20 July 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
nb i own the mayor emannuel book so i'm a sucker
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 20 July 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
hey, anytime someone gets melodramatic about the Rock Crit Life my narcissism of small differences perks up. i'm certainly not sad he wrote it.
― da croupier, Monday, 20 July 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link
― da croupier, Monday, July 20, 2015 1:29 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the viral heat of 40 rock critics reading it
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 July 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
Viral Heat by Michael Crichton
― you are extreme, Patti LuPone. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 July 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
well i used the word "suggest" for a reason
― da croupier, Monday, 20 July 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
don't discount his poetry readership, that's like a built in market right there
― j., Monday, 20 July 2015 18:49 (nine years ago) link
Hope this contract he's going on about didn't include a NDA. Could Spin even afford to hire a lawyer at this point?
― Position Position, Monday, 20 July 2015 18:52 (nine years ago) link
Spin dissolved and formed a new company, really doubting any NDA from ca. 2001 would hold
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 20 July 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link