i think his persistence and semantic focus would make him a good lawyer
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Friday, 29 May 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
like, i think he'd be good at cross-examinations
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Friday, 29 May 2015 21:53 (nine years ago) link
no, u right
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 29 May 2015 21:55 (nine years ago) link
deej can fight to get rappers out of jail after pitchfork and noisey get them locked up
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 29 May 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link
the hemiola defense
― Mistah FAAB (sarahell), Friday, 29 May 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
then why are 95% of music features about boring people?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, May 29, 2015 4:48 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
bc this industry wastes lots of money
thank god
― Keith Mozart (D-40), Friday, 29 May 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link
The functional purpose of music writing at this point is to create places on the internet where an artist's name appears, and then trick people into clicking on it
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, May 29, 2015 4:42 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this is of course true but getting those clicks is thru ... new writing & celebrity writing. I guess there is also provocative thinkpiece writing that we all hate 99% of the time
― Keith Mozart (D-40), Friday, 29 May 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
does anyone else ever see threads like this beginning circa 2002 and suddenly realize its 2015 and that its been a thirteen year discussion and feel like what
― meaulnes, Friday, 29 May 2015 22:36 (nine years ago) link
tbh i think its stupid as hell that this thread keeps getting bumped, like can't we just stick all this stuff on worst new music thread if its really that bad/worth complaining about
― Keith Mozart (D-40), Friday, 29 May 2015 23:07 (nine years ago) link
its not bad writing its bad thinking
― no (Lamp), Saturday, 30 May 2015 00:38 (nine years ago) link
i mean its also bad writing but thats sort of a given
― no (Lamp), Saturday, 30 May 2015 00:39 (nine years ago) link
Yeah but try being a musician now. I'm just resigned to doing this shit after my 9 to 5
― Heez, Saturday, 30 May 2015 00:43 (nine years ago) link
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, May 29, 2015 4:42 PM (42 minutes ago)
I said something like this almost verbatim to a student a couple weeks ago but I remembered all those times Details ran cover stories on Stephen Dorff and Skeet Ulrich, i.e. it was ever thus except the paychecks are smaller.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 May 2015 01:00 (nine years ago) link
so you're saying we should rename that other thread the 'bad thinking' thread? a lot of ilx would end up posted there
― Keith Mozart (D-40), Saturday, 30 May 2015 01:18 (nine years ago) link
the dorff years were bleak. the sobieski plague another low point. thanks a lot, Interview Magazine.
― scott seward, Saturday, 30 May 2015 01:22 (nine years ago) link
aw, man, now i miss Movieline.
― scott seward, Saturday, 30 May 2015 01:23 (nine years ago) link
i used to make tape recordings of me reading Movieline interviews back in the 90's. i would play both parts. interviews with jason priestly and people like that. it was fun.
― scott seward, Saturday, 30 May 2015 01:26 (nine years ago) link
remember when skeet ulrich was on the law & order los angeles reboot
― maura, Saturday, 30 May 2015 03:18 (nine years ago) link
God 2015 sucks
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 30 May 2015 04:12 (nine years ago) link
...from the perspective of someone who doesn't write music reviews, i mean, and (evidently) doesn't write well in general. i guess now it's kind of expected to just acknowledge that it's easier and faster for people to just listen to a song and form their own opinion rather than read several paragraphs describing a song. to be annoyed by that is annoying to others. but i hate the direction that music journalism is going. 30 years ago had got g. marcus suggesting cool shit for you to listen to, now you get a link to a bandcamp and hopefully a few farting suggestions as to what it might sound like. however, i recognize that i also hate the direction that humanity is going and i'm totally ready to just move to the mountains and make moonshine and be even more irrelevant. *barf on self, barf on world, barf*
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 30 May 2015 04:20 (nine years ago) link
― scott seward, Saturday, 30 May 2015 01:26 (3 hours ago) Permalink
Lol
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 30 May 2015 05:06 (nine years ago) link
30 years ago G. Marcus could kick a ball in the street
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 30 May 2015 05:08 (nine years ago) link
you need to upload those tapes scott
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 30 May 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link
my embarrassing "living in the middle of nowhere so what're you gonna do for the next three hours" hobby was using a pin to outline photographs in tv guide and then shining a light through the back to ILLUMINATE THE STARS
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 30 May 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
At last this thread is where it should be.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 30 May 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
best mime rock review ever!
https://scontent-atl1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/v/l/t1.0-9/11402682_10153981051017137_2468195060696685329_n.jpg?oh=4350c48b5d706ab9fd2daf0c7bb78d4b&oe=55EE9ABA
https://scontent-atl1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/v/t1.0-9/11230653_10153981051177137_900644611352412645_n.jpg?oh=914c21a0ba98aff5d13d4a977c8576d2&oe=55F040C4
― scott seward, Thursday, 4 June 2015 19:41 (nine years ago) link
you just KNOW this person wanted to hate this place but they ended up liking it and got to hear a great captain beefheart song they'd never heard so they end up having to make fun of doritos.
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/820-i-went-to-james-murphys-new-wine-bar-and-all-i-got-was-more-confused-about-the-state-of-the-music-industry/
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:18 (nine years ago) link
also, that live LCD video freaked me out cuz i'd never seen that guy in area rock mode and the song is so weird! arena pomp city. i was trying to think of what it reminded me of and i drew a blank. like U2 mixed with some madchester band. plus, the video is totally shot like a commercial.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:20 (nine years ago) link
that article is poorly written
― adam, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:24 (nine years ago) link
I think Hopper has been too busy with book tour and interviews to do any actual editing of Pitch submissions. Either that or she's a really bad editor.
― the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
Sweet jesus, someone put the Pitch out of its misery. Did the writer and/or editor just forget that the article started with the same (terrible) gag it finishes on?
― Position Position, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:43 (nine years ago) link
i was trying to think of what it reminded me of and i drew a blank. like U2 mixed with some madchester band.
Ha, I love "All My Friends", but it does how a very strong "Where The Streets Have No Name" vibe, doesn't it?
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:46 (nine years ago) link
does *have
all my friends and that music video gross me out so much
― marcos, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
also this made me lol
As music fans, we've become inured to corporate sponsorship—most of all at festivals, as captive audiences, and on the web. It’s hard not to see the benefits when you see what Red Bull makes possible, like DFA’s recent 12th anniversary party.
― marcos, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
let us all celebrate what red bull makes possible: dfa's 12th anniversary party
thank you red bull
no names, folks, this ain’t TMZ
sure it ain't
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link
The New Yorker review of the restaurant also had a lede based around "All My Friends," which is really the hackiest thing to do in this context.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 20:31 (nine years ago) link
Losing my edge? The food here was so bad I was losing my lunch.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 20:32 (nine years ago) link
the sound of silverware
― doug ellin (Lamp), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link
like a fine wine, james murphy is aging and kinda cool and hairy
― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 20:38 (nine years ago) link
I was there when James Murphy opened a wine bar etc etc
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
Maybe Daft Punk will play there tee hee
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 June 2015 21:03 (nine years ago) link
lol
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 21:17 (nine years ago) link
that article is poorly writtenI think Hopper has been too busy with book tour and interviews to do any actual editing of Pitch submissions. Either that or she's a really bad editor.
I'm actually curious why the editing at The Pitch is so lax, particularly since I admire Hopper's writing so much. I'm not the first one to mention it, but even the pieces that have good ideas in them give off an incredibly strong "young writer's first draft" vibe.
― intheblanks, Tuesday, 30 June 2015 21:29 (nine years ago) link
What's the point of a round table when the consensus is suffocating?
http://pitchfork.com/thepitch/827-a-rihanna-bitch-better-have-my-money-video-roundtable/
― A swarm of antipathy (Re-Make/Re-Model), Friday, 3 July 2015 08:09 (nine years ago) link
it doesn't really seem like a round table discussion though, more like a singles jukebox style "everyone does a blurb" and you get whatever consensus or disagreement rolls in
they're all otm anyway
― lex pretend, Friday, 3 July 2015 08:59 (nine years ago) link
fuck everything having to be turned around within 24 hours though, sometimes i feel like that's the worst aspect of music writing 2k15. even the best pieces i've read this year (about new albums, songs, videos etc), i know they'd have been so much better even a week later
― lex pretend, Friday, 3 July 2015 09:01 (nine years ago) link
The Avalanches' Darren Seltmann Has Left the GroupThey're now a two pieceBy Jeremy Gordon on June 29, 2015 at 1:41 p.m. EDT
Back in February 2014, Seltmann's wife, singer-songwriter Sally Seltmann, told Melbourne's Herald Sun that he'd left the Avalanches. The news was confirmed by the band's label, Modular, who said: "Yep, Darren hasn't been in the band for a while
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Friday, 3 July 2015 09:12 (nine years ago) link
nb: said confirmation is also from February 2014
― let no-one live rent free in your butt (sic), Friday, 3 July 2015 09:15 (nine years ago) link