#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
the talk of spin threatening billing him for 16k in chapter ten would probably be scarier if i didn't know he'd live to tell the tale
― da croupier, Monday, 20 July 2015 19:10 (nine years ago) link
should've added a frame story
'i found these tweets in an abandoned paris walkup, they purport to be by one j. dark'
― j., Monday, 20 July 2015 19:30 (nine years ago) link
I hope the twist is that he was Jojo Dancer all along
― da croupier, Monday, 20 July 2015 19:32 (nine years ago) link
loved the jojodancer drop in the middle of that stream. so inside-baseball
― where the sterls have no name (s.clover), Monday, 20 July 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
should put the next chapter behind a paywall and make people PROVE they think this is epic
― da croupier, Monday, 20 July 2015 19:35 (nine years ago) link
behind the wall
the garbage of paris
― j., Monday, 20 July 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
and HOW did I escape their clutches and live to list my favorite albums - or rather, jane's - on a blog? Hear the remainder of the tale on my bandcamp.
― da croupier, Monday, 20 July 2015 19:40 (nine years ago) link
i thought that jane dark stuff was so funny way back when.
― scott seward, Monday, 20 July 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
GWB has told us that we need to shop for America
Man I forgot all about this, what a load of horsecrap.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 02:07 (nine years ago) link
The first thing president does is make sure the people at the very top are reassured we are spending money like/cos its our civic duty.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 02:09 (nine years ago) link
He really doesn't like Charles Aaron.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid),
he doesn't like anyone. Per Gessle maybe.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 02:38 (nine years ago) link
for someone who didn't like charles aaron he sure didn't mind biting his style at the time
― balls, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 02:39 (nine years ago) link
I'm not really buying tweets 171-174 where he says he's being punished to the tune of 16k for a tossed off line in a Coup review.
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 02:54 (nine years ago) link
That's not the end. Here's the whole thing:
https://twitter.com/bookofriot Haven't talked to him in a while but congenial etc also a really good poet
― dow, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 13:39 (nine years ago) link
I'm saying I'm not really buying the narrative that SPIN pursued the $16k out of some sense of malice for what he said in that review, as opposed to like, the many other reasons a company might pursue money from someone
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 15:01 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, somebody else might (may) tell it quite differently, and even in his version, looks like everything turned out okay (oops spoiler).
― dow, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 20:49 (nine years ago) link
https://twitter.com/1000timesyes/status/623123039950098432― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, July 20, 2015 11:14 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, July 20, 2015 11:14 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
loooool
― WE WANT FET WAP (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 00:36 (nine years ago) link
I have not thought abt that song in like 15 yrs
Thank you for giving the hearty lol I thought that tweet deserved. I got one RT total on that!
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 01:41 (nine years ago) link
what can i say, i love aaron carter
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
dude, you totally were watching that on the Bad at Rap thread weren't u
― you are extreme, Patti LuPone. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 04:08 (nine years ago) link
Of course!
― lil dork (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 22 July 2015 04:21 (nine years ago) link