OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

To be fair, millennials aren't cool. If they exist. I've never met one.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/167291/WAYS-TO-BE-COOL.jpg

"Nirvana rehearsed ten hours a day before recording 'Nevermind' because their house was so freezing they tried to stay away from it as much as possible."

Literally cool. Not enough modern artists are freezing.

they have those smart thermostats now

if only... if only Kurt could make smart DECISIONS...

brb, gonna write something for Medium

Confusing Owen Pallett with Patton Oswalt is the new best thing in this thread.

tbf humans have a natural tendency to see pattons that aren't there

wouldn't you like to be a patton too

Why Pattons?

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/1435294/patton-slap-o.gif

Not really music writing, but this Bowie tribute deserves to be here …

http://blogs.news.com.au/images/uploads/timaru_thumb.png

that's fantastic

wrong thread

^^^

things that should be clickhole articles but aren't

http://www.clickhole.com/article/7-musicians-talk-about-how-david-bowie-impacted-th-3816

Fighting the good fight

http://www.futuresymphony.org/why-musicians-need-philosophy/

this is straight trolling but even so
http://takimag.com/article/not_a_fan_theodore_dalrymple/

ugh why would you link that garbage site

the dude who it's named after is like m1l0 y1ann0p0l0u5 levels of bad

i clicked on the top rated article on that site..... woah.... scary stuff

though he did accurately capture how every Bowie fan subsumed their personalities becoming mindless Hitler drones.

Golly! This is the kind of abjection that Hitler was once offered. One is tempted to say that they are the words of natural, or at least willing, slaves who seek to dissolve their selves and forego their will for that of some other person.

xp so you agree this meets the thread requirements

pretty sure this is my first time seeing that garbage site btw... "cuckmercials"!

I have vivid memories of seeing this book cover on mid '00s trips to Waterstones, some kind of masterpiece of 'society is in the gutter' self-parody

http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348651199l/117159.jpg

i mean i just think that we should completely ignore the gross right-wing grime-lickers of the world, even when looking for stuff that is Bad

they thrive on their #trollgaze shitty opinions eventually luring in disaffected members of the Privileged Class

it's a play on online hashtag-irony that works in a horrifying way

Yeah, people who disagree with Us politically should definitely be ignored. That's never backfired.

no, that's not what i'm saying. there's a certain strain of discourse that codes as right wing right now, but that exists mainly to fuck shit up. it's apolitical if anything; its only aims are to elevate the profiles of its figureheads, who cultivate cults of personality made up of the easily charmed. but a closer look reveals that its arguments are incoherent, its convictions based in little more than sticking wet fingers into the air.

engagement with them is futile because they exist to exhaust their opposition with bad-faith debates and siccing their hordes on people.

these men are nihilists

http://www.knowitallfootball.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nil.jpg

say what you want about clickbait, at least it's an ethos

Mark it a zero, Smokey.

no, that's not what i'm saying. there's a certain strain of discourse that codes as right wing right now, but that exists mainly to fuck shit up. it's apolitical if anything; its only aims are to elevate the profiles of its figureheads, who cultivate cults of personality made up of the easily charmed. but a closer look reveals that its arguments are incoherent, its convictions based in little more than sticking wet fingers into the air.

people should have to get this post tattooed on the backs of their hands to stop them from sharing this shit on FB. it's just garbage of no consequence. instead my social justice friends write thinkpieces about "don't tell me not to respond to this inconsequential garbage that moves no needles anywhere and would get no traction outside of its own cesspool if I weren't inflating it with helium"

but this sort of thing does get traction. as many people hate-share this shit they're usually a drop in the bucket compared to those who earnestly share it

awareness is a Good Thing, but actually attempting to argue with populist fascists doesn't ever seem to be an effective strategy.

that site is not even breitbart level trash. its essentially one step away from an actual nazi site, the difference being that these ppl think skinheads are too low class or some shit

For a while I would get "Taki" and "Tavi" mixed up in my head, which would always be funny when I'd land on something there

I am a grown up adult man and I believe the fact that I don't like a particular musician who died is worthy of a published article.

So grown and adult, way too grown and adult for David Bowie who I haven't really tried but I know I don't like.

taki I-can't-be-bothered-to-spell-his-name-right is a loathsome, proudly racist aristocrat who most "respectable" conservatives shunned after I think the late 80s. Pat Buchanan stuck by him, probly because Taki dislikes Israel i.e. Jews. Russ Smith, the troglodytic editor/owner of the NY Press (who was too cowardly to put his own name on his Mugger column, but you could say the same about me) gave Taki a semi regular insert in the press, and he would present not only his demented views but that of many of his lunatic fellow travelers. that was probly a nascent version of the site mentioned above.

Steve Sutherland on David Bowie

Now, knowing his reputation as a magpie, scarfing up other people’s ideas, sprinkling some fairy dust on them and then successfully representing them as his own, I figured Dave might benefit from an earful of some new stuff, so duly made him a cassette.

The tracklisting went something like Lush, Moose, Chapterhouse, Adorable , Slowdive, The Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine, Telescopes, Ride — a veritable who’s who of shoegazers making a name for themselves at the time and a line-up I felt sure would top-up Dave’s creative juices.

Just goes to show how wrong you can be! A few weeks after I sent him said tape, I received a very nicely wrapped package which contained a small broken-up jigsaw of Michelangelo’s David. When the pieces were all put in place, there was a message handwritten on the back in, if I recall correctly, green ink, the gist of which went something like, “Thanks for the lovely tape. Not really my cup of tea. Try this instead.” The “this” was a cassette tape of Different Trains, an interminable modern classical piece by avant-garde composer Steve Reich performed by the dreaded Kronos Quartet. Shudder.

solid win for Bowie there

haha seriously

Adorable.

came here to post this but expected to have been gazumped

i am going to be using the phrase "the dreaded Kronos Quartet" for a long while i suspect

we've got nine months to prepare our group halloween costume