piss off, you twunt.
― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 2 November 2002 04:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
i'm gonna take a look for this on the weekend so i can actually have an opinion on it.
― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 2 November 2002 05:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 2 November 2002 09:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
Where's that thread, Tom? I can't find it. And yes it's horribly flatly written (and chosen)
― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 2 November 2002 09:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 2 November 2002 09:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 2 November 2002 10:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 16:05 (twenty years ago) link
he'd like it on here wouldn't he ?
oh he's on bbc 6 doing 'my life in cd' this/next week.
― piscesboy, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 16:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 16:29 (twenty years ago) link
Well worth it
― bham, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 07:58 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 13:25 (twenty years ago) link
― piscesboy, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago) link
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 22:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 22:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 20 April 2004 22:51 (twenty years ago) link
(*i often worry this is what I sound like.)
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 23 May 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago) link
― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Sunday, 23 May 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago) link
― ENRQ (Enrique), Monday, 24 May 2004 08:49 (twenty years ago) link
― zebedee (zebedee), Monday, 24 May 2004 09:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Monday, 24 May 2004 09:18 (twenty years ago) link
Neil Kulkarni's upcoming 100 Greatest Hip Hop Tracks Ever does the same thing, but much more unreasonably and passionately and therefore a zillion times better.
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 24 May 2004 09:33 (twenty years ago) link
Soz, Marcello, I must've got you confused w//... Ewing? Dunno. NK's book sounds brilliant. Has it got a date yet?
― ENRQ (Enrique), Monday, 24 May 2004 09:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 24 May 2004 09:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 May 2004 15:35 (twenty years ago) link
― piscesboy, Monday, 24 May 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago) link
Admittedly, this feels like some sort of FunnyOrDie video: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1828132368/uncool
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 10 November 2012 02:53 (eleven years ago) link
Swan dive!
http://www.thestoolpigeon.co.uk/features/news-uncool-music-website-kickstarter-campaign-fails.html
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/LukeHaines_News/status/271617685924761600
― afriendlypioneer, Thursday, 3 January 2013 15:56 (eleven years ago) link
that initial video played out like some sort of next-level fourth-wall irony-fest without meaning to.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
damn, Stool Pigeon went in on a Kickstarter
― finally rich, fun-packed, fulfilling (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
Haha
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
In following links I see there's something out there called The Magazine:
http://the-magazine.org/
I would like to propose The Site.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
Fill it up with The Typing
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
thesite was a site.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
The Site 2.0, optimized for Chrome.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
IMO the reason why something like Uncool would fail to generate excitement is because only music writers see music writing as an artform in itself.
― besides Sunny Real Estate (dog latin), Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
Let me expound on that for 4000 words while simultaneously telling you about this new vinyl reissue of a Poco sideproject I'm spinning while also tying it into my first festival experience.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
Marathon Packs notes a few things:
http://marathonpacks.tumblr.com/post/39580410206/uncool
In response:
http://rawkblog.tumblr.com/post/39591968873/just-a-few-comments-on-erics-piece
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 January 2013 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
from a few weeks ago: http://jordansargent.tumblr.com/post/38124478147/uncools-problems
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 January 2013 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
as i noted on ned's facebook the uncool dude's rawkblog site looks really really bad and maybe that's why nobody wanted to give them money.
― scott seward, Thursday, 3 January 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
i didn't mention this in what i wrote but one of their fatal mistakes -- maybe their most fatal -- was relying on the enthusiasm of other non-involved music writers to boost the cause while leading with this trolly, inflammatory manifesto
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 3 January 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
the whole reliance on "longform" as a selling point is unappealing to me. so what if it's long? just because you can write 5,000 words about something doesn't mean you should.
― tylerw, Thursday, 3 January 2013 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
haha, it IS kinda funny for a selling point to be "these pieces are going to be REALLY long!" how many people could that possibly appeal to?
― scott seward, Thursday, 3 January 2013 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
this is unk
http://www.bet.com/topics/d/dj-unk/_jcr_content/topicintro.topicintro.dimg/2012-music-topic-dj-unk.jpg
cool
― finally rich, fun-packed, fulfilling (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 3 January 2013 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
I LIKE longform writing but I have to like the writers and/or the subjects should be interesting. This promised neither.
― this will surprise many (Nicole), Thursday, 3 January 2013 22:33 (eleven years ago) link
the whole thing was just barf from the beginning and the ensuing desperateness/defensiveness just made it so much worse
― #guy #guy fieri #poop #hallway (zachlyon), Thursday, 3 January 2013 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
Reflection:
http://uncoolmag.tumblr.com/post/39574833968/parting-words-from-david
Takedown.
http://girlboymusic.tumblr.com/post/39582687570/uncool-parting-words-from-david
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 4 January 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
white bros
― buzza, Friday, 4 January 2013 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
damn...serious hating.
― scott seward, Friday, 4 January 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
honestly this thing was doomed from the start simply because of THE CURSE OF THE OTT!
damn she's not playing around
― J0rdan S., Friday, 4 January 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
confused as to why people like the girlboy blogger are so up in arms about this. whether it made it or not ... is it a big deal?
― tylerw, Friday, 4 January 2013 17:00 (eleven years ago) link
They were going to save long article journalism Tyler! Or at least long article journalism about Mumford & Sons
― curmudgeon, Friday, 4 January 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
erika <3
― lex pretend, Friday, 4 January 2013 17:18 (eleven years ago) link
sad uncool isn't happening
on/off-topic, love garry mulholland's writing in general, and This Is Uncool and its sequel in particular.
― I had such a fontasy (stevie), Friday, 4 January 2013 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
"You stepped in shit, and then you kept on stepping in it, all the while asking me to pay money for the privilege of you tracking it into my house."
Ouch
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 4 January 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
"There is, it’s called my dashboard?"
― s.clover, Friday, 4 January 2013 18:49 (eleven years ago) link
a magazine devoted to witches, disco, and breast milk! fully funded! the people have spoken.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2063409664/decades-magazine?ref=search
― scott seward, Friday, 4 January 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
man, a young adult magazine based on teen vampire/werewolves/etc if it were done well and had good short fiction? i'll bet you could raise a zillion dollars on kickstarter. just in case anyone is looking for a magazine to start. kinda goth, kinda hip, bloody fashion spreads, it would sell itself.
― scott seward, Friday, 4 January 2013 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
Issue one will also features two fashion editorials. One: A Beet Stain fashion spread, in which a glamorous woman is in her kitchen, devouring beets in agony. The image embodies the Decades message by blending a beautiful woman in a gorgeous outfit, with the delicious root vegetable of beets. The beets take a morbid turn when they are squeezed and falling out of her mouth as if it were human flesh. Two: A goth inspired shoot staring artist Quintessa Matragna.
Look and learn, Uncool.
― Deafening silence (DL), Friday, 4 January 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
― scott seward, Friday, January 4, 2013 11:56 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Friday, 4 January 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago) link
well to be fair uncool did raise $9k and decades only needed $7k
― maura, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
― scott seward, Friday, January 4, 2013 2:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OTM, this is already 70% of the bookstore based on recent visits
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Friday, 4 January 2013 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
wait, Decades is my friend's magazine! She is a rad young person!
― sarahell, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
their video is funny. and yeah they didn't have to raise as much money. i kinda like more realistic goals on kickstarter. and the magazine itself is not that huge. 60 pages or so. its a compact creative idea for a certain type of person. some sort of POV/aesthetic is needed if you want money. "long articles about music" just doesn't sound that thrilling.
― scott seward, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
i mean it doesn't thrill ME and i'm supposed to like stuff like that.
― scott seward, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe if it was music that people tend not to write much about? I dunno. My attention span has been seriously depleted in the last couple years.
― sarahell, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
its true that if i smell indie rock i tend to run in the other direction...
i like scott t. though! he was gonna write for uncool. nice guy, ilxor, good writer, wrote an interesting book about one of the few 90's indie rock albums that i would read an entire book about.
― scott seward, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:21 (eleven years ago) link
I'd read longform indie rock articles if there were also articles about things other than indie rock that made me feel like a thoughtful person -- like science fiction movies, or Doctor Who companions, or urban planning, or turn of the century machine politics.
― sarahell, Friday, 4 January 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
as j0rd pointed out the “a site that understands that Taylor Swift, Animal Collective and Lil B are all worth writing about” line is especially funny, not just because as he said there are sites that do that already but because it's a little quaint how they aimed for the 2012 zeitgeist and hit the 2010 nail right on the head
― some dude, Friday, 4 January 2013 23:25 (eleven years ago) link
thanks scott.
I won't speak for Dave or Dan about all the schadenfreude so many people are experiencing right now. As far as I'm concerned, I really would have enjoyed writing some articles for them. I also would have enjoyed getting paid. Oh well, now I'll go back to writing for myself and not getting paid for it.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Friday, 4 January 2013 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
It needed Dave Cool on board.
― Doran, Saturday, 5 January 2013 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif
― hemioblock (The Reverend), Saturday, 5 January 2013 01:16 (eleven years ago) link
Ayyyy!
― Doran, Saturday, 5 January 2013 01:17 (eleven years ago) link
Taylor Swift, Animal Collective and Lil B
feel like i don't know anybody irl who listens to any of these bands yet i don't know anyone on the internet who doesn't seem to listen to all of them
― sleepingbag, Saturday, 5 January 2013 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
yes, taylor swift, noted internet phenom,
― s.clover, Saturday, 5 January 2013 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
everyone loves T-Swift. in their hearts.
― scott seward, Saturday, 5 January 2013 02:47 (eleven years ago) link