My Husband's Stupid Record Collection

when I joked about through my wife's dusty CD booklet from college and giving my opinions on various movie soundtracks, soulquarian-adjacent and womens-college-oriented folk albums, she was VERY enthusiastic. some obv potential pitfalls have kept me from pulling the trigger - listens are inherently cursory, you don't wanna be a presumptive prick but if you're overly deferential it's boring, what's the point unless you're gonna try to ride this thing to a book deal, etc - but it's still in the back of my head

joked about going through

also do i really want that many pictures of me beaming next to talib kweli and ani difrancos on the web

lol da croupier that sounds like my wife's cd booklet, does she have any dead prez mixtapes

Ha nah she didn't roll that deep

that guy's wife has a fuckin cool record collection and he's cute to me, obviously the superior blog

I wouldn't necessarily say _better_ but it's definitely more random and varied. Again, my opinion, but record collections that look like you just took two or three "best albums ever" lists and then added a few more albums from a handful of the artists is boring as hell.

obviously neither of them are pro music writers (and I still think it's weird a personal tumblr with a vinyl gimmick has all these ILM posters doing heavy analysis) and I'm no more here for this guy waxing poetic about Dre than her talking about ice cream but I've got lots of tabs open rn with his Youtube links, which is as much as I'll ask from a music blog. currently listening to Up Down Suite for the first time in at least 15 years. I'll probably make it 30 before I do it again but ahh the nostalgia

"and I have no idea what you're trying to say with the line:

'an open, candid approach to her material that people have learned to see as false and performative.'"

no, i get this. it's when you're being real and people accuse you of being fake. like someone will think a person is being a try-hard and is spending a lot of time meticulously grooming their public self, when actually all they're doing is spouting whatever crap comes off the top of their head. it's the sort of accusation that says more about the person making it than it does about the target.

that's why we haven't evolved a word for being disingenuous

to find out what happens... when people stop being polite... and start getting real...

IT WASN'T NOT FUNNY

That quote will never not be not funny.

"obviously neither of them are pro music writers"

yeah but the husband works for a public radio show based in nyc which is how this all got spotlit in the first place. same shit different year

why did i click on this thread

like... sorry that i'm not into music criticism as pinterest, i.e. the continued push toward gender essentialization in popular culture and the reactions to it? i hate ladyblogs of this ilk for the exact same reason, the tacit prescriptivism of how a 'wife' is

but i guess i'm just a j e a l o u s h a t e r. too bad that can't fit on a license plate

also i'm single!

i guess 'swf looking for swm to defy gender norms' reads as kinda awkies though, especially when those norms seem to be working relatively ok for the intended targets

My Existential Crisis's Stupid Record Collection

you think a license plate is bad, try fitting that on your knuckles

what makes you think i didn't

fortunately, you can fit "toe-tappy" on a license plate if you spell it toe-tapi

my wife has clarified that her enthusiasm for my proposed project had less to do with viral public spectacle hoo-ha than her wishing i'd become an indigo girls fan, knowing that if i listen to an act long enough i usually find something i like about it

the more you listen, the closer you are to fine amirite

indigo girls are good, if we're going to get real

okay i finally googled the woman and found this: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/07/amanda_petrusich_s_do_not_sell_at_any_price_reviewed_by_sarah_o_holla.html
i still don't really think people should get ragged on for their lame tumblrs, but man, slate did amanda petrusich dirty with this piece.

"Petrusich’s writing is elegant and witty; I laughed out loud several times and felt like Petrusich and I could be friends."

cool

Petrusich’s writing is elegant and witty; I laughed out loud several times and felt like Petrusich and I could be friends. And the next time I’m at a big rambling flea market or antique store, I’m going to know just where to look for an old 78; after reading this book, I might even know if it’s valuable or not. I’m not going to tell you how to do it, though. Pick up this book to find out, and maybe we’ll bump into each other wearing scuba gear at the bottom of the Milwaukee River.

this is a specific, contemporary writing style that is more specific than the word "disingenuous" (xp) allows although it is sort of disingenuous. there is a lot to be said about this style, how it narrows context in an age of infinite access to information, creates a sense of intimacy with both the product at hand and the reader, and finally seems designed to be at least at some level annoying and obstinate

there is a lot to be said about this style

that's the style used in newspapers for the past fifty years bub

too bad "the palmer method" is already something else

waterface please use "bub" more often i like pretending you're wolverine

can do two live croup

*snikt*

"Petrusich’s writing is elegant and witty; I laughed out loud several times and felt like Petrusich and I could be friends."

cool

― Leonard Pine, Wednesday, April 29, 2015 12:28 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you laugh but this is how most people judge writing (often in the "I like this dude's writing, I feel like I could get a beer with him"), the only difference is this piece actually cops to it

* in the _context_

that's definitely true, though the sentences that immediately shift from "i think the writer would be my friend" to "maybe you the reader, are also my friend"

that immediately follow

i don't laugh i think it sucks

it's just a different approach. instead of indulging the fiction of a bland, universal reader, she creates a different fiction that the reader is her friend and that they'll meet someday in a flea market or at the bottom of a river.

She also creates a fiction where I'm interested in hearing about her tumblr in a review of somebody else's book. Not cricket imo

i don't think the original review mentions cricket at all

i guess you're joking but http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=its+just+not+cricket

sorry if you can't appreciate my singular, australian-naif style

i appreciate you Mr. Pine

thanks friend

subjectively? i hate her writing style. it's nails on a chalkboard to me, and it fills me with a deep sense of personal animosity against anybody who would willfully commit to paper such banalities.

objectively? there's absolutely nothing wrong with the way she writes. it's just not the kind of writing i prefer to spend my time reading.

I'm sorry for defending this blog and more generally for being a contrarian on threads where it wasn't needed

she should combine this with those new vinyl collector scams, like "I'll send you one record from my husband's stupid record collection each month. He doesn't know!"

So did she never get past the Cs?

must have stopped being profitable.