This Is Uncool

Omiting Breakbeat Hardcore? No great loss.

piss off, you twunt.

i'm gonna take a look for this on the weekend so i can actually have an opinion on it.

Where's that thread, Tom? I can't find it. And yes it's horribly flatly written (and chosen)

he'd like it on here wouldn't he ?

oh he's on bbc 6 doing 'my life in cd' this/next week.

Well worth it

(*i often worry this is what I sound like.)

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.

Soz, Marcello, I must've got you confused w//... Ewing? Dunno. NK's book sounds brilliant. Has it got a date yet?

Admittedly, this feels like some sort of FunnyOrDie video: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1828132368/uncool

Swan dive!

http://www.thestoolpigeon.co.uk/features/news-uncool-music-website-kickstarter-campaign-fails.html

https://twitter.com/LukeHaines_News/status/271617685924761600

that initial video played out like some sort of next-level fourth-wall irony-fest without meaning to.

damn, Stool Pigeon went in on a Kickstarter

Haha

In following links I see there's something out there called The Magazine:

http://the-magazine.org/

I would like to propose The Site.

Fill it up with The Typing

thesite was a site.

The Site 2.0, optimized for Chrome.

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.

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.

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

from a few weeks ago: http://jordansargent.tumblr.com/post/38124478147/uncools-problems

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.

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

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.

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?

this is unk

http://www.bet.com/topics/d/dj-unk/_jcr_content/topicintro.topicintro.dimg/2012-music-topic-dj-unk.jpg

cool

I LIKE longform writing but I have to like the writers and/or the subjects should be interesting. This promised neither.

the whole thing was just barf from the beginning and the ensuing desperateness/defensiveness just made it so much worse

Reflection:

http://uncoolmag.tumblr.com/post/39574833968/parting-words-from-david

Takedown.

http://girlboymusic.tumblr.com/post/39582687570/uncool-parting-words-from-david

white bros

damn...serious hating.

honestly this thing was doomed from the start simply because of THE CURSE OF THE OTT!

damn she's not playing around

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?

They were going to save long article journalism Tyler! Or at least long article journalism about Mumford & Sons

erika <3

sad uncool isn't happening

on/off-topic, love garry mulholland's writing in general, and This Is Uncool and its sequel in particular.

"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

"There is, it’s called my dashboard?"

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

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.

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.

honestly this thing was doomed from the start simply because of THE CURSE OF THE OTT!

― scott seward, Friday, January 4, 2013 11:56 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

well to be fair uncool did raise $9k and decades only needed $7k

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, 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

wait, Decades is my friend's magazine! She is a rad young person!

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.

i mean it doesn't thrill ME and i'm supposed to like stuff like that.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

It needed Dave Cool on board.

http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

Ayyyy!

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

yes, taylor swift, noted internet phenom,

everyone loves T-Swift. in their hearts.