nick sylvester = maker upper

that is not good

:3

If dude needs anything right now, it's probably to be left alone.

Whatever you think of his writing (or alleged ethics), he's still a part of our little online community, and I think we should give him a little respect.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, March 1, 2006 6:25 PM

our li'l online community

awesome writer, and if that's the ep i bought digitally a year or two ago, it's pretty good

ksheeeeiiiiiit

i don't know that emoticon

xpost

markers, you should hear 10,000 bands in every city or town in the world!

he's a better writer than drummer

In this week's issue, John Cassidy writes about online social networking—quoting a Yalie named Matt Morello about the "agonizing" process of choosing bands to list in his Facebook profile:
So what's there now? Albums by Babyshambles, Lady Sovereign, Marxy, and My Bloody Valentine, respectively an indie rock thing, a grime thing, a twenty-minute album released on my friend's record label that's brilliant and heard by practically no-one, and a canonic album from the late 80s.
The "friend's record label" is Beekeeper Records

yalie? isn't sylvester a harvard man?

quoting a Yalie named Matt Morello

moerder's harvard too, apparently

http://www.nypress.com/article-20535-mr-dream-vs-father-time.html

These guys obsess about time about as often as Quentin from The Sound and the Fury. Even the band’s name is a caution against wasted time: Mr. Dream is named after Sylvester’s dad, a drummer who never achieved fame and now feels sad as he watches other percussionists “because they’re not him.”

“It’s the hallucination of what could have been, Mr. Dream,” Sylvester says. “It’s an American kind of sadness.”

“We’re feeling in a more primitive state than Grizzly Bear or LCD Soundsystem,” Sylvester says. “We can’t do what they do because we haven’t been working with software

yeah moerder headed up the harvard lampoon

We can’t do what they do because we haven’t been working with software

anyone else read that as tom morello?

heh that sense of familiarity was why i googled it

I like the Mr. Dream stuff, for what it's worth. I think the short version of what they're up to is basically ... "the kind of band Steve Albini might have produced around 1992" or "the kind of band that would have gotten asked questions about the Jesus Lizard" -- rumbly rattling punk stuff, big ropy basslines, etc. But they do it in a structured song-based way, not a lot of yowling workouts. (It makes sense as a niche that a band with critics in it would occupy, since it's sort of missing from the stuff critics usually cover.)

xpost - haha Tom Morello went to Harvard, and would not have been the Yalie outcast in here!

The demos on the kickstarter sound like amateurish wipers, but the stereogum stuff does give it an ironically glossy-in-comparison faux-albini vibe

jesus lizard? no way dogg

maybe we should move the making fun of mr dream to the rolling punk thread

not an expert in detecting protools, but the new stuff sounds like they're working with software now

mr dreamer upper

mr the-dream

Seems that Sylvester's journalism is far more creative than his chops.

I knew that Sylvester had been involved in a minor journalistic scandal some years back: He’d been caught fabricating some details in a story he’d written for the Village Voice.

There is the theory of the Moebius.

It feels shitty anytime your bike is stolen, but it’s doubly shitty on your birthday—tripley shitty when the temperature is 97 F and the birthday in question is your 43rd.

You could argue that my bike was a midlife-crisis purchase in the first place. It’s a three-speed Chief cruiser made by the California-based manufacturer Felt. The Chief isn’t expensive, as bicycles go, but it’s flashy. It has a sleek metallic-maroon retro-style frame with an old fashioned “tank” and a pretty brown leather saddle with matching handlebar grips. The pièces de résistance are the tires: enormous white Thick Bricks, a good deal bigger than the average balloon tire and a lot more eye-catching. In short, it’s a cheeseball retro-ride—a friend called it “the PT Cruiser of bicycles.” The Chief is a fish tank and a couple of flat-screens away from being the bike that West Coast Customs would make, if they were in the business of pimping two-wheelers.

excellent universal writing that makes references everyone can understand and enhances empathy dude, good job

why did you bold those things

to enhance empathy

want to rewrite the slate article from the pov of pee wee herman

'the wire' as rebooted by zach braff

why did you bold those things

2nd par: because I have little to no idea what instant associations he expects anyone to make with them, but he obviously expects ppl to

1st par: what makes the 43rd different from other ones?

i get why 43rd is kinda provoctive

but i know nothing about bikes

i guess i didn't get the 43rd bday thing either since i thought if you've had that many birthdays 1) you don't care as much 2) hopefully it's more likely you can afford to buy a new bike?

i enjoyed the article btw because i like his writing but i can see the ways it's also annoying

"what's the identifying mark?"

haha thank you for remembering my bike, seeing the tweet, backtracking your steps, and finally tracking it down but I'm going to need a little more from you, because, you know.

oh c'mon it's good that he was thorough after he was finally close enough to get a really good look

i love jody but btdt
http://www.whatever-whenever.net/blog/2010/08/justice-in-brooklyn/

He is my least favorite Jody Rosen.

i like the part where he sees the bike is parked outside a social services building and gives a kind of knowing sigh as if to say "times are tough pal, but not on my watch."

quite honestly, all I can think of is a 43-year-old man riding around on a bike that looks like this:

http://2009.feltracing.com/09/images/catalog/xl/8984.png

all of the conservative style neurons in my brain are overloading

When I saw the picture on Slate, I thought the lettering on the body read THIEF.

i don't think he realizes how bad riding the pt cruiser of bikes actually is

it looks like a tricycle

for babies

quite honestly, all I can think of is a 43-year-old man riding around on a bike that looks like this:

how ageist!

i'm 44 and i ride a bike that looks like this. if you have a problem with that, it's yr problem!

http://bikereviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/electra-super-deluxe-3i-2010-city-bike.jpg

I guess you didn't make it to the all of the conservative style neurons in my brain are overloading part of that post?