pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

heifer

haha yeah sorry, i googled the lyrics w/ "heifer" at first but found nothing until i spelled it as "heffer" so the wrong version kinda stuck in my head when i posted here.

heffer=The Girls Next Door (icky "reality" show about "girlfriends"/coyly in-sin-uwaiting huffers of King Tut Hef, although I bet He don't get none of that and don't remember)

way before the Lil Wayne stan era

Ryan Schreiber:
01. Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I (DeSoto)
02. Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret (Warner Bros.)
03. Lil' Wayne - Tha Block is Hot (Cash Money/Universal)
04. Ghost - Snuffbox Immanence (Drag City)
05. Olivia Tremor Control - Black Foliage (Flydaddy)
06. Archer Prewitt - White Sky (Carrot Top)
07. Jimi Tenor - Organism (Warp/Sire)
08. Beck - Midnite Vultures (DGC)
09. Sam Prekop - Sam Prekop (Thrill Jockey)
10. Pavement - Terror Twilight (Matador)

^^^is that a joke or was schr3iber 6 years ahead of the time of his own site?

people who think prog wasn't whimsical/jokey have never been forced to sit through a gentle giant cd

-- strongohulkington, Monday, 5 November 2007 13:28 (1 week ago) Bookmark Link

Gah, I'm listening to The Power and The Glory right now and it's fantastic.

i saw gong live and that was really whimsical and shitty

they took down the interpol interview where Ryan Schrieber makes an affirmative action joke re: Nelly. :(

the bass player really looked like a hobbit though and even went barefoot and played a one of those steinberger headless basses from the 80s and it was the singer's 65th birthday and he wore a silver suit with wings

ok maybe it was awesome

^^^is that a joke or was schr3iber 6 years ahead of the time of his own site?

-- J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 November 2007 21:22 (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

Simon Reynolds was a Wayne stan back in 1999, dude probably picked it up from there.

lol they edited it out!

"Wait, you look really familiar."

"Yeah. Ryan." I extend a handshake. "I'm here from Pitchfork."

"Ohhhh!! Man, thanks for putting us on your 2002 list. That paragraph was fantastic!"

Which was a surprising response, since the paragraph in question was something of a piss-take, noting the band's "skinny ties and terrible hair," and referring to them as "art-house darlings" whose "appearance was their most embarrassing aspect."

"Well, uh, it was pretty much you guys or Nellyville."

used to have a line about how they were gonna give it to Nelly due to affirmative action but that they couldn't get past the "stupid band-aid."

the bass player really looked like a hobbit though and even went barefoot and played a one of those steinberger headless basses from the 80s and it was the singer's 65th birthday and he wore a silver suit with wings

-- M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 16 November 2007 10:55 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

terry gilliam made a movie about this

Can't wait for them to shit all over the new Hives record, largely because I like it so much, so they'll clearly be sharpening the knives.

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/47031-frank

Just as guilty of reviewing her persona rather than her music as what it's railing against.

Really, what the fuck else is there to talk about with Winehouse though? Her music?

Certainly.

Re: expected trashing of the Hives. WTF? 6.2 and not a bad word against them.

LARF!
http://www.pitchforkmediadotcom.com/

^lolled at this

Ha, what else would the guy expect?

Seriously, it's like pretending like you're about to punch someone in the face and then getting mad when their first reflex is to punch you in the face for real.

I just mean ... there are lots of things people will joke around with you about via permanently preserved correspondence, but legal issues surrounding key business trademarks = seriously not one of them! I don't know that that's even a punch for real, more of a "this is not really an area in which anyone is going to dick around and have fun with you."

Ouch.

pitchforkmediadotcom is dumb (#1 in a series)

Given how many times this album was pushed back, it wouldn't be out of the question to suspect some quality control issues, but RZA himself said in The Wu-Tang Manual that he tended to gear the overall style of an album based on what time of year it dropped, and 8 Diagrams couldn't have debuted at any time other than winter-- perpetually overcast, dark before the afternoon ends, and freezing your eye water.

freezing your eye water
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http://virginsuicides.no.sapo.pt/frozentear.bmp

the comments on the 'worst covers' list are, for the most part, more embarrassingly awful than the artwork.

Seriously, it's like pretending like you're about to punch someone in the face and then getting mad when their first reflex is to punch you in the face for real.

-- Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 16 November 2007 20:28 (4 weeks ago) Link

It is more like yelling, in your worst French accent, "Ah m goiiin too pawnch zhoo in theh fehce (frog laugh)" with one eye closed while dangling a baguette delicately between two fingers like a distasteful pornographic magazine discovered during an unscheduled room cleaning by your disapproving Belgian mother and then being forced to write every victim of violence in the entire world ever (even those made into kidney pie maggot-styley) explaining that a consciousness-raising committee had been formed to ban people like yourself from ever talking in silly voices about silly things again.

that is what the pitchforkmediadotcom.com situation is like.
what do I know, though?? I am just a PASSIVE OBSERVER.

No, threatening a lawsuit and assuming everybody's gonna know you were just a-funnin' because, hey, the way you phrased things was totally funny - that doesn't really compare to telegraphing your intentions via ridiculous accent and costume.

webdev lulz.

Seems more intelligent and thought out than usual. What gives?

the email to pitchfork is confounding not because it touches on "serious", unfuckwithable issues but because it's simply unfunny and pointless.

wouldn't this http://www.pitchforkmediadotcom.com/index6.htm get him off due to fair use laws regarding parody? or is the url too intentionally misleading?

also, I laughed at "beanbag chair chorizo"

<i>No, threatening a lawsuit and assuming everybody's gonna know you were just a-funnin' because, hey, the way you phrased things was totally funny - that doesn't really compare to telegraphing your intentions via ridiculous accent and costume.

-- J0hn D., Friday, 14 December 2007 10:47 (4 weeks ago) Link</i>
Well John, at least you find me totally funny! :-)

yay a famous person likes meeee

^^ ahaha !

Two of the questions from Pfork's interview of Colin Greenwood, bassist for Radiohead:

Pitchfork: The Pitchfork review of In Rainbows suggested "Radiohead have grown tired of trying to outrun themselves." What do you think of that assessment?

Pitchfork: The Pitchfork review of Hail to the Thief put forth the idea that "anything Radiohead does from here on out will sound like Radiohead"...

"For personal questions, please press 2. For favourite Torchwood character, please press 3."

I would wager most of the people who posted in this thread in 2002 and 2003 have gone on to write for the site.

I think the only one who has "gone on to" write for the site is Jess. Raposa, Dare, and Leone were already on staff at the time. I mean, unless mr. sparkle is a pseudonym for Tom Breihan or something.

who was dare

Christopher "Double" Dare

mr. sparkle = Ray Suzuki

mad lolz @ ljag

xpost: mr. sparkle = http://www.liquidmatrix.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/mrsparkleorig.jpg

i posted to ilx before i wrote for pfork, pplz

lord forgive me, the hennesey got me not knowin how to act / i'm fallin and i can't turn back

lmaaaaaaao

the mobb deep quote fits like a high-top fade, but will it make up any of the cred i'll lose forthis??? let's fucking hope so!

-- ethan, Thursday, September 13, 2001 8:00 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Link

trifnan delong

there practically isn't any Pitchfork writer on ILX who didn't post here before writing for them, except for a couple PF lifers like Rich@rdson and, well, me.

and i don't really count cause i was there for all of 3 months.

yeah i mean i started in 01 but i was posting here in 2000