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baffled vs horrified incredulity

this board is one that's unusually good at being unimpressed with stuff, so the "wait, people actually read this?" reaction is mildly humorous

yeah, i posted that for that reason

the only reason we're even discussing prr kid at all is that he's leeched himself onto an established brand and begun to branch out into other publications--he's found a way to game the system, through accident or design, at a time when it's very hard to do so.

OTM + high five + 3 gold stars. What he's done is very clever, in the same way that, say Danger Mouse was able to leverage his album mashup into a regular production gig. This is How Things Work now.

I really glad this thread exists, if only for tim f's vulcanization of rubber style invention of a new posting technique

yeah that danger mouse thing is p otm

the only reason we're even discussing prr kid at all is that he's leeched himself onto an established brand and begun to branch out into other publications--he's found a way to game the system, through accident or design, at a time when it's very hard to do so.

OTM + high five + 3 gold stars. What he's done is very clever, in the same way that, say Danger Mouse was able to leverage his album mashup into a regular production gig. This is How Things Work now.

― Veðrafjǫrðr heimamaður (ecuador_with_a_c), Thursday, September 30, 2010 1:26 PM (1 minute ago)

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baffled vs horrified incredulity

this

ditto, only remove "incredulity"; I don't find it surprising that ppl would be into this guy, just super irritating because that means it's like 3 years away from infecting every media source I frequent

RIP my frequented media sources ;_;

i just can't read stuff like that, i find it irritating and completely tedious. can't really get into HRO for the same reason.

I am 100% down with that opinionated skepticism, it is awesome, but occasionally it approaches a point of seeming really baffled by things that are not all that incredibly baffling

his shitty writing style and the fact that people read and enjoy it is baffling. like i said yesterday, i think sometimes with the internet you can throw up any piece of shit writing to the wall and if it's got enough name dropping, people will jizz all over it.

i think PRR and HRO are hateable for opposite reasons

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i would agree w/that too xpost

http://www.pitchforkreviewsreviews.com/post/1215918248/haiku-cycle-about-the-new-york-yankees-pitchfork

i think PRR and HRO are hateable for opposite reasons

this. except i like PRR and fucking loathe HRO with a passion

man, that "haiku cycle" makes me wanna take back every nice thing i've ever said

about anyone or anything anywhere ever

this. except i like PRR and fucking loathe HRO with a passion

― having taken an actual journalism class (contenderizer), Thursday, September 30, 2010 6:55 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

you basically have the opposite of taste

rimshot

PRR's writing reads like my 9 year old talking

At least HRO keeps his posts short.

although on evidence of those fucking haikus, maybe history mayne has a point

are yall on #teamprrbro or #teamcarles?

i dunno, i read that haiku and it's like a whole new world, like seeing what matsuo bashō was doing when he was 20.

LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR U

suckered by chauncey gardiner

PRR's writing reads like my 9 year old talking

if you traded animal collective and lil wayne for bionicles and mighty beanz the affinity is strong

just for the record i think HRO is as equally reprehensible as PRR

I prefer HBO and PBR to HRO and PRR

kind of surprised carles hasn't reviewed prr yet

idk nabisco...that haiku cycle pretty much distills everything about his blog that makes me want to scream: do you really think that THAT merits a readership? do you really think that there's some intrinsic value to his writing that makes him well known (among certain circles), instead of his attention-grabbing stunts (again, the initial meta conceit of the blog, but also his suspect story about meeting President Obama)? Is it really that surprising that some folks would find that obnoxious? (multiple xposts)

(sry about the awkward shoehorning of parenthetical asides)

i like both hro and prr but hro is funny and i can usually read almost the entire post instead of just the first couple sentences

i dunno, i read that haiku and it's like a whole new world, like seeing what matsuo bashō was doing when he was 20.

Fall - Yankees are shite
Pitchfork rates them nought point nought
Bashō turns in grave

Sorry

I lol'd

do you really think that THAT merits a readership?

I never said it did, mostly because I don't understand the concept of "meriting" a readership. But basically I am not surprised/horrified/confused by what his readers get out of the blog -- the way it appeals to people doesn't strike me as super-confusing, you know? It seems fairly straightforward, what people are getting out of it. It also seems fairly straightforward that lots of people would find it obnoxious and annoying. The only thing that confuses me is the idea that those things are opposites, or that one or the other of them is bizarre or unimaginable.

no one understands what nabisco is on about, everyone's obsessed with PRR, we're on the other side of the looking glass ppl

I never said it did, mostly because I don't understand the concept of "meriting" a readership.

and this is so because it must be so.

he's just a goof with a blog yall

and so is prr guy for that matter

who's the first he again? I'm lost...

HRO has 'authored' some 'internet memes' so he's cool imo

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Really can't wait for the HRO entry about PRR, that will be the shit!

Btw --

i think PRR and HRO are hateable lovable for opposite reasons

does Pitch Revvy-Rev's success mean that "earnestness" is coming "back in"? are irony/cynicism "played out"? or have we reached a nu "post-ironic" level where irony and earnestness can "coexist" as part of a viable personal brand? [via Aufhebung]

Do u <3 Regine?
Is Regine way better than Best Coast?
Is Regine the 'Yoko Ono' of indie music?
Could u slot Regine into any indie band and make them more relevant?
Do u crush harder on Regine or Zooey Deschanel?
Should Regine 'go solo' and ride the slutwave?
Is Regine mad talented, or 'just along for the ride'?
Behind every great man, is there a great woman?
Or behind every successful woman, is there a man making decisions/pressing buttons?
Is there something about Regine?
Who is the current ‘sexiest woman alive’ in indie music?
<3 indie vagine

-VS-

okay so anyway i just got sidetracked but what i meant to be saying was that i climbed through the fire escape in my apartment and laid down on the futon in the living room which is also my bed and listened to I Am Not A Human Being and then read some of what people are saying online about it, which is generally lukewarm or disappointed. and that is frustrating because i think part of the thrill of Lil Wayne is that he is so wild and unpredictable that he will blow our minds every time he comes out, but maybe the underdog indignation that fueled his mind-blowing records, like on Carter II when he furiously says “so many doubt cuz i come from the South, but when i open up my mouth all bullets come out”, doesn’t exist anymore because he is the best-selling and most popular and most critically-acclaimed rapper working, and it is much easier to beat low expectations than to live up to impossible ones, and he isn’t railing against an unwelcoming establishment that doesn’t respect him anymore, and his focus shifted to going to jail and dealing with success instead of having to prove everyone wrong, which doesn’t mean that his songs aren’t great but they are different now

and when he puts out stuff that is not mind-blowing but is still miles better than the competition and endlessly listenable and clever, like No Ceilings or I Am Not A Human Being, it registers as a disappointment because it is not mind-blowing. but Lil Wayne IS a human being, and if we are expecting everything he does to be earth-shattering than I Am Not A Human Being will disappoint, because no matter how good it is, it is not a mind-blowing Wayne record. Michael Jordan never scored 400 points in a game because he is a human being, Roger Federer is not going to win 50 grand slams because he is a human being, Barack Obama didn’t wave his magic wand and pull this country out of a tailspin because he is a human being, and Lil Wayne is never gonna blow our minds like he did when Drought 3 came out because he is a human being and we have adjusted our expectations to coincide with his ability which makes it near impossible for him to top himself

so when you are listening to I Am Not A Human Being, if you haven’t yet, i think you will like it more if you are not trying to determine how it stacks up to other Wayne records because then it will disappoint you and you won’t like it even though there is so much to get out of it. Wayne is still a legend on his worst day, like when he is not stretching the boundaries of his genre or reinventing himself, and it would be a shame if I Am Not A Human Being went down as a mediocre record because Wayne actually is a human being and has elevated himself to insurmountable expectations, you know?

maybe I should spend my time reading Proust instead of reading PRR