OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

oh I don't agree with her at all and think her succession of lazy zings are very revealing about her own very funny and fairly arbitrary insecurities but I don't think its badly written per se. its kinda funny.

― I forgot my mantra (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, November 9, 2009 4:13 PM (50 minutes ago)

ok but the entire glue of her piece is supposed to be this wit she brings - if we agree she can't write a punchline and goes for only the laziest of zings, what's of value? was there any insight you gained?

so tempted to RAMPAGE THOSE COMMENTS, but, why

City Pages, RIP.

― uninspired girls rejoice!!! (Hoot Smalley), Monday, November 9, 2009 2:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

^^ this ain't no shit btw

goole do you even do stuff for them anymore?

the insight i gained is she needs an editor: "I have to say it's a pretty brilliant concept to feature entire album on tour." if you're gonna do a disreview your writing should at least be clean, especially at your zing-a-sentence ending there

Sorry, but my mom tells better jokes and has more insight than this critic.

was there any insight you gained?

main insight is that the writer is neurotic. I def. didn't learn anything about the music haha

What is the ridiculous strawman that Steely Dan fans think that Dan music is somehow the apotheosis of jazz fused with rock?

I will say that while I thought her writing was horrible, the gig she described sounded great!

I see wine coolers at the Publix every visit and always wonder who the hell buys them in 2009.

lol @ shakey's halfhearted backhanded defense of this awful piece

jk i havent even read the piece

oh, right: Becker-Fagen groupies buy wine coolers.

is this piece online only? i know the alt weekly in my city is under huge pressure to just churn out content constantly for the web these days, so "editing" is kinda a thing of the past. Gotta get those click throughs y'all!
also, i don't think I've ever had a wine cooler. are they tasty? are they like the steely dan of beverages?

It's not that the piece is really AWFUL as much as it's just really, really stupid; you get a sense that the author is WAY more of a douchebag poser twit than the people she's criticizing for SHOCK HORROR having fun at a Steely Dan concert

Wine coolers are awesome until you turn 19

Like life.

:'(

goole do you even do stuff for them anymore?

― The looming shadow of the big baller/shot caller (M@tt He1ges0n), Monday, November 9, 2009 4:12 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

naw my relationship was entirely w/ s4r4h 4sk4ri. they canned her for reasons that are probably unrelated to running the kind of shit i wrote, heh. the new crowd there is, from what i know, wholly imported from reveille, but i don't really pay any attention anymore.

y'all are sadly OTM re wine coolers and life

so tempted to drop the "john d. hearts the dan" bomb in comments there...

It's not that the piece is really AWFUL as much as it's just really, really stupid; you get a sense that the author is WAY more of a douchebag poser twit than the people she's criticizing for SHOCK HORROR having fun at a Steely Dan concert

this pretty much says it all. I don't really think its poorly written - not as poorly written as, say, that Nick Sylvester hipster runoff piece . There's stuff published that is borderline incomprehensible AND offensive from start to finish, but this piece is not like that.

other things I learned about the writer from this article - she approves of weed smoking and enjoys it, but feels guilty and self-conscious about it

That's how she feels about her parents.

hey dan i don't think the [ital] tags work the same way over there ;)

oh dammit, this website has ruined me

Are you drinking wine coolers?

Do I look 19?????? (plz say yes)

other things I learned about the writer from this article - she approves of weed smoking and enjoys it, but feels guilty and self-conscious about it

― I forgot my mantra (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, November 9, 2009 5:26 PM (23 seconds ago)

probably because she's seventeen and her mom might be reading

ok fuck it I'm going in

i think i wrote a review or maybe two for that paper once? but i can't remember who asked me to. it wasn't matos.

melissa maerz?

dylan hicks? i think that's who it was.

i wrote something for someone named melissa in seattle once.

lol who is 'tasty lixx'

:D

i think i got the purdie shuffle detail wrong but w/e

dasty hixx

Donald Fagen says:

As a founding member of The Dan, I say though square we may be, squared is what we are. Our brand of jazz-rock-fusion-core is crucial to the 31-59 age demographic. Every year thousands of new danfans give in to the jazzgasms we provide. If you dont like jazzgasms then we dont want you at our squarefair. Simple as that.

!

i'm just now entertaining the possibility that that is the ACTUAL donald fagen

lol

<3

hope so

haha i'm 90 percent sure i know who "donald fagan" is

lololol

Donald Fagen says:

This is the kind of internet posturing that we, Steely Dan, appreciate the most of our fans. This dedicated sense of giving a shit proves that we, Steely Dan, matter in this come and go world we call Earth. In 1972 Walter Becker and I wrote a song called Do It Again and let me tell you Steely Dan is indeed Doing It Again.

Donald Fagen
Steely Dan
Posted On: Monday, Nov. 9 2009 @ 10:59PM

Damn, the comments on that Dan review are merciless and well-deserved.

http://www.chartrigger.blogspot.com/

This whole site.

Was waiting for that to appear.

"Meanwhile, Taylor Swift has set a Billboard Hot 100 record by debuting five songs from her Platinum Edition re-release of Fearless in the Top 30, led by "Jump Then Fall" at #10. Interrupt that, Kanye West."

Wow, Kanye got told.

That reads like copy from "The 10" on E!

http://www.chartrigger.blogspot.com/

This whole site.

that deserves to be called "writing" as much as the words on the back of a packet of toilet cleaner