MUSIC CRITCS ARE THE ART OF PRETEND FORGETFULLNESS

we should go to that thing in stoke newington

i might go to rusholme again soon, not to eat curry though

i still cant think what this track actually is

-- charltonlido (...) (webmail), March 11th, 2005 1:42 AM. (gareth) (link) (admin) (83.67.46.59)

-- Tim Ellison (timelliso...) (webmail), March 13th, 2005 1:00 AM. (Tim Ellison) (link)

-- Al (hoteloper...), May 19th, 2005 9:31 PM. (sitcom) (later)

Oh well, I guess I never noticed (like I said!) Who has time to search all this stuff?? But who cares, I want to know what people think of them anyway!

-- xhuxk (xedd...), May 19th, 2005 9:40 PM. (later)

last killing joke i ever liked much was i think *revelations* (or that *ha!* live 10-inch thing, if that counts - i forget which came first). but i know some people have other opinions about the matter!

-- xhuxk (xedd...), June 5th, 2005 10:36 AM.

and they are all shit

-- fact checking cuz (factcheckingcu...), June 6th, 2005 10:13 PM.

itz not weird too me. yoo hate chuck for some reason.

http://w1.1361.telia.com/~u136100018/mr.cool.jpg

but i was surprised at how definitive was my reaction.

"psuedo-respected" is a cryptic way of saying that a few people on ilm come rattling to his defense when he's in an argument, in a vitriolic way that strikes me as strange... but i don't get the sense that he's known or respected very far outside of rock-crit circles. i guess that means "somewhat respected" rather than the vague and condescending "psuedo-respected."

whatever.

sorry for the flurry of posts. i feel bad about the obnoxiousness of my first two posts so i guess i felt i owed some explanation, even if i just dig a deeper hole for myself in some eyes.

ask him sometime what he thinks of his "stature". i swear to god you think about it more then he does. and you bring that attitude into arguments with him instead of just arguing.

i'm not saying chuck goes on about his stature, indeed he seems deliberately to seek to deflate that sort of thing. it's just that i think there a lot of people (a LOT of critics, including some i don't even like much as writers) who could do a lot more with the village voice music pages.... it seems like a missed opportunity to me.

i probably should exit this argument now because i'm feeling sort of bad about it.

He did it all for the nookie.

http://sandbox.pair.com/images/ohsnap.gif

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stephenbalchin/dastpic.gif

i really really enjoyed this one. turns out this chuck is a novelist. who knew?

-- fact checking cuz (factcheckingcu...) (webmail), June 7th, 2005 3:01 PM. (fcc) (link)

it's not a novel, though. more like an extended remix of the SPIN piece on rock death sites.
-- Matos-Webster Dictionary (michaelangelomato...) (webmail), June 8th, 2005 5:08 PM. (M Matos) (link)

IF YOOOOOOOOOOU DON'T LIKE IT
HIT THA' ROAD 'CUZ I JUS-JUS-JUS DON'T CAAAAAAAAARE!
-- donut debonair (do...) (webmail), June 8th, 2005 5:16 PM. (donut) (link)

(x-post)
it's totally a novel. it's a fictionalized memoir of the road trip he undertook for that spin piece, and if it's "about" anything, it's about himself and a trio of girlfriends. it's not, and it's not trying to be, a piece of journalism. it's not, and it's not trying to be, a work of non-fiction. it's a novel starring a guy named chuck who has shared a lot of experiences with the guy who wrote the book.
-- fact checking cuz (factcheckingcu...) (webmail), June 8th, 2005 5:32 PM. (fcc) (link)

OK, I'd been told otherwise.
-- Matos-Webster Dictionary (michaelangelomato...) (webmail), June 8th, 2005 6:06 PM. (M Matos) (link)

or at least remember being told otherwise, so it's down to faulty memory
-- Matos-Webster Dictionary (michaelangelomato...) (webmail), June 8th, 2005 6:07 PM. (M Matos) (link)