Novelist who wrote "The Russian Debutante's Handbook" and "Absurdistan"; some of his work has been featured in the New Yorker.
― o. nate, Friday, 25 June 2010 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
lol for all the similarities in our cultural interests jordan there are clearly some large non overlapping territories
― max, Friday, 25 June 2010 03:10 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i don't read the new yorker
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
hes a pretty famous novelist
― max, Friday, 25 June 2010 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
you know, for a novelist
― max, Friday, 25 June 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I should write that line down.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe he should stick to novels
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
She also drops finer lyrics than just about anyone with a gold chain knocking against his chest.
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand there it is
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
lmao super ilxor convo just there
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
xp
Seven thousand words, though. Holy shit.
For me, listening to contemporary hip-hop is just a way to summon an attitude, to blend in with a more powerful person's sense of himself and to pretend that I also possess some of that ineffable power
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i meant message board ilxor btw not ilxor 'ilxor'
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I think to myself, The refugee is strong in this one.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
yo this is insufferable -- is this guy "famous for a novelist" to the point where he thinks it's okay to start writing about what he was like in college or?
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
like, it's not cute to be all "they want me to write so many words!" and then just write boring bullshit and then print it in a magazine -- this is why we have had editors
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Ice Cube seemed like he came from a world where the apocalypse had already wiped clean any vestige of hope—an exciting, existentialist posture for a 20-year-old cracker still unsure of how to play the opposite sex.
HOW AM I READING ANOTHER ONE OF THESE ARTICLES
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
he can peer right into Ice Cube's mind
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Since its East Coast inception and up to its recent blinged-out downfall, hip-hop has always been an exhilarating form of tourism for privileged young Americans, a journey into that shit-stained part of the country that always seems so near and yet so far. Bitch, you shoulda put a sock on the pickle, Ice Cube rapped firmly as he educated two guys in a Saab about the correct uses of birth control in a tone no Oberlin woman would ever tolerate. And your pussy wouldn't be blowing smoke signals. Uh, yes, I'll take that with fries.
seriously how can someone even print this -- even a magazine by and for old white men
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I stopped seriously listening to music when Ice Cube began appearing in the Friday movies
its recent blinged-out downfall
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
ban novelists
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"Since its East Coast inceptionand up to its recent blinged-out downfallhip-hop has always been an exhilarating form of tourism for privileged young Americans, a journey into that shit-stained part of the country that always seems so near and yet so far. Bitch, you shoulda put a sock on the pickle,Ice Cube rapped firmly as he educated two guys in a Saab bout the correct uses of birth control in a tone no Oberlin woman would ever tolerateAnd your pussy wouldn't be blowing smoke signals. Uh, yes, I'll take that with fries."
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― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
a tone no Oberlin woman would ever tolerate
amazing
― pass le corbusier (s1ocki), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
like many men and women stumbling headlong into middle age, I just stopped giving a shit about music.
Despite her ubiquity on every iPhone in Williamsburg, there's clearly still some brand-building ahead for Maya and her label.
a highly valuable opinion
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
kinda wish people would just stop writing about williamsburg, like, forever.
― pass le corbusier (s1ocki), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Six hours later, she approaches my table with a just-got-out-of-bed look, resembling one of the sloe-eyed Israeli girls who sleepily haunted my Hebrew school.
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
ok i'm down with that
― pass le corbusier (s1ocki), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess you have to be really good at writing in one genre to be allowed to write so flagrantly bad in another
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
lol Alfred
― an artist-mutant going beyond gender (The Reverend), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
theres always something corny when white writers self-referentially refer to themselves as crackers -- like, its referencing quoting black dudes talking about white ppl so why is it quoting what maybe a black panther would have said in '68?? just weirdly outdated -- but other than that this sentence is alright
the others i dunno
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
this gets much better once he stops talking about himself & what he did with MIA during the interview
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, diplo stole a line directly from gucci mane for this album, apparently -- i wonder if he'll get a songwriting credit
But if there's another "Paper Planes" on this album, it's "Tell Me Why," a Diplo-produced ditty that has probably the most instant catchphrase—Start throwing your hands up like you're mad at the ceiling!—since André 3000 told us to shake it like a Polaroid picture.
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i wonder how this guy would feel if he found out that the best line on maya's album is stolen from the current bastion of rap's blinged out downfall
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:50 (thirteen years ago) link
devastated probably
― pass le corbusier (s1ocki), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link
understandably so
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
oh lord
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Friday, 25 June 2010 03:53 (thirteen years ago) link
that shit is hilarious to me -- how perfect
I haven't read the piece yet but I would like to generally recommend modern fiction and literature, which I think is really good, probably better than Drake
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Friday, 25 June 2010 04:40 (thirteen years ago) link
haha the rare but pointed nabisco zing
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Friday, 25 June 2010 04:45 (thirteen years ago) link
i stick to non fiction
― incredible length (J0rdan S.), Friday, 25 June 2010 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link
*non phixion
― max, Friday, 25 June 2010 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, it's not too pointed, most just kidding.
I do understand and share some of the annoyances of when not-music people get assigned big music features. I think ILM also has plenty of conversations that lit people would find every bit as weird or embarrassing in the other direction, although of course I don't know that many ILM posters would be willing to tackle a magazine feature about a novelist, so it's kind of a different standard.
but there are a couple things here about dude's prose that are a bit like ... they might be different coming from someone who was more steeped in fiction/lit/magazine-writing than music writing? I don't mean that in a snotty way, it's just both things have norms and insides.
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Friday, 25 June 2010 05:00 (thirteen years ago) link
liked this profile, psyched for his new book
― just sayin, Friday, 25 June 2010 07:36 (thirteen years ago) link
the new book is really sharp and funny, I'd say much better than the first two
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Friday, 25 June 2010 15:52 (thirteen years ago) link
modern fiction can blow me
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 25 June 2010 16:00 (thirteen years ago) link
I haven't read one goddamn new book I've liked in forever
i also hate mobile phones and all this crap on tv
― plax (ico), Friday, 25 June 2010 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
felt like this for years tbh. modern fiction blows. except for Victor Pelevin.
― insert your favorite discriminatory practice here (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 25 June 2010 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe it's not the books
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Friday, 25 June 2010 16:07 (thirteen years ago) link
but it is
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 25 June 2010 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
name one book, I bet I can type that it sucks in this little box here and believe it
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 25 June 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link