MUSIC CRITCS ARE THE ART OF PRETEND FORGETFULLNESS

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)

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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)

I'M JUST SAYING, MICCIO AND CHUCK = DIFFERENT PEOPLE.

yeah, yeah, you're not a music critic, blah blah

-- chuck (cedd...), October 20th, 2003 4:54 PM.

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Chuck, you don't remember Zingalamaduni?
-- Anthony Miccio (anthonymicci...), October 20th, 2003 4:59 PM.

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Wait, did that Z album have Mr. Wendall on it?
-- chuck (cedd...), October 20th, 2003 5:02 PM.

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he did, he did. i believe he was the first.
-- dean!

-- xhuxk (fakemai...), August 27th, 2006 10:49 AM. (xheddy)