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lmao @ this (now redacted):
4. on the new OJ Da Juiceman video for the song entitled “Party Started” i think he says something like “if i don’t get wasted / blame the Jew-man” and then there’s a short clip of an ostensibly jewish man holding a bag of money and grinning. not to be like the rap anti-defamation league but like why does shit like this always get a pass

prediction: this thread will soon get a really interesting revive

― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Thursday, July 29, 2010 6:22 PM (Yesterday)

O_O

lmao @ this (now redacted):
4. on the new OJ Da Juiceman video for the song entitled “Party Started” i think he says something like “if i don’t get wasted / blame the Jew-man” and then there’s a short clip of an ostensibly jewish man holding a bag of money and grinning. not to be like the rap anti-defamation league but like why does shit like this always get a pass

― blap...tremendo (deej), Thursday, July 29, 2010 7:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

his posts on rap are usually AWFUL

I hope no one would go to a blog called Pitchfork Reviews Reviews expecting incisive rap criticism

well that can't be what nabisco was thinking of xxp

~~spoiler~~ P4k bought PRR and it's gonna run as a daily feature where the site critiques itself

nabisco prob just means that the pfork reviews dude is gonna post itt

or maybe they hired him, who knows

or maybe PRR is the WAL MART MOONWALKER

PRR dude as p4k official ombudsman would be funny sorta

Pitchfork - the death of music?
― ???, Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:42 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

SO FUCKING ORIGINAL
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, September 14, 2005 3:43 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/29/AR2010072905971.html

"Music blogger says he drove van in Obama's motorcade and met the president"

In an e-mail, a White House official says that "the broad details" of David's account are "basically accurate . . . but the way he characterizes and attributes the comments and details is mostly inaccurate."

lol

WaPost is so bizarre.

let's get him on a lie detector to see if he thought it was a bigger deal to meet the president or ryan schreiber

"the way he characterizes and attributes the comments and details is mostly inaccurate."

this whole post is really a fictionalized version of his meeting schreiber imo

Why does that story end with "It was his first time driving a fan." WORST FUCKING END TO AN ARTICLE EVER.

...err, "first time driving a VAN."

you know after me and HRO did such a bang-up job being the music-internet meta-commentary famewhore crew in 2009, it's pretty depressing realizing we're really only footnotes to this guy's NYTimes profile

i'm basically trying to get myself into the mindset of thinking that was a worthwhile thing to a) pitch b) commission and idk, never in a million years would it have occurred to me to do that. is that what being good at pitching entails? i don't think i have that.

in short the existence of that profile appalls me so much that i am genuinely rethinking my life.

and the existence of this thread appalls me even more

Yet you can't resist posting in it, amirite?

And definitely have no beef with the the guy or his site at all, but its really funny to me how "I'm gonna start a blog that REVIEWS PITCHFORK REVIEWS" has been like a hacky running joke among indie people for like a solid ten years. But one dude actually does it and a whirlwind of activity promptly ensues.

It helps that his stream-of-consciousness, not-edited-to-death style is really engaging and interesting to read. More so than a good number of actual Pfork reviewers' stuff, in fact.

"I'm gonna tweet record reviews" sounds like a hacky running joke among indie people too, tbf

cool, but one actually was so thanks for playing

rowr! just sayin

It helps that his stream-of-consciousness, not-edited-to-death style is really engaging and interesting to read.

no just... no

It helps that his stream-of-consciousness, not-edited-to-death style is really engaging and interesting to read

what

haha, if i could pick one thing to complain about a 2,000-word pitchfork review, it would probably not be "edited-to-death"

More so than a good number of actual Pfork reviewers' stuff, in fact.

ok this maybe

I'd rather read some guy with oatmeal in his undies ranting about NCIS: LA than watch NCIS: LA but I can't say I'd tip my hat to the guy.

I'm not saying dude's an *incredible* writer, just that he has an engaging, identifiable style. Much like a lot of ILX posters, and better music writers on Pfork and elsewhere. He has his own "voice" -- as painful as it must be to admit.

well, if you put it that way, of course he deserves to be blog famous

As long as this means no one ever talks about Pitchfork on any other thread ever again I'm kind of okay with this thread frankly.

I'm not saying dude's an *incredible* writer, just that he has an engaging, identifiable style. Much like a lot of ILX posters, and better music writers on Pfork and elsewhere. He has his own "voice" -- as painful as it must be to admit.

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, July 30, 2010 9:30 AM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark

he writes like his age.

his 'voice' is '22 yr old' & i mean that in a 'affected blogger influenced by beat writers' way not a 'carson mccullers' way

Agreed. But, doesn't mean he's not a somewhat engaging writer.

downgraded to 'somewhat engaging' ill take it i guess

the problem i have w it is him putting himself at the center of this run-on-y things

like i keep getting the vibe that were supposed to appreciate his coming of age story or something its v offputting

right now i am in the handicapped bathroom stall at my office because [it is the most luxurious bathroom stall and] this is the only place where i can write this blog today because a) i have been repeatedly remanded for excessive blackberry use and b) i have so much work to do today and i am trying my best to not lose my job. whenever someone walks into the bathroom i have to stop typing because i don’t want people to go around the office saying that i was feverishly using my phone while on the toilet. i also feel silly sitting here because i don’t even have to use the bathroom

imo "writes like his age" shouldn't be an excuse or explanation applied to anyone over, like, 20 -- if you're an adult you should write like an adult, after a certain point precocious naif shit is either an act or just plain sad.

although if you meant it like "writes like he was born in 1988 or later" that's probably fair and accurate on a whole other level

kind of sad but mostly sad

in this case, I don't think this guy's tone is an affectation. it really does seem like he's just hurriedly typing all of this out on his blackberry somewhere

if he was writing this stuff for a publication you ran, and you were his editor, what specifically would you tell him to change about his writing?

if you're an adult you should write like an adult

sadly i don't think he's grasped "if you're an adult you should behave an adult" yet, judging from that

i am trying my best to not lose my job

lol, it shows

if he was writing this stuff for a publication you ran, and you were his editor, what specifically would you tell him to change about his writing?

― markers, Friday, August 6, 2010 2:21 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

oh cmon

D-40 otm. i guess a stage play with dude's face plastered on the promotional materials is the next logical step. Then after it gets middlling-to-bad reviews and no one sees it, i don't know, a comic book maybe

the presidency

yesterday
all my pitchfork seem so far awai