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so anyway the reason i’m reading Master of Reality is that i stopped reading Our Band Could Be Your Life for the moment because i carry a tote bag and the book is really heavy so it makes me hunch over in one direction and i don’t wanna get adult-onset scoliosis, and i guess i’ll pick it back up when i get a backpack, but for now i’m reading 33 1/3 books because they’re light.

you know, I don't necessarily think it's a problem that he's doing this blog. he's, what, 22? if he's still doing this in a year or two, sure, he'll definitely need an intervention, but as of right now he's basically just some kid "critically" & enthusiastically engaging with music writing, albeit in a really obsessive way

someone should tell him, though, that he doesn't want to become permanently known as "dude who spends all his time thinking and writing about one indie music website." if writing about music is already seen (perhaps unfairly) as somewhat lesser than actually playing music, writing about other people's writing about music way more than you write about music yourself is really down on the scale of things worth spending your time doing

i agree that it's a total and complete embracing of taboos and stereotypes, not naivete -- i never read the latter into it at all

also i think he's crazy

how heavy could that book possibly be...?

if I were as crazy as he was, I'd start reading through his posts looking for quotes to make an argument that he's tonally not ironically distanced from his own naivete. but my interest in him only extends to talking shit about him on ILX and mocking his dreams of being a famous indie review site reviewer. so maybe it's ironic! i don't have the interest to really do any investigative textual work about it, lol.

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this is, like, one of the craziest things i've ever seen. it almost seems fake.

― pounding beats of worship (the table is the table), Friday, 6 August 2010 19:12 (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Is it just me that thinks the tone and cadence of his writing is incredibly Holden Caulfield-ish?

there was an entry where he was writing about how he was talking to a stripper and he explicitly referenced Catcher in the Rye

that being said, no idea -- haven't read that novel in years

i never went through a hard rock/metal phase in high school that i think a lot of kids go through where they read guitar magazines and wear hard rock t-shirts, and i’m sort of sad i missed it because it seems really formative, you know? yesterday i was at a museum opening and i told Elizabeth that i spent all afternoon listening to Black Sabbath and it was changing me because i was getting in touch with the beast and she giggled but this record gets me so pumped up, you know what i mean? then i pulled her aside and showed her my air guitar and my hard rock face which isn’t as menacing and tough as a lot of peoples’ hard rock faces but i’m still working on it

painfully, painfully earnest

painfully, painfully earnest

Reads more like a Tao Lin IRL sockpuppet to me. Painfully, painfully self-aware.

I am making my "why did I read that" face right now

http://www.pitchforkreviewsreviews.com/post/913814425/black-sabbath-and-rick-ross-interviewed-ed-droste-the#disqus_thread

can't we just invite this kid to post here and get it over with

we would drive him to suicide in like a week

he "liked" one of my tumblr posts

can't we just invite this kid to post here and get it over with

Yeah, actually, the posts I've read make it seem like he just kind of goes around annoying his friends, acquaintances, and various indie-level celebrities by obsessively talking about Pitchfork and all of his ~deep thoughts~ about music -- so in a way, I wonder if wouldn't just be more productive for him to be on a message board!

we would drive him to suicide in like a week

― people are for loving (HI DERE), Friday, August 6, 2010

dan we have said this about SO many people over the years and they are all still here.

i think i can relate to this guy in a way. i was pretty absorbed when i first discovered the site (pitchfork not prr obv), but whereas my attraction was counterbalanced with feelings of shame and guilt related to the site's reputation irl society, he is just totally shameless and letting it all out in what seems like a pretty deep and weirdly emotional & honest public diary

someone should tell him, though, that he doesn't want to become permanently known as "dude who spends all his time thinking and writing about one indie music website."

I'm not convinced that he *only* reads Pfork; he says, for example:

Ian Cohen’s Teflon Don review is precluded from being revelatory because so much quality stuff has been written about Teflon Don already, but it is a fantastic synthesis of the discussion about the record and it’s written succinctly and intuitively.

Doesn't that imply that even though his site focuses on Pfork, he's got a pretty well-rounded reading list going?

this is just what it's going to be like from now, with those millennials, isn't it

I like that he hesitated about interviewing Ed Droste not out of concern for Droste's right to privacy or anything but because he didn't want the inevitable subsequent blog post to seem gimmicky.

also if anyone has ever read the blog stereogum it's like basically the same thing. i would bet money this dude was p prolific regular poster in their comments section before this started

also please don't invite him to post on ilx

in the NYT feature, he apparently wouldn't give his surname because he didn't want his day job to find out, but he did consent to a photo o_0

lol

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he "liked" one of my tumblr posts

― max, Friday, August 6, 2010 4:00 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

welcome to the club homie

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yeah, I found that very odd. Everyone reads the NYT, no?

he is just totally shameless and letting it all out in what seems like a pretty deep and weirdly emotional & honest public diary

yeah i was wondering how to put this, but it really reminds me of those people who assumed the internet was a "private" place and would put all manner of TMI/shameful shit out there, and whose IRL/internet crossover was basically nil, which is the case for so few people now and surely not him?

I'm not convinced that he *only* reads Pfork

feel somewhat obligated to point out that you introduced the concept of him exclusively reading Pitchfork in your rebuttal of the idea that that is all he reads and that the incredibly loltastic paragraph about him being afraid a 500 page book is going to give him adult-onset scoliosis conclusively proves he reads other things

i'm pretty sure that he reads, like, the village voice and shit -- not that crazy of an idea

ilxor, only reading music sites or books somehow related to music does not a well-rounded reading list make.

that and stronghulkingtonsghost, yes this is the way it's going to be. which makes me want to puke/

ilxor, only reading music sites or books somehow related to music does not a well-rounded reading list make.

can't be repeated enough

someone should just give this guy a really long hug and whisper "shhhh it's okay everything's going to be okay" into his ear

THAT'S WHAT HAS BEEN TOLD TO HIM HIS ENTIRE FUCKING PATHETIC EXISTENCE.

HE NEEDS TO BE PUNCHED FUCKING HARD WITH A COPY OF ANNA KARENINA

y'all need to relax and give a kid a break

in his legs, you mean.

someone should tell him, though, that he doesn't want to become permanently known as "dude who spends all his time thinking and writing about one indie music website."

Ian Cohen’s Teflon Don review is precluded from being revelatory because so much quality stuff has been written about Teflon Don already, but it is a fantastic synthesis of the discussion about the record and it’s written succinctly and intuitively.

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Friday, August 6, 2010 9:03 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

loooool

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in his legs, you mean.

nah, I'm inclined to be way more forgiving of youthful earnestness and naivete than I am of callow cynicism a la Hipsterrunoff.

ftr i think whoever's behind hipsterrunoff also needs his legs broken

I tend to want to lock both of them in a box and toss them into a river

i just want to see prr dude interview carles

ilxor, only reading music sites or books somehow related to music does not a well-rounded reading list make.

Didn't at all mean to suggest this, btw.

I invited him FYI

What's to say he isn't already posting here under some random name, and not in this thread?

because if he were he'd be all "hey guys I'm the PRR dude what's up!"

guys, I think ilxor is trying to tell us something

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