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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

xp to jaymc

he "liked" one of my tumblr posts

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

welcome to the club homie

xp lex
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

http://i30.tinypic.com/vzde6c.jpg

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

http://wuyausu.com/wallpaper/disguise.jpg

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

I think you have him confused with Michael Steele

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

― Party Car! (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, August 6, 2010 3:18 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm, when shakey is the voice of moderation its telling

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.

― some dude, Friday, August 6, 2010 1:16 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i mean, kind of arbitrary dont u think? the vitriol from actual adults in this thread is silly. i mean, i think hes a lame writer & the times coverage is super-LOL. but like, all this nonsense about breaking dudes legs for being a not-good 22 yr old writer with a blog is kinda silly

guys, I think ilxor is trying to tell us something

ilxor, are you saying something?

i think you're saying something!

If I even had the free time to write huge, sprawling blog entries about Pitchfork every day, then I'd spend that time doing something else... hah.

glad to see we all thought so hard about this kid today!!

Hahaha I've seen other blogs devoted to writing about other people's record reviews that are far scarier and more batshit than this guy's.

Did anyone here ever read that "Stop Loving Everything" blog? I don't think it really gets updated much anymore. That wasn't explicitly about Pitchfork but that guy spent a LOT of time being snarky about pfork / obsessing about Pitchfork in order to be snarky about it. For whatever it's worth, PRR is more engaging.

My sense is that the guy started in a purely earnest place, but once he got a ton of followers and was written up on the Observer, Post, and Times, he started playing up his own schtick. It's not "purely" earnest any more. Like, he's in his Neon Bible phase.

http://www.pitchforkreviewsreviews.com/post/919066049/haiku-series-about-lil-waynes-blunt-endorsement

Got this in my Twitter feed today

http://predictfork.com/

Guessing Pitchfork meta-commentary is the new commentary?

Here's your chance to see PRR guy in the flesh:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/events/readings/refresh-refresh-refresh-happy-ending

I can imagine attending that would be a little more edifying, and a little less creepy and awkward, then the time my friend & I went to a John Birch Society meeting, but only just barely.

this thread is like a treasure trove of hilarious ott exaggeration!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9MA0eW8yyw

oops, wrong thread!

works fine here.