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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.

Can we get lex a complimentary front-row ticket to see Mr. PRR speaking in the flesh?? PLEASE

at this point i'm only clicking on this thread for the 10% chance that he's finally posted in it

hilarious ott exaggeration!

― elephant rob, Monday, 9 August 2010 21:30 (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

speaking of obsessive weirdoes who might have been expected to post in this...

http://predictfork.com

Got this in my Twitter feed today

http://predictfork.com/

Guessing Pitchfork meta-commentary is the new commentary?

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 9 August 2010 13:38 (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://twitter.com/predictfork

958 Following 95 Followers

looks like they annoyingly followed an insane amount of ppl to try to get attention

sorry d00ds, but i dont think lindsay lohan cares about p4k scores too much

The only thing worse than obsessively reviewing everything Pitchfork does is obsessively trying to predict what Pitchfork will do.

marinating a live cat is worse than both

sour orange and garlic powder help.

Marinating Joanna Newsom

update: this week i am not posting every day or doing the morning roundup. in that new David Foster Wallace interview book, David Foster Wallace explains that he is a TV addict and so he watches too much TV and then after he finishes watching TV he feels sad but he doesn’t know why, and that is how i feel reading everything on pitchfork every day, like every afternoon after i finish reading all the reviews and writing about them i feel sad, so i need to take a few days to not read everything on pitchfork and then this blog will be better because i’ll be enjoying it again

ok, this kid isnt real

he's real enough to answer e-mails

yeah i heard you can't get an e-mail account these days without a social security # and biweekly home inspections

love this guy

perpetua said: All the activities you do, I sometimes wonder if you’re starring in some kind of reality show that will air sometime early next year.

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

someone who lives near this thing needs to go & report back

also this review is smug too but not Smuggest New
also this review is smug too but not Smuggest New
also this review is smug too but not Smuggest New
also this review is smug too but not Smuggest New
also this review is smug too but not Smuggest New
also this review is smug too but not Smuggest New
also this review is smug too but not Smuggest New
also this review is smug too but not Smuggest New

i passed a man wearing a shirt that said LIFE IS TOO SHORT FOR BAD WINE and that’s how i feel except replace “bad wine” with “smug pitchfork reviews”
i passed a man wearing a shirt that said LIFE IS TOO SHORT FOR BAD WINE and that’s how i feel except replace “bad wine” with “smug pitchfork reviews”
i passed a man wearing a shirt that said LIFE IS TOO SHORT FOR BAD WINE and that’s how i feel except replace “bad wine” with “smug pitchfork reviews”
i passed a man wearing a shirt that said LIFE IS TOO SHORT FOR BAD WINE and that’s how i feel except replace “bad wine” with “smug pitchfork reviews”i passed a man wearing a shirt that said LIFE IS TOO SHORT FOR BAD WINE and that’s how i feel except replace “bad wine” with “smug pitchfork reviews”

i will pour a little out for dude when i am smugly drinking whatever the payment for that review affords.