this is too challenging an opinion for me
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 02:15 (thirteen years ago) link
really liked the joanna newsom piece erik davis wrote for arthur circa 2006
― markers, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
didnt really read the rag much beyond that
is that the one where she talked about staring at the river for three days and not eating or whatever? yeah, was good
but i remember reading some interview with brightblack morning light that made me almost livid in reaction to how saturated with the worst hippie-ish bullshit of the most fatuous sort it read. and to my mind, that exemplified the way that magazine erred in a big way-- did a total disservice to whatever countercultural pretensions it had, by reaffirming the most naive, facile elements of sixties counterculture. i mean i'm sure that band and the people contributing to the magazine are great folks and all, but ugh i found it maddening.
― dell (del), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 02:27 (thirteen years ago) link
yep, thats the jn article
― markers, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
haha, i LOVED what arthur stood for and wish it was still here, but I remember reading some article where Marissa Nadler or someone was goin on and on about how awesome it is to roll something in sesame seeds and I was like, "I am clearly not the demo for this."
― Perry-Louise Markers (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
what was she rolling in sesame seeds?
― Chanté Ackerman (Stevie D), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 02:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i like what it could have stood for in theory, otherwise i couldn't be bothered complaining about it, but the execution bummed me out somehow. but maybe i'm just too demanding. i mean, i'm still angry about the smurfs' insulting portrayal of wallooners. fuck you, peyo
― dell (del), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 02:40 (thirteen years ago) link
important arthur threadGodsmack taken to task for military recruiting
― buzza, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 02:53 (thirteen years ago) link
last three godsmack singles, fwiw:
whiskey hangovercryin' like a bitch!love-hate-sex-pain
used to like em in 2004, but wow
― markers, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
anyway
― markers, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought Vice got replaced by hipster runoff
― turtles all the way down (mh), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
whatever. hro is the ideals magazine of the post-aughties
― dell (del), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
dunno how hro dude isnt 100% burnt out tbh
― markers, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm thinking he's been farming out posts
but regardless, he/they does seem burnt out. how many ironic pieces can one man write about the legacy of chillwave, or misogynistic-shaded fish-in-barrel shots at pop culture?
― dell (del), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 04:11 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe hell wake up one day and be all shit man im done with this
or hell keep going until the ad money runs out, which may be never
― markers, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i appreciate the comedic idiom that he invented, but he seems to have fallen into a trap of his own making. thinking that success has its burdens
― dell (del), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 04:15 (thirteen years ago) link
I hardly read the site, but it really does seem a dire churn to the bottom. Then deeper.
― turtles all the way down (mh), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 04:19 (thirteen years ago) link
i dunno that i could ever accuse him of not being committed to his material/approach, tho
i remember something possibly apocryphally attributed to david letterman to the effect of, if you repeat something enough times, it becomes funny, which philosophy carles seems to have taken to heart. i mean even his most taste-free seemingly mean-spirited jokes about whatever indie rock couple du jour or lol tween slutwave facebook internet blah blah blah is somehow funny when he's driven it into the ground circa the millionth blogpost on the subject
― dell (del), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
granted i only post to ilx for the money, so i guess it's kinda shitty of me to point fingers
― dell (del), Wednesday, 18 August 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
gotta give it to him, his is one of the only indie blogs ppl even bother to talk abt anymore
― markers, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
arthur still exists?
― markers, Tuesday, August 17, 2010 9:49 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
it still tweets
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, August 17, 2010 9:49 PM
lol @ modern lyfe
― am0n, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 04:43 (thirteen years ago) link
indeed
― markers, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 04:45 (thirteen years ago) link
love the broken momus 2006 pic up top. RIP old NYILX
― elan, Wednesday, 18 August 2010 05:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i read the Brightblack piece in Arthur. it made me want to vomit, but then Thurston was there to guide me through underground record stuff, and i was kind of into it. only like one of the bands ever made it anywhere, some of the rest of them still exist in obscurity, from my memory.
um, i just watched the Liberia video they did. what.
― a no-fault dick to suck. (the table is the table), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 07:42 (thirteen years ago) link
vice did. ugh, sorry.
and can we - at some point - stop pretending that new york has anything to do with the rest of the u.s. except in a sort of geological time lag sense. (and somehow i dont think gay clubs in the meat packing district will be one of its great cultural exports to the heartlands in 10-20 years.)
― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 14 October 2002 01:36 (8 years ago)
Wondering if this prediction still seems as correct. I would say less so.
― I can take a youtube that's seldom seen, flip it, now it's a meme (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
table - I remember the Brightblack Arthur piece! did you read the hagiographic epic interview with Joanna Newsom?
― sarahel, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
are we talking about Arthur Magazine in the Let's talk about Vice Magazine thread?
not in a thread-police way but in a general "i'm confused" way here
― gr8080, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
The travel docs seem to be partyly good and partly o_0
― I can take a youtube that's seldom seen, flip it, now it's a meme (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 19:38 (thirteen years ago) link
the Liberia one was horribly exploitative and after CNN picked it up the country's economy suffered as a result
― gr8080, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i could see that happening. i was more like o_0 at the insane poverty. it reminded me of the article in Harper's a few years back about the slum where Slumdog Millionaire was to have taken place, and even the people depicted in that article seemed better off.
― a no-fault dick to suck. (the table is the table), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 19:55 (thirteen years ago) link
travel docs sound like theyre more about SHOCKIN U than adequate journalism
― lyrics is weak ... like clock radio similes (deej), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
OTM which has its own place, the problem is CNN picked them up and ran them as adequate journalism
― gr8080, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Vice in low journalistic standards shocker
― twat dust and ego overload (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
isn't your brother the Arthur Magazine guy, or am i misremembering?
― sarahel, Tuesday, 28 December 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
The one on NK had all the standard commentary on NK, which is pretty much all you can expect since everyone who goes there gets the same stage-managed tour. But then there were a couple of really great moments, like the tour guide focusing on how Kim Jong-Il invented the adjustable desk, and the part where the Vice guy sings Anarchy in the UK drunk on the karaoke machine -- about as close to a "safe" subversive thing as you could to on a guided tour of North Korea.
― I can take a youtube that's seldom seen, flip it, now it's a meme (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 20:44 (thirteen years ago) link
The one about, um, Baluchistan? was pretty awesome -- the mountainous outlaw region in/near pakistan. The bootleg gunmaking industry there is just incredible.
― I can take a youtube that's seldom seen, flip it, now it's a meme (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link
isn't your brother the Arthur Magazine guy
yep. he posts here sometimes.
― twat dust and ego overload (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
travel docs sound like theyre more about SHOCKIN U than adequate journalism --lyrics is weak ... like clock radio similes (deej)
Otm
― nog it out with (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 28 December 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Vice goes to the SOFEX show:
http://www.mtv.com/videos/the-vice-guide-to-everything-ep-4-the-business-of-war-sakawa-boys-bulletproof-tailor-norwegian-black-metal/1654484/playlist.jhtml
― schwantz, Thursday, 30 December 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Vice magazine is now sending out e-mails consisting of nothing but viral internet meme videos on Youtube, like the Kersall Massive and dumb shit like that. Are they going to reinvent themselves as a slightly less right-wing B3ta or something?― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, July 6, 2006 12:10 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark
??
― read before patoing (history mayne), Monday, 24 January 2011 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Vice, the media empire (supposedly).
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
hope that story makes it into the last season of Entourage
― gr8080, Wednesday, 6 April 2011 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltot83xQht1qzikspo1_500.jpg
― mizzell, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
What's with the thick stroke did somebody trace Beavis & Butthead in AI or something?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
funny bit in the doc abt the NYT where their reporter is interviewing the vice guys and takes a timeout to pwn them when one makes some crack abt his paper.
― zvookster, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
^Yeah that was fuckin awesome
― Youth Ya Goon (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
youtube pls
― The doctor smiled, realizing that he had made his point. (stevie), Thursday, 27 October 2011 07:16 (twelve years ago) link
lol just watched that doc a few hours ago and that moment was awesome
― encarta it (Gukbe), Thursday, 27 October 2011 07:23 (twelve years ago) link