Pitchfork Reviews Reviews

'so worth reading'? rly? you've read everything else?

wtf does this even mean?

i thought his blog was going to be awful and embarrassing and instead it was really fascinating - the way he writes is curious and evocative, i really enjoy it, though i don't understand any of the pitchfork stuff.

'so worth reading'? rly? you've read everything else?

wtf does this even mean?

i guess it means life's too effing short to read pitchfork reviews reviews

the thing is that his touchiness is part of the same sensitivity that makes him so worth reading, the hyper-attention to nuance, the filter on his thoughts that doesn't quite work as you'd expect, the sincerity and straightforwardness.

take a polaroid, the internet now resets itself every 15 mins.

www.diaryland.com

well, okay, i have bad judgment or whatever, but the vast (vast) majority of music writing is unreadable and borderline meaningless, on a human/emotional level. the simple regurgitation of attitudes and half baked observations copped elsewhere. this is especially true of what passes for writing on the internet, my own included, if you insist. but it's not true of PRR dude. his writing is smart, vibrant, evocative (C#M), emotionally resonant and distinctive. i can't say i read him regularly, cuz i haven't bothered with him until a few days ago, but what i have read in that short time has been pretty fucking remarkable. yeah, it's "voice writing" of a sort, therefore sometimes lazy-seeming ("energetic, unconscious"), but i deny that his ideas are "arranged like shit". i think his pieces flow and communicate extremely well. like, shockingly well.

again, i haven't read his work very deeply, but his list of "posts i am proud of" contains some damn fine (yeah, often unconscious-seeming) writing. as does the awesome lil wayne story. and fine, i'm some nerd thinking uncool shit is cool, but whatever. i do.

his writing is smart, vibrant, evocative (C#M), emotionally resonant and distinctive.

no no no no no

but yeah. it really is. if you think there's vastly better music blog writing out there, i'd really and truly like to see it.

you mean other than the alt report?

carles is the worst

glad all of this is 100% real

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are yall on #teamcarles or #teampitchforkreviewsreviews?

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I'd rather read 800 post long Whiney/deej butthurtfests than either of these tbh

well, you know how to live

so what happened in that cee-lo thread?

ha

put on Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens on my iPod

this is the tipoff that the whole thing was a giant wind up, right?

who listens to sufjans stevans in 2010 without a trace of irony?

put on Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens on my iPod

tbh, i did wonder...

that is a very interesting question, d, which i feel only someone who lives in "normal people world" like Whiney or Max is capable of answering.

that is true - I am going to start a log of how many times a day I see someone listening to sufjan stevens on their ipod

i just think it must be very difficult to be PRR guy or carles - they seem to have so many more problems than i think is healthy or, er, normal?

whoa how did i get dragged into normal people world

i thought it was filmed at your college, or something?

generic

dude, why are so butthurt about that?

i think i'm going to eat pretzels and read a magazine. maybe i'll have some ice cream with strawberries.

idk if prr guy has been granted the gift of self-knowledge

if it is a put-on then well played i guess? but there are too few laughs along the way

Can someone give me an example of a smug Pitchfork review....I don't always agree with them but I don't find them particularly offensive. It's not like they are trying to run my life or something.

why does he pick the salt off the pretzels - that's like the best part?

yes but no, pretzel salt can be a challenge. i always wipe off like half the salt. if it doesn't really want to cling to the pretzel matter, it shouldn't be there.

those are some substandard pretzels imo

should be beaten over the head with a copy of ANNA KARENINA IMO

why doesn't he just eat some bread if he's going to cretinise his pretzels like that

pretzels are not just bread though. they are more like anorexic bagels. different in kind.

why does he pick the salt off the pretzels - that's like the best part?

― sarahel, Thursday, September 2, 2010 10:28 AM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

he addresses this directly:

because i don’t want to eat that much salt because it is bad for your heart and makes you feel bloated

Dude what a fuckin' wuss. You gives a shit what some nobody says about you on the internet. Grow some self esteem, man.

"picking salt off pretzels" pretty much sums up his approach to writing/life

so people who like this, do you still browse for random livejournals too?

has anyone actually claimed to like this other than contenderizer?

I like this, in the sense that it's almost always fascinating to read. As far as his being the brightest young early-20s music writer on the Internet, he's no Theon Weber.

I really liked the post where he details his night at the p4k office party.

so anyway today i took the day off from work to drive this van in the presidential motorcade and i hope that by the end of the day i can ask Barack Obama what his favorite indie rock band is and if he’s familiar with Pitchfork (i know he’s 48 but he’s pretty hip and from Chicago and lived there for years while the festival was going on and before he was president) and i’m gonna ask him what he thinks of it if i can!!!

I hope he did NOT.

has anyone actually claimed to like this other than contenderizer?

I won't go as overboard as contenderizer (mainly because I get made fun on enough already on ILX) but, yeah, I think dude's writing is really evocative. And it has nothing to do w/ being Pfork-related.

It's not necessarily GREAT WRITING but I like that he has his own distinctive voice, and is so full of energy and enthusiasm. Very fun to read, and while the sentences themselves are not brilliantly constructed, I think he does a fine job of really hitting home on his main points in each post. Especially the longer essays, not the Pfork reviews reviews.

i guess it means life's too effing short to read pitchfork reviews reviews

― i am legernd (history mayne)

it's like the worst-case scenario of someone raised on internet and regurgitating their add mind onto the screen

it's like the worst best-case scenario of someone raised on internet and regurgitating their add mind onto the screen

It's not necessarily GREAT WRITING but I like that he has his own distinctive voice, and is so full of energy and enthusiasm. Very fun to read, and while the sentences themselves are not brilliantly constructed, I think he does a fine job of really hitting home on his main points in each post. Especially the longer essays, not the Pfork reviews reviews.

― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Thursday, September 2, 2010 9:49 AM

^ this

i guess it means life's too effing short to read pitchfork reviews reviews

― i am legernd (history mayne)

― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, September 2, 2010 11:28 AM (6 minutes ago)

^ increasingly feeling like this, though

I think he does a fine job of really hitting home on his main points in each post

not sure about this tbh, but that's just because I mostly skim-read his stuff

either that or I apparently don't retain much of what I read there for the longterm