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not feeling it

dude apparently wrote something for the Awl

http://www.theawl.com/2010/09/yeah-yeah-yeahs-get-the-last-laugh-at-their-10th-anniversary-show

o ffs learn to punctuate

i used to like the awl :(

that first paragraph, i mean, why is it there

it's awlful

"the awl - be less stupid"

riiiight

l'awl

The Awl

Why is Gawker so popular? The writing?

― kshighway (ksh), Monday, January 11, 2010 11:02 AM

ksharia lawl

Why is Gawker so popular? The writing?

― kshighway (ksh), Monday, January 11, 2010 4:02 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no, the pictures

― max, Monday, January 11, 2010 4:03 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think it's the HTML coding actually

― fella, cutie (s1ocki), Monday, January 11, 2010 4:13 PM (8 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Ha, the Awl, that figures. Good to know that the key to getting into a Todd P show for free = bring along a female friend who will look upset and storm off after the first refusal. Bet Todd is super thrilled this info is out there online.

THIS IS AMAZING

Kyp Malone goes crazy for Maps, jumping up and down and shaking his head back and forth, clasping his hands together in front of his face and singing along and then outstretching his arm and putting his open palm up in the air as he yells THEY DON'T LOVE YOU LIKE I LOVE YOU. he puts his hand over his mouth, he claps in doubletime to the beat, he wipes sweat off his brow and pushes his glasses up on his nose and then touches his beard and keeps singing along. Kyp Malone doesn't have to pretend he doesn't like the hit single, he is ecstatic for Maps

what a disaster for todd p

http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/wolfiez88-store_2122_18111222

NYCers - Help Todd P!

and then touches his beard and keeps singing along

ew

here's a proposition

why don't you noise fux get off your nerdy kvetching little asses and book these shows yourselves, then Joel H wouldn't have to come to me with them all the time and I wouldn;t have to read about your bitching.

love, Todd P

― todd patrick (todd p), Friday, October 21, 2005 3:49 PM

ha ha ha

banning me as a put down, oh so funny ha ha

oh man who in music hasn't posted to ILX

bono

john travolta's hair - wtf?

omg

hahaha wait

Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

lol

i don't remember todd patrick at all but there are lols to be had from an adult railing mercilessly against "Dan from Fort Awesome"

NYC show put-er-together looking for intern(s)

Weinegarten, you should know better.

― todd patrick (todd p), Wednesday, October 4, 2006 12:50 PM

lol

Todd n Stencil,

The funny part of the story was supposed to be dude's crazy quote (and the suspenders). My mistake was assuming people would realize it was his fault and not you guys, cuz the quote was so mind-boggling! It was my way of saying "I love Todd P," but in that roundabout way. Sorry if my shitty anecdote-telling abilities made it appear like I wasn't giving credit where credit was due.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, October 4, 2006 10:08 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

And Stencil, you rule too.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, October 4, 2006 10:08 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Everyone. Everyone rules! Go thread!

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, October 4, 2006 10:09 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

not in character?

huggy g. weinhuggin

Whiney G. Cuddlestein

That Yeah Yeah Yeahs review is something else. I didn't know that anybody still wrote about their journey to the gig - it reminds me of reviews in mid-90s drum'n'bass fanzines where the opening paragraphs would be about how they missed Grooverider's set because the tube train was delayed. And three paragraphs which begin "they play a few more songs" (this being what bands tend to do) is just wow. I have no idea what to make of this guy.

Encores: Do We Still Need Them?

nnnnngghhhhh it's just STUPID that this fucking guy is apparently getting actual writing gigs now.

"sent from blackberry" - idk whether this true of all blackberrys, but mine auto-capitalises the first person pronoun. is he seriously going back to decapitalise every "I" in that thing.

I'd like to know how much he is making his writing deliberately bad to put across the idea that he Tells the Truth and is Not as Other Critics, because everyone knows that capital letters and commas and structure are only used by elitist hacks. I can totally see how this shtick works with some readers.

then they play their first song which is called Rich and was written at a time when she had no money and now, ten years and millions of records and tons of festivals and TV appearances and commercial song licenses they actually are rich and i wonder if the band ever discusses that or thinks about giving it a disclaimer on stage, although i don't know how they'd do that, or if the irony is lost on them? probably not. this really is "rich"

Karen O is pretty much the archetypal trust fund kid. The idea this was written "at a time when she had no money" is just laughable.

ehhh it's just a particularly tedious, long-winded iteration of this sadly not uncommon infantilised faux-naïveté designed to mask his deficiencies. my overriding reaction is just to yell, oh GROW UP kid, you're at least a full three years out of your teens now.

xp

Agree 100%

xp and he appears not to have comprehended the lyrics of "rich" at all, or at least not the ones that go "i'm rich" and "i'm stuck up"

the fact that people still think this kid isn't playing the audience like a harp with the faux-naif shit is kinda worrisome.

but i understand it, because again the alternative is not pretty.

that makes him sound smarter than he is

xpost

i like reading music writing that isn't disingenuous or creepy or overly chin-stroking or infantile but it feels even rarer than usual

xpost: i would have thought so, too, if he'd just stuck to the pitchfork review reviews, but the epic little MY LIFE IN NEW YORK WHERE I HAVE THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS posts are just too odd and grandiose and pitch-perfect.

it is blatantly shtick

but its kind of, congrats guy, you totally nailed the 'guy who can't write' voice. well played.

Hadn't read this guy until an hour ago, so playing catch-up. Already profoundly aggravated by his too-pure-for-this-world little-indie-boy-lost act and worried that some people (not here, obv) mistake his statements of the blindingly obvious (indie bands lose their underground cool as they get bigger!) for limpid wisdom. The idea of a Chauncey Gardiner of online criticism makes me nauseous. But yes, he's really nailed that style.

people have praised his writing on this thread! i assume that each and every one of them was trolling because, just, NO, c'mon.

The idea of a Chauncey Gardiner of online criticism makes me nauseous.

I quite like this idea. Criticism is dead anyway, might as well have something completely absurd happen as it all slips into the mire for good.