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I went to Oberlin at the same time as Karen O. The thing everyone knew about her back then was that her parents had given her a Rolls Royce that she crashed and wrote off within the space of a week. Believe me, she's never been short of a few $$$.

she ran over a blind kid

intentionally

blind kid was only pretending to be blind

was actually an elaborate ruse to expose the entitlement of the idle rich

there's a fucking bank manager posting here now?

gah!

The thing everyone knew about her back then was that her parents had given her a Rolls Royce that she crashed and wrote off within the space of a week.

for all I know this is true, but it sure the hell sounds like a classic bs rumor

"the thing everyone knew..."

not doubting she had $$, i mean, sure.

waht, i thought Oberlin was a charity school for poors

if she wrote off a Roller bought for her after a week I'm not suprised no-one wanted to give her any more money

I went to Oberlin at the same time as Karen O. The thing everyone knew about her back then was that her parents had given her a Rolls Royce that she crashed and wrote off within the space of a week. Believe me, she's never been short of a few $$$.

― Position Position, Thursday, September 23, 2010 2:15 PM (28 minutes ago)

when was this?

rip rolls royce

so glad that we've moved on to debating whether or not a blogger is a sock puppet to the crucial issue of how rich Karen O is/was

keep on elevatin the discourse guys

to from debating

xp - dude, i just wanted to know when this chick was at Oberlin because i have friends who went there -

she was class of '63 i think

"keep on elevatin the discourse guys"

Wait you are posting here for the elevated discourse? Wow did you make a wrong turn somewhere.

knew I shoulda taken that left turn at Albuquerque

love how much this guy enrages u guys

congrats, you figured out it's a shtick. so what?

http://www.optimiced.com/wp-uploads/2007/02/minuscule-tv-spider.jpg

means... something...

shtick and voice aren't the same thing. i'd never argue that the PRR guy is as entirely sincere and naively guileless as the character he seems to adopt in his writing, but that doesn't necessarily make his authorial voice fake or a shtick. rather, i think he's probably using this somewhat affected voice to honestly present (and yeah, to stylize) his own point of view. nothing necessarily wrong with this...

i will concede that i've cut the guy too much slack. i don't love his writing. the little lost elf-boy style is sometimes gratingly coy. it's an awfully tired indie trope at this point, and it tends to soft-pedal the obviousness of some of his insights (as dorianlynskey notes). but when he's writing about something that he really seems to care about, as in the lil' wayne piece, his enthusiasm and depth of feeling are both convincing and appealing. i like the way he combines the details of his own inner and outer lives with his music writing, to produce something that reads more like fiction. and i don't think it's great fiction or anything, but i have enjoyed reading it from time to time.

and i don't know, maybe i'm just gullible...

your search for "gullible + dictionary" = 0 results

Honest truth: I thought his Awl piece was one of the best things he's written, just as a piece of writing. Yeah, his tone's incredibly stylized, and he uses a bunch of weirdly transparent conceits, like acting guileless in order to get across a perspective. (That's sort of a clever choice for talking about music, an area that's ripe with everyone having totally different levels of guile.) But in terms of how he uses detail and pace and constructs a piece of writing ... I mean, look, on some level I would have really preferred not to think he's a good writer, you know? But he knows how to put something like this together really well, and to be honest with you he's one of very few people who have even much tried to find a way to write NARRATIVE pieces about music.

^

I mean, look, on some level I would have really preferred not to think he's a good writer, you know?

this, especially

wait, i'm enraged?

because i thought i was enjoying a trainwreck that happens to have some vague connection to one of my professional outlets.

you are the hulk, according to your user name - hulk only exists when bruce banner is enraged

we've been doing couples counseling. it's been going okay.

the awl piece was the first thing of his i've read that i was actually able to get through from beginning to end and it's decently constructed, but his "point" in re cool bands of yore regaining their coolness or still being cool or whatever is shoot-me-in-the-face trite bullshit.

^ trigger-happy

We're really lowering the bar here: writer with nothing interesting to say builds up to his nothing interesting in a nicely paced way. I've read worse writers but they're not pretending to offer ingenuous "wisdom".

Nor do they make their name with a website passing judgement on other, usually better writers.

*shoots self in face*

congrats on generating interest in a terrible writer, guys

haha wow i always assumed that prr was an elaborate and not very funny joke..??! his writing hurts my head like a hundred dogs.

this guy is a horrible writer

But he is interestingly terrible. If you can't write properly, consciously making yourself the post-Pitchfork Forrest Gump ("indie rock's like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're going to get"), and getting lots of attention out of it, is at least a novel solution.

did u ever read the one about how he used to be really fat before he got into music? it was really good!

the saddest part about that post is that he's too young to know he'll probably get fat again once he's old and jaded. u_u

just can't take the breathless no punctuation style it's grating and annoying and it just doesn't click with me if i want long endless sentences i'll pick up some thomas bernhard and not some dork-o with a music blog

he does use punctuation is the thing...?

more than u do tbh

well maybe he does, sometimes, cool, thanks slocks

.

;)

lol guess what day it is

http://www.nationalpunctuationday.com/

*moment of silence*