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the idea that what you want/respond to from a rock critic is long livejournal esque narratives & whimsical two question "interviews" with bands that the writer gets to "hang out with" is really backwards to me

fanfic is otm

what i could get through of the das racist piece i guess could have been interesting if you cared about das racist but it was like a million pages long for no reason

fanfic! yes! or, like the bushwick equivalent of la dolce musto

only without any limit on inches

i don't think musto has a limit on inches either

heyoooo

BAM

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i think PRR would prob be more interesting if he was gay tho

Joshua Heller [#4549]

das racist is my favorite band. this kid is an excellent writer. he wrote this whole thing on a cellphone? baller.
Posted on 09/28/10 at 6:18 pm

he does have a fuckton of patience for typing on a blackberry, i'll give him that. i hate that shit.

he should move to japan and start writing novels

guys I write on a blackberry too

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i knock on the door of the apartment building whose address he gave me because there are no buzzers even though there are multiple apartments in the building, and nothing happens so i text him "yo i'm here" and then i try to open the front door to the building and it is unlocked and i walk in and stand in the lobby area waiting for him, i am nervous and i am wishing i had taken an anti-anxiety pill and i wonder if i have one in my pocket so i check my pocket but i don't and i think about running outside to buy a 40 but then Himanshu comes down the stairs. he is barefoot and he gets halfway down the stairs and crouches and looks at me for a second and smiles and gives me the finger guns and goes, "yo" and he smiles and i say "hey how's it going?"

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH STFU

yeah the idea of that being "easy to read" is not something i really comprehend

I kinda agree w/markers that the diaristic style of his writing is part of the appeal. Which is why it's slightly disorienting and maybe a little unsatisfying to read somewhere other than his own blog. Because if you want something tight and punchy and journalistic, this kid's doing it all wrong. But I do think there's something interesting and attractive about that voice on its own. For me, at least.

attractive in the way diarrhea is attractive, yes.

i mean don't get me wrong i love diarrhea

Should've gone with "diaristic, more like diarrhea amirite."

ut the 20 legit greats should really spend more time posting the legit great work of their peers, so we can all talk about it.

uhhhh why the fuck don't YOU go and read it? it's not as though most people's journalism is hidden away on some obscure tumblr. please don't say you have to be spoonfed writing by ilxors to pay attention to it - though that would totally explain why you think this dude is all that

i knock on the door of the apartment building whose address he gave me because there are no buzzers even though there are multiple apartments in the building, and nothing happens so i text him "yo i'm here" and then i try to open the front door to the building and it is unlocked and i walk in and stand in the lobby area waiting for him, i am nervous and i am wishing i had taken an anti-anxiety pill and i wonder if i have one in my pocket so i check my pocket but i don't and i think about running outside to buy a 40 but then Himanshu comes down the stairs. he is barefoot and he gets halfway down the stairs and crouches and looks at me for a second and smiles and gives me the finger guns and goes, "yo" and he smiles and i say "hey how's it going?"

not one detail is interesting here. WHY WOULD I CARE ABOUT ANY OF THIS STUFF AGH SHUT UP SHUT UP. his shit is just a swamp of self-absorption. obviously HOW he writes is the, uh, "appeal" for his stans here (i still don't actually fully believe you because wt actual f), rather than what he writes because there is no insight or perception there, no actual ideas beyond the observation of minutiae, so...seriously? it's detailing like that that hooks you in? that isn't evocative of anything other than his neuroses. read some didion. read anything else. god.

So generally I think nabisco otm, but I also think lex is on some sort of other money.

lex is on the euro

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thirty bitches on my dick a hundred bitches on my dick thirty bitches on my dick i got bitches cos oh damn i got bitches, oh damn basedgod, prettyboy oh damn i got bitches, oh, fuck i got hoes suckin young ass bitch got to fuck any bride cuz i'm that fuckin rich got to put it on me now and i make you suck my dick this is young based god i'm a pretty boy bitch hoes suck the ass young based god fuck your bitch like it's nothin hoes on my dick cuz i look like jesus bitch i want a million shoutsout to regis based like a god anf i'm high like a martian you're a foe bitch suck my dick like a martian and i act like a broad?

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HE WRITES SO MUCH SO HE IS A GENIUS, PRR IS SO #BASED

whiney ^_^

the thing w/the "he needs an editor" argument is, wtf is actually left when you strip away the extraneous bs?

ilx on my dick cause i look like ian cohen. ilx on my dick cause i look like joe tangari. swag swag swag, i got ten-point-o swag. best new swag. cooking cooking cooking, get me a fork cast. i'm in the basement, mixing up the metaphors.

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"i want to tell Himanshu that to me, Das Racist is a project about immigrant disillusionment, about realizing that the possibilities for immigrants in America are not as vast as they appeared from outside it, and when i listen to Das Racist it helps me understand my dad because sometimes it is hard for him to be direct about why he wants to leave."

of course if he just posted that idea on ilx, he wd ... just be another dude w/ an idea on ilx

imo he could even writ a longer piece around that conceit -- but he wd need to keep in only the parts & details that help sketch dude from das racists' ambiguousness towards '''america''' rather than, like, "then i rang the doorbell then i waited for the door then the doorknob turned' type shit

its just very very long

but the parts that cut actually cut, and that's worth something, imo. i like the lazy scene setting, cuz it make sense of that which follows...

and the thing is, if he posted that shit (bit abt das racist's immigrant stance reflecting on his own relationship w/ his immigrant dad), he wouldn't be "just another dude w/ an idea", he'd be a dude with a good, interesting idea.

i'm in the basement, mixing up the metaphors.

A+++

No matter what I think about this guy, contenderizer offtm. Forever.

god this thread is incredibly embarrassing for ilx

i think you mean that it's a disaster for ilx

well its something for ilx thats for sure

on multiple levels probably

actually i think we can just go ahead and say that contenderizer is incredibly embarrassing for ilx

i wish he were the only one, is the thing

ouch, y'all

offtm. Forever...

sorry

altho i do think your opinions on prr are o_O

thing is, i think all kinds of stupid shit! this is not notable. ask deej...

i like clipse. axe somebody.

i like clipse too

just not 'hell hath no fury'

plus - being drunk i'll admit this - i just like liking the wrong thing. it's the armond white in me.

hell hath no fury hath nothing on lord willin, i just wanna believe, you know?