Is SPIN really circling the drain?

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i leve the carcass of my prey where i want, waekling

― Mr. Vas Djifrens (byzantum), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link

and you would not want to be decoratement on the walls of my office, i am guessing

― Mr. Vas Djifrens (byzantum), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Perhaps small pentagram on floor? OK, maybe I am sympathetic to this wish. However if people become afraid, so bad for them, for it is well across the internet known my reviews are uncompromising and pull off no punches.

― Janne Karlsson, Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link

this is more what i am having in mind

http://www.visualwalkthroughs.com/doom3/administration/doom3-2004-08-23-16-05-25-2.jpg

― Mr. Vas Djifrens (byzantum), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:09 (eighteen years ago) link

That is the guy from Children of Boredom who make stupid faces?

― Janne Karlsson, Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link

no, but it will be

― latebloomer: where dignity goes to die (latebloomer), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:20 (eighteen years ago) link

you know nothing weakling, of my victims.

― Mr. Vas Djifrens (byzantum), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago) link

time for your pills

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

more changes:

http://www.gawker.com/news/spin/what-goes-up-must-come-down-spinnin-wheel-got-to-go-round-158054.php

― mark p (Mark P), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link

SPIN should just reprint old issues from late 80s/early 90s in their entirety and sell those.

― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd buy that.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 2 March 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

would it be bad to open a bottle of champagne in celebration of the -- hopefully - permanent demise of Marc Sptiz?

― juana, Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Juana makes wine from the tears of Ultragrrrl.

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Back to ILM Magazine, could I have a deep house review section please ? No reviews, no ratings, no BS : just a list of unfailingly fine, recently re(re)leased recordings to be bought eyes closed & ears open.

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:44 (eighteen years ago) link

I think the name for the ILM Magazine should be CIRCLING THE DRAIN.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Is ILM really circling the drain? (answer: yes)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:49 (eighteen years ago) link

We've recycled and are currently in cloud formation mode.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link

The whole "drain" imagery has me thinking of ILM, from

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2004/10/17/images/2004101700060501.jpg

http://www.oscarworld.net/psycho1.jpg

― Je4nne Æ’urÂ¥ (Je4nne Fury), Thursday, 2 March 2006 22:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Revolver sold for $4 million. Considering Revolver has no outstanding debt and actually makes money, it's basically worth more that SPIN. Wow.

― ng-unit, Wednesday, 8 March 2006 15:40 (eighteen years ago) link

but no one here cares, b/c a.) no name crits have ever had anything to do with it, b.) its the butt-rock journal of note. However, it was sold by Harris Publications, which used to own Guitar World. Now Future Music owns GW and Rev, and Harris is divested of music titles.

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:40 (eighteen years ago) link

i've always liked the issues of revolver i've read, although i don't know much abt. the bands in it.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 9 March 2006 00:43 (eighteen years ago) link

Harris is divested of music titles.

that's pretty big news, I'd say! they had a bunch of them.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:43 (eighteen years ago) link

i wish they sold metal hammer where i live. i wish they sold anything where i live. they do have revolver at the drug store, but i've never bought a copy. which is weird, cuz i'll buy anything. maybe i'll buy the one out now. (that interview with the editor over at revolver on rockcritics.com scared me from ever sending them my stuff. he said something about not liking...whatever it is i do. i can't remember the specifics.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:50 (eighteen years ago) link

"whatever it is i do"

not ME personally. just my ilk, i guess.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 9 March 2006 02:51 (eighteen years ago) link

You have an ilk?

I want an ilk.

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Thursday, 9 March 2006 07:35 (eighteen years ago) link

i hate the rest of denis publications, but blender is good with all kinds of music, its smart about shit that sells (cf the kenny chesney feature), it cares about culture (the mars hill article), it has fun (the 848 feature) and it actually hires women and other minorities to write for it...its not a bad magazine.

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 9 March 2006 08:03 (eighteen years ago) link

the butt-rock journal of note

roffle

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 9 March 2006 11:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Bring back MELODY MAKER...

― Russell Dixon (Skinny), Thursday, 9 March 2006 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait did Matos really come out pro-America's Sweetheart in this thread?

― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Thursday, 9 March 2006 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link

That rockcritics.com interview was weird, because the interviewer mentioned me by name as a contributor that made the mag interesting, or something (I forget, it's been awhile), yet it was right after that that my work for them pretty much dried up.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Thursday, 9 March 2006 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Uh I currently owe Harris thousands of dollars so I feel like they had more than just Revolver, or did they sell other ones lately?

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 9 March 2006 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link

uhh, you owe Harris $$$, Eppy? are you an advertiser, or do you work for one?

harris owned Guitar World forever, and started Revolver as an american Mojo/Q right before Blender came along. So they changed it into a slightly more canny version of Hit Parader or Circus or…Rock Sound? is that what it's called? it has made money, apparently, on the backs of white dirtbags. the editor referenced above doesn't much care for the nu-metal/screamo stuff he must cover…

I think harris still owns King, which wags referred to as "Blaxim."

― veronica moser (veronica moser), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Er, sorry, it's probably worrisome that I personalized it so much, but I really mean "the company that I work for." Harris is very much on my mind these days.

― Eppy (Eppy), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:55 (eighteen years ago) link

ILM: The Magazine needs its own thread.

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 9 March 2006 16:39 (eighteen years ago) link

I want to do a "ChartWatch" column for ILM: The Magazine (if the Good Dr. Bill doesn't beat me to it)!

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

http://www.spin.com/needanangel/images/final_main2.jpg

― don weiner (don weiner), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link

alt.porn? Is that where they have alt.sex?

― mike h. (mike h.), Friday, 31 March 2006 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Great, just what we need. Another talent-free low self-esteem girl to help us "broaden our horizons".

Goodbye Spin.

― everything, Friday, 31 March 2006 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link

She's about as curvy as a stringbean.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 31 March 2006 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Well, at least she resembles PJ Harvey a little bit.

― Jeff K (jeff k), Friday, 31 March 2006 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know if they're circling the drain - check out this scoop:

http://www.spin.com/reviews/magazine/2006/04/060323_gunsnroses/

― schwantz (schwantz), Friday, 31 March 2006 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Wait a minute, how can that review be posted on April 1st if it's still March 31st? (wink, wink)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 31 March 2006 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

what, they review Chinese Democracy but not the new My Bloody Valentine album??!? Spin has LOST IT

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 31 March 2006 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link

lol what about the neutral milk hotel album, fellows

― gear (gear), Friday, 31 March 2006 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link

its only slightly worse than the Smiths reunion album.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 31 March 2006 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link

speaking of reunions, there's mumblings of a lethargy/vertigo one-off charity festival date

― latebloomer: a power and finesse vocalist (latebloomer), Saturday, 1 April 2006 00:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Don't forget the 'Mats! (I'd tell my troubles to that girl, but I bet she's not the real Adviser.)

― don, Saturday, 1 April 2006 01:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Porn and sex are barely connected so I don't see how a 'porn star' could help people with sexual problems.

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link

It's alt. porn. They have tattoos and flesh plugs and stuff!

― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:29 (eighteen years ago) link

i'd say Spin started going downhill once Ultragrrrl stopped writing for them.

― Wrinklepaws (Wrinklepaws), Saturday, 1 April 2006 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link

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