I think the idea is that, unlike snakes and lizards etc., tuataras (a/k/a rhynocephalians) actually co-existed (or even maybe pre-dated) dinosaurs (though the Wiki entry sez "recent taxonomic and molecular work has shown that they have changed significantly since the Mesozoic era," so maybe not.)
-- xhuxk, Wednesday, August 6, 2008 10:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
― s1ocki, Thursday, 7 August 2008 04:53 (fifteen years ago) link
i recognize that as an editor chuck had approved some interesting stuff, but as a writer he comes across as falling back on a species of anti-intellectualism way too often, and this "i don't really remember, whatever" schtick is just one manifestation of that.
― amateurist, Friday, 8 August 2008 09:22 (fifteen years ago) link
the other, worse manifestation is the whole "it just ROCKS, and if I have to explain it to you dude..." stuff he pulled on nearly every thread in which we spent any time locking heads.
(an unrelated, even more annoying trait is the infantile contrarianism which i always found it difficult to prove. i mean, it seemed to suffuse his whole taste, at least as he elaborated it in print. but he could always just say "but i really do like this stuff" and there wasn't much i could say.)
― amateurist, Friday, 8 August 2008 09:24 (fifteen years ago) link
i also get the feeling that his rhetoric is 80% cultivating and sustaining a persona and maybe 20% actual argumentation.
― amateurist, Friday, 8 August 2008 09:27 (fifteen years ago) link
I never had much use for chuck as a critic but I really like him as an ilm poster. when he cares enough to bother he gets people to question their assumptions about music and defend their positions in an engaging way. which is probably why he was such a good editor at the voice.
I disagree with him at almost every step of the way on the swings w/ a vengeance thread but the discussion was interesting (or maybe it should just get filed under "two a-holes arguing over xgau and who cares what he sez anyways"):
Not swinging with a vengeance: Robert Christgau on new wave disco and hard bop, 1978
― Edward III, Friday, 8 August 2008 15:26 (fifteen years ago) link
JIMINY CRIKITZ OVA HEAH:
I forget who Drive Like Jehu are. I think I heard them once, and they left no impression at all. Ditto the Hot Snakes, but maybe not. (The New Jersey Mass Choir, on the other hand, were almost as excellent in re: Foreginer cameos as Junior Walker.) (And I AM high maintenance!! In my life there's been heartache and pain! I don't know if I can face it again! Can't stop now. I've traveled too far.) And my favorite recent album of cynical adult-alt world class sex rhymes is by the Notwist. But maybe I just misunderstood their German accents. -- chuck, Thursday, March 13, 2003 5:00 PM (5 years ago)
― Steve Shasta, Friday, 15 August 2008 17:39 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL at this impersonator:
As far as IDM goes, I'm really into the new Books CD and definitely Four Tet still, and I'm going to mention Brooks and Dunn (as well) who maybe don't count (though they probably should (am I (of course) right?) since they erase all genre boundaries). I played them at this IDM party I DJed. I DJ, you know, don't know if I mentioned that before, I'm still hep w/ the kids, new Dirtbombs is boring, etc.― charley, Wednesday, November 12, 2003 12:19 PM (5 years ago)
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 23:12 (fifteen years ago) link
probably a gareth sock
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 23:16 (fifteen years ago) link
(though they probably should (am I (of course) right?) since they erase all genre boundaries)
― eman, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link
"Nights on White Saddles" still makes me lol
― mad loli vamp bone (cankles), Thursday, 29 January 2009 00:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Wait, so were Front 242 actually considered fascist once? And if so, by who? (Laibach I was aware of, but not them.) Anyway, these Christgau reviews (which I admittedly don't completely understand, even though I used to edit him) suggest they were:
http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=front+242
― xhuxk, Thursday, February 12, 2009 11:14 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― and what, Friday, 13 February 2009 04:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i think i wrote a review or maybe two for that paper once? but i can't remember who asked me to. it wasn't matos.
― scott seward, Monday, November 9, 2009 4:33 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
melissa maerz?
― goole, Monday, November 9, 2009 4:36 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
dylan hicks? i think that's who it was.
i wrote something for someone named melissa in seattle once.
― scott seward, Monday, November 9, 2009 4:39 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
haha i don't think forgetting the ppl u traded pitch emails with fits the thread
― goole, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
MAAAAAAAAA!!!! THEY IS PICKIN' ON ME AGIN!!!!!!
http://www.consumerist.com/images/2006/04/MulliWalmartGreeter.jpg
― scott seward, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 00:15 (fourteen years ago) link
chuck married the art of pretend forgetfulness y'all niggas still engaged
― M@tt He1ges0n, Tuesday, April 29, 2008 4:34 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^______________^
― say what up to u hans and franz (some dude), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 07:03 (fourteen years ago) link
omg scott that pic
― tehresa, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 07:04 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm assuming that is either1) Halloween costume2) Budget-cut biohazardous waste removal suit
― Bloggers Might Ride (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:52 (fourteen years ago) link
roll 'em back, move 'em out
― I'm gonna put on an iron burt, and chase stanton out of urt (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
chromeo comparison seems on-point but I'm surprised this bothers anybody that was into herculues & love machine or whatever they were called
― moonship journey to baja, Friday, August 12, 2011 4:03 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― max, Friday, 12 August 2011 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
are you under 30?
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 07:53 (twelve years ago) link
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, August 16, 2011 9:53 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― (gr8080), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 08:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://wilsonknut.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/rock-and-roll-always-forgets.jpg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 12:49 (twelve years ago) link
Ha. Saw that but didn't think about this thread. Where did the spacesuit picture from Nov 2009 go, Scott?
― Viriconium Island Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
Also never noticed the misspellings in thread title before
― Viriconium Island Baby (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
i don't remember the spacesuit thing.
chuck's book is so great.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 August 2011 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
someone mentioned 'Josie Packard' to me recently and I couldn't even guess who she was
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, March 16, 2012 1:19 PM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 17 March 2012 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
Also, wasn't the AC guy off the map for a while? He had nothing to do with "Dingleberry Jam" or whatever and "MPP," didn't tour behind them, didn't really do interviews, and the other AC guys iirc weren't terribly forthcoming about his activities or whereabouts.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, September 14, 2012 10:56 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 14 September 2012 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.stereogum.com/1689158/vic-mensa-major-payne/mp3s/
― dilligaf escape plan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 4 August 2014 15:17 (nine years ago) link
sum total of time I've spent on computer games in my life = 5 mins of mario the hedgehog when i was 7, 5 mins spent repeatedly running it into a ravine
― lex pretend, Thursday, August 21, 2014 9:33 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― for sale: Bebe's boots, never worn (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 28 August 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
Lindsay Logan – Speak (Casablanca 2004 CD) $1
― xhuxk, Saturday, May 23, 2015 9:40 PM (1 month ago)
― stoomcursus rockisme (unregistered), Saturday, 18 July 2015 20:47 (eight years ago) link
What's "RIO"? You mean like Duran Duran??― xhuxk, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:32 (sixteen years ago) link
― brimstead, Sunday, 18 September 2022 04:23 (one year ago) link
I remember the pcikles
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 12:10 (one year ago) link