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can imagine Ian Cohen stakes some self-worth on his position at Pitchfork (as anyone in a position of power does)

POWER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jp5W7ljVJ0

#SHOTSFIREDATIANCOHEN?!

http://www.pitchforkreviewsreviews.com/post/11870400613/im-excited-to-announce-that-im-putting-out-a

$12 for a zine!

zine featuring the new york times writer who wrote about the zine for the new york times

The zine will also have a small, private, password-protected Tumblr of supplemental content (photos, interviews, stories), coming next week, that you can get the password to by ordering the zine online (I’ll email it to you) or finding the answer to this riddle, which is the password:

What is the first name of the girlfriend of the director in the only 9-minute official music video (presently unavailable in the United States due to copyright issues) by the band whose original guitarist’s older brother was previously in a band whose two other members went on to form a band whose most recent album’s first single prominently features a sample from a song by a now-defunct band whose percussionist is named John Braddock, nicknamed “Dutch”?

John Braddock was the drummer for Breakwater. I can only think of one more or lees recent sample and it's 'you know i love you' on the Funktastics' track 'deep throat' (2009)... they're a duo too. Maybe I'm off... I have no idea about the rest.

it's sophia coppola -> phoenix -> daft punk

or at least the video is phoenix, whatever from there

I think Phoneix still has all of their original members though, so the "original guitarist" bit throws that off.

I'm starting to hate this guy

can everyone just agree to stop encouraging him?

Yes you're right... Sophia was also my first thought but I eliminated because I thought daft punk had a more recent album and was expecting something more obscure... I just checked and it fits perfectly: sophia coppola > phoenix > daft punk > robot rock > release the beast > breakwater > john braddock.

I think Phoneix still has all of their original members though, so the "original guitarist" bit throws that off.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0

I think the riddle could be poorly phrased but yes Phoenix's guitarist Laurent Brancowitz is Mazzalai's older brother and he joined Phoenix after the end of the band Darlin' with Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (daft punk)

ah i guess the video is "funky squaredance" (i've never knowingly heard a phoenix song, but i like google puzzles)

The word “zine” is a shortened form of the term fanzine, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

the paper of record, ladies and gentlemen.

Maureen O’Connor is a staff writer at Gawker.

Choire Sicha is the editor of The Awl.

http://www.bolgernow.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Chin-Stroke-girl.jpg

A prominent New York blogger who goes by the name David (he wanted only his first name used for this article), decided to make a zine after tiring of the high rate of turnover in online content.

“It’s satisfying to produce something that people can hold and treasure and value partially for its physicality instead of something that gradually disappears,” he said, referring to the way that Web articles and blog posts are often updated with fresh ones after a few hours. In his blog, for example, he critiques album reviews published by the indie music site Pitchfork. He is writing about writing that appears only on the Web — but his print publication, The World’s First Perfect Zine, will be something he can actually touch when it comes out next month.

“In 2011, it feels like a rare pleasure to hold up a bunch of pieces of paper that are bound together and read them, instead of reading off a screen,” he added. He says he is printing 500 copies of the zine, a collection of art and prose by people who make a living as musicians or writers. (I’m a contributor in the second group.)

buzza did you do anything for the zine

i'm "david"

referring to the way that Web articles and blog posts are often updated with fresh ones after a few hours

man makes zine, that is not news. zine makes a man, now that's another story.

http://thetangential.com/2011/10/27/interview-pitchfork-reviews-reviews-david-talks-the-worlds-first-perfect-zine/

the zine's title/logo is so perfectly hacky mcsweeney's circa 2002

http://houseofplates.com/post/12474432158/tc-fleming-interviews-pitchfork-reviews-reviews

pitchfork reviews reviews interviews interviews

god this fuckin kid

"When I heard about Occupy Wall Street, the thing I first thought of when trying to process it was specifically your post on chill wave"

I’m surprised by how much criticism you have directed your way. Given the excited, introspective nature of what your posts, that bewildered me.

who the fuck is this guy

I wish I’d had more time to blog about going to parties and interviewing celebrities.

sick epitaph bro

Good evening Sir, my name is Steve. I come from a rough area. I used to be addicted to crack but now I am off it and trying to stay clean. That is why I am selling magazine subscriptions.

http://flavorwire.com/223216/one-night-in-central-florida-with-off-and-cerebral-ballzy

When you name your publication "the world's most perfect" anything, you're setting the bar pretty high. But given this new magazine edited by Pitchfork Reviews Reviews creator David Shapiro, it kind of makes sense.

For the zine's debut issue (out today) the NYC writer enlisted everyone from Swedish music duo jj to filmmaker Lena Dunham to novelist Tao Lin to contribute articles, images, and anecdotes to the collection.

Given its Thought Catalog-meets-Tumblr aesthetic, it might seem unusual that this group of artists (many of whom have made names for themselves online) are trying their hands at a print publication. But if you ask us, the 70-page zine proves that the two can-and should- coexist.

Consider this paper mate a necessary addition to your daily dose of screen time and buy The World's First Perfect Zine here.

Yesterday a friend and I agreed that at a place like 285 Kent or Glasslands, and even Webster Hall on some nights, more people will have consciously read your music writing than that of, say, Robert Christgau, Greil Marcus, and Chuck Eddy combined. How does this success affect your voice as a writer?

I don't know those places are representative (and therefore broadly meaningful) sample pools, and I don't know if that's true, but I'll suspend disbelief for a moment and say that thinking about anything like that is not helpful for me. Secretly, but perhaps you've noticed if you follow my writing, I can't really write anymore. Have you seen any of my new writing lately? If you happen to have seen it, it sucks. Places I used to write for, who I would never expect to turn down pieces of writing, turn me down consistently now, and it's not because they've realized they don't like what I was doing. It's because I don't know how to write in a way that captures people anymore. Trust me, I read all of my writing and it's not what it used to be, whatever that was. Those dudes are classic bands, I'm a one-hit-wonder.

Every time I start something I write like 200 words and then delete the memo because it's bad. Even this interview is not revelatory or funny or engaging like one I could have written a year ago. I'm not joking, and I don't want you to edit this part out. The amount of words I used to write in two days I can barely eek out in a month, and I don't really like the stuff I do write when I put it out.

An older and established professional writer told me, at a party, that it's natural to feel fallow as a writer sometimes, which seems true, but I've been waiting to feel fruitful again for longer than I spent writing in the first place.

the sufjan stevens of music blogs

nabisco weighs in http://agrammar.tumblr.com/post/12927986166/prrr

I laughed

surprisingly ineffective imitation! but i like the "class" reading.

"When I heard about Occupy Wall Street, the thing I first thought of when trying to process it was specifically your post on chill wave"

^^ otm

http://guestofaguest.com/nyc-interviews/interview-our-own-blackberry-blogger-david-shapiro-launches-the-worlds-perfect-zine/

http://www.papermag.com/2011/11/tao_lin_david_shapiro_worlds_first_perfect_zine.php

i recognize some ppl in that papermag gallery

buzza, did you go?

surprisingly ineffective imitation! but i like the "class" reading.

Because you can't imitate Shapiro's style and be insightful. Despite Nabisco's occasional praise.

http://www.theawl.com/2012/01/djing-a-new-years-party-for-one-of-the-richest-men-in-america

get the kind of "i'm angry that i even know who this person is" feelings about this guy that most people get about the kardashians or whatever

An hour and a half later it's about 11:45 and the party is in full swing. I've had some cups of wine, one of the richest men in America dances with his girlfriend and greets his guests in the middle of the room, some Gawker writers hang out and drink cups of wine, a kid keeps coming up to me and telling me to play "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" by Busta Rhymes ("It will work! I promise! It'll work. I'm a DJ too!"), a venture capitalist who doesn't not look like Raj Rajaratnam dances with some girls, a bottle of champagne in one hand.

kid is the best damn music writer i have read in ages and i am crazy crazy jealous, like knowing what truman capote was up to his teens & 20s level jealous. just for the record.

― a dystopian society awaits if we continue on this path. (contenderizer)

actually kind of liked his recent thing on meeting lil wayne b/c he seemed genuinely enthusiastic in a realistic way

Heard he was starting a new blog, @SPINReviews reviews

get the kind of "i'm angry that i even know who this person is" feelings about this guy that most people get about the kardashians or whatever

yeah this kid honestly its just...