Matthew Perpetua and Fluxblog make the NY Times, fame and fortune is his

under appreciated some dude posts I have read

nothing but love for voice's old music section, nothing but love for voice's current music section really or at least much love to maura for the molanphy/shipley chart/radio geek rotation - if grantland had pop culture writing similar to this the gulf between their sports writing and pop writing wouldn't be quite so huge, could easily see molanphy as a bill barnwell parallel.

― balls, Tuesday, May 8, 2012 11:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

aww my love of balls is reciprocated

the irony that chris ott shares his name with a useful internet acronym that describes his writing just now dawned on me

rev going ham on anco is the best btw

and i'm not sure i've ever seen lex have any kind of actual insight but as a filter he's very effective, a much better algorithm than pandora or whatever.

― balls,

That's a bit unfair, I dunno about his reviews but i've seen excellent lex posts full of insight that have made me actually want to check out whatever hes writing about.

I always get happy when balls posts here tbh

"for example would LOVE to see the seward version of this"

thanks, but you know what, i'm inspired by marcello. he's basically writing a book on his blog and that seems like the way to go for me. just gonna keep posting essay-length things on my blog when i feel inspired (perhaps linking things thematically as if they were chapters), and when i have enough stuff, maybe see if anyone is interested in publishing. i do like the idea of real books.

i do like the idea of real books.

I do too, and it's my wish to publish one in the next few years, but my conflict has always been how much attention to give non-fiction versus fiction, in addition to not wanting to surrender a quite decent job. I don't know. Confession time: I've been glum the last seven or eight weeks wondering what or the hell I'm writing for; although my blog gets a decent hit count I don't know whether it matters. I still do the occasional professional reviewing job. I just tell myself to keep writing, that the writing is its own defense. I don't ever envision a moment when I'll say the hell with it: I love it too much and I need it, pure and simple. But the question of who the audience is never fades.

AG completely otm

excellent lex posts full of insight that have made me actually want to check out whatever hes writing about

b b but balls was opposing these two ideas!

as filters AG and Lex are p much oil and water

i'm dense, who is AG?

AlG

aww my love of balls is reciprocated

― some dude, Wednesday, May 9, 2012 8:22 AM (2 hours ago)

Filing this post away for future, totally out-of-context, use.

already did

i'm dense, who is AG?

― goole

― Algerian Goalkeeper,

oh

Man if I knew who my audience actually was I'd be thrilled. I have no idea. I just post links up and hope they're read!

http://www.housingworks.org/events/detail/fluxblog-live-10-years-of-perfect-tunes-with-rob-sheffield-emily-gould-mark

The world’s first mp3 blog celebrates its first 10 years with a live event featuring Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone, Pitchfork editor-in-chief Mark Richardson, Emily Gould, Amanda Petrusich, Dick Valentine of Electric Six, Heather D’Angelo of Au Revoir Simone, Amy Rose of Rookie and other special guests. Each guest, along with Fluxblog proprietor Matthew Perpetua, will share a song and talk about it – basically replicating the Fluxblog format on stage.

He's still running with this idea, huh? I wish he would just say "one of" the first instead of THE first. Doesn't diminish Fluxblog's pedigree, but is also factual.

can ILX start referring to itself as "The World's First Internet Message Board" ?

i was gonna say that iirc the little capsule bio on his twitter includes the 'first mp3 blog' line but looking at it now it doesn't, so i guess he changed it pretty recently

happy birthday to my blog

I will give him credit due for keeping the thing going for 10 years with almost no vacations, though. Every time I start a new blog, I'm already sick of it in a month.

Each guest, along with Fluxblog proprietor Matthew Perpetua, will share a song and talk about it – basically replicating the Fluxblog format on stage.
would be cooler if he was just up onstage w/ a laptop live-bloggin so hard

this event will only be fun if, in the middle of one contributor's talk, someone else shouts "REMIX!" and takes over the discussion, talking about the song from a totally different starting point/angle

ooh I hope that happens

I genuinely like that idea from an audience and performance point of view, but it's not rly ~fluxblog~. dude probably posts one remix a year, and only one in ten years of something he's already posted

Doree Shafrir
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Very excited to announce that Matthew @Perpetua will be joining @BuzzFeed on Monday as our first Music Editor!
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pina coladas for everyone

gettin around

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2012/07/6276003/fluxblog-celebrates-ten-years-writing-about-music

^Review of the live event

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damn man i should move to nyc sounds like there are some fascinating cultural events happening there

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To keep pace he's started a companion Tumblr to his site. "I'm not gonna stop anytime soon."

Chloramphenicol FOR EVERYONE NO PRESCRIPTION

Andrew Beaujon
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Settling in nicely. MT @perpetua: I compiled the ickiest Nickelback lyrics about sex for you. http://bit.ly/UHdSM4

It's the equivalent of seeing the insufferably pretentious art student you used to know end up painting murals on the side of a McDonalds.

Oops

http://ninety9.tumblr.com/post/39568228991/what-kind-of-smarmy-fucking-dick-is-matthew-perpetua

This fucking guy.

is that what 'get something in my vertical' means?!

people on tumblr are hilariously pissed about this when its lol perpetua

90% of the shit people hate on MP about is just so deeply sad.

God. I'd be geeked too if Alyssa Milano shared something I wrote with gazillions of followers, which is all that's going on here. Whoever this ninety9 person is needs to take a leap.

xp The subtext so often seems to be, "why don't that many people pay attention to me?"

Seriously?

I lolled at "Wikipedia page"

i dunno i basically agree with that post

Look, MP has infuriated me plenty of times for one reason or another, but he's just that way and he's truly harmless and if anyone's going to pick on him I'd rather it be people who actually like him and not some assholes on tumblr.