My Husband's Stupid Record Collection

i guess 'swf looking for swm to defy gender norms' reads as kinda awkies though, especially when those norms seem to be working relatively ok for the intended targets

My Existential Crisis's Stupid Record Collection

you think a license plate is bad, try fitting that on your knuckles

what makes you think i didn't

fortunately, you can fit "toe-tappy" on a license plate if you spell it toe-tapi

my wife has clarified that her enthusiasm for my proposed project had less to do with viral public spectacle hoo-ha than her wishing i'd become an indigo girls fan, knowing that if i listen to an act long enough i usually find something i like about it

the more you listen, the closer you are to fine amirite

indigo girls are good, if we're going to get real

okay i finally googled the woman and found this: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2014/07/amanda_petrusich_s_do_not_sell_at_any_price_reviewed_by_sarah_o_holla.html
i still don't really think people should get ragged on for their lame tumblrs, but man, slate did amanda petrusich dirty with this piece.

"Petrusich’s writing is elegant and witty; I laughed out loud several times and felt like Petrusich and I could be friends."

cool

Petrusich’s writing is elegant and witty; I laughed out loud several times and felt like Petrusich and I could be friends. And the next time I’m at a big rambling flea market or antique store, I’m going to know just where to look for an old 78; after reading this book, I might even know if it’s valuable or not. I’m not going to tell you how to do it, though. Pick up this book to find out, and maybe we’ll bump into each other wearing scuba gear at the bottom of the Milwaukee River.

this is a specific, contemporary writing style that is more specific than the word "disingenuous" (xp) allows although it is sort of disingenuous. there is a lot to be said about this style, how it narrows context in an age of infinite access to information, creates a sense of intimacy with both the product at hand and the reader, and finally seems designed to be at least at some level annoying and obstinate

there is a lot to be said about this style

that's the style used in newspapers for the past fifty years bub

too bad "the palmer method" is already something else

waterface please use "bub" more often i like pretending you're wolverine

can do two live croup

*snikt*

"Petrusich’s writing is elegant and witty; I laughed out loud several times and felt like Petrusich and I could be friends."

cool

― Leonard Pine, Wednesday, April 29, 2015 12:28 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you laugh but this is how most people judge writing (often in the "I like this dude's writing, I feel like I could get a beer with him"), the only difference is this piece actually cops to it

* in the _context_

that's definitely true, though the sentences that immediately shift from "i think the writer would be my friend" to "maybe you the reader, are also my friend"

that immediately follow

i don't laugh i think it sucks

it's just a different approach. instead of indulging the fiction of a bland, universal reader, she creates a different fiction that the reader is her friend and that they'll meet someday in a flea market or at the bottom of a river.

She also creates a fiction where I'm interested in hearing about her tumblr in a review of somebody else's book. Not cricket imo

i don't think the original review mentions cricket at all

i guess you're joking but http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=its+just+not+cricket

sorry if you can't appreciate my singular, australian-naif style

i appreciate you Mr. Pine

thanks friend

subjectively? i hate her writing style. it's nails on a chalkboard to me, and it fills me with a deep sense of personal animosity against anybody who would willfully commit to paper such banalities.

objectively? there's absolutely nothing wrong with the way she writes. it's just not the kind of writing i prefer to spend my time reading.

I'm sorry for defending this blog and more generally for being a contrarian on threads where it wasn't needed

she should combine this with those new vinyl collector scams, like "I'll send you one record from my husband's stupid record collection each month. He doesn't know!"

So did she never get past the Cs?

must have stopped being profitable.

Did she stop when online started giving her shit? If so, that's pretty sad.

Maybe they broke up!

"Want to feel old? The creator of 'My Husband's Stupid Record Collection' is 70 years old today!"

xp: They were still together as of 2018 https://offspring.lifehacker.com/how-i-parent-alex-goldman-1825426314

Did she stop when online started giving her shit? If so, that's pretty sad.

Had the same thought. I enjoyed her reviews! They were predictable: she liked anything that was mainstream rock or pop and couldn't get her head around noise-rock or free jazz. (A couple surprises, e.g. she liked Alice Coltrane.) That was part of what made the project interesting, though: it would have been interesting to see how her perceptions shifted as she exposed herself to hundreds and hundreds of those records.

Never really got the gender politics issue w her doing this, esp since I could spend all day on Youtube watching reaction videos where men do m/l the same thing. (Lost in Vegas guys are p much prog/metal experts by now.)

the gender politics issue was with the reception (positive & negative) more than the actual blog

actually there were interesting things about the gendering of certain types of music & fandom implied if not actively explored by the blog but it got nasty quick when the internet got hold of it

(Lost in Vegas guys are p much prog/metal experts by now.)

I feel like I'd enjoy their videos if I watched a few but the whole reaction video concept is just totally alienating to me.

actually there were interesting things about the gendering of certain types of music & fandom implied if not actively explored by the blog but it got nasty quick when the internet got hold of it

I think she did explicitly address these things at times with e.g. the review of the SST comp with the rape image on the cover.

lost in vegas is m/l real-time music criticism by non-music journalists. 95% of what they "react" to I have no interest in tho.

I think she did explicitly address these things at times with e.g. the review of the SST comp with the rape image on the cover.

Remember that she actually spoke to and quoted a gender studies professor in this one.

in stick-to-itiveness, she did better than Sufjan Stevens but quite a bit worse than Sue Grafton.