you think a license plate is bad, try fitting that on your knuckles
― ultimate american sock (mh), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
what makes you think i didn't
― maura, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link
fortunately, you can fit "toe-tappy" on a license plate if you spell it toe-tapi
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:01 (nine years ago) link
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
― da croupier, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link
the more you listen, the closer you are to fine amirite
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link
indigo girls are good, if we're going to get real
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:26 (nine years ago) link
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.htmli 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
― Leonard Pine, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:28 (nine years ago) link
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
― Treeship, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:40 (nine years ago) link
there is a lot to be said about this style
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
that's the style used in newspapers for the past fifty years bub
too bad "the palmer method" is already something else
― da croupier, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:45 (nine years ago) link
waterface please use "bub" more often i like pretending you're wolverine
― da croupier, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
can do two live croup
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
*snikt*
― tylerw, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 16:54 (nine years ago) link
― 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
― katherine, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 17:05 (nine years ago) link
* in the _context_
― katherine, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 17:06 (nine years ago) link
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"
― da croupier, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
that immediately follow
i don't laugh i think it sucks
― Leonard Pine, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 17:32 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Treeship, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
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
― Leonard Pine, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
i don't think the original review mentions cricket at all
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link
i guess you're joking but http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=its+just+not+cricket
― Leonard Pine, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
sorry if you can't appreciate my singular, australian-naif style
― Leonard Pine, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
i appreciate you Mr. Pine
― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Wednesday, 29 April 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
thanks friend
― Leonard Pine, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
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.
― rushomancy, Thursday, 30 April 2015 01:11 (nine years ago) link
I'm sorry for defending this blog and more generally for being a contrarian on threads where it wasn't needed
― starkiller based god (Treeship), Thursday, 14 January 2016 04:49 (eight years ago) link
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!"
― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Thursday, 14 January 2016 05:00 (eight years ago) link
So did she never get past the Cs?
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 25 June 2020 03:30 (three years ago) link
must have stopped being profitable.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Thursday, 25 June 2020 03:42 (three years ago) link
Did she stop when online started giving her shit? If so, that's pretty sad.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 25 June 2020 07:45 (three years ago) link
Maybe they broke up!
― tired of waiting for icu (Matt #2), Thursday, 25 June 2020 08:52 (three years ago) link
"Want to feel old? The creator of 'My Husband's Stupid Record Collection' is 70 years old today!"
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
xp: They were still together as of 2018 https://offspring.lifehacker.com/how-i-parent-alex-goldman-1825426314
― peace, man, Thursday, 25 June 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
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.)
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 25 June 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
the gender politics issue was with the reception (positive & negative) more than the actual blog
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Thursday, 25 June 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
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
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Thursday, 25 June 2020 16:51 (three years ago) link
(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.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 25 June 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
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.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 25 June 2020 16:55 (three years ago) link
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.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 25 June 2020 16:57 (three years ago) link
Remember that she actually spoke to and quoted a gender studies professor in this one.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 25 June 2020 17:40 (three years ago) link
in stick-to-itiveness, she did better than Sufjan Stevens but quite a bit worse than Sue Grafton.
― the warm seafood salad that exists (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 25 June 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link