OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever?

original patton

bc he was po'd

is patton oswalt a known fan of john cage?

brutal thread

this got weird

Prob shouldn't/don't need to chime in but literally zero hurt feelings in either being reposted here or being called names.

ok patton

I had no idea mike patton posted here

linkedin dude on bowie reminded me of coming across this, maybe the thing that links all of owen's favourite musicians is their profound influence on the corporate world

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/11760271_10205373688556395_8692794944301279535_n.jpg?oh=af4121d3528d85b80c9fd43b860247bf&oe=5749E3D8

I meant "destroyer" in the more philosophical sense, as in one who brings transition, creates transgressive work, upsets the establishment, ch-changes, and so on

― got a long list of ilxors (fgti),

Not about Bowie though, although it is fashion-related.

not sure if putting tumblr posts on here is 'the done thing' but this is remarkably bad: http://powerevolution.tumblr.com/post/133543612986/why-are-so-many-millennials-so-uncool

ok I can't put myself thru all that but a thousand times lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vWHNwmzf1o

To be fair, millennials aren't cool. If they exist. I've never met one.

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/167291/WAYS-TO-BE-COOL.jpg

"Nirvana rehearsed ten hours a day before recording 'Nevermind' because their house was so freezing they tried to stay away from it as much as possible."

Literally cool. Not enough modern artists are freezing.

they have those smart thermostats now

if only... if only Kurt could make smart DECISIONS...

brb, gonna write something for Medium

Confusing Owen Pallett with Patton Oswalt is the new best thing in this thread.

tbf humans have a natural tendency to see pattons that aren't there

wouldn't you like to be a patton too

Why Pattons?

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view1/1435294/patton-slap-o.gif

Not really music writing, but this Bowie tribute deserves to be here …

http://blogs.news.com.au/images/uploads/timaru_thumb.png

that's fantastic

wrong thread

^^^

things that should be clickhole articles but aren't

http://www.clickhole.com/article/7-musicians-talk-about-how-david-bowie-impacted-th-3816

Fighting the good fight

http://www.futuresymphony.org/why-musicians-need-philosophy/

this is straight trolling but even so
http://takimag.com/article/not_a_fan_theodore_dalrymple/

ugh why would you link that garbage site

the dude who it's named after is like m1l0 y1ann0p0l0u5 levels of bad

i clicked on the top rated article on that site..... woah.... scary stuff

though he did accurately capture how every Bowie fan subsumed their personalities becoming mindless Hitler drones.

Golly! This is the kind of abjection that Hitler was once offered. One is tempted to say that they are the words of natural, or at least willing, slaves who seek to dissolve their selves and forego their will for that of some other person.

xp so you agree this meets the thread requirements

pretty sure this is my first time seeing that garbage site btw... "cuckmercials"!

I have vivid memories of seeing this book cover on mid '00s trips to Waterstones, some kind of masterpiece of 'society is in the gutter' self-parody

http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348651199l/117159.jpg

i mean i just think that we should completely ignore the gross right-wing grime-lickers of the world, even when looking for stuff that is Bad

they thrive on their #trollgaze shitty opinions eventually luring in disaffected members of the Privileged Class

it's a play on online hashtag-irony that works in a horrifying way

Yeah, people who disagree with Us politically should definitely be ignored. That's never backfired.

no, that's not what i'm saying. there's a certain strain of discourse that codes as right wing right now, but that exists mainly to fuck shit up. it's apolitical if anything; its only aims are to elevate the profiles of its figureheads, who cultivate cults of personality made up of the easily charmed. but a closer look reveals that its arguments are incoherent, its convictions based in little more than sticking wet fingers into the air.

engagement with them is futile because they exist to exhaust their opposition with bad-faith debates and siccing their hordes on people.

these men are nihilists

http://www.knowitallfootball.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nil.jpg

say what you want about clickbait, at least it's an ethos

Mark it a zero, Smokey.

no, that's not what i'm saying. there's a certain strain of discourse that codes as right wing right now, but that exists mainly to fuck shit up. it's apolitical if anything; its only aims are to elevate the profiles of its figureheads, who cultivate cults of personality made up of the easily charmed. but a closer look reveals that its arguments are incoherent, its convictions based in little more than sticking wet fingers into the air.

people should have to get this post tattooed on the backs of their hands to stop them from sharing this shit on FB. it's just garbage of no consequence. instead my social justice friends write thinkpieces about "don't tell me not to respond to this inconsequential garbage that moves no needles anywhere and would get no traction outside of its own cesspool if I weren't inflating it with helium"