Ariel Pink

no worn copy and house arrest were pretty perfect too

Loverboy I mean

Scared Famous, in certain configurations, is one of his best.

Wow, any more details on that lawsuit?

Pink and another student did a large pencil collage in which they depicted students, staff and faculty having sex, and the lawsuit alleged that it had created a hostile working environment; CalArts won the case on the grounds of a non-censorship policy, though Pink was made to apologize. Looks like the court brief is here.

5.  The drawing was the students' response to an art theory that characterized representational art as passé and incapable of evoking a strong response.   See footnote 11, below.

11.  In their declarations submitted in support of CalArts's motion for summary judgment, student artists Ariel Rosenberg and Jeremy Ringermacher explained the motivation for The Last Art Piece:  “At CalArts, there is a tendency when art is critiqued to categorize a work as representational or conceptual.   Representational artwork is an actual representation of the item depicted.   Conceptual artwork goes beyond the actual item depicted and communicates additional ideas and concepts.   During the time that I have attended CalArts, faculty and students have debated the impact of representational art versus conceptual art, and some people have characterized representational art as passé and incapable of provoking a strong response.   Ringermacher and I decided to create a piece of art that mixed and confused these two concepts and evoked a critical response.”   In his letter of apology to Herberg, Rosenberg stated “I never intended to harm anyone.”

12.  The context in which the alleged harassment took place also supports our decision.  (See Fisher, supra, 214 Cal.App.3d at pp. 609-610, 262 Cal.Rptr. 842.)   We see a vast difference between posting obscene cartoons in a men's room, as was done in Bennett, supra, 845 F.2d 104, and the display of The Last Art Piece in the designated gallery area at an art school.   CalArts's non-censorship policy was widely distributed to both students and employees.   In our view it was reasonable to expect that exhibitions of student artwork would, from time to time, include sexually-explicit material. Although we reject CalArts's contention that its anti-censorship policy and the First Amendment exempt it from the laws against sexual harassment, in this case the context of the display further militates against a finding of severe or pervasive harassment.

I dont agree with Underground as being 'unlistenable' at all - to my ears seems like a consistent set of melodically inventive damaged pop songs in the vein of Syd Barrett/ GBV etc

I'd not heard Underground before last week. I doubt it would have elicited a "Wow, WTF?" if it had been my first exposure to AP instead of The Doldrums.

I heard this today and thought it would appeal to AP fans. From 1981.

And here's a little something for the R. Stevie fans. From 1980.

Been meaning to check out Dome for a while—those are both awesome! Also the three best Ariel Pink albums are the next batch of reissues. Equally scared/excited to hear cleaned-up House Arrest.

Cleaned-up Crybaby is out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6HD6_JPOlQ

AP is in a shot of the Safdie bro’s’ heaven knows what during the Central Park bandshell Scene. T koh is also credited bit I didn’t spot him.

So the early stuff is coming out in remastered and "reworked" editions. Any idea what is meant by that? Re-recordings, remixes?

the previous reissues in the series (loverboy and underground) had changes to the tracklists compared to the previously widely available releases. loverboy's changes were small but underground was significantly expanded. the new transfers from the original cassettes sounded much better than the existing releases

the tracklists for the next wave of releases (the doldrums/worn copy/house arrest) are the same as before though, and the notes for the doldrums here https://arielpink.bandcamp.com/album/the-doldrums mentions the sources

New single with Jorge


https://open.spotify.com/track/2HaMMxfawsnyD4cYvUKym6?si=okqr6PXBRp6LuYpE4keIaA

Can’t say it’s as catchy as the other stuff they’ve done together though 😞

AP will be on the 100 pct electronica live feed Thursday eve I guess listening to records?

Ariel Pink is the special guest of honor on our live stream this week!!!! Will he be a Simon Cowell or a softy on the demos? pic.twitter.com/Og7kU5L2AA

— Negative Gemini (@NegativeGemini) July 7, 2020

he probably won't show up

I don't like or listen to AP anymore for... reasons

Personal reasons...

Bad man!!!

I was sure this revive would feature his cancellation tbh

sort of assumed he was already cancelled tbh

Hes been getting called out for so long he's been grandfathered-in

otm

https://i.imgur.com/oolIoFP.jpg

Talk about Scientology and the grimes dispute.

No interest in his new old ? single ? Burned out love?

It's ok...? It's what he does, or rather, did. It sounds like a Doldrums outtake tbf, or is it?

Dunno but yeah it does

It's not bad, mind! Saw it pop up on my spotify discover thing. Just wondering if it's indicative of a direction of sorts, of what he's doing now, or just a random thing. (this is more my/spotify's problem than Ariel's tbf)

From Mexican Summer:

Recorded (and left) in The Doldrums period, "Burned Out Love" has been resurrected and fully realized. Assembled from a mixdown tape and the original 8-track (synching up tapes to fill in missing audio gaps) and with new mouth drums from Ariel(!). The track appears now, mixed in stereo for the first time and making its first official appearance on a release (Odditties Sodomies Vol.3).

I'm looking forward to the next batch of records because they gather up a lot of misc. loose ends (like stuff cut from the original Scared Famous/FF>>) -- more or less what you'd expect/hope a reissue series like this to do.

https://open.spotify.com/track/3waOhiNW7AxNVPVh2pH345?si=k5wAtKVvRsmWaUDL06akdg

Another (new) one, iron worrier

Hmmm

Ariel Pink John Maus and Alex Lee Moyer at the Capitol today https://t.co/xWVU6JQtQX

— NTP (@nathanpemberton) January 7, 2021

lollllll

why is this guy

suspended

vote for trump

— Ariel Pink (@arielxpink) December 31, 2020

was he doing some b&e at the capitol, as well?

Here's the video taken from the private Instagram account of director Alex Lee Moyer showing John Maus at the Trump "protest" today. Note Maus is wearing the same outfit in the hotel room photo. pic.twitter.com/ne5SyJAjq4

— Kat Bee (@katbeee) January 7, 2021

I hopped off the Ariel Pink bandwagon many years ago, but hoped John Maus wasn’t as much a moron as he is.

Pink doesn’t surprise me all that much, but Maus does a little. Dude is weird but he always seemed pretty left to me.

maus has always claimed to be left-wing but has always defended pink whenever he's done something particularly bad, usually with convoluted reasoning

i am still a little surprised about him here though yeah

So... what precisely was in the suspended account's tweet?

just a photo of maus, pink & alex lee moyer in a hotel room

Aaah, right. I guess I eventually saw that then. Thanks.

Maus appeared on that short lived Sam Hyde show that was in adultswim but I wrongly assumed it was because he was just naive

MAGA turn for Pink wouldn’t surprise me sadly. It fits the mentality that’s come across in interviews before.

maus's defense at the time for going on the MDE show came across as naive bullshit

pink is already MAGA and has been for a while

Pink even addresses the "they think that I'm a troll... the only way they can see me and give me a pass" stance over in this thing posted a couple of weeks ago.