rolling #metoo thread for sexual harassment in the music industry so no one misses out when artists we don't give a fuck about like Tim Westwood and Bassnectar get caught

what a relief! Hot Dog!

the middleditch interview where he just volunteered that he sprung an open marriage on his wife directly after they got married, and also shit on social media (that i can't find currently) about how he loves getting in women's DMs on insta were red flags, id imagine there may be more to come about him

the middleditch interview where he just volunteered that he sprung an open marriage on his wife directly after they got married

"...until forever do you part?" "You mean like when I leave the house? Yeah sure." "Hey wait."

I know it’s OT but how “goth” is this club if Diplo DJs, improv nerds go there and it’s in the back of a bar called Pig and Whistle?

I was just telling Maura that the idea of an LA goth club trying to recreate the 45 Grave era sounds pretty cool but it ultimately sounds like it’s a bunch of Dave Navarro shit

why is "goth" a proper noun in the LA times style guide...

https://i.redd.it/p2ckdffvh4351.jpg

https://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/36d2/Nathan.jpg

I'm still back on the African-American member who wanted the dudes who were trying to emulate Christian Death to support Black Lives Matter

I know it’s OT but how “goth” is this club if Diplo DJs, improv nerds go there and it’s in the back of a bar called Pig and Whistle?

You should be asking yourself more about why there's an 'Old Hollywood' 'English pub' in LA, and then remember it's LA and thus of course that would exist and of course there'd also be a goth club there because there could just as easily be something else entirely there too, and probably is.

Honestly I'm just more surprised it wasn't at the Cat & Fiddle instead, aka Morrissey's long-standing haunt.

The Cat & Fiddle didn't exist at the time, tbf.

but it ultimately sounds like it’s a bunch of Dave Navarro shit

"You are all examples of the Goth Mas Mentality"

xpost True enough!

ultimately sounds like it’s a bunch of Dave Navarro shit

everything in la can basically be divided between that which is dave navarro shit (roughly 83 percent of the city), that which is steve aoki shit (16 percent) and in-n-out franchises (1 percent).

Meantime

We support victims of all sexual and emotional abuse. We will no longer be working with Har Mar Superstar in the future. We will dismantle any promotion of his new record on our social media platforms and strive to be part of a better future for our music community.

— Mid City Studio (@MidCityStudioMN) March 22, 2021

why is "goth" a proper noun in the LA times style guide...

― J0rdan S., Monday, March 22, 2021 2:50 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

perhaps this was a club dedicated to the germanic tribe that raided the roman empire in the 4th century?

The Har Mar stuff is amazing.

“We are shocked to learn the guy who does the underpants R&B minstrel show is problematic”

It does seem like Midnite Vultures and its ilk (from cis men, anyway) is the opposite of our times in every way.

I mean, people *were* calling out Midnite Vultures and Har Mar back in the day iirc but yeah, that shit would definitely not fly today

I think Har Mar got a pass because so many people assumed it was just a character. wasn't his breakthrough on Jimmy Kimmel or something?

oh frogbspaws

everything in la can basically be divided between that which is dave navarro shit (roughly 83 percent of the city), that which is steve aoki shit (16 percent) and in-n-out franchises (1 percent).

someone get a mic on Geddy Lee

lol steve aoki's pizza restaurant

Wait, what's wrong with Midnite Vultures aside from being mediocre Prince cosplay?

check yr facts, cuz!

i hang my head in fact checking shame. i should never have tried franchising myself.

Just saying the “tweak my nipple” come-ons are more off-putting than turn-on-ing, even in a “lol but I don’t really have a libido” situation.

this post aged well. #harmarsuperstar pic.twitter.com/3fUP8VVlWB

— danae o’rourke (@danaeorourke) March 21, 2021

I'm not recommending it, but Har Mar's previous incarnation was Sean Na Na, the album My Majesty was incredibly toxic and misogynistic and ugly, and some of it is real striking in retrospect (tw)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt79gRy2nzM

always hated that band and him and everyone who liked them back in the day. I've liked my share of people who turned out to be shitty but at least I don't have this skeleton in my music collection.

Har Mar was just on the Best Show talking about working as a mail man during lockdown.

oh frogbspaws

― bruce spr!ngisH3r3 (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, March 22, 2021 5:03 PM

was that 'weak'

Did we not determine that sic misunderstood my “weak”

no, we determined that your 'weak' was poor

'sorry if you thought it was glib, i was just using jargon'

write better

I thought sic was mad because I wasn’t centering victims in a tweet about a director I like, not the reality that sic was mad because sic thought I was calling the victims arguments weak

I thought you seemed to be saying it was "weak" of film producers & distributors SpectreVision to withdraw funding for his next two films and donate future proceeds from their existing collaboration to domestic violence charities. This surprised me, so I asked what you meant.

You clarified that you think it "sucks" that the violent abuser was "cancelled" and the business relationship is "dunzo," regardless of the accounts of his victims.

No, I meant it sucks that the director’s career is dunzo, not his business relationship with some blu-ray company.

“It’s very good this creep got cancelled” and “It sucks that this guy can’t make anymore movies because I liked them” are not mutually exclusive thoughts. Though I DO (and did) admit that putting the latter in front of the former can be perceived as “glib”

SpectreVision produced and theatrically distributed Color Out Of Space, his only feature since 1992, and were planning to make two more Lovecraft adaps w/ him. They are the entirety of his current career.

Dogg, please believe me when I say I wasn’t even getting in the weeds of his specific relationships with any company or business

dogg, you should hack on your sensitivity a bit

I apologized for being glib and I meant it. I’m sorry!

I’m just responding to accusations about my intentions

Thomas Middleditch pressured a girlfriend into getting breast implants, and then asked for her to pay him back for them when they broke up. Dude's been a known creep for years.

I don't think anyone is at all shocked by Richard Middledouche being called out

the nerdy dude from silicon valley huh

Oh my god that breast implant story

She's deleted the post, but my recollection is that the woman had to remove the implants years after they broke up, due to them being (badly done? too large? affecting her chest muscles?). I don't recall when or whether him asking to be paid back came into it, but she put the implants on display at the Museum Of Broken Relationships in Hollywood.

Midnite Vultures is good

shhhhh

No, I meant it sucks that the director’s career is dunzo, not his business relationship with some blu-ray company.

Dogg, please believe me when I say I wasn’t even getting in the weeds of his specific relationships with any company or business

I haven’t read the allegations yet

(btw I still don't follow this at all. how is his career even "dunzo" in any way, let alone it being "weaksauce" that it's dunzo, in that context?)