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"I want six words on MCR in my inbox by Monday!"

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Writing six words on
My Chemical Romance soon;
A bird flies nearby

― Not Haikunym (Ned), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

that was rude, but i love how all the freelancers kiss each others asses and make public shows of support for each other.

like it's gonna get you any work.

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

cynicism.jpg

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

i love how all the freelancers kiss each others asses and make public shows of support for each other.

You're fired.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link

i've gotten work from ilm. i'm hardly the only one.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

i've gotten work from ilm. i'm hardly the only one.

You're hired.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:41 (eighteen years ago) link

i mean, it's not like i hang out in rock critic bars on the rock critic side of town. you know?

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

and i like writing. might as well make the most of things!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

but not as funny as the cult of Sasha.

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

xxpost

33 1/3rd St.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link

most of the VVM music editors are already gone! they left of their own accord! hicks left city pages, matos left seattle weekly, friskics-warren left the scene...all within a few weeks of each other. it's kind of frightening, actually.

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link

i've gotten work from ilm. i'm hardly the only one.

Indeed, and I won't complain.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

I heard that ILX is going to be fired soon.

― Definitely Not Da Na Not! (donut), Friday, 10 March 2006 19:59 (eighteen years ago) link

http://eloise.cementhorizon.com/albums/christmas-on-16th-2004/Kati_Vol_flashing_the_bling.thumb.jpg

"Thanks, ILX!"

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link

quarterly shares per nanosecond

http://staff.imsa.edu/science/geophysics/atmosphere/structure/ilx.gif

― Da Na Not! (donut), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link

http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/9178/orly1rk.jpg

― midi sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd like some work. Whose ass do I have to kiss?

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Results!

http://www.ably.co.jp/ilx/img/ilx.jpg

― Da Na Not! (donut), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link

most of the VVM music editors are already gone! they left of their own accord! hicks left city pages, matos left seattle weekly, friskics-warren left the scene...all within a few weeks of each other.

Sam Chennault left Miami NT before as well. Today is my last day at the office. Just moved my office stuff into storage. Apartment gets packed this upcoming week, then off to NYC.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Have Gun, Will Travel reads the card of a man,
A knight without armor in a savage land.
His fast gun for hire, heeds the calling wind,
A soldier of fortune is the man called Matos.
Matos, Matos, where do you roam?
Matos, Matos, far, far, from home.

He travels on to wherever he must:
A chess knight of silver is his badge of trust.
There are campfire legends that the plainsmen spin
Of the man with the gun, of the man called Mi-ch-ael-ang-elo.
Matos, Matos, where do you roam?
Matos, Matos, Far, far, from home.

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I love you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Mi-ch-ael-ang-elo

"-ch-"?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link

matos your new landlord isn't named ralph by any chance, is he? cause i heard about the block you're moving to, and I USED TO LIVE ON THAT BLOCK! at #69, naturally. i am very very happy about your imminent return!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't know who the landlord is; it's a small-BR sublet for a couple months while I find a real place.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

good stuff.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:07 (eighteen years ago) link

First Starbucks and now Matoses! What neighborhood did you end up picking?

Also, Da Na Not!, is your screen name the guitar line from Helmet's "Unsung"

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link

I knew Sam left MNT but...you guys are making funnies about the other music editor change-ups, right? RIGHT?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link

i have accepted a well-paid position on burmese public radio

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link

i leave april 1st

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link

boom-boom

no, Raymond, I'm leaving, Dylan left, Friskics-Warren is leaving.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Chris: Park Slope

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago) link

Is everyone leaving because of the New Times or is it just a coincidence?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Having to run syndicated film reviews from other NT papers is making VV copy editors collectively weep. Gnashing of teeth and rending of garment soon to follow if this happens with music as well.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link

NT sucks, everybody knows it.

Sadly here in SF the SFBGuardian has a hard time competing (tho they DEF. have the better music writing staff - Kimberly Chun is great). The SFWeekly is totally trying to kill em, steal their ad dollars, etc. Oddly the SFWeekly just lost its music editor as well...

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:54 (eighteen years ago) link

SFWeekly just lost its music editor as well...

before or after Jennifer Maerz took over? I'm guessing you mean before--Jennifer just started there a couple months ago.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Also, Da Na Not!, is your screen name the guitar line from Helmet's "Unsung"

It was initially meant to be just a bad Sha Na Na pun, but now that my now former appellation reminds me of Helmet thanks to you, I've changed it immediately!

― Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't hate Helmet or anything. I just don't want to think of that song every day now...(because your observation was very OTM)

― Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Matos I'm referring to Garrett Kamps.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:38 (eighteen years ago) link

All I can say is: if any changes to the affected weeklies are going to make these papers approximate the LA Weekly today, especially in markets like Minneapolis and Seattle, the weeklies are going to suuuuuuck, and probably die. I've never read a paper so insipid and unmomentous.

Everything about the current LA Weekly -- design, font choices, articles, and all -- scream "ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ".

― Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link

aint that the truth.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 March 2006 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link

I doubt any of the pre-buyout VVM papers are going to be the model for anything.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think you can actually scream "ZZZZZZZZ."

― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link

I mean, the Voice itself is being made much more like the New Times papers, not the other way around. That's probably going to be how it goes everywhere else.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

So a national trend of false quotes and lawsuits then.

― Yoo Doo Nut (donut), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link

now, now

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link

east bay express still intact for the time being?

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 10 March 2006 23:59 (eighteen years ago) link

if i hear the words "rocky media landscape" one more time, i will eat my hat

― geeta (geeta), Saturday, 11 March 2006 00:10 (eighteen years ago) link

http://ianandmanda.typepad.com/blog/files/rocks-mt-well.jpg

― Zwan (miccio), Saturday, 11 March 2006 00:22 (eighteen years ago) link

East Bay Express is GREAT! For awhile there had better music writing than both the SFWeekly and the Bay Guardian.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Saturday, 11 March 2006 00:25 (eighteen years ago) link

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