like one of those cat ladies who needs everything double-bagged

[02 May 2006 | Tuesday]

12:00 PM - like one of those cat ladies who needs everything double-bagged
Current mood: sluggish blood flow to extremities

i wake up. i complain. i bed down. i groan.

this sparked it: jess harvell on tool's "10,000 Days"


wtf

what the (pitch)fork?

pitchforkmedia has been largely absent from my computer screen this
academic year since i've been too busy playing/making music to listen
to/read about it. the semester is over. i've taken up my usual summer
e-diet of google, wikipedia, pitchfork and (recently) del.icio.us
expecting to gorge myself.

wtf? what happened to pitchfork? yes yes, i acknowledge and appreciate
the leaps and bounds you've made to provide more reviews, features &
news but what happened to the mailbag/letters section? was that what
is was labelled in the past? i can't remember.

i enjoy pitchfork. i trust pitchfork, not because i buy into your
eye-rolling and scenester posturing but i find your news stories
pertinent and your reviews in-line with my observations when i sit
publicly transit my ass across edmonton to the sound of new
releases... and rereleases.

i just read jess harvell's review of tool's "10,000 days". i'm not
much of a tool fan. i'm even less of an a perfect circle enthusiast
but i appreciate both bands on some rather diluted level far below
their legion of "15-year olds still finding their place in the world".
if i listen to the album i will more than likely agress with jess'
criticisms. what i find superfluous, now aggravating, is this constant
wink wink nudge nudge good ol' boys game that some of your reviewers
need to play to assert their status.

i've become accustomed to reading your self-important reviews making
pitchfork staff and readers out to be some uppercrust community of
indie-connosieurs- thanks for the head nod but i really don't need the
association. what was my point...

oh yeah, what really needs to be said about the closing sentence of
his review, "But hey, the next time you're sneering at someone in a
Tool shirt, just remember how retarded you look walking down the
street with the words "The Boy Least Likely To" or "Clap Your Hands
Say Yeah" across your chest."

how about, "you don' know me"?

please bring back the letters section. i loved it! not to mention the
archive including past top 50 lists, best of decade features, oh and
the release date page was a useful resource though somewhat tideous to
navigate.

wow, i just realized that i wrote this disgruntled morning
correspondence (yes? correspond please) without stating my main beef.

plase insert this in the paragraph to which it would be most easily
grafted (from gtalk. forgive) :

what why?
how are you so disgruntled toward pitchfork that you are driven to
write them a letter?

Sent at 11:18 AM on Tuesday
the lack of feedback section visible to readers making their
"indie-administration" seemingly unapproving and suspicious of
dissenters
oh
i guess i didn't mention that in the letter, i should cut and paste
excuse me

!!!

ps

good thing there is no letter section
i don't proof read

1 Comments - 0 Kudos

Pitchfork makes me cry.

Also, you sure don't proofread. Also, I brought my bass in to get it fixed and new strings, guess how much it cost. Guess. 800$ Good bye paycheck.

Posted by Landon A. R. on [04 May 2006 | Thursday] at 6:25 PM