Idolator

I'm looking right into the mirror! It's blinding me!

...you know you've really effed your cousin behind the pool house when you blog about blogs about your blog.

currently listening: "aneurysm"

The hair may be shaggy but the Ride T-shirt is not ironic.

There was a time when obscure 7 inch records determined who the cool kids were. Ranking snarky comments seems a little more difficult and tiresome.

I will say, the fade from pink to white across the page is very well done, very Web 2.0.

Being dissed by Gothamist is kind of like having your outfit critiqued by Courtney Peldon.

Doesn't HuffPo know that distressed denim is so 2005?

Alex Blagg's Best Week Ever post is some kind of in-joke, right? Because the guy who writes Gawker's Blue States Lose hasn't seemed bothered by cynicism or snobbery before...

(Beyond the fact that this site has been remarkably friendly, thus far.)

Also, you forgot this one. The best one Ive read so far, though I havent yet seen some of the others.

Who writes specifically about Pavement?

Every aspiring or current music journalist knows only to drop Pavement references in articles which are multiples of prime numbers, but never to do a fullie on Pavement (unless they're getting back together, or not getting back together, you do own Wowee Zowee, right, if not go get it).

We write about Art Brut (stop the HTML encoders, the tour we reported three months ago opens tonight, AND NOTHING'S CHANGED THAT HASN'T BEEN REPORTED BEFORE), we claim to have listened to their LP a hundred times, but everyone knows we're listening to the redux-ified Pavement albums with bonuses aplenty, wishing wistfully for the ghost of Stephen Malkmus to float through our window an caress our hair.

Hey, we got invited to the comment party anyway!

Thanks for the link, and you know, for not posting the meaner parts of our review. Or something.

and huh...the ladies of TRGAW would posit that your collection of obscure 7"s makes you a completist nerd (and thus, potentially, an .mp3 blogger) rather than "cool," which, by default indicates a propensity for snarky comments since one must overcompensate for not being allowed to sit at the cool table. pretty neat...even if it is a circular argument.

the color scheme? rad.

"the ladies of TRGAW would posit that your collection of obscure 7"s makes you a completist nerd"

The ladies of TRGAW would be missing the point.

so the point is that if one is a completist nerd that one is cool?

Actually the opposite. The same person who irritated the living hell out of people in the 80's and 90's going on and on about how they have some handnumbered color vinyl 7" that you'll never obtain because you're clearly inferior is probably the older brother/sister of the music blogger who spends time complaining about other music blogs.

Whatevs???

Fucking hell.

:punching smiley:

Thanks for pointing out a site I should now avoid.

ugh.

everyone hates everything.

i'm putting my head in the oven.

but not before i blog about it.

the rich girls are weeping are awesome. idolator is awesome. let's all get together, have a sleepover and braid each other's hair, OK?

mr. gibson, thank you for clarifying, and i mean that in all sincerity. contrary to popular belief, the ladies of TRGAW are old enough to have dated obscurity-crowing dudes with hand-numbered 7"s with xeroxed covers and we might have had a few ourselves. we are hardly cool.

Mr. Gibson: I've never been an annoying completist, I SWEAR -- but I do have a soft spot for colored vinyl 7". I also have a slight weakness for occasionally blogging about other blogs. All things in moderation, that's what I say.

MTS: Only if we can paint each other's toenails too! Yay!

xo
cindy hotpoint, 1/2 of TRGAW

"All things in moderation, that's what I say."

Sounds spectacular, but it is the internet after all. Is that sort of thing allowed?

i love colored vinyl, too. i still have my clear orange vinyl 7-inch of "seether" by veruca salt!

Screw the haters. What is better than combining brooklynvegan,com with Gawker?

Nothing.