Moby is a dork

Most people who make records are quite happy to take a licensing fee if someone wants to use a track for an advert or as background music, eg. sports programming. Quite a few people do licensing in the Far East to elude the cred police. In many cases this is where the artist will make their real money, as most major labels will do anything to keep artists in fake debt to them (and of course any marketing spending can be CHARGED TO THE ARTIST and WRITTEN OFF FOR THE TAXMAN simultaneously).

But his space in Tribeca...whoa, accomodation envy.

There are those on the board who dislike him, I know, but he's released some good tracks. My world would be a poorer place without "Go", "Bring Me Back My Happiness", "Next Is The E (I Feel It)", "My Love Will Never Die", "Honey", and "Run On".

Grr.

(I think I've asked this of some of you before...)

-pete

etc.

Oh, fret not. We're sure not looking for your moralizing.

I have too much self-respect to gibber. Although, this reminds me of the time I was out drinking with Joshua Bell in the Berkshires and we chatted for a good long while. My point? I HUNG OUT WITH JOSH BELL.

(See, Ned? Just like Moby.)

"misogynistic" (is that even a real word)

this entire thread belongs in a 2001/2002 time capsule -- who cares about eminem any more, and the only thing i remember about moby are drunken girls driving through the East Village shouting out their desire to give him a rim job.

r.i.p. drunken rim jobs

Remember when he covered That's When I Reach For My Revolver, and he changed it to That's When They Tell Me That It's Over?

actually, i think moby is awesome. you guys are just bitter.

I don't actually mind Moby all that much tbh but the Mission of Burma cover was awful. I think it was because MTV wouldn't air it with the revolver line in it or something. Still, awful.

Didn't he play with Flipper at some point? Just filling in the empty drummer spot for a few secs. This can be true or false. But like you said, Moby sucks whale-poop.
― nathalie, Thursday, September 6, 2001 8:00 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark

Supposedly this isn't true or at least the dudes from Flipper don't ever remember this happening.

i don't hate Moby, either. i'm just saying that he isn't as relevant now as he was when this thread was started.

moby is an intelligent, sensitive, insightful, humanitarian. he brings to the music scene a fresh new beat. he is talented. he is a real person. and if you are looking for a rock star, dont go to moby. he is not looking for your approval.

my fiancee and i found my copy of 'everything is wrong' in my old bedroom the last time we visited my parents' house. we listened to it on the way back and thought it was great! she keeps it in her car now and listens to it all the time

<3 ol

he used to hang out with people (including me) at college

*a bit of a prick*

^oh great the Circle Jerks are reforming...on this thread.

Keith Morris to thread

Moby did also play with Ultra Vivid Scene in a helping-out capacity. And in serving-him-right news, Plum Sykes married some gazillionaire and not Damian fucking imbecile Loeb.

recently heard him do a piano cover of TI's 'Whatever You Like' which he derided as nothing he'd heard before he'd been asked to cover it because it was 'the kind of music you'd only hear in a gym or a club' which was fucking weird.

A lot of the early 90s Moby material up to and including Everything Is Wrong is still great. And in most interviews I've read/seen he comes of as a genuinely nice and caring person. Of course that riles up people who want their pop stars to be pompous pricks, but I think it's nice to have guys like Moby around too.

Eminem never did anything quite as beautiful as "Everytime You Touch Me".

I like some post Everything Is Wrong stuff actually but I'd never admit to it here.

I can take or leave "Every Time You Touch Me" by Moby but "Every Time You Touch Me (I Get High)" by Charlie Rich is pretty terrible.

The new Moby track with the David Lynch video is... well, its not bad, but isn't it about 5 years too late to be jumping on the post rock bandwagon, mobs?

Dorky aging dude in rock band t-shirt = kinda peculiar choice of indictment from an ILXor

(uh xpost to 1st post)

Remember when he covered That's When I Reach For My Revolver, and he changed it to That's When They Tell Me That It's Over?

Remember when [insert artist here] changed the words of [one song] for [American television airplay but left them the same on the actual record and on the video in other countries]?

i remember every time that happened

never forget

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3664/5789760806_b39c98451f_z.jpg

lol

(this, btw)

At least it wasn't the film in the poster.

Is that his way of trying to get back at me? I know you burned down Saratoga Winners Moby!

whiney interviewing moby was one of my fav internet moments this year

i like his house

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/04/28/garden/20110428-MOBY.html?ref=garden#1

Moby often meditates on the hillside deck and once spotted six coyotes there ==> there is a chance he will be eaten by coyotes

What a toolbag.

a friend told me that a girl who used to date moby had told him (my friend) that he (moby) frequently gave pompous impromptu speeches, including one on "how boggle could be modified to make it a better game"

i interviewed him once, at his apartment in nolita. he was mostly pretty nice. his apartment, too. i dont remember anything we talked about

Looks like the inventor of "knob touch" has a memoir out...

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/23/after-sex-on-the-damp-sheets-we-passed-out-the-worst-moments-from-mobys-memoir

didn't he say during the election that he had some info that would bring trump down?

https://pitchfork.com/news/54150-moby-claims-to-have-top-secret-information-about-trump-ties-to-russia/

It's such a courtesy of Moby to remind everyone how much he sucks.

but like the real question is, did mueller even reach out to him?

natalie portman has a real gift for making dorky guys publicly pwn themselves

It's pretty glorious.

What a douche

too bad snl is done for the season, Natalie Portman could've done a Natalie Raps pt 3 just about Moby being a creepster.

At a Holiday Inn in Minneapolis, Moby makes himself a sandwich with some frozen hotdog sausages, or “tofu pups”, as he calls them, “as warm as a lawn on a summer day” after being defrosted in the sink.

a malicious sentence clearly intended to inflict brain damage

In 2006, Moby invites the musician Lizzy Grant, who would go on to be known as Lana Del Rey, to his apartment, which has multiple floors. Grant shakes her head, and tells Moby: ‘Moby, you know you’re the man.’”

When Moby thanks her for the compliment, she clarifies: “You’re a rich Wasp from Connecticut and you live in a five-level penthouse. You’re ‘the man’, as in ‘Stick it to the man.’ As in the person they guillotine in the revolution.”

“I didn’t know if she was insulting me,” says Moby, “but I decided to take it as a compliment.” They don’t have sex. Grant leaves and, alone in his enormous apartment, Moby takes off his shoes and, his feet bare on a Turkish rug, plays a Gymnopédie by Erik Satie on a $20,000 Swiss piano.

wow

didn't he say during the election that he had some info that would bring trump down?

that was tom arnold, right? or was moby saying that too? that was a weird time

yeah, moby was saying that too

moby
after spending the weekend talking to friends who work in dc i can safely(well, 'accurately'...) post the following things:

1-the russian dossier on trump is real. 100% real. he's being blackmailed by the russian government, not just for being peed
on by russian hookers, but for much more nefarious things.

2-the trump administration is in collusion with the russian government, and has been since day one.
3-the trump administration needs a war, most likely with iran. at present they are putting u.s warships off the coast
of iran in the hope that iran will attack one of the ships and give the u.s a pretense for invasion.

4-there are right wing plans to get rid of trump. he's a drain on their fundraising and their approval ratings, and the gop and koch
brothers and other u.s right wing groups are planning to get rid of trump.

5-intelligence agencies around the world, and here in the u.s, are horrified by the incompetence of the trump administration, and are
working to present information that will lead to high level firings and, ultimately, impeachment.

i'm writing these things so that when/if these things happen there will be a public record beforehand.

these are truly baffling and horrifying times, as we have an incompetent president who is essentially owned by a foreign power. -moby

for moby to recover from this disastrous memoir rollout, he really does need to take down trump. ball's in your court, moby. it would be the great american redemption story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMNB8BqAJdY

i always liked this track

Maybe Moby got pissed on by the same Russian hookers?

When did he write that? He was kinda otm about the Iran thing

moby for president

My estimation for Lana Del Rey rose so fucking much after seeing that quote.

shit or get off the pot time
Poll Closing Date: Friday, May 31, 2019 7:00 PM (in 1 week)

stop frontin

o moby
o trump

[vote]

xp yeah that is awesome. moby is so dumb!

Moby / Oprah ticket...MOPRAH ‘20

this is such a strange thing to need to know, sorry, but is the moby/natalie portman thing related to the recent 'guy who left his girlfriend to be with portman, except that portman never indicated any sort of romantic interest in him" revelations? or is natalie portman been tied up in strange interactions with at least two total weirdos in her life (and counting, probably)?

the latter and it's worse, Safran Foer left his wife for Portman

I only found out about that through this, but that was Jonathan Safran-Foer, and he left his wife!

xp damn beaten to it

The books sounds like a real exercise in narcissism. He should just shut up and go away, no one gives a f

people liked the anecdote about doing coke and putting his dick on an unsuspecting donald trump. even though it sounds like sexual assault to me in my 2019 glasses.

andy dick trying to take a shit on moby's birthday cake was another delicious detail

i don't trust the jonathan safran foer story, honestly, it was reported by aj daulerio. i think what probably happened was foer realized he was developing feelings for portman and that was a sign he wasn't in love with his wife anymore. i don't think he'd just assume natalie portman was also in love with him.

i mean, maybe. but adultery 101 teaches you to check with the object of your affection first.

I'm guessing most women will have tales of creepy dude encounters like Natalie Portman's

I don't think people liked the knob touching of Trump, seemed like everyone thought that was weird and creepy too

they liked that it was a thing to talk about

I never got the feeling that safran foer left his wife for portman, his falling in love with Portman likely didn't do his marriage much good tho.

Some of their letters to each other were published somewhere worthy and they were painful to read. "See how erudite I am , please love me"

moby seems like a self-absorbed sociopath who also earnestly wants to be a "good person"

sounds like a good premise for a novel, written in a collaborative manner with everyone on ilx having access to the same google doc

also the premise for the grinch who stole christmas iirc

similar to moby never having finished moby dick, we should never read moby's memoir, but instead rely on on whatever excerpts are easy to find online

the safran foer letters were great, a cautionary tale about becoming a modestly successful writer and abstracting yourself right out of having anything to write about even when you're self-consciously bringing your A game in an attempt to fuck natalie portman. paragraphs about nyc parking policy and the logistics of moving his car and it was midnight a minute ago but now it's 12:01 because time is inexorable. made john updike read like homage to catalonia. also he plays a game with his kids where he'll buy them ice cream or avengers tickets but only if they can first somehow cause him to experience wonder.

does anyone have that article written by the dude who toured with Moby in 1993 (?) who just mimed all his parts, I felt like that was a good glimpse into what these dudes were really like (Moby was a prima donna who insisted on flying everywhere while his crew and 'band' drove, while apparently the Hartnolls and Richard D James were pretty cool)

also he plays a game with his kids where he'll buy them ice cream or avengers tickets but only if they can first somehow cause him to experience wonder.

omg

Not really vindication here ‘cause no one’s been in his corner for a crazy long time

Even now, he gives Christianity a bad name

There is so much ongoing wrongness with that Moby still trying to convince people he dated Portman thing. I just saw his new posts. yikes.

xpost I feel like there could be so many essays about sitting in your car waiting for nyc street cleaning to be done, so that would prolly be the only thing I would want to read of his.

you should email him

Surely theres going to be a full cancellation coming for him. Probably a major creep in silver lake or williamsburg or whatever

I'm a little surprised he didn't have the common courtesy to run this by the famous people he mentions in his book.

I expected better from Moby

ooh lordy my

I don't think people liked the knob touching of Trump, seemed like everyone thought that was weird and creepy too

people liked it in 1998 or so when he first talked about it bcz it was funny

then people stopped liking Moby's new music and went "wait, wasn't it weird and gross of him and his pals to put their dicks on ppl's clothes?"

then Moby said "of course I never really did that, I made it up to see how ludicrous a claim magazines would print if you told them"

then like another 17 years later he said "hey I was totally still doing nob touch into the 21st century, for real, and I did it to Donald Trump. do you like me now?"

does anyone have that article written by the dude who toured with Moby in 1993 (?) who just mimed all his parts

that was on inthemix, which got shut down by its new corporate overlords in November

Moby also tried to convince people that he was a member of Flipper. Does anyone remember that?

Yup.

iirc he said he filled in at two gigs

archive of that Moby tour story
http://itm.junkee.com/my-1993-rave-adventure-with-moby/19934/2

xpost
wasn't that just a moby/whale filling in for flipper/dolphin joke attempt?

part 2 because the bottom link doesn't work
http://itm.junkee.com/how-i-survived-americas-first-ever-rave-tour/20112

lol at "archiving" 18 years of a publication and keeping the multi-click pagebreaks but then inserting your current comments CMS with no comments

wasn't that just a moby/whale filling in for flipper/dolphin joke attempt?

DePace: No, he did! He sort of made it out to be like he was the Flipper singer for a while, but it was one night! He got up on stage with us for one night and sang. It was in his hometown in Connecticut. He just jumped on stage and sang with us. He knew all the words, he was a big fan. I think the singer at that time was passed out or high or arrested or something.

omg but porting over the two-part link to the site you deleted

RIP M&N

There is so much ongoing wrongness with that Moby still trying to convince people he dated Portman thing. I just saw his new posts. yikes.

You'd think the rest of us could find some other way to titillate ourselves.

Jackie is a punk 
Moby is a dork
They both went down to Berlin, joined the Ice Capades 
And oh, I don't know why

He’ll probably sell some of these books now though

This is how Melville got over too iirc

Check out Moby's new neck tattoo https://t.co/ato9zWzTVw pic.twitter.com/ndSil8IZ99

— Stereogum (@stereogum) September 18, 2019

shit that looks like an onion article but isn't

You have terrible taste in fonts, Moby.

nobody listens to necks, yo

You have terrible taste in fonts, Moby.

impressive if a computer did his tattoo though

lol PK

He looks like a chicken stamped for export.

lol

Bought his book at a used book store for $2.
It’s definitely a book.