Rolling Twitter Rock Crit

Don't know where else to put this, so I'm starting a new thread for Twitter rock criticism-related stuff, which admittedly is really esoteric thread to start. But!

"Twitter In The Raw": Announcing The (Possible) Existence Of The @1000TimesYes 2009 Tweet Box
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2010/01/twitter_in_the.php

From the Kickstarter page:

At the end of 2009 Weingarten set out to collaborate on a book version of the Twitter reviews with us here at Article, a music, zine, T-shirt and art group also out of Brooklyn. The resulting book is not really a book at all. It is a physical representation of Twitter. Twitter in the raw. Each of Weingarten's 1,000 tweet reviews from 2009 will be individually typed out on to a single index card and the mass of them will be held together in a wonderful natural oak index card catalog.

i'm definitely thinking of buying one of these.

alrighty, i just pledged. bought the first box. can't wait!

would TOTALLY pledge if it was, say, $25 and not $75. Not that I think it's overpriced, per se. I'm just underfunded.

this is dope

Oh my gosh, kshighway thank you times a zillion. Unless Nick has a problem with it, I'll make sure you get #001

You're going to call people on the phone for $9? I'd be interested in buying a cd compilation of these calls.

How much for a phone call of Ned Raggett reading Whiney's tweets?

haha this is amazing

tempted to spring for the call

How much for a phone call of Ned Raggett reading Whiney's tweets?

...hmm. Now that you mention it...

I mean the phone call thing is just a cute way to help raise money for the boxes which are actually really costly and insane.

Totally not trying to be a dick here at all, but how about something that pledges any money above and beyond the costs (if there is any) is to be donated to Haitian relief or something? I mean, its a very cool idea, but it ultimately feels kind of insular and it might be a chance to raise some money for charity. Just tossing out the thought. Maybe there is zero chance of any "above and beyond" money anyway.

tempted to spring for the call

― I'm FINNISH!!!! (s1ocki), Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

whiney has done this thing for free for a year

if he makes something out of his work, why does not deserve to be compensated because of haiti?

cssssssssssss smedes

whoa what sorry keyboard malfunction

whiney has done this thing for free for a year

otm

I may not share his enthusiasm for twitter but I don't see why people shouldn't be compensated for doing good entertaining work

i mean, i'll let you guys know if i make any money. I really doubt it since hiring typists is hella expensive and 1000 cards is a big number

i will type some cards if you want--i also own a typewriter. totally serious.

do u live in ny?

nope. dc. i would do it for free, too. it sounds fun.

(and obviously, i wouldn't do ALL of your typing for you, but you know, keep it in mind.)

Okay sorry guys, it was just a thought. I mean there are lots of people on ILM that right v v entertaining shit all year and don't get paid for it, thats all.

Perhaps some sort of Cafepress book is the answer?

really don't get your point, jon — because not everyone in the world is getting paid to write and haiti is suffering, whiney shouldn't be hypothetically paid some small sum for a year of hard work? are you against anyone making money from their work as long as there is suffering in the world, or just whiney?

don't mean to seem mad at u, it just gets me heated when people devalue writing work—it's already so fuckin' hard to get paid to write anything these days

I commute to NY 2x/wk, and my friend has a typewriter...

i just sold #002

YO I heard you used to drum for a band whose frontman's solo release was like my faaaaaaaave album of 2008

that's a dope album

Sorry s1ocki, I didn't see your posts before now! As someone who does enjoy getting paid for a my time and effort, I certainly didn't intend to devalue what Whiney has done. Hell, I checked his tweets about as much as anyone else. I'm having a difficult time trying to explain why this rubs me the wrong way, but I think it comes down to me feeling that while, yes I would love to see Whiney make money for his effort, I'd have rather seen it via something like maybe a Paypal link while the project was going on. This self-promotion at the end just feels too self-congratulatory and insular.

I certainly wasn't intending to take away from his work and I hope I didn't cause offense. Obviously how I feel means nothing, because there are people willing to pay for it. So, yeah, feel free to hate away... but please don't think I'm trying to devalue his hard work. But a lot of people start ambitious blogs up each and every day with no hope of making money, they just do it because they want to.

well gosh

But a lot of people start ambitious blogs up each and every day with no hope of making money, they just do it because they want to.

― you gone float up with it (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, January 25, 2010 10:43 PM (4 minutes ago)

this sounds a lot like you're devaluing hard work here

How do you get that? I was just commenting that not every blog founder is looking for money. If they can find a paying audience, awesome! I mean that sincerely. And I think its great that Whiney is making money off of this. I just think the method is a little too self-congratulatory for my taste.

I mean, look, if the Musicophilia guy or awesome tapes from africa dude (to name two examples) put up PayPal links for donations, I'd definitely be all about tossing a couple bucks their way - but I wouldn't buy their entries typed on a piece of paper and put into a fancy box either.

Fuck, I shouldn't have posted in this thread. Bring on the dogpile about how much of an asshole I am.

i mean, i'll let you guys know if i make any money. I really doubt it since hiring typists is hella expensive and 1000 cards is a big number

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, January 22, 2010 10:30 AM

Seriously guys this was prime #1 example of if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. I'm just going to back out and genuinely wish Whiney success with this.

nah jon, don't worry. the "errant paypal donations box lingering on the blog" always kind of rubbed me the wrong way for the very same reasons you're decrying my tweet box.

but i think the logistics of the project should make it clear that this is less about "cashing in on tweets" and more about "making an art object."

Article Magazine is a fan and friend and contacted me about collecting my tweets into a book. it started as a simple book but then it got grander and grander until was this fancy, expensive box. i'll be very upfront if I somehow end up making money on this, but it doesn't look likely.

I would like to some day turn twit-crit into something marketable, but this isn't it

Rolling @1000TimesYes Thread 2010

1.

Unless Nick has a problem with it, I'll make sure you get #001

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, January 21, 2010 10:43 PM (4 days ago)

oh wow thanks dude! i'm really, really hyped for this. (my order was the one from m1ch4el from MA. thankfully, my parents didn't name me kshighway.)

2. This is awesome too: the box is now a Kickstarter "Recommended Project" @ http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/by/recommended

i hope more people do cool shit with Kickstarter. esp. books. people need to make more books.

Article Magazine is a fan and friend and contacted me about collecting my tweets into a book. it started as a simple book but then it got grander and grander until was this fancy, expensive box. i'll be very upfront if I somehow end up making money on this, but it doesn't look likely.

I would like to some day turn twit-crit into something marketable, but this isn't it

Okay, hearing more about this project makes me realize my snap judgment was a little out of line.

actually, this is on the front page too: http://www.kickstarter.com/

I'm actually hoping we're gonna make enough money for me to get a box of my own! kshighway, can i come to your house and look at yours?

pledged $12, can't wait to make whiney talk to me about the dirty projectors

actually check that, cymbals eat guitars

u r a cruel mistress

Maybe we should run a GAPDY poll to see what he talks to J0rdan about.

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if you're ever in Massachusetts, sure thing dude!

i also think that's bullshit if you don't get one of your own boxes. we should start an ILX fund on PayPal or something to make sure you do.

I'm really wondering about my day sometime in February where I'm just kickin back and calling 20 people in a row

whiney how much do kshighway and i have to donate to get you to come to boston and hang out and talk about indie rock ALL DAY

GAPDY summit in Harvard Square

sprung for the 33 1/3

tho i kinda want the call too

two more people bought boxes

"Chris' imminent 33 1/3 book on Public Enemy's It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back"

hope this is good, how imminent

did you do a sort of personal thing like the ATCQ one iirc or like meaty critical stuff or what was your approach?

I deconstructed some of its samples as living molecules of a larger whole.

I dont really play that personal ish. The word "I" doesn't appear in the book once.

I figured if ppl want to read about suburban middle-class whiteboy angst they can read, I don't know, ANYTHING

lol ok that sounds like it could be cool

From magazine 2009 list thread:

Whiney, you KNOW you're gonna eventually publish a list of your 1,000 Twitter reviews somewhere, plus a special deluxe leatherbound edition!

― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, December 10, 2009 8:11 PM (1 month ago)

I wasn't totally kidding, but I'm still surprised to see this happen so quickly! An oak box is a better choice than leatherbound too.

http://twitter.com/1000TimesYes/status/8377751458

w00000t

get ready for awesome phone calls

http://images.paraorkut.com/img/pics/glitters/w/we_did_it_lets_party-6036.gif

Chr1s after seeing your rant I'm interested to know what you think of, say, Matt & Kim/Passion Pit/etc.

Passion Pit

28 characters Nov 2008, it was all downhill from there

What about the Unicorns? I've always considered them the godfathers of this whole indie pop loltronica sort of obsession that everyone's had for the past 5 years. Granted, I do love the Unicorns.

Whiney, do you know if there's a way for someone to up their pledge a bit? (I wanted to add the book & extra postcard thing.)

i think you can just donate an extra $10?

Or just drop it in the $2 one, and I'll make sure you get a book

Thanks dude. (Apparently there's an "adjust my pledge" feature! Which worked perfectly.)

whiney, where's that page where u keep a list of all your reviews? i find it super hard to keep up with anything on twitter

http://www.aprilfish.net/

poisson d'avril !

I also have 1000TimesYes doooot coooooooooooom now

haha doot coom

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/article/the-1000timesyes-2009-tweet-box

59 hours

passing this on from Whiney's Twitter feed:

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/03/09/rolling-stone-at-sxsw-2010-100-tweets-two-showcases-and-more/

again, from Whiney's feed -- he's @ http://twitter.com/rollingstone today

support a fellow ilxor!

Hoping to run into Whiney this week, hopefully he doesn't stay at grindcore shows all week long.

http://mcsweeneys.net/2010/3/18roy.html

As the evenning aproacheth, hypsters hath desended upon our towne, drinnking our wyne as unikornes feast upon rayes of the sonne.

whiney do you pay this guy?

which guy

the guy who created a thread to remind us that we can follow whiney on twitter

o i thought you meant Geoffrey Chaucer for stealin Whiney's style

i started this thread b/c i wanted to tell ILX about the Tweet Box, b/c i thought it was a neat project, and i couldn't find another appropriate thread to mention it on. i made the title general enough that we could fit other Rock Crit-related Twitter stuff here too. when Whiney announced he was going to be tweeting for Rolling Stone, i thought i'd tell ILX people in case they weren't already following him and thus didn't already know. there's nothing wrong with being enthusiastic enough about new creative projects that you want to pass on the word.

Can we talk about killing Chaucer instead plz

o c'mon Chaucer had quality fart jokes

please do Ned!

http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/dbtw-wpd/virt-exhib/realgold/Images/geoffrey-chaucer.jpg

http://www.caitloon.com/425px-Chaucer_knight.jpg

o c'mon Chaucer had quality fart jokes

Best ever, agreed.

That vs. Rabelais' early contribution to the pooping before showering meme, sorta.

yeah Rabelais is unfuckwithable

when Whiney announced he was going to be tweeting for Rolling Stone, i thought i'd tell ILX people in case they weren't already following him

ksh, just for the record, I appreciated this. I don't have the time/energy/dedication to follow Twitter feeds of my own choosing, so the head up was well worthwhile. I've been enjoying Whiney's RS tweets this week, so far.

:-)

They have been surprisingly um... nice. Like RS has turned down the snark.

Yeah, I had to write for my audience for this one. Dunno how psyched Rolling Stone would be if I kept telling every indie rock band to lick me

You should have created an alternate persona for just that and then kept retweeting stuff. "Hey dunno who this Teary Teirgarten is but..."

i was thinking about doing running meta-commentary on @1000TimesYes but it was hard enough just managing the one account

my huge breakdown moment.

I went to tweet about Titus Andronica and I was all frazzled. I started typing their name, my finger slipped and i tweeted "TIT" to 87,000 people.

Probably the dumbest reason to get fired ever

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/7/2010/03/500x_custom_1269216472725_sxswfarewell.jpg

lol

what show was that?

Just as an aside, I would pay for J.D. Considine to revive Rock Short Takes on Twitter.

Pretty sure that sign was in front of Beerland at SXSW.

xpost

Yeah, I had to write for my audience for this one. Dunno how psyched Rolling Stone would be if I kept telling every indie rock band to lick me

― rolling stupid fruity crazy ragg ned (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, March 21, 2010 9:40 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark

u wuss

Boxes are here!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nvBTWScMRk8/S7C_5vG5D1I/AAAAAAAAAgA/ThpHG8drcO4/s1600/1000_book.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nvBTWScMRk8/S7DAD1nwYCI/AAAAAAAAAgI/p0aA6o5u2_0/s1600/1000_top.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nvBTWScMRk8/S7DLCgwe-kI/AAAAAAAAAgY/VwPmttXlBWc/s1600/1000_300.jpg

http://log.articlesarticle.com/p/brooklyn-artists-release-hand-made-box.html

wow that is nice looking

that looks fucking awesome, congrats

OH MAN! so excited

Get ready, ksh. These things are fucking HEAVY

ksh is still on track to get Edition 1 of 30 iirc

dude, you can keep #1 for yourself if you are keeping one for yourself. it is your project.

Oh, now that I see it for real, I wish I had the money to cop one of these.

ha, i'm not entirely sure if i'm getting one at all tbh

wow, beautiful!

Looks really nice.

i very genuinely hope 2 one day join a dinner party wherein your box is on the coffee table & becomes a center of discussion

aw, that's a great compliment, thx deej!

pretty sure the first one is going out this week!

the 140 character conference is on again, streamed on ustream. noted stunt critic whiney g was on a couple of hours ago but i guess he was too shy to bump and ksh was busy? yeh that sounds right. i looked in just now and whiney hero Hammer is holding court.

more like too busy panicking to bump

will we get a youtubez of this one?? yr last was v. entertaining

i suspect so!

waitin patiently

damn that box looks exceptional, i really can't believe how much those photos make me want one! i'm guessing they're completely gone at this point, huh

we still have about 7 or 8 left!

We're doing a run of 30 total

Can I still buy one of these boxes?

Yes!

Please do!

http://www.articlesarticle.com/1000timesyes/index.html

Oh is that by the EFF YOU SEE KAY people?? They came to our zinefest last year.

Whiney, did u see this?

http://twitter.com/gorillavsbear

i think u might have upset indie bloggers

bloggers are beefing all over the place

noz & eskay were beefing on twitter today -- always a hilarious back and forth

blogging is hard

― velko, Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:04 PM (1 month ago)

if it weren't for GvB, where would we all find Peter Bjorn and John remix mp3s???

or mp3s by the 35th most important chillwave artist in america

Gorilla vs. Bear is a Texas-based music blog. Once called "the New Yorker of hipster blogs," we blog about relevant artists of the day, with no particular genre-specific focus.

(link)

lol at "relevant artists of the day" -- i guess "relevancy" is a direct reference when carles uses it then

I mean, shots were fired on an "@" so I'm standing down for the time being.

xpost

HRO was one of the first things that came to mind when i read that

whiney's t-shirt was a mash note to icecr?m iirc

bloggin' Peter Bjorn and John, the "relevant artist" of 2006

whiney, what did you say about him in your speech?

i certainly didn't mention him by name.

was a good speech, obnoxious style esp. if u get paid indie blogging, but kind of inspiring in its way. telling the indie hype machine they are forcing artists to become keyboard cat to keep it fed. telling listeners to download an act because they like their name & to listen to radio outside their comfort genre and grab something u like off that.

think you can see the influence of ilx in that, saying u don't have to be in thrall to what's touted as the real or the alternative or the tasteful or the brainy, i.e. u don't have to be part of the herd in an indie-fog, there are other acts & other musics u will find as exhilarating or as emotionally resonant or as fun.

thanks zvook!

there's a link to it in the thing gvb is replying to

another good speech whiney, full of lols and t-bombs imo

yep, the video is up

omg this is incredible

awesome speech!

whiney are you doing any author events or a book tour?

http://www.whoframedruelfox.com/wfrf/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/network_beale.jpg
"i'm mad as hell and i'm not going to say the word 'crowdsourcing'"

(but seriously, it was a fine rant as far as anti-twitter rants by twitterers go)

dudley do-right voice is killin me

just finished watching it -- great speech, Whiney. keep fighting the good fight for good writing & music

Thoroughly enjoyed the speech, Whiney. At this point, though, isn't it sort of obvi to be pointing fingers at things like MTV and Paste? People want "lifestyle" outlets now (pretty sure you don't read Vogue but they often do movie/music reviews that are, of course, hilariously irrelevant) instead of niche markets, because this is what "moves units", etc. etc., but what can one do about it? I mean, seriously, what can one do about it?

Are things like this a lost cause? I mean, I am no rock critic, but I have done tons of music stuff for my college's indie rag, and from what I gather the point of doing such things isn't just to share opinions or analyses with others, but sharing them with others who want to read them. So if no one has much desire to read them anymore, where does one go from there?

amazing update:

http://tinyurl.com/23s86f2

Take that as a role model and you'll always be done and out early.

hahahahah

maybe next year you won't wear a trucker hat

haha oh man that village voice video is so funny -- <3 u whiney

i dug the american idol dig cuz it's really very otm

love that guy for putting quickdraw mcblaaawg in

haha oh man that village voice video is so funny -- <3 u whiney

― artie flange (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, April 21, 2010 12:41 PM (1 hour ago)

^^

i would really be asleep at the wheel if i wasn't sharing this twitter-related music video they premiered at the conference

http://everybodytweet.com/

thats the worst thing ive ever seen

just watched a minute or so of it and -_-

i kind of wonder if the new MIA album will sound like that

"Tweet the change you wanna see in the world..."

The 'Everybody Tweet' Twitter page: currently at 5 following, 10 followers, 0 listed. Those plucky tweeters have got a way to go yet!

http://twitter.com/everybody_tweet

so Whiney I saw you linked to this Hype Machine rebuttal on your Twitter

http://catslock.com/post/541381795/on-music-journalism

the real story is which ilx0r is this? they refer to you as "Whiney" and name-check Nabisco's tumblr

If Whiney chose to address the actual caliber of the writing on blogs, I’d be totally behind him: a lot of it sucks.

so 2000-and-late

just curious

its me

I'm the person who wrote that blog

uh oh

The funny part it that I actually agree with a whole lot of it! Yeah, blog writing mostly blows dong, and we should read more good blogs. I'm 100% on board with that.

The problem is that none of the good blogs are actually sustainable or profitable. Which is why Nah Right is huge and Cocaine Blunts is struggling; or Gorilla Vs Bear is huge and 20 Jazz Funk Greats is probably on "the dole" as they say over there. The system is not set up to allow the true vanguards and geniuses and thinkers to make money, just to be hobbyists who should apparantly be happy just to have clicks

I have probably posted about this before but my feeling on music writing and blogs or whatever is that there is really no reason to write about music when you can just link it and share it

are there any music blogs where they just write poetry and post albums or something

yeah that would be a great read

I mean I would appreciate it more than blogs that describe the music but I would probably just download the music and smile at the title or look for dirty words in the poem I don't know

that seems to be the going theory—and was the topic of my first speech

but i mean, i'm emotionally (and financially) invested in rock writing. Wiriting it and reading it is a passion of mine, so I am sad that seems to be the way things are headed

Said The Gramophone is kinda like blogpoems

nah you shouldn't be sad if you like writing then write, if you like writing about rock music, then do that, but don't think that there should be a separate discipline or criteria for either one

JUST TO CLARIFY:whiney I haven't read your writing, or watched your speeches or anything so I have no idea if what I am posting right now has been what you've been saying

I read your posts tho when I am online and posting tho

could sure go for a good wes montgomery blog right now

How many clicks do you think an MP3 porn blog would get? Simply post pictures of hot naked women with the latest Dirty Projectors MP3 (or whatever). No text, aside from the title of the song and band. Surely someone has thought of this already?

exploiting musicians

How many clicks do you think an MP3 porn blog would get? Simply post pictures of hot naked women with the latest Dirty Projectors MP3 (or whatever). No text, aside from the title of the song and band. Surely someone has thought of this already?

why stop at MP3s? Let's shackle every creative endeavor to porn in a last-ditch effort to make some money. sounds awesome.

also are you aware that the porn industry is also currently in severe financial straits thx to the internet

yes but how many clicks

I didn't think of it as a money making idea. I'm just thinking that MP3 blogs are, for the most part, a bit crap visually. I don't want to read a copy and paste of a press release, or look at some arty pictures of the band, or a scan of the bad cover art. There are a million places where I can do that now. Instead, I want to listen to the Dirty Projectors and look at naked women. I mean, if we're going to tolerate these things, might as well take it some ridiculous extreme. Right?

Gorilla Vs Bare

Stereocum

if we're going to tolerate these things, might as well take it some ridiculous extreme

*sigh*

hipster puppies

Drowned in Mound

The system is not set up to allow the true vanguards and geniuses and thinkers to make money

man, why did we get rid of the system that did

I looooool'd at "quickdraw mcblog" what's the story behind this meme??

The system is not set up to allow the true vanguards and geniuses and thinkers to make money, just to be hobbyists who should apparantly be happy just to have clicks

but this has been true for nearly all of human existence yeah?

Gorilla Vs Bare

LOL!

The xxx

are there any music blogs where they just write poetry and post albums or something

a couple years ago I did a thirty-poems-about-my-favorite-band thing and have been seriously considering just switching over to poems because I don't have the time to really focus on write long narrative criticism

so, i just found this parody: http://tinyurl.com/25a6md6

the parody is funny, but misses the point. interpreting his speech as some sort of rallying cry against the democratization of journalism would be ok if it weren't for the fact that the dude did the majority of his criticism last year on twitter. the examples of "stumble culture" that crumblr provides are more examples of corporate synergy than they are of stumbling, or randomness for that matter. calling whiney out for being a hypocrite really isn't much of a point either, since hypocrisy is redundant when you're naming the entire state of rock-crit as some kind of huge clusterfuck.

haha that was funny imo, especially when he makes fun of whiney's pronunciation of "coachella" (which i assumed was correct because i've never heard anyone talk about it IRL)

that was hilarious

i lol'd

hahah someone needs to make a version where the "fuck you!" is replaced by "shamwow!"

honestly would not be shocked if some variation on this persona winds up on weekend update sometime soon

owned

Would prolly be Armisen obv, but I think Moynihan would do a good job

i was gonna say samberg but yeah it's probably armisen since these complaints would make more sense for complaints about the death of music magazines coming out of an old dude

sorry so typo!!

i got my tweet card in the mail today -- i had totally forgotten about it and my first thought was "how the fuck did cymbals eat guitar's publicist get my home address?"

loooooool

figured this is the best place to say that i'm really enjoying yes in my backyard

spent 25 mins on the phone w/ whiney today for the kickstarter thing -- it was lots of fun, altho we might've talked a bit too much about ilx

loooooooooool

Oh Jesus.

i mentioned u

Oh, how so?

he mentioned ATP, and i said "talk to stephen ilxor about that"

Wish I had 25 mins with Whiney... :'(

Journalists these days are told that they have to be good at a lot of things: they have to produce for multiple platforms; they have to push their personal brand; they have to do more with less. As much as anybody else in the business, Weingarten has taken that advice to heart. When he’s not reviewing new records on Twitter—he did 1,000 tweet-reviews last year, all of them 140 characters or less—he’s writing slightly longer ones for outlets like Fuse, The Village Voice, and Rollingstone.com. He’s extremely active on the ILXOR music message board, where he goes by the name “Whiney G. Weingarten.” He wrote the cover story for the March/April issue of Revolver, a eleven-page history of hard-rock tattoos. His book about Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back was recently released by Continuum, as part of its 33 1/3 series of books about individual albums. He runs a Web site called Hipster Puppies, featuring photographs of dogs dressed in horn-rimmed glasses and hooded sweatshirts. The “bio” section of his Twitter page reads “Christopher R. Weingarten // Last Rock Critic Standing.”

someone needs to tell the columbia journalism review about suggest ban

had no idea chris was a dero stan

was just gonna say

ILXOR

Who, me?

Glad CJR is reading ILX.

holy lols, a 4-page article

It's meant to be broken up and read as 1,000 segments of 140 characters apiece.

should've embedded Er1c H4rv3y's condensed version of Whiney's speech at the beginning imo

pretty good article, though!

Whiney, do you know when the tweet boxes will be shipping? just wondering!

We only have half the cards typed at this point. A work in progress...

And by "we" I mean "nick and gabi"

ah cool! i was just wondering

ksh, do you get to request a hand-typed tweet on a silk-screened postcard?

Curious which you'll choose.

I considered going with something like The Antlers one, just because that record was huge for me last year, but then I ended up going with the Susan Boyle one, because it more or less said it all

did you get one dude?

I would LOVE to but no $$ for such things, I am a newlywed with budget concerns (incidentally this also means I'm being stretched to new lengths to buy music of any sort, and haven't done so for a while...).

yeah. (congrats on getting married tho!)

Hey thanks!

http://twitter.com/discographies

markers, did your box show up?

Yes! It is here!

Pledge $40 or more

Christopher will review your band's demo or album on @1000TimesYes! [IMPORTANT NOTE: Proceeds of this package go STRICTLY to the construction of the very expensive 2009 Tweet Boxes. All tweets resulting from this package will be accompanied by a FULL DISCLOSURE DISCLAIMER that they are, in fact, pay-for-review tweets]

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Did this ever happen? And if so, when did the reviews run?

so between twitter and ilx, how do you get anything done? how important is twitter to maintaining your, um, visibility?

Fuck twitter

ha, i just checked today to see if you had a twitter, raymond. some people are great at it, not sure if it's worth the feeling of blankness

is @noyokono on ilm

I am thinking no, but could be wrong.

def not