I hate writing about music.

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It's not the music, per say, just the people.

I feel better for saying it!

― Jimmy the Saint (Jimmy the Saint), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:09 (twenty years ago) link

such insolence

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:19 (twenty years ago) link

What people?

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:24 (twenty years ago) link

these days: don't mind doing it if i'm getting paid ('cos i can do it quickly and it's out of the way), otherwise have completely gone off writing about music at all. as of this week my blog becomes non-musical, whenever i can be bothered to update it, which won't be often.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:27 (twenty years ago) link

Just people connected to the music journalism thing. I've had it. There are only two people who I actually liked. No more sitting there listening to dumb-ass banter with a forced grin on my face hoping that my pitch will go through. I hate it. It goes against my nature of avoiding eye contact and conversation with silly dumb people. Music journalism is worse than telemarketing.

― Jimmy the Saint (Jimmy the Saint), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:28 (twenty years ago) link

I thought the idea was bad before, but all this stuff about 'pitching' things makes it out to be even worse.

And no I don't want to be a catcher either, thank you.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:32 (twenty years ago) link

I won't get into the politics either when you go cross pitch to two different magazines.

― Jimmy the Saint (Jimmy the Saint), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:33 (twenty years ago) link

know the feeling. me, i just pitch everything through to david p and he usually says yes anyway 'cos me trusts me (?). but unfortunately has this bee in bonnet about not running anything unless there is a Press Contact, thus my pluramon rave which was ready back in december still hasn't been ok'd. i keep having to say to him: "david i don't sit and wait for music to come to me, i go out and find it..." same with sufjan stevens album. so it's frustrating but i treat it as a useful sideline, nothing more, nothing less.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:34 (twenty years ago) link

Ack. That is frustrating. But even with editors who know the music - know the politics - things need press contacts - pr's. getting independant things into the papers is a highlight and the only joy!

It happens but not as often as I like. I don't hate the player. Just the game. And some of these prs! Man.

― Jimmy the Saint (Jimmy the Saint), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:36 (twenty years ago) link

I do it in a bubble. Everyone else who writes for Stylus lives miles away (generally thousands) and I can block the cunts on MSN if they start to bore me.

― Llahtuos Kcin (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 11:36 (twenty years ago) link

Not that I disagree with anything here, but if you hate politics and pitching stuff (which really means selling yourself and your ideas to someone), what field do you plan to go into? Anything remotely corporate will be the same.

(secret answer: win the lottery and become a samurai)

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 14:03 (twenty years ago) link

Just cause I've got to do it - does not mean I like it, you know. It just gets me down.

― Jimmy the Saint (Jimmy the Saint), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 14:17 (twenty years ago) link

In every day and every way, Nick is becoming my hero.

― Huck Stable (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 14:42 (twenty years ago) link

I'll suck your cock for $1,000 dollars. Brad can't watch though, or he has to pay $100.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 14:42 (twenty years ago) link

Are you going to start singing 'Wind Beneath My Wings' soon? On my thread?

― Jimmy the Saint (Jimmy the Saint), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago) link

You don't have to do it. That's why bad jobs depress people, because they think they have to do them. I'm serious, become a samurai and then be forced to live every day as if it was your last, while killing a bunch of ne'erdowells along the way.

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 14:47 (twenty years ago) link

Plus when you get sick of your job killing people, it's very easy to stop.

― Huck Stable (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link

and socially acceptable.

― Huck Stable (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 14:54 (twenty years ago) link

I've not found it easy. Where else can I get that kind of rush?

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago) link

NASCAR?

― Huck Stable (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 14:56 (twenty years ago) link

Catalguing films is OK, but it ain't matching up to lopping off the ehads of vagrants now, is it?

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 14:57 (twenty years ago) link

But even that, Sick, gets old after a while. Seriously. I remember my first decapitation. It was like time stood still. But lately, it's just lop, lop, fizz, fizz.

― Huck Stable (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 15:06 (twenty years ago) link

The secret is different weapons, my good man. I use a variety of edged devices in my slaughterings, from the wakizashi to the katana.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago) link

A wakizashi;
http://www.medievaltimes.com/giftshop/600/17%20wakizashi.jpg

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 15:12 (twenty years ago) link

secret answer: win the lottery and become a samurai
...while killing a bunch of ne'erdowells along the way

Mental note: must come up with with script where modern day nutjob samurai wanders the earth killing everyone who buys a lottery ticket, just to give himself better odds.

Ron Perlman to play samurai. Takes delight in lopping off Tom Cruise's head and whispering to himself:

'Eleven million to one, motherfucker'

Public note: feel free to steal this idea. If by 'steal' you mean pay me lots of money.

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link

More talk of wakizashis please.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 17:09 (twenty years ago) link

Wakizashis: Warning From History.

― Jim Robinson (Original Miscreant), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 23:26 (twenty years ago) link

That's a good effort but it's not enough.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 23:39 (twenty years ago) link

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