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Have any of you people gotten a copy of the new issue yet?

Someone said I had a letter to the editor and I am horribly concerned it is horribly embarassing, but I guess I am not cool enough to have gotten a copy yet.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Chunklet?

― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man yr crazy, Chunklet is THE BEST

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm waiting for the Chunklet articles "13,039 Reasons You Shouldn't Read 'Chunklet.'"

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Christhamrin - I had an embarassing letter in Chunklet once! It's a bummer of a story, really -- In their "Biggest Assholes in Rock" issue, one of the reasons that Stephin Merritt was called an asshole was listed as "Will croon for AZT." (Merritt is gay, AZT is an AIDS drug).
I thought the joke was particularly nasty and cruel, and wrote this letter that I CC'd Merge Records on, saying something about how fucked up Chunklet was for printing that, and how they think they're being ironic and cool but that joke was fucking evil, and how I "got into indie rock and punk to avoid assholes like you" and stuff like that.
So later, it turns out a few people wrote letters about that same joke, and the editor, a guy named Henry, didn't actually write that blurb -- another contributor did. And when he looked it over, he had thought AZT was an anti-depressant or something, so he was really sorry about the whole thing.
But I guess it got him in DEEP shit with Merge Records, who had been his biggest supporter at that time.
I felt kind of bad, because he seemed genuinely sorry it had been printed.
But he ran my letter in the next issue, and I CRINGED when I read it, because it sounded like any other raving letter to an editor. I always laugh at people who write long letters to the editor (a'la "How DARE you cancel The WB's 'Angel'" or whatever) and I had totally become that person, all self-righteous and shit, when it was just an honest mistake on Henry's part.

That said, I think Chunklet is NOT overrated and is actually deeply, deeply hilarious and smart (if aggresively and affectedly contrarian).

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Chunklet is kinda like the agglomeration of all those funny email forwards/lists you get, except through a rock geek filter. Some of them are funny, but most of them are not that funny. The hit/miss ratio could be a lot better... but sometimes it's worth it for moments like "best misheard Led Zeppelin lyrics", for example, and the "How to administer a proper man hug" article, with accompanying photos and mustaches.

There was an uproar about the proposed "Rich" issue, which would allegedly out all the trust fundee stars of independent rock.. then they backed out.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Chunklet is pretty excellent subway reading, but the issue about all the bands that should break up got redundant after the first say, 50. I also know that they asked one of the writers in their Asshole issue to write for them.

― Sara Sherr, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not the most politically correct person on the planet, but I thought it was very brave of Ben to take a stand on the AZT joke. That shit was wrong.

― Sara Sherr, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

There was an uproar about the proposed "Rich" issue, which would allegedly out all the trust fundee stars of independent rock.. then they backed out.

they were paid off.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I could name the perfect cover stars, but I'd rather not talk shit. I'll just say they rhyme with Heiger Smile and Doubleman Rumlimited.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

they were paid off.

haha.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

roger, are you implying Troubleman is funded with a trust fund?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll add that I'm a bit glad that they didn't do the 'Rich' issue because I think it would be the most ethically bankrupt thing Chunklet would have done, even relative to past issues. Drawing chalklines based on people's income = supremely lame.

HOWEVER..

Had they turned it around and perhaps implied a more critical commentary on how much more middle/upper class well known musicians are becoming in general because being well funded is becoming the only way to sustain the independent rock/electronic/etc. scenes (which could be a true or false hypothesis), that would have been far more interesting.. then again, far less funny.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Chunklet is indeed overrated. It's Cracked magazine for the Chugchanga mailing list set.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

A buddy of mine was working on the article in question and the way he did it was genius - but I won't give it away just in case it does eventually go to print.

Dan - I wasn't implying anyting other than the fact that the label is clearly more interested in generating 'sales' than it is in promoting good music. It's also, at the end of the day, a crap label run by a rich kid.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

err... guess who was the one who was going to write the chunklet trust-fund cover story? yep. after getting hate mail from i can't even remember how many indie rock luminaries, i decided not to do it (i was working on a twin cover story of trust-fund rockers (which was NOT -- i repeat NOT -- gonna be excessively negative) and a list of the 50 richest indie rockers (actually got some really good info on that one)). to his credit, henry never discouraged me when this shit was coming down, but i just decided it wasn't worth it time- or backlash-wise.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

It's also, at the end of the day, a crap label run by a rich kid.

This is, like, 99% of all record labels.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

(ok, 90%.. to stick with the true numbers of the Universal Quality Corollary...and to allow for the term "crap" to be extremely relative)

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Yanc3y IS... the insider.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

after getting hate mail from i can't even remember how many indie rock luminaries

What specifically were they complaining about -- the principle of the thing or that they themselves were being named ("I'm not rich! I'll tell you who the REAL trust fund bastard is...")?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Just clarifying. People can say what they want about his business and artistic choices, but Mike is definately not a rich kid and definately not only interested in generating 'sales'. He puts out records he likes, for better and for worse, which have included stuff like the ABCs and the Zs, and stuff that may seem like trendy 'sales' generating choices, but often weren't at the time. He has a few records that are popular, which help fund the rest of his releases, as does his other job.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

they complained about the principle of the thing. i think it being chunklet (this fresh off the heels of the asshole and shit list issues), they assumed the worst. i really didn't want it turn out that way. i wanted it to be funny and entertaining and FACTUAL, but not some sort of mccarthyist campaign (i can't tell you how many emails made that accusation).

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

wait. i don't know you roger, and i don't think the dude i was working with (j0e r0bins0n) knows you either. were there two of these being worked on? i was doing this maybe two years ago...

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

sounds like dusty baker.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought t1ger style was major-funded?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Yanc3y - I was under the impression that my friend (his initials are DG - email me for his name if yr interested) was doing the article - but maybe it was an article within the same issue to complimnet the cover story. His article narrowed it down - and again, I don't wanna spoil the idea because it really is a great one - and connected this supposed 'trust funding' with other things.

He's written for Chunklet before, too.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, am I out of my gourd in suggesting that even back in the 60s, many a band made it primarily because at least one person in it was well funded? I guess I'm questioning the redundancy of the concept of a 'Rich' issue of Chunklet is what I'm sayin'.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Robert Johnson >>> Kenny Wayne Shephard
Poor Righteous Teachers >>> Luna
etc etc

poor people win

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

regarding the whole ethical issue of being rich...I find it a pretty annoying remnant of a certain type of punk rock attitude that there is something inherently wrong with having money, or even not having to work for that money. Is it frustrating that some people don't have to work for their money or come from money, sure, but if those people aren't assholes about it, what's the problem? And I also find the more I understand how this world works the more I realize that to avoid taking advantage of knowing people with money, nepotism etc, is just silly.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I'm calling bullshit on the Troubleman hating. First of all, even if the kid WAS rich, isn't he doing what we all would LOVE to be doing if WE were rich -- putting out tons of records by bands we liked just for the hell of it?
Why the attacks on THAT!?

And, you know what, I take umbrage with the claim that it's a "crap label." If you don't like the music he puts out, fine, but that doesn't mean the label is CRAP -- as a label, he's amazing -- he puts out TONS of shit each year; all different types of stuff (some of which are very cool and clearly labors of love, i.e. reissues and stuff -- Metamatics, Death Comet Crew, etc.) and he's VERY accomodating to record collecting nerds like all of us (and himself) with everything.

I realize I shouldn't even take Roger's bait on this, but those comments are just completely wrongheaded.

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i heard that polyamory guy is a total trustafarian.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha! Good one gygax.

Where to begin here? Dan's post actually made me angry (first time that's ever happened on ILM) but I got over it as soon as I realized that Dan has probably never tried to put out a record or book a show or any of that stuff - because if he did, he'd soon realize that an asshole with a rich dady can put out a mediocre, sub par piece of bargain bin-ready garbage and get a full page ad for it in Magnet, while there's some amazing band of 15 year olds rocking out in a garage in Nowheresville right now who no one will ever hear because they don't have the money or 'contacts' to get heard. Trust fund labels (and trust fund, ahem, 'artists') flood an already overcrowded marketplace with complete and utter shit simply because they CAN.

Ben - perhaps we each have 'inside' information that refutes the other's claims re: Troubleman, but I really don't even want to give it the time or space on ILM. I say it's a crap label, you're free to waste your money however you wish.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Uh, Dan runs Acute records, dude.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I realized that Dan has probably never tried to put out a record or book a show or any of that stuff

none, except for the records that he has put out and the shows that he has booked.

xpost

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I was about to say. Roger, you've unfortunately just shot yourself in the foot, big time.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Acute Records is funded by Carpark Records. None of my money, for what it's worth. But I've done some other stuff, some with money made at my day job and some with money given to me as birthday gifts from my father. Go dad! Thanks for putting me through college!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

while there's some amazing band of 15 year olds rocking out in a garage in Nowheresville right now who no one will ever hear because they don't have the money or 'contacts' to get heard.

What about the "trustafarian" labels that DO put out "amazing" 15 year old rockers? What about all the "crap" bands that can't afford the contacts? It works both ways.

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

not really because I don't care. And if anything, it makes his opinion even harder to swallow. How can anyone running a true 'independent' label feel this way? Rich people have always been the destroyers of music. Period.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"while there's some amazing band of 15 year olds rocking out in a garage in Nowheresville right now who no one will ever hear because they don't have the money or 'contacts' to get heard"

but if one of them had a trust-fund, they would get heard, which is a good thing, right?

Roger, if there was no rich people, there'd be no music. We'd all be eating hay.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

and if there were no poor people, there'd be no rock and roll. And you'd all be eating pussy.

Sorry, not sold. But like I said, it's not a big deal. I'm not arguing on behalf of the poor punkers all over the world - it's just my opinion. You might say some of my friends have already been this fucked.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

one member of a brooklyn noise duo that you've extolled on this board seems to subsist solely on pretty hefty parental subsidiaries... maybe you should go around to his place and give him what-for.

xpost

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

poor punkers like Mike Simonetti!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's not name names here. Because, name for name, I'd win. I don't even know who you're talking about

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

whatever. you get irritated and i do, too.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

(i love how this thread began by talking about how cliche being contrarian is and then ended by showing us just how cliche being contrarian is ... luckily chunklet does it better than most ... i would not have paid to read this thread as funny as it is)

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 02:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i didn't pay, but there went 9 minutes of my life! hmm... is one tree hill on yet?

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i guess it is worth it then since chunklet takes forever to read.

― dean! (deangulberry), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Well this thread sure took a turn while I was going about my day, good stuff.

Chunklet is like contrarian, contrarian, contrarian, man. For the record I like Chunklet, its just the new issue is the 'overrated' issue (though perhaps they all are) in this case its overrated albums.

But I guess it got him in DEEP shit with Merge Records, who had been his biggest supporter at that time.

Maybe they made up cause one of the people who said I was in it was Merge-related.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Roger, Mike Simonetti is the the guy behind Troubleman. The guy who built up a really impressive record label without a trust fund. He's who you were talking about. Or maybe you were responding to Lauren.

Either way, there's no black and whites about this, just lots of grey areas. It's nice to think of an ideal world where everyone is a self-made person and suceeds solely on the quality of their work or whatever...but for the rest of us, we work it the way we have to, and some very rich people have helped some very poor get their music heard.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

But mp3s changed everything MAAAAAN. Except I suppose you have to steal the computer first if you can't afford it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan - I was responding to Lauren. I know very well who runs Troubleman.

― roger adultery, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 03:53 (twenty-one years ago)

it's easy to respect chunklet because it's well-arranged and sometimes timely.

i can't stand the negativity though.

it's way too fucking easy to be the two old dudes up in the balcony cracking on kermit.

chunklet lately seems like the mad magazine of the rock world. nothing is sacred. and sure there are definitely times for that, but it's not something i'd clutch to.

― msp, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I once booked Erase Errata for a show at my school and Mike was there helping them out. I'm not privy to his personal finances, but frankly when someone works as hard for his label's band, and acts as polite, friendly and grateful to me as Mike did that day, I don't give a fuck where his money comes from.

― Dave M. (rotten03), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

wonder how much he's helping out the Jeff Humphrey Trio or Bubble Jug. Oops, I forgot, they don't sell 17,000 records.

― roger adultery, Wednesday, 24 March 2004 06:09 (twenty-one years ago)

his money comes from walking dogs and selling Erase Eratta records. It definately doesn't come from DJing, though we are spinning the basement of centro-fly for the easter Motherfucker party.

Roger, now you're getting at your issues w/ Troubleman. First you complain that he's a rich kid putting out crap records for the money. I contend that's not the case. Is the issue that he doesn't push or promote artists on his label that don't sell 17,000 copies?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 06:21 (twenty-one years ago)

(I hope the real reason is juicy.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

wonder how much he's helping out the Jeff Humphrey Trio or Bubble Jug. Oops, I forgot, they don't sell 17,000 records.

Actually, Roger, this happened to be on the Other Animals tour before they really blew up, and certainly before they sold said 17,000 records. Had enough fun putting your foot in your mouth yet, or would you like to go for the hat trick?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 09:33 (twenty-one years ago)

My foot in my mouth >>> a fat dude's cock in yours

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

In their "Biggest Assholes in Rock" issue, one of the reasons that Stephin Merritt was called an asshole was listed as "Will croon for AZT."

I thought this was fucking hilarious, as did my girlfriend--we were shocked at all the mea culpa stuff in the next issue. Do people really find it that offensive? I don't understand why endless fag jokes are OK but AIDS jokes are not.

― adam (adam), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Can you fault someone for having money any more than you can for their race?

― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

"and a list of the 50 richest indie rockers (actually got some really good info on that one)."

YANCEY, DO TELL. I'LL DO ANYTHANG.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Hay Roga, I hate rich people as much as the next working class hero/stiff, but truth be told, most music would still be a luxurious commodity to all but a select few were it not for generous monetary backing. It is just the way the cookie crumbles. This, however, does not exempt them (the richies) from damaging said assessments at any given time.

― Francis Watlington (Francis Watlington), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The ultimate indie rock insider 'zine -- don't they have inside jokes about distributors and pr reps and what not? zzz

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that Dave M. challenges Roger to the hat trick -- then the very next post, Roger pulls it off with the wicked "fat man's cock" comeback! And the best thing about it is that it was the very next post, but it was FIVE HOURS LATER!! That's too much, man. This shit writes itself.

Adam/Hex: I don't see how the fact that "fag" jokes are allegedly acceptable means that it's then okay to crack AIDS jokes (It's AIDS, dude... are you that solipsistic that because your world hasn't been affected by something that's a fucking worldwide crisis then it's okay to joke about it??). I know, I know, typical self-righteous bleeding heart liberal indie shit, but jesus christ --

Besides, the comment in question about Merritt sort of soured the joke of the issue -- calling assholes out on their asshole-ness is one thing, but calling someone an asshole (even indirectly) because of his sexual preference (and then punctuating it with a crack about a disease that has killed so many pointlessly) takes the whole thing from snarky and "Mad"ish to just cruel and hurtful. Again, though, it was one sour spot in an otherwise brilliant issue -- and the editor's mea culpa was classy and smart.

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

So the answer to this thread is that you should all give your money to me so I become rich.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you gonna set up a label then, Ned?

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Label?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

See, what has to happen is Ned has to find one person with good taste and money and another person with connections. They he will form a lable and put all the Disco Inferno records back in print. And everyone is happy. Even Iggy Pop is happy thanks to sample royalties.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay happy!

(Dan, I'm still waiting on that one CDR you said you were gonna burn? *sniffles*)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

it'll be worth it...and I'll throw in some others to make up for lost time. I've pissed a few people off by promising stuff and being lazy, but for the 98% who finally get a package from me, they're happy!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurrah! Happiness is had!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Ugh...I just got the "overrated" issue in the mail yesterday. There are one or two vaguely cute things in it (the part about overrated drummers was actually kind of entertaining, though one of the guys totally wimps out on Dave Grohl, possibly the dullest drummer on the chart), but mainly it seems like *Motorbooty* without the punchlines (in the same way that, like, *Friends is *Seinfeld without the punchlines). Which is to say: without anything. The extremely long "overrated albums" section is unbelievably bad: All these guys saying "Well, lots of people say this record is good, but really it's not!" in the least interesting and specific way possible. (Unless they say "well, this record is actually good, but it's not their BEST album" or "i like this band a lot, but this album is many people's favorite but not mine" or, how shocking can you get, "the Eagles suck."?)

― chuck, Tuesday, 4 May 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

And oh yeah, at least the completely obvious Fountains of Wayne vs Beatles chart isn't as lame as the 6th grade grossout jokes about Courtney Love's vagina, or all the year-late dime-a-dozen platitudes about how Liz Phair "sold out" or whatever. Jeez..

― chuck, Tuesday, 4 May 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

So Chunklet (which I've never read) is like Magnet would be if they let that douchebag who writes the back page write the whole thing?

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't think it was very funny either. Except for the 3 or 4 things I snuck in there. Fucking hilarious!

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I take that back. It all sucked.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The other thing that confused me (unless this WAS a joke, in which case, hey they got me!) is that they suddenly act like Honor Role, some North Carolina band who as I recall put out an okay 7-inch in 1987 or so called "Lives of the Saints" or something that I remember as a likeable but basically forgettable imitation of *October File* Die Kreuzen, are suddenly treated as this amazingly seminal and influential "math rock" band. There's this long (and somewhat readable, compared to the rest of the zine) Jordan Mamome interview with some big shirtless gay man who used to be in that band and apparently is in some metal band now, and he spends a big chunk of it sour-grapes-whining about the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and White Stripes and Strokes, lamenting those long lost days when indie rock bands had no commercial ambitions beyond their hometown, since you know, that's what REAL punks are supposed to settle for. Come to think of it, that might be the funniest thing in the issue...

― chuck, Tuesday, 4 May 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Chuck - So true in the comparison to Motorbooty. When I picked up Chunklet for the first time (bands that should break up, I believe) I had Motorbooty in the fore of my cerebellum (or wss it the hind of my frontal cortex?). On the flight home from Seattle, where I bought it, I quickly switched to SkyMall, which I found much funnier. It's since been on the bottom of the pile next to the toilet.

― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I just found an ad for the band Jet in an in-flight magazine! Brilliant.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The Honor Role reappraisal isn't as sudden as you represent it to be; Merge reissued most of their stuff a few years ago.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

HONOR ROLE=MEH
BREADWINNER=OWNS

The newest Chunklet was weak...except for the H. Jon Benjamin interview.

― ddb, Tuesday, 4 May 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

completely obvious Fountains of Wayne vs Beatles chart

can someone write this up for those of us for whom it isn't obvious enough that we can entirely synthesize it on our own, please

― common_person (common_person), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

One time I put a noodle up my nose.

― uh (eetface), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

and then what happened??

― common_person (common_person), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know, I'm still waiting to see.

― uh (eetface), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, the new issue is a disappointment with the exception of patrick gough's drummer appraisals (gygax to thread!).

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

hmmm... i need to get to a magazine stand. thanks Yanc3.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 4 May 2004 21:25 (twenty-one years ago)

patrick also has an "it sucks to be a rock star" piece in there, which i feel kinda embarrassed about, honestly, cuz:

fucking m. doughety from soul coughing did it better in might.

AND

patrick was never a rock star to begin with, and there's hardly a man less nervy about the whole business than him.

but patrick, if you read this, i still love you! where have you been hiding these past few years??

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

that should read MORE nervy

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

speaking of exposes on trust funds, e! is running a true hollywood story on trust fund babies. i was surprised that the trump family net worth is only (i know, "only") 2.5 billion.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 31 May 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

eight months pass...

Wait, so *Chunklet* just "reissued" the overrated issue (which wasn't remotely funny in the first place -- see my post above), and now there are *two* parts to it (one issue for records pre-'91, one issue for records post-'91)? (just got both in the mail today.) what the fuck? were people really hankering for a reissue of a magazine that was less than a year old? if so, heck, i would've given them my copy if they'd asked for it (assuming i still have it around somewhere.)

― chuck, Wednesday, 2 February 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...

I got a copy now too. I don't think they reissued the over-rated issue, but did a sequel. These guys really don't like Williamsburg much, do they.

― the entrepeneur chicken shed his tail feathers, surplus, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 20:25 (twenty years ago)

Reading through magazine and thread:

"So Chunklet (which I've never read) is like Magnet would be if they let that douchebag who writes the back page write the whole thing?"

More like Andrew Earles (Magnet hatchet job hack), who's a Chunklet contributor too.

― the entrepeneur chicken shed his tail feathers, surplus, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 21:21 (twenty years ago)

response to something upthread:

tigerstyle WAS funded by insound. i know this because i spent all day packing insounds orders while watching the tigerstyle guy sit at his desk 10 feet away from me, picking his nose.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Man, I miss Motorbooty so much. I loved Chunklet when I was in high school, but I tried picking it up a bit ago and just couldn't get past the fag titty fag fag titty jokes long enough to care anymore.

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

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