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Reading the Pitchfork review by Nick Sylvester of the soundtrack for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Andrew Sullivan declares, Poseur Alert..

My question is... which is more annoying, Andrew Sullivan qua Andrew Sullivan, or the review? Sure there are phrases like "the soundtrack's fluid matrix performatizes the cinematography's mind/body collapse," but I think all in all it's a good piece of writing.

― daria g (daria g), Thursday, 8 April 2004 10:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Andrew Sullivan has turned into ILM!!!!!

― Sym (shmuel), Thursday, 8 April 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Now we have to find out which one of us is Andrew Sullivan.

― Jedmond (Jedmond), Thursday, 8 April 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Holy shit! Next thing you know the Drudge Report will be covering us.

"BREAKING: PITCHFORK GIVES CONDI RICE'S 9/11 TESTIMONY A 0.0"

― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Thursday, 8 April 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Pharmco apologist, cable TV-stealer, disseminator of crap science, jingo-freak, talking head, blogger, owner of "monster glutes," fan of Camille Paglia -- that's a lot to live down.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 8 April 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm really lost.

Who is Andrew Sullivan?

What is his connection to Eternal Sunshine?

What point was he even making about pitchfork?!

― David Allen (David Allen), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Andrew Sullivan is a gay, Republican, British expat living in Washington DC. He's written for The New Republic and other pubs, is pretty smart and disappointingly conservative. Oh, and a friend of mine almost got run over by him in DuPont Circle while he was biking...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, and he's a political pundit/columnist. Guess I didn't make that clear.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

All of the previous post is basically right except the "pretty smart" part.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw him on meet the press last weekend and he had a goatee too...

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh he also has AIDS, I believe.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Or rather HIV.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Isn't he the one who claims to have coined the term "metrosexual?" He might be one of the smuggest (word?) columnists around, which is saying a lot.

― Scott CE (Scott CE), Thursday, 8 April 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew Sullivan slightly in college. He was in grad school but was better known as a really good actor (he almost took the lead in our version of Peter Nichol's Passion Play, but bagged), and his midnight candle-lit theater version of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets was beautiful, and quite interesting now in retrospect.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 8 April 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, interesting.

Re. the "pretty smart" thing: Alex, I disagree with him heartily on just about everything, barring a few moderate social things he supports. But his explanation for why he could never vote for Bush again after the gay marriage constitutional amendment proposal was both powerful and articulate.

That said, I think it's amusing/bizarre that he would be commenting on or even reading Pitchfork.

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 8 April 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, it's really a "when worlds collide" scenario

― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 8 April 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I just figured he was hitting on me.

― Nick Sylvester, Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not that suprising that he's reading it. The truth is a lot of people are reading Pitchfork these days. Say what you will about the writing or the coverage, but Pitchfork has quite a high profile now. I bring this up because it's only really started to sink in for me recently. When I mention to people that I write for Pitchfork now they've often heard of it (especially if they're college kids), and that didn't used to happen.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:27 (twenty-one years ago)

ALL the hipster kids at Penn State read it. The local music store now checks out what bands are getting raves there so they can stock up when all the kids run down to pick it up that afternoon.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 8 April 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but I still don't imagine many gay-expat-HIV-positive-Repubican-Inside-the-Beltway columnists are rushing to see the latest on Jeff Tweedy's rehab stint...

― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

It only takes one...

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 8 April 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

very entertaining.
don't know if ILM as a whole realizes how much so.
also this:

http://www.spikemagazine.com/splinters/2004_03_21_archive.php

― duke spoon, Thursday, 8 April 2004 21:51 (twenty-one years ago)

the morning dj at the local college station does a music news segment where he just reads pitchfork news items verbatim, he never credits those wits, maybe they should sue.

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 9 April 2004 00:38 (twenty-one years ago)

when will Pitchfork endorse barebacking, is what I wanna know.

― hstencil, Friday, 9 April 2004 05:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Who is Andrew Sullivan?
He's gay, yet Republican. He's British, yet American. He likes invading brown people, yet he likes to have sex with men!!!!
Has he blown your mind yet?

― Sym (shmuel), Friday, 9 April 2004 06:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually not a Republican. Independent. Conservative, yes.

― no opinion, Friday, 9 April 2004 06:52 (twenty-one years ago)

You are ruining my buzz.

― Sym (shmuel), Friday, 9 April 2004 06:57 (twenty-one years ago)

sullivan and pitchform are different cheeks of the one over-inflated syphillitic ass

― queen G of copacabana, Friday, 9 April 2004 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

pitchfork

― queen G of copacabana, Friday, 9 April 2004 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Queen G is back!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 9 April 2004 11:59 (twenty-one years ago)

re: scott ce, supra
i'm confident enough that andy sullivan did not coin 'metrosexual' that i'm not going to bother checking to confirm it.

in fact, i'm sure he's bitched about it as much as anyone

― deus ex puella, Friday, 9 April 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

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