The next time we're in the middle of a heated Stereogum comment debate, we should take a moment to remember the one thing we can all agree on: this guy is a fucking monster.
I need to do the same thing ASAP.
Glad that my "How Is This Not in Print?!" list has shrunk so much in the past few years: this, the Beta Band, the Hold Steady, Broadcast, Boards of Canada, and MBV coming soon.
C'moooooon, The Reminder.
“Today, I begin to properly defend myself. I will prove without any doubt that I am innocent of all rape charges. Today, I will focus on “The Original Sin” (Keri Claussen), the claim that created this insane pile on of my #MeToo. Stay tuned! We’ll share information today… And tomorrow the case of Jenny Lumet. My intention is not to diminish the #MeToo movement in anyway, but instead hold my accusers accountable. #NotMe Again, this is not a movement against or even in conjunction with #Metoo . It’s just a statement about my innocence.”
“‘The Original Sin’” “Stay tuned!” “#NotMe”
Narcissist Alert
To paraphrase my favorite blog, it’s Russell’s movie. Everyone else is just the supporting cast. And if these allegations are true...well, that’s what happens when you don’t follow the script.
You beat me to saying exactly this.
As if beginning every other sentence with “as a yogi” wasn’t bad enough, he gives his first alleged rape a snappy title and unnecessary quotation marks.
Narcissists love branding, especially branding themselves.
Thanks! I'm just about done "Payless, 1993" and am already halfway through "Middle-School Dance, 1998" and "Aéropostale, 2002", so this will come in handy.
If we’re thinking of the same song, then you’ve just started a new playlist:
“I’m working at a shoe store, the anti-theft alarm keeps going off, and I’m trying to convince some lady that size varies by brand and she may not be a 7 and a half while my manager reminds me we’re doing inventory tonight.”
2004 changes a man.
BREAKING: Woah, woah, woah...the Mutt Lange? Let's not bury the lede here.
How about "Produced AC/DC's Highway to Hell and Back in Black, Def Leppard's Hysteria, and Shania Twain's bajillion-selling Come On Over"? How about "Married to Shania Twain for 15 Years Until He Cheated on Her with Her Best Friend"?
(Fun fact: Shania Twain wound up marrying the ex-husband of the same best friend her husband had an affair with.)
"Your Wildest Dreams" by the Moody Blues is a total childhood shoe-shopping with your mom song. Whenever I hear it, it's 1991, I'm in Payless sliding my heel back on that metal shoe-sizer thing, and my mom's asking some lady "do you think he has enough room?" as she's pressing down too hard on my big toe.
See also: "Freeze-Frame", "King of Wishful Thinking", "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car"
antigone, anyone who reads the news would understand why she had thought. What we're saying is that thought is a wildly stupid one, and even the possibility that she would act on it is terrifying.
I know. I’m from Philadelphia, birthplace of the legitimately evil “Stop Snitchin’” campaign.
What I’m saying is it’s absurd and dangerous not to report a crime solely for that reason. If you’re the victim of an actual assault and can identify your assaulter, this is just about the worst possible reason not to.
I agree it’s her choice whether to report her abuser, and I have sympathy for anyone who is so traumatized or scared or worried they don’t have enough proof that they choose not to report. If one of those is the real reason here, she has my sympathy for being reluctant to report.
What I’m saying is not reporting a sexual assault out of a sense of loyalty to their assaulter based on his/her race is wrong and dangerous. The possibility that there are people out there who are more likely to get away with sexual assault because they and their victims are all members of the same minority demographic is fucking horrifying.
I’m queer and enjoy PWR BTTM’s music but want the book thrown at what’s-his-name if he did in fact assault someone. That’s because I know his alleged crime and his gender identity or sexual orientation have nothing to do with each other.
We rightfully criticize cops who, out of loyalty, don’t turn in other cops they know have committed crimes. We rightfully criticize men who, out of loyalty, don’t turn in other men they know have committed sexual assault. Why shouldn’t we criticize the idea of not reporting someone, out of loyalty, based on his/her race?
"I didn’t want to [file the report] because black lives matter,” Bass said. “I [didn’t] want to because I do not want to put another brown man in jail."
wut
"Now, they've given Kendrick album of the year three of the last six years."
He's also--to my knowledge--the first artist to win Album of the Year and Song of the Year in the same year.
Because if big Spin Media Group LLC, Inc. saw that a comment on one of their own sites is sending precious, precious clicks to Condé Nast, we're done for.
See my above comment: It's dumb, but they've admitted in the past they don't place albums from genres with relatively limited appeal on their year-end lists.
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