Comments on: Pig-Ignorant Racist Idiot

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:31:09 +0000

Well he clearly just doesn’t like indie, which is his right of course. But pretending that this equates to some pompous and paper-thin social theory is just fucking silly.

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Arcade Fire - Live, Glasgow SECC, Friday 26th October 2007 « Song, by Toad — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 13:28:01 +0000

[...] And yes, before you ask, they were still far, far too white. Sheesh. [...]

By: Deiter

Deiter — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:49:10 +0000

Reading your comments on the article I’m afraid I’d never be able to read it myself for fear of raising my considerable ire. Truly, even the title makes my teeth gnash. My belief is that African American music did not evolve in a vacuum. It drew on influences and sources of the new world–not the least of which was the guitar and the piano–and brought to it things that could’ve only come from African American experience. The article seems to be saying that music of any other tradition is inherently inferior, which is not only ethnocentric but also idiotic. Perhaps there are those who would agree with such a position–and there may be many–even though it is intellectually indefensible. That’s like saying Bob Dylan can’t sing or Picasso can’t paint: It’s myopic, ignorant, and from the ranks of the New Yorker, it’s offensive.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:00:13 +0000

I have no idea what most of that means. I do, however, have something good to say about Girls Aloud: four of them are really quite fit. And the fifth isn’t the one you think I mean.

By: rrobertsjnr

rrobertsjnr — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:32:35 +0000

BTW, you right guuud,
and are usually quite funny. too.
I about croak someti………….

I don’t know from search engines, I can
barely fine the next k..
……………

Can you find the gumption to say anything
good about ‘Girls Aloud”?

or, have I lost any tiny spot of credibility I may have
had bringing themup, or are you xenophobic, in which case
I extend any pity you may wish to accept.

It’s ok just to have fun, sometimes.

Isn’t it.

I will leave you alone now.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:38:11 +0000

G’Day Mr Roberts Jnr. Are you the chap who found this site by entering ‘Sasha Frere Jones Idiot’ into a search engine? I was very proud when I saw that one!

And enough ‘horse-puckey’. This is a family website, we’ll have none of that sort of language here.

By: rrobertsjnr

rrobertsjnr — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:32:40 +0000

They New Yorker is a veritable mine-field of such pure
horse-puckey as this is, but the occasional non-fiction
piece is sometimes worth the collateral damage suffered
in rooting it out.

Good work in making some cogent points about the indie-phobe and always idiotic SF-J.

By: China

China — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:58:13 +0000

Oh, hello then, Brother Of Toad. And yes, all the better for website marketing, as he can confirm for prospective readers that even in childhood you were not a soft-looking twat in tweed.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:24:03 +0000

China, meet my brother. Yes, we’re all a little ashamed of him, but family is family and the adoption services didn’t want him either.

By: China

China — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:11:06 +0000

I think Ben would be a fabulous hire in the world of Song, By Toad marketing.