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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Music An Open Letter To: Stephen Malkmus

Posted by Hallie Santo on Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:35 PM

Dear Stephen Malkmus,

I hear that you and your band* played Ege Bamyasi in its entirety in Cologne last week. So, I'm just dying to know:

Were you there in 1968? Were you there at the first Can show in Cologne?

Are you losing your edge to the drunk sixteen-year-old kids whose footsteps you hear on your roof?

Are you losing your edge to the internet seekers who can tell you every member of Pavement, the Silver Jews, and the Jicks?

Are you losing your edge to all the kids from Tokyo and Berlin? (Of course you are. You live in Berlin now, don't you?)

Are you losing your edge to the art-school Brooklynites with "sunset nostalgia" for your unremembered 1989 EP Slay Tracks?

Were you there in 2000 at the Kim's Bedroom exhibition in a museum in the Netherlands?

Were you there when David Berman started up his first band? Did you tell him, "Don't do it that way; you'll never make a dime"?

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You need to chill out. You sound like a sibling of Paul Constant. Make some paintings like the guy who did the cover of Wowee Zowee, do anything, but don't write anymore. Thanks

Posted by dnt trust me on December 12, 2012 at 12:43 PM

Um, Line Out?

Posted by I Got Nuthin' on December 12, 2012 at 12:59 PM

I'd rather they put Slog behind a paywall than have to suffer these intrusive plugs for Lineout. Just because people like to listen to music doesn't mean they want to read about it. "Dancing about architecture", am I right?

Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

on December 12, 2012 at 1:10 PM

...I know that was English. I recognized each of the individual words. But other than talking about some musician playing something I have absolutely no idea what that is all about.

I am officially out of touch. I will now go listen to my vinyl records of the Andrews Sisters while looking at pictures of Betty Grable.

Posted by GhostDog on December 12, 2012 at 1:21 PM

And can I just say, Jesus, what a snotty post.

Posted by I Got Nuthin' on December 12, 2012 at 1:30 PM

Can we have another post, translating this one?

Or perhaps justifying its existence?

Posted by Warren Terra on December 12, 2012 at 2:17 PM

for those who aren't getting the reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xG4oFny2…

Posted by deepconcentration on December 12, 2012 at 2:17 PM

@7 -- Thx, but I don't want to get the reference.

Posted by RonK, Seattle on December 12, 2012 at 2:19 PM

Why is this incomprehensible drivel on slog? It's like reading greek, except I can magically undertand one phrase, and it is:

"I'm a bit of an arrogant snot. I'm a bit of an arrogant snot. I'm a bit of an arrogant snot. I'm a bit of an arrogant snot. I'm a bit of an arrogant snot. I'm a bit of an arrogant snot. I'm a bit of an arrogant snot. I'm a bit of an arrogant snot."

I couldn't extract any more meaning from it.

Posted by ohthetrees on December 12, 2012 at 2:20 PM

OK, watched the video and it still makes no sense to me, but I'm more annoyed than ever.

Posted by I Got Nuthin' on December 12, 2012 at 2:23 PM

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