Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I was about to say I was impressed with trag's SNL reading, but then he had to make that ultra-traggish McKinnon post and ruin everything.
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Totally agree. That's why I liked it so much.tragabigzanda wrote:wease wrote:That Live From New York book is the tits.One of my favorite books. The format they used was A+.
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Re: Saturday Night Live
not a strong episode...i like the xx, but really didn't care for the first song...the second was okay
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Re: Saturday Night Live
haha, the bubble
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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you don't think she has good dance moves?tragabigzanda wrote:I had a whole review in progress, but RM didn't save my draft for some reason. Short version: SNL still blows, and the XX songs were pretty good but their stage presence stinks.

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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Re: Saturday Night Live
she?lennytheweedwhacker wrote:you don't think she has good dance moves?tragabigzanda wrote:I had a whole review in progress, but RM didn't save my draft for some reason. Short version: SNL still blows, and the XX songs were pretty good but their stage presence stinks.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Re: Saturday Night Live
i thought it was three dudestragabigzanda wrote:Spike's right, the bass player was the buzz kill.spike wrote:she?lennytheweedwhacker wrote:you don't think she has good dance moves?tragabigzanda wrote:I had a whole review in progress, but RM didn't save my draft for some reason. Short version: SNL still blows, and the XX songs were pretty good but their stage presence stinks.
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spike wrote:i thought it was three dudestragabigzanda wrote:Spike's right, the bass player was the buzz kill.spike wrote:she?lennytheweedwhacker wrote:you don't think she has good dance moves?tragabigzanda wrote:I had a whole review in progress, but RM didn't save my draft for some reason. Short version: SNL still blows, and the XX songs were pretty good but their stage presence stinks.
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jack white's a dude, right?lennytheweedwhacker wrote:spike wrote:i thought it was three dudestragabigzanda wrote:Spike's right, the bass player was the buzz kill.spike wrote:she?lennytheweedwhacker wrote:you don't think she has good dance moves?tragabigzanda wrote:I had a whole review in progress, but RM didn't save my draft for some reason. Short version: SNL still blows, and the XX songs were pretty good but their stage presence stinks.
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this is why nobody wants to see the arrival at the same time as youspike wrote:jack white's a dude, right?lennytheweedwhacker wrote:spike wrote:i thought it was three dudestragabigzanda wrote:Spike's right, the bass player was the buzz kill.spike wrote:she?lennytheweedwhacker wrote:you don't think she has good dance moves?tragabigzanda wrote:I had a whole review in progress, but RM didn't save my draft for some reason. Short version: SNL still blows, and the XX songs were pretty good but their stage presence stinks.
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it's just arrivallennytheweedwhacker wrote:this is why nobody wants to see the arrival at the same time as youspike wrote:jack white's a dude, right?lennytheweedwhacker wrote:spike wrote:i thought it was three dudestragabigzanda wrote:Spike's right, the bass player was the buzz kill.spike wrote:she?lennytheweedwhacker wrote:you don't think she has good dance moves?tragabigzanda wrote:I had a whole review in progress, but RM didn't save my draft for some reason. Short version: SNL still blows, and the XX songs were pretty good but their stage presence stinks.
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Re: Saturday Night Live
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Re: Saturday Night Live
I'm not entirely sure they were even playing their own instruments during this performancelennytheweedwhacker wrote:you don't think she has good dance moves?tragabigzanda wrote:I had a whole review in progress, but RM didn't save my draft for some reason. Short version: SNL still blows, and the XX songs were pretty good but their stage presence stinks.
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Re: Saturday Night Live
spike wrote:haha, the bubble
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Re: Saturday Night Live
solid episode overall...i really enjoyed the fischer price wells for boys bit
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