Red Mosquito

Malloy wrote:

Malloy wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Malloy wrote:am i wrong to collapse albini and bourdain into the same dude

yes

describe albini and describe bourdain.

i see two highly cynical, highly independent, smart dudes w lots of niche success which they built into commercial success, w fairly self-contradictory political instincts, a penchant for cruelty, to themselves and others, an inability to suffer fools, people who are obsessed w process.

my instinct is that you like bourdain and dislike the kinds of people who dislike albini. but i gotta say, i dont see much distance between any of them.

bart wrote:sounds like someone hasn’t heard a little album called razorblade suitcase

Ello Sailor wrote:Implying there's more than one person struggling to differentiate them.

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Malloy wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Malloy wrote:am i wrong to collapse albini and bourdain into the same dude

yes

describe albini and describe bourdain.

i see two highly cynical, highly independent, smart dudes w lots of niche success which they built into commercial success, w fairly self-contradictory political instincts, a penchant for cruelty, to themselves and others, an inability to suffer fools, people who are obsessed w process.

I’ll push back on “Albini had commercial success.” He’s actively rejected it; all his financial success is still very niche, and generally grounded in an anti-capitalist mindset.

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.

epilogue wrote:

Malloy wrote:

Malloy wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Malloy wrote:am i wrong to collapse albini and bourdain into the same dude

yes

describe albini and describe bourdain.

i see two highly cynical, highly independent, smart dudes w lots of niche success which they built into commercial success, w fairly self-contradictory political instincts, a penchant for cruelty, to themselves and others, an inability to suffer fools, people who are obsessed w process.

my instinct is that you like bourdain and dislike the kinds of people who dislike albini. but i gotta say, i dont see much distance between any of them.

You think I dislike people who dislike Albini?

VinylGuy wrote:Tony had a great sense of humor, and he also had that self deprecation view that i liked. He also had empathy.

Anders wrote:After reading this I can't tell them apart.

Ello Sailor wrote:Albini is a cringey chode. Bourdain may have been a little pretentious at times, but his content was always outstanding. RIP to the homie.