prindle

I might be the only one on this board who read this (quite stupid) music blog, but apparently it is now dead. Oh well.


December 27, 2011

With this update, I announce my retirement from record reviewing. I'm completely burned out on the whole thing, and have been for some time. And as you'll see in this final selection of reviews, I've finally reached the point where I honestly can't stomach it anymore. I sit down at the computer and just seethe at how much I hate doing it. It's also the last remaining vestige of my former life. I have an entirely new life now (no Henry The Dog, no wife, no drinking, no NYC apt, new girlfriend, new job, new Astoria residence, new future) and feel like my web site belongs in the past as well. It no longer provides me with pleasure or fulfillment.

Still, I acknowledge the possibility that my old creative drive will return at some point. It did for George Starostin, after all. I'm not counting anything out or saying "never again." Even Ozzy was unable to retire, remember? He got too bored!

I will continue to post all reader comments I receive, so feel free to keep sending them in. But don't send in comments about records I haven't reviewed (ex. the new GBV) because I won't post those.

And hey! Have a good life!



Post Edited (12-28-11 12:43)

I was only familiar with Prindle because Warm Voices Rearranged would often reference him. I didn't read a whole lot of his stuff, but of what I did read some of it was pretty good, some of it far, far beyond annoying.

I thought his recent review of Lulu was kind of funny - he reviewed it twice, once as a Lou Reed album and blamed its badness on Metallica, and once as a Metallica album and blamed its badness on Reed.



Post Edited (12-28-11 13:29)

Man, I've never visited his site, but I've been where he's at--and am glad it's way behind me (not the reviewing: moving out of NYC, divorce, new life. . . etc.). As to the reviewing, I can't recall getting as angry with it as he describes before putting it down; I mostly wanted to more fully explore the expanse of my own interests and had been soured by the surplus of sophomoric music writing that the WWW engendered. (I once envisioned a magazine or webzine entitled American Basement that would weave together my disparate interests: a discussion of obscure but great US writers next to an interview with Bob Pollard next to an essay about the "wrong turn" trope in horror films. A limited demographic, for sure, but such a mish-mosh hits my sweet spot.)

All of which is to say: Good luck and godspeed to the Prindle man. . . even if I hardly knew him.

Update: Just checked it out--he's been doing it since 1996?? Bless 'im.



Post Edited (12-28-11 14:00)

I used to read Prindle's blog with semi-regularity - he could be pretty funny at times. But I haven't read it in a few years now. Anyway, good for him for getting out once he got tired of it. There are plenty of creative types who should follow the same path.

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It did for George Starostin, after all.

I read that line and all can think about is Charlie Brown talking about Joe Garagiola.

get on with your bad self!

I always enjoyed Prindle - didn't always (or often even) agree with him but he kept his humor through what he liked and didn't, which is rare nowadays in music writing.

Hope things work out for him and that he comes back to it.

Some of his stuff is laugh out funny - the Ted Nugent page for one......