Hate Mail of the Day
On August 27, I posted a small news story on Excellent about The Strokes. Today, I received some sort of odd email about the article...
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From: XXXXXX XXX XXXX
To: liz-at-excellentonline.com
Subject: sad
Date: Sep 5, 2003 1:08 AM
Hello, im XXXXXX XXX XXXX, how do you do?
i do great, anyways...
although i appreciate the fact you composed an article on the strokes new record so quickly, it felt as if you wrote it because it is the hip thing to cover on a slow september evening, not because you particularly like the strokes. i know i know, you dont always like things that you write about, but the strokes are something diffrent. the way people talk about the stones now is how people will speak of the strokes thirty years from now, fact. its just a bit sad to me, thats all. the strokes are amazingly perfect. dont be one of the ONES that has the negative impression on things when others do for blank reason. the last line about the EXACT opposite things julian said was false. that was in fact a quote from the reporter for mtv. i am a writer and i, if you couldnt tell, love the strokes, so i figured i would share. LISTEN to the strokes.
XXX XXXX
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So obviously I had to reply to the pretentious idiot with as much if not more pretention...
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good morning XXXXXX,
thanks for the concern about my strokes news story. to tell you the truth it's purpose was just to inform our readers about the release of the new album. the newsbit has nothing to do with my like or dislike of the band. when reading about the new album release i found it mildly amusing that different people involved were giving opposite impressions to the press.
not to needlessly argue my symantics, but i did not state that the mtv bit was from julian. "that's strangely the EXACT opposite impression Julian Casablanacas gave a reporter for VH1/MTV News". my quote is of the mtv news story, not julian.
our coverage of the strokes has nothing to do with some sort of hip quotent (although in my personal opinion i do not find the band to be the least bit hip but rather manufactured). just to ease your worry, i *have* listened to the band many times and seen them live. personally, i disagree wholeheartedly that people will discuss the strokes 30 years from now with the same amount of generation-defining emotion as aging hipsters talk about the stones. a band with one album under their belt thusfar cannot be the voice of my generation. the stones and the strokes are not even on the same playing field. julian's obvious idolitry of jagger does not make him jagger. if that were the case i could legally change my name to sarah cracknell.
ta!
liz