Some SXSW venue creates a ’snarky’ sign 2 repel bloggers
Published on Sunday 3/21/2010 @ 8:55 PM by the ALT REPORT Robot
In an age where every one has a blog and every1 thinks they deserve 2 be ‘V.I.P.’ / ‘on the list’ at every relevant concert, the duties of event management companies have become more complex and tedious than ever before. Every blog claims to be relevant, due to the number of hits they get, or due to the alleged ‘high level’/income/age range quality of the blog’s readers.
This sign seems like it is trying to ‘get the attention’ of the internet through the collective blogospherian voice. It questions the journalistic voice of bloggers in an era where the blogosphere / twittersphere is the first line of tastemakery. In a way, we are all bloggers. In a way, we all deserve 2 be inside a relevant club. In a way, we are all already inside the most relevant club in the world: Life.
Not sure if they should have branded their ‘club’ in the background so that they could have gone viral with this site. Sorta seems like this might be the ‘blogger meme of SXSW 2010.’ Not sure if this was directed at music bloggers or tech bro bloggers?
Have u ever been stuck outside a venue, then claimed u wrote / took photos for Pitchfork?
Have u ever heard a bro try to ‘promote’ his blog?
What do u do when u can’t get into venues?
Is this meme trying 2 hard?
Are bloggers real writers?
Should I stop blogging and start writing on poster boards?
Is SXSW full of ‘fucking ass holes’ from every pseudo-industry in the Western World?
53 comments to “Some SXSW venue creates a ’snarky’ sign 2 repel bloggers”
March 21st, 2010 at 8:56 pm
oh shit first
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//////////Reply by y
//////////Posted March 23rd, 2010 at 1:28 pm
@Tweeb,
dawg.
dats a publicitie stunt.
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March 21st, 2010 at 8:56 pm
aw damn
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March 21st, 2010 at 8:57 pm
haha that sign has some truth to it
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March 21st, 2010 at 8:57 pm
first
This hurts my blawg feelings.
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March 21st, 2010 at 9:02 pm
YOU GUYS ARE DUMB BLOGGERS ARE STUPID WHY DO YOU THINK YOU MATTER YOU ARE THE WORST I HATE YOU ARGH
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//////////Reply by broner
//////////Posted March 22nd, 2010 at 10:07 am
@FLAGGERMOP, chill bro
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//////////Reply by Jordeezy
//////////Posted March 24th, 2010 at 5:52 am
@FLAGGERMOP, yeah srsly, pop a couple valium or something bro
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March 21st, 2010 at 9:33 pm
u guys should check out my blog, it’s relevant to this subject
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//////////Reply by SomeGuy
//////////Posted March 21st, 2010 at 10:21 pm
@Cool Face, Such a Meta comment…
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//////////Reply by helado
//////////Posted March 23rd, 2010 at 4:40 am
@SomeGuy, Meta comment, yeah man, we could use more meta everything right about now
and on another note, is it true that titus andronicus is doing a mariachi album like the bronx
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March 21st, 2010 at 9:56 pm
feel like this bro is just ‘jealous’
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March 21st, 2010 at 9:57 pm
FlargmopjerksoffonGgapostersughhhhhh.
That sign is honest.
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March 21st, 2010 at 10:01 pm
I passed a stop sign like that once. It read “Stop. By the way, your car sucks. LOSER.” It was like 3 times the size of a normal stop sign. Thought it was kinda unecessary.
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//////////Reply by chrysler5thavenue
//////////Posted March 23rd, 2010 at 12:32 am
@AnarchyTears, are you serious?
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//////////Reply by Jordeezy
//////////Posted March 24th, 2010 at 5:56 am
@AnarchyTears, when that kati perry i kissed a grl song just came out i saw a sign in front of a church that said ‘i kissed a girl and now im going to hell’ thought that was a bit harsh
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March 21st, 2010 at 10:08 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cadXdgdRgs
Music Criticism of the future
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March 21st, 2010 at 10:24 pm
lol, i saw this sign, it made me laugh. i knew it would be on the internet soon. But it’s honest, that’s what matters
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March 21st, 2010 at 10:26 pm
seems like that bro rly doesn’t like us blgrs. not sure ‘what his deal is.’ probably needs 2 chill out and listen 2 sum chillwave.
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March 21st, 2010 at 10:43 pm
I FAIL MYSELF CONSTANTLY AND I LOVE TO FRIGHTEN CHILDREN LOL
PS IM BETTER THAN YOU
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//////////Reply by FLAGGOTMOPER
//////////Posted March 21st, 2010 at 11:03 pm
@FLARGNMOPBRO, HURR DURR HURR
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//////////Reply by FAGGOTMOPPER
//////////Posted March 22nd, 2010 at 12:41 am
@FLAGGOTMOPER, Dont mope. Kinda a sissy way 2 act a bro.
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March 22nd, 2010 at 12:41 am
woulda been cute/funny if they stopped after “month.”
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March 22nd, 2010 at 1:56 am
//h8 2 <3 u blggrs.//
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March 22nd, 2010 at 2:54 am
crls, u made the sign so you could have something to blog about.
(creating a common enemy creates unity!)
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March 22nd, 2010 at 3:05 am
Honesty at it’s best, oh shit the 90s is back for realz dawg! Da Bomb! Abstract, The Tribe Called a de La Soul and shit.
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March 22nd, 2010 at 4:37 am
Seems like a hateful bro.
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March 22nd, 2010 at 4:51 am
Flargmop is so not relevent this post
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March 22nd, 2010 at 8:20 am
That is the fucking TRUTH. In five years it will be embarrassing to have had a blog. Go on and flame me, but just watch. Watch.
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//////////Reply by Mexicant
//////////Posted March 22nd, 2010 at 8:59 am
@Spandrell, FLAME FLAME FLAME CONTROVERSY FLAMME
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March 22nd, 2010 at 9:33 am
poster boards r tah future!!
blogz r tah past
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March 22nd, 2010 at 10:08 am
blogger is only two minus one words away from nigger..such blatant blogcism, disgusting.
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March 22nd, 2010 at 11:53 am
this seems to be the equivilant of the tea bag party bros, reactionaries scribbling rants on posters in protest of their increasing irrelevancy. stop whining. obama/blogs are president.
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//////////Reply by helado
//////////Posted March 23rd, 2010 at 4:44 am
@hootie, i’m not gonna be teabagged, not my cup of tea
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March 22nd, 2010 at 1:39 pm
I thought it was a funny sign. If you brag about your blog stats to a doorman or a bar owner, they don’t give a fuck. If you offer them some blow, you will be more likely to get in.
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March 22nd, 2010 at 2:32 pm
glad i stopped working the list b4 blogs belonged everyone. just had bros from pitchfork on the list. makes me old. crabby. still glad. h8 you, sxsw.
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March 22nd, 2010 at 2:36 pm
seriously do bloggers nowadays think they are that important ?
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March 22nd, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Brings up many important questions: does having an articulate, interesting blogger at your venue increase the concert’s value? Are the concert-goers more likely to have relevant, interesting experience with them present? Or is it supposed to be a completely democratic event; maybe this “completely fucking undermines” the point of something like SXSW and they might as well have “secret parties/concerts” for only the most interesting bros on earth?
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//////////Reply by EF
//////////Posted March 22nd, 2010 at 6:49 pm
@teh,
ONLY CARLES ASKS THE QUESTIONS, BITCH.
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//////////Reply by EF
//////////Posted March 22nd, 2010 at 6:51 pm
@teh,
ONLY CARLES ALOUD TO ASK THE QUESTIONS, BITCH.
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March 22nd, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Great sign. I’m torn though. Without no-lifers and their music blogs I’d have to spend hours of my own time screening new music and leaks to find something good. At the same time, I’m disgusted by every dumbshit who has the urge to maintain a blog so they can write about what they think about this or that band. Mommy says people care, because you’re special! Also, fuck Wordpress.
BTW don’t forget to visit my music blog, “fuck your mom, and her clever blog title too”.
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March 22nd, 2010 at 3:25 pm
Few bloggers are journalists. Anyone can hang a shingle and post crap to it. Unless they’re associated with “legit” news/music news/reporting organizations, fuggem. The sign is absolutely appropriate.
PLUS, most press people need VERIFIED CREDENTIALS to get into *real* SxSW shows. The pros (especially!) know all shows are one-in, one-out once a club hits capacity — REGARDLESS OF WHO YOU ARE. Only amateurs will pull rank. It’s weak. Period.
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March 22nd, 2010 at 5:41 pm
I’m happy for everyone’s tiny blogs and for the way they help me steal mp3s.
At Sundance I just get b/o drunk while carrying my DSLR and have my buddies say I shoot for Vice: works like a charm.
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March 22nd, 2010 at 11:24 pm
He’s right. Bloggers aren’t real people. They are the ghosts in the machine. They are they voices we hear when we think someone said our name in a crowd. The are the Yin to the real music industries Wang. They are there, then they are gone.
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March 23rd, 2010 at 10:57 am
when you guys are “covering shows” do you roll notepad/analog style or take notes on an iphone/etc or do you “kick it from your head”. do you like to write down lyric snatches you hear so you can google em later and identify the song ur supposed to know?
who here has presspasses to coachella this year. is “covering shows” legit/a good way to do things free/feel important or is it dead as newspapers?
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//////////Reply by snacks
//////////Posted March 23rd, 2010 at 6:09 pm
i’ve never covered a music show before as i’m still learning from everyone here – but from what i understand you can just write fresh lyrics down on paper. if you don’t have that – just use drink coasters or exposed girls breasts since these things are all rather plentiful at most of these venues. i think you’d get knocked around or fall on the floor while writing – per as the people grooving or hiphopping – but most people will help pick you up and dust you off and explain that even though you didn’t get to write everything you wanted at least you formed a connection.
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March 23rd, 2010 at 12:21 pm
I don’t respect a writer who doesn’t place an apostrophe in “don’t.” Sign writers are not real writers.
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March 23rd, 2010 at 2:57 pm
The sign has it absolutely right: bloggers are NOT real writers. Real journalists have editors and fact-checkers, real academics have the peer-review process. Bloggers are just lonely nobodies posting their OPINIONS online, and as we all know, opinions are like a@$holes in that everyone has one. Bloggers are nobodies: if you’re a real writer, you’ll get published in a real media outlet.
And as the low level of commentary in this posting forum attests, the audience for your blogs are the dumbest and least articulate of the internet’s lonely lost souls. All of you: fuck your blogs, for no-one who matters will ever read them.
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//////////Reply by the freewheelin'
//////////Posted March 23rd, 2010 at 6:40 pm
@Porkie, good point man no one ever engaged intellectually with anonymous posts on the internet. newjack blog jive will never catch on
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March 23rd, 2010 at 6:42 pm
i w1ll take a sh1t an b7og abt !t
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March 23rd, 2010 at 11:37 pm
HEY GUYZE!!!!!!!
check out my post on sxsw!!!!!!!!!!
I”M dUMb. I ReED PITcHfORK fOr AWL My MuSiCal tastEs. deRRR. DUHHH
http://www.gargleballs.blogspot.com
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March 24th, 2010 at 2:19 pm
Of course bloggers are not real writers. especially those who are hypocrites and invert their own ideology to suit their own needs. for example, i love the new ad lately on hipsterrunoff about pepsi sponsoring a contest between metric and broken social scene. hmmm indie bands being peddled by large mainstream corporations–just exactly what this whole blog loathes and detests. i guess as long as you are only advertising for it and not actually voting its fine right???
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March 26th, 2010 at 10:26 am
Waiting outside venues, fucking bloggers with wristbands not there to c the bands.
Hurt my <3
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