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Sethro Matelli - Jan 28th 2012 @ 10:13 am

I’ll post Snow’s Informer everyday if I have to. Gimme an LA informant.

And who started UYD5life?

http://uyd5l.tumblr.com/post/16771064155/uyd5l-tumblr-com-flagship-uyd-site-launches

UYD5L.tumblr.com - Jan 30th 2012 @ 12:34 pm

http://uyd5l.tumblr.com/post/16771064155/uyd5l-tumblr-com-flagship-uyd-site-launches

Hey, UYD5, I know your steeze is to hate on me, but could you PLEASE be a dear and show me how to make links like yours to Weck’s wiki, the site, the merch store and stuff?

I’ve been trying since I started the site but the tumblr tells me I’m creating a feedback loop. Like you know where you enter the website address you want to create a link to? It won’t let me delete my tumblr’s address and just enter the uyd site’s address. So all I get is this a blank page on the tumblr that says uhhyeahdude. (see pic) Or else it just sends me to an error page.

It’s been driving me mad for weeks and then you come along and seem to be able to do it lickety split. (Wanky) I’m not so great at the monsterweb, but I’m doing the best I can. This, however, has gotten the best of me.

I’d love it if you could just put your, um, anger? aside for two secs and help me out! Look, whatever you write on your blog, you know we aren’t profiting or doing this for any reason other than the love of Ray J. And Seth and Jah. So, please? Please please? From one member of UYD nation to another, help a sister out? Then you can get back to hurting my feelings the very next second! I promise!

(Although it would be so nice if you wouldn’t, since I am a very tender person, really.)

Love,
Sethro

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thanks for being nice and helpful in your message. as for it being in uyd love, i guess i don’t get it (“GET IT? GET IT?” “No, I don’t get it! I thought they sounded kind of good! I was actually thinking about ordering them!”) but whatevskis. We cool.

Um, but Caitlin did call you a honky. And there’s no going back from that and I have absolutely no control over it. Thought I had an obligation to tell you. It’s like in the bushranger’s bushido code or something.

Sorry Caitlin. Thems the rules. You knew that when you said it.

Sethro Matelli - Feb 1st 2012 @ 03:07 pm

Um, but Caitlin did call you a honky. And there’s no going back from that and I have absolutely no control over it. Thought I had an obligation to tell you. It’s like in the bushranger’s bushido code or something.

Sorry Caitlin. Thems the rules. You knew that when you said it.

I admire your integrity Sethro. I’ve been trying to bring back “honkey” since Sanford and Son went off the air. For example, “Who’s this honkey?”

caitlin - Feb 1st 2012 @ 03:22 pm

Sethro Matelli - Feb 1st 2012 @ 03:07 pm

Um, but Caitlin did call you a honky. And there’s no going back from that and I have absolutely no control over it. Thought I had an obligation to tell you. It’s like in the bushranger’s bushido code or something.

Sorry Caitlin. Thems the rules. You knew that when you said it.

I admire your integrity Sethro. I’ve been trying to bring back “honkey” since Sanford and Son went off the air. For example, “Who’s this honkey?”

I have a history story that no one will find interesting but me. But that happens all the time.

One of my subjects of my dissertation, Richard Goldstein—the very first guy to ever write a weekly column about rock music—wrote the review for the New York Times about Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band because, well, he was the only real choice at the time. It was the Old Grey Lady’s first ever review of a rock and roll record, and a signal that the older generation was finally acknowledging rock’s cultural power.  However, Goldstein, who was an enormous Beatles fan and wrote glowing reviews of their work regularly in his Village Voice column, gave the concept album a largely negative review, saying the album was overwrought and that he preferred their more recent records like Revolver. Though he later retracted his review after finding out that his stereo equipment was faulty, his article set off a firestorm of controversy and he engaged in a series of very public debates with jazz critic (and his friend) Ned Rorem.

Later, at the Chicago Democratic National Convention in 1968,, where Goldstein was tasked by Abbie Hoffman to organize the music for the Yippies’ demonstration, this dude Mark Rudd from the SDS and later the Weathermen shunned Goldstein when he saw him. When Goldstein asked why, Rudd said it was because he was a honky because he panned Sgt. Peppers.

When Richard told me that in the interview, we both started laughing and laughing. I have it on tape. That was a breaking point for Goldstein when he was like, who the fuck are these people? “Honky.”

RUDD:

GOLDSTEIN in a crushed velvet cape he wore that his wife embroidered with stars and moons (except they wouldn’t let him wear it at the Times, which is one reason he preferred working for the Village Voice):

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