Capital New York

Feb. 21, 2012 at 11:17am with 22 notes

Reblogged from ohrohin

“I’ll blow a panda if it asked me to in a small human voice.”

“Should have gotten an MFA in waiting for my dealer.”

“Blowing Rick Ross on mushrooms would be intense.”

Twitter and rappers were popular subjects.

I guess people are still acting like this is a thing? Well then. I saw Tao Lin read at KGB Bar and I don’t mind his subject matter and it is wonderful he’s managed to cultivate such a sustainable following, but! he is just such a terrible live performer. If it’s one thing that I think is unforgivable of a reader, it’s that that reader doesn’t even try to put on a good show.

But perhaps that is his shtick? But I mean! Whose “shtick” is being terrible? Ryan Seacrest? So what? Is Tao Lin supposed to be the Ryan Seacrest among people who write things down on paper? This is not a good benchmark for any of us to aspire towards.

I wish people in the media who cover this sort of thing attempted to cover new things that were trying and not only the easiest thing.

BUT, LOOK: I think that if we just cut one another down to size, the literary/arts scene of this city won’t grow and innovate, so if Tao Lin does read this from a mobile device somewhere, he should come to Slapdash this weekend and maybe we can exchange performance notes.

Critique noted and well-taken, although observing a “new thing” in the literary scene is subjective in a wide audience such as ours.

(Source: capitalnewyork)