Now Tyler Mahan Coe Hates Me!
"This website looks awful/spammy/sketchy and I wish you would stop posting links to it"
#JerryLeeLewis *1.5 million views ...had flown all the way to Australia, and no one can blame him, he'd taken a few mandrax, but then because of the time difference, etc., well, this happenedThis website looks awful/spammy/sketchy and I wish you would stop posting links to it. Correct me if I'm wrong but no new understanding of Jerry Lee Lewis or his career is gained by you posting links to this blog. You just embed a YouTube video and send traffic to your site to watch it? That's not cool. If it's a good video, please just post the video here like everyone else does.Furthermore, even if you were providing some extra value it would be nearly impossible to tell because of the way the site is formatted to look like some secret Russian botnet signup page or an AI's best attempt at simulating human communication.
I have clicked a few of the links you've posted and not seen any additional value you're providing on your blog that warrants not linking to the actual main content wherever it already exists.
I really must insist that you stop linking to this blog.
Dear Tyler
I have to wonder what your warning would have sounded like if I wasn't a new fan of your podcast.
My Blogger blogspot address is almost half as old as you are. It has at no time ever featured any spam, or I'm happy to say, advertising; not because I don't enjoy revenue, but simply for the fact that I abhor those aesthetics.
I have been blogging for my own amusement and for those of 500,000 x 2 strangers a year. My Dailymotion and three YouTube videos have above 15 million views. None of those videos contain any form of advertising.
I do everything I do for my enjoyment and mine only; if other people also like it occasionally, then all the better.
I also sometimes revert back to another life and play with CSS and coding on my blogs, which I have been told in the past make some of the entries difficult, if not impossible to view on certain devices. But since I only peruse the Internet from large screens, I can only take your word on this seemingly benign reason for a caveat.
Many of my posts contain only a video, which is how this blog began 15 years ago (it was a unique and popular concept), and while that is rarely the case anymore, I completely agree and have acted accordingly when it comes to my submissions to your group, it serves everyone much better to simply post a video, if "no new understanding...is gained by you posting links to this blog."
As far as your criticism, of which I'm a big fan - having posted excerpts of your tirade against Malcolm Gladwell, which inspired me to go on one myself over his last podcast of the season.
I really must disagree, however, when you assume in a general sense that "...no new understanding of Jerry Lee Lewis or his career is gained by you posting links to this blog."
I have known Jerry Lee Lewis since I was 18-years-old; been a good friend to his older sister, Frankie Jean, who just recently passed away at the Jerry Lee Lewis Museum, which she curated from scratch at their childhood home in Ferriday, LA; and singlehandedly conceived and produced his youngest sister, Linda Gail Lewis's comeback solo album (her first in 15 years), International Affair, released on New Rose Disque, ca. 1991, to critical and commercial success, as she continues to support her brother around the world.
I have to wonder what your warning would have sounded like if I wasn't a new fan of your podcast.
My Blogger blogspot address is almost half as old as you are. It has at no time ever featured any spam, or I'm happy to say, advertising; not because I don't enjoy revenue, but simply for the fact that I abhor those aesthetics.
I have been blogging for my own amusement and for those of 500,000 x 2 strangers a year. My Dailymotion and three YouTube videos have above 15 million views. None of those videos contain any form of advertising.
I do everything I do for my enjoyment and mine only; if other people also like it occasionally, then all the better.
I also sometimes revert back to another life and play with CSS and coding on my blogs, which I have been told in the past make some of the entries difficult, if not impossible to view on certain devices. But since I only peruse the Internet from large screens, I can only take your word on this seemingly benign reason for a caveat.
Many of my posts contain only a video, which is how this blog began 15 years ago (it was a unique and popular concept), and while that is rarely the case anymore, I completely agree and have acted accordingly when it comes to my submissions to your group, it serves everyone much better to simply post a video, if "no new understanding...is gained by you posting links to this blog."
As far as your criticism, of which I'm a big fan - having posted excerpts of your tirade against Malcolm Gladwell, which inspired me to go on one myself over his last podcast of the season.
I really must disagree, however, when you assume in a general sense that "...no new understanding of Jerry Lee Lewis or his career is gained by you posting links to this blog."
I have known Jerry Lee Lewis since I was 18-years-old; been a good friend to his older sister, Frankie Jean, who just recently passed away at the Jerry Lee Lewis Museum, which she curated from scratch at their childhood home in Ferriday, LA; and singlehandedly conceived and produced his youngest sister, Linda Gail Lewis's comeback solo album (her first in 15 years), International Affair, released on New Rose Disque, ca. 1991, to critical and commercial success, as she continues to support her brother around the world.
Here's what Robert Christgau had to say about that:
International Affair [New Rose, 1991]
"The long-ago costar of the lowbrow gem Together registers more twang per syllable than prime Duane Eddy, belting and screeching like a flat-out hillbilly--Jeannie C. Riley, say. But though I'd love to hear her "Harper Valley P.T.A." (or "Fist City," or "9 to 5"), she's Jerry Lee's sister, wild-ass before she's anything else. She doesn't ignore country on this band-centered studio job, but except for Billy Swan's "I Can Help" ("If your child needs a mama we can discuss that too"), the standouts are from Wolf-Justman, Dave Edmunds, Bob Dylan, all of whom should be damn proud. Covering "They Called It Rock," she gets up to "Someone in the newspaper said it was shit," and instead of rushing discreetly on to the next line she draws out that last word with the relish of a gal who's waited to sing it all her life." A-
I was in a Country band which released its first EP in 1981 on Nashville's Praxis Records (001 - their first release), followed later by labelmates Jason and the Scorchers, Georgia Satellites, etc.
My band, Our Favorite Band was signed to Big Time Records, a division of RCA in 1985, when we released our only LP, Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings, to critical acclaim.
I've lived all over the world and been the director of an Outsider Art Gallery in New Orleans' French Quarter for eight years.
I've met all of my heroes, and become friends with a few.
But until today, no one has ever suggested that I am duplicitous, meretricious, or possess motives of anything but the purest intention.
When it comes to my love, experience, and knowledge of music, I thought we had that in common.
So, when you wrote, "Correct me if I'm wrong," I'm just doing so in a civil manner, while politely informing you that you could not have mischaracterized my few-and-far-between submissions to your Facebook group any more cynically or disrespectfully.
Here's what I posted about you on the post I did about Malcolm Gladwell's last podcast episode:"Tyler Mahan Coe of the wonderfully wordy, well-researched Cocaine & Rhinestones podcast; David Allan Coe progeny; and FB group administrator, 20th Century Country Music, first turned me on to how clueless and helpless Gladwell was about Country Music in a scathing blogpost which I loved for its loathing and its indefatigably psychotic personalization - all with which i agreed."
So, while I understand that it is "your football," and you can take it home any time - I will, but only with your permission, be using your review of my blog as a description, along with many of the others sharing your sentiment:"the site is formatted to look like some secret Russian botnet signup page or an AI's best attempt at simulating human communication"
Taylor Mahan Coe - 8.12.20018"It’s OK, mrjyn is still in business, ripping off ppl’s content to further line his pockets with spamcash; he just frigged up his link with an @ instead of a dot. I reckon he’s some unattractive lost soul who speaks little or no English, and is trying to save enough money from his splog to pay for a penis enlargement operation, so he can become a porn star.He calls his blog ‘the perfect american’, and there is something very Gatsby about it all, don’t you think?"
gullybogan May 17, 2008"Mr. Dante Fontana's Visual Guidance Ltd. video-only blog has risen from the ashes to become...[::] which kind of rollllls off the tongue, don't you think?...the mastermind is the delightfully batshit crazy owner of THE完 PERFECT完 AMERICANな."
BAIKINANGE [SCHADENFREUDIAN THERAPY] October 30, 2008"So, I'm over looking at The Perfect American, in awe of the whole scene, the style the volume, the insanity, which to the uninitiated, is a roiling vortex of lust for the illness called Rock n' Roll. It's a journey."
LEX10 [GLYPHJOCKEY] December 01, 2007
However, when they're not giving me great reviews, their showing they love me in other ways, by stealing videos discovered from the hard work that only comes from the practice of a perfected eye and awesome SEO skills, because 'imitation is the sincerest form of flatter.'
Here's a pinned-up Twitter list of all the videos and posts dangerousminds has poached over the years. Although it amounts to over 30, this is as far as I've gotten so far.
Anyway, hopes this helps.
You've made yourself clear.
If you change your mind, let me know; if not, nothing really changed today.
Thanks