Breaking: Man Man’s Publicist Is VERY ANGRY!
From: derek@solidpr.com
Subject: douuuuuche-baaaaaaaaag
Date: April 20, 2007 2:37:07 PM EDT
To: tips@philebrity.com
Reply-To: derek@solidpr.comIs this Joey Sweeney aka personal beef w/ Man Man fucker?
You’re a bitch
Put that on your website.
Holy shit, I just did! But seriously dude, relax. No? OK. After the jump…
Also on a technical level you’re a pretty shitty journalist. Errors in your story include “Man Man got DROPPED by their label! And it is our CIVIC DUTY to find them a new deal!” – wrong, story was about the recording process, and the band didn’t get dropped, sucker. but maybe you didn’t read and are just pissed that the band’s on the cover of two newspapers you used to work for.
“Somebody needs to tell Man Man they shouldn’t bother making records at all and just rock the live circuit until they keel over of old age. See also: The Roots, Grateful Dead, Phish. “ – somebody should tell you to shut the fuck up.
“These weird “dead guy” pictures probably came across a lot better in the editorial meeting than they did in real life. We’re not posting them because we don’t feel like getting an email from the photographer asking to be credited. It’s just not worth it.” – dude, shut up, you’re not funny
“One hometown cover story about Man Man was a jinky enough idea; do you honestly think you’re gonna nail it second time around?” – damn bro, you’re just angry @ the whole world huh? bitch
“All Man Man profiles are boring because no writer ever has the guts to say that what this band really sounds like : Cookie Monster + Tom Waits + Don Imus doing “ebonics.” – your opinion, but by now hopefully people think you’re a bitter hateful fuck and don’t give a shit about what you have to say
ps – what exactly is the trouble w/ Sweeney? Way to be negative and offensive to people trying to do good work (band members and your fellow journalist), maybe you should focus more on this yourself. Also why hate so badly on your local scene and some honest to goodness amazing people? You should be kicked out of Philadelphia.
Just saying.
[Ed. note: At this point in the email, there was an attachment of a crying baby illustration and an arrow pointing to it, followed by "U."]
April 20th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
HAHAHAHA!
Subject: douuuuuche-baaaaaaaaag
… classic. and it looks like someone bought too many vowels ;)
April 20th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Wow, that guy knows a little something about PR.
April 20th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
yea – that truly is SOLID PR at work ;)
April 20th, 2007 at 2:40 pm
Not for nothing, but I thought the Man Man thing Sweeney put up yesterday may have been the best thing I’ve recently read in Philebrity with the exception of his declaration of “Year without a Mayor”. But coming from me, I dunno if Philebrity’ll think that’s a good thing.
Man Man, n. — something that should have stopped in the UArts laundry room after the first giggling fit -cum- ‘practice’. c.f., “yeah I liked the video for “Sabotage” back in the day too, but still….”
April 20th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
re: photographer… off the top of my head think his name is Michael T. Reagan(?). Enjoy seeing his pics weekly. His documentary work is good. About 6-9 moths ago, he exhibited at ICA on the ramp leading from the 1st to 2nd floor.
Also think that City Paper showed *extremely* bad judgement using those photos. Though they were taken awhile ago, I’m sure, couldn’t they have re-done the photo session or had they already gone to press? The joke wasn’t funny anymore considering the tragedy at Virginia Tech.
re: Man Man, the few live clips I’ve seen on youtube seem decent enough to warrant coverage.
April 20th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
This guy has gone a little overboard. If only he knew that Jojo is a panderer of the scene which allows him some fierce hott blowjobs in a hot tub in Fishtown. For those who wouldn’t touch his shriveled little weiner with the tip of a leper’s sore-ridden tongue, regardless of their talent, if you can’t help the philebrity cause, then you are the enemy. Just don’t take any of this shit seriously, Derek! As much as J.S. and his cohorts think they have their fingers on the pulse of this city, they are sorely sorely mistaken.
DRAGON CITY RULES, ADAM ARCURAGI DROOLS!
April 20th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
People should have fun at costume parties, not curse a lot.
April 20th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
awwww, man. what’s bad is that this dude’s freakout is now going to be associated with man man for me and probably for plenty of others. i don’t know much about man man, and when i make the jump to learn more and let’s say ask a friend to pop a cd on i imagine that within the first few verses of an opening track this pr guy’s face is going jump out at me all sweat drenched and teeth clenched and – yeah – i will probably be forced to unravel this memorable philebrity tale of anxiety and defensiveness to my unsuspecting man man record owning friend. hell, maybe my friend will wonder if man man is this sensitive and anxiety ridden. wow – nothing would be worse, right?
all of a sudden a fan is filled with doubts about the band’s character and woh! what once was a carefree crazy avant freakout group (that maybe could dig the whole cookie monster comment) is now this thin skinned band of worry worts. not cool. definitely not cool for their image.
…i didn’t even think that joey was being that harsh.
maybe bringing don imus into the picture set things off.
April 20th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
maybe bringing don imus into the picture set things off.
Imas was in Man Man?? now that’s an image that deserves time to soak in
;)
April 20th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
man man, i hear imus hasn’t got a job, right now.
April 20th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
oh…who here prefers douche spelled out like doosh?
i think doosh looks better.
April 20th, 2007 at 6:49 pm
Gotta prop the French with the douche, just like the couche ball of ‘yor. I think Imus should play the couche for Man Man.
April 21st, 2007 at 4:33 am
Generally, it’s the publicist’s job to control the talent… When the talent needs to issue apologies for the flack, it’s time to seek new representation. Did anyone else go to solidpr.com? It’s a redirect to the dude’s blog. When your ‘corporate site’ is a blogspot template loaded with tour dates, you’re less a tool of publicity than you are just a tool.
April 21st, 2007 at 10:52 am
I agree with garethnakov’s sentiment about thick skin, etc. This “publicist” guy just makes himself and his clients look like a bunch of immature babies. They’re already hard to take serious with thier watered-down, Sesame Street bid at “avant garde”, but now it feels like they watch themselves do it in a mirror.
April 24th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
“Cookie Monster + Tom Waits + Don Imus doing ‘ebonics’.”
whatever. that’s the most on-point description of Man Man’s sound ever.
that publicist is just salty and full of vinegar [douche] his own self cuz he didn’t think to position manman as the poseur-tom-waits brooklyn-dreaming hipster-tards crossed-with the-muppets-jam-band that they are a long time ago!