Mike Barthel commented on How the Hell Do You Get a Job In Media In This Town?, at 1:55 PM on Jun 24 I mean, that or the subsidized internships thing. more » [gawker]

Mike Barthel commented on How the Hell Do You Get a Job In Media In This Town?, at 1:55 PM on Jun 24 If you interned at a TV show, for god's sake, move to LA and work for other TV shows. more » [gawker]

Mike Barthel commented on Given that she's attempting, at 11:38 PM on Mar 12 @Rob Murphy: that sucks! more »

Mike Barthel commented on Chord Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes, at 1:36 PM on Mar 12 @NotPop: Yeah, I was going to get into tempered pianos and then decided it was beyond the scope of the post. more »

Mike Barthel commented on Perez Hilton Fiddles While We All Burn, at 6:58 PM on Mar 8 @MTS: yeah, true. more »

Mike Barthel commented on Once Again, Clive Davis Learns the Wrong Lesson From the Kelly Clarkson Affair, at 2:02 PM on Mar 7 @dhochbaum: I don't want to bring up Kolmar and Melamid here, but most of the time when someone tries to get a hit, it doesn't work. more »

Mike Barthel commented on Once Again, Clive Davis Learns the Wrong Lesson From the Kelly Clarkson Affair, at 12:50 PM on Mar 7 But what Clive considers a "good" song is apparently a song that can become a hit in the perpetual 1985 twilight in which he makes his decisions. more »

Mike Barthel commented on Jim DeRogatis Takes On Ryan Schreiber, And There Are No Winners, at 6:00 PM on Mar 6 Boy, that sure made Ryan look good. more »

Mike Barthel commented on Jason Castro Drags Leonard Cohen Into The "American Idol" Spotlight, at 8:35 AM on Mar 5 @ScruffMcGruff: I don't know which article you're talking about, but if you mean the clapclap one, I explain that statement pretty well there, I think: "And this particular--and particularly amazing--trick is a big part of why, no matter how it comes to you, "Hallelujah" always manages to seem like a discovery. more »

Mike Barthel commented on Jason Castro Drags Leonard Cohen Into The "American Idol" Spotlight, at 11:42 PM on Mar 4 You know, I focused on the song's status as a sadness signifier because that was what I was interested in, but it's also true that when not paired with a montage, it tends to denote some combination of sensitivity and technical prowess, like a male Mariah Carey. more »

Mike Barthel commented on Science Proves You Just Like Music Because It's Popular, at 8:06 PM on Feb 1 Almost everyone posting on this thread is fucking retarded. more » [gawker]

Mike Barthel commented on QTrax: The Hilarity Continues, at 3:32 PM on Jan 29 So this is an Apple prank, right? more »

Mike Barthel commented on Pepsi Cola And Michael Jackson To Burn Up The Super Bowl Airwaves This Sunday, at 3:28 PM on Jan 29 I hope they give the Filipino prisoners a royalty for using their YouTube video. more »

Mike Barthel commented on Pazz And Jop Essayist Says You Need To Stop Dancing To Stuff You Like, at 10:39 AM on Jan 24 God bless Todd, but yeah, if he thinks people can't/don't dance to Basement Jaxx, he is crazy. more »

Mike Barthel commented on 'Project Runway' Shocker: Bias Against The Fats!, at 3:50 PM on Dec 6, 2007 Icky in the sense that he sweats unattractively? more » [gawker]

Mike Barthel commented on Participatory Journalism, at 1:58 AM on Dec 4, 2007 There's nothing that'll get adults to undergo circumcision like a BBC reporter describing it in painful detail. more » [wonkette]

Mike Barthel commented on Doug Morris To Music Consumers: Please Don't Cover Me In Onions And Eat Me, at 10:50 PM on Nov 27, 2007 They decided that an album someone spent two years working on isn't worth $10, but it is worth $18? more »

Mike Barthel commented on In Allah's name, we are everlastingly, at 7:28 PM on Nov 24, 2007 Iowa's 9/11. more » [gawker]