Is he our guy?

Even when I don't agree with Ott, I get what he's saying. And he's definitely /ourguy/.

>There's no bravery in professing a social stance that is actually an ethical luxury.
Dropping them redpills.

>If anyone asks you if you've heard of a band or heard a record, I mean, just delete that person from your life.
man I wish I was this cynical. ironically, he's far more pretentious holding this view than the person asking him about music. you would think for someone who used to make a living based around music, he'd be more open to talking about music. what a fucking faggot.

I like Ott, but he's a bit of a narcissist. I remember when I followed him on twitter, he used to rag on a bunch of different artists and occasionally one of those artists would reach out to him and tell him that they liked his work on Shallow Rewards or past writing. When they praised him, he'd immediately back off. I think this happened with the guy from the Mountian Goats and then they would act like they were friends or something like that until Chris ultimately left twitter. The guy just wants to be told he's liked and respected constantly.

He's a loser who's wasted his life on something meaningless thinking it validated his existence somehow. His YouTube videos are all him talking to himself in an empty room.

Of course he's Sup Forumss guy, the sound of his own voice echoing off the walls in his empty apartment is all he'll ever have.

>In much the same way men have long-dreaded ending up “the forty year-old single guy at the bar,” I began to dread becoming “the forty year-old, hard-drinking contrarian who still bangs his head to Black Flag’s ‘My War’.” I will say Christopher Hitchens’ demise had some impact on me, but I think Andrew Breitbart’s was probably even more shocking, because he was such a devoted self-mythologist and aggrandizer. I liked a great deal of Hitchens’ work, and thought nothing of Breitbart, but both men occupied pseudo-rebellious positions in their chosen ponds, and had become very large, very bloated fish. Breitbart’s physical slide in particular was ghastly. What the arrested lives of both men say to me is that the bygone dream of the dapper dipsomaniac is just that.

>Lewis Hyde said it better, in the worn pages of a gift given to me so many years ago:

>"The alcoholic is like a fossil leaf that mimics the living, but is really stone."

How has a man with a wife, three kids and a job that allows him to support them wasted his life?

yeah, I'm pretty sure he's an accountant or something like that with a pretty nice house. not sure what that anons talking about

>Ott married
>Ott kids
>Ott house
lmao. No.

Ott doesn't listen to music because he likes music, he listens to music because the voices blaring out of the stereo are as close to actual companionship as he can get.

Records are his friends & family because actual friends & family aren't an option he has access to.

t. assblasted neo-pitchfork writer