One question…

Why find new, crappy writers using reality tv when you, apparently, have no problem finding crappy writers using the regular methods? Are you guys trying to compete with Maxim or something?

we only care about writers when they’re talented and dead.

why should we care about ones that are mediocre and living?

It sounds like the two of you have sour grapes!

now that RS has a bunch of new writers, why don’t you start laying into MTV and VH1 for becoming creepy vomitus surveillance channels instead of the cool music channels they used to be?…

I HATE MTV AND VH1!!!!!!

i wrote this two days too fuckin late for this contest oops might as well post it somewhere i could write more but 300 words isnt a whole hell of a lot

Somewhere, over a tangle of input cables, extension cords, power strips, amps, stands, cases, a few empty beer cans and a wah pedal, a guitar strums and the band begins to play. The acoustics of the basement garble the sound but they can jam all right while everybody drinks and it doesn’t matter anyway, the party’s going to be broken up by the cops. Across town there’s a coffee club where a punk band is shambling through an hour-long set, and all the emo kids with their girls jeans and cutout black hair are nodding in time. It’s a crowd of juniors, and somebody tries to start a mosh before the proprietor comes over and shakes his head. Fuck you, says one of them, and the band’s going to have to end its set early. The one professional band in town plays a Pearl Jam cover at a local bar. The singer tries his best Eddie Vedder and actually gets pretty close, but he forgets to drop the impersonation for the rest of the songs. Some blond haired chick sits down in front of a piano and begins to plunk out a few chords she put together and waxes poetical in a sweet lilting voice about some kind of love with despair that’s not entirely true but never more convincing. Back in the basement the party hits a fever pitch and as the storm troopers close in everybody’s laughing and dancing to an increasingly incoherent Stones cover, caught up in themselves, life, youth, the moment and nothing else, as if there was no tomorrow and no consequences, thrashing madly as the song reaches a magnificent inebriated crescendo …

And me, I’m waiting so patiently
Lying on the floor
I’m just tryin’ to do this jigsaw puzzle
Before it rains anymore

When was VH1 ever a cool music channel?

Which steel mill do you work at Jesse?

No, they are trying to compete with the Internet. Ever hear of it?

i hope i can get an internship and hopefully a job at rolling stone. i love this show. gives me more inspiration.

that was cool.

So I just finished watching the second episode and I’m already jealous that Tika gets to interview the Roots…I love seeing them in concert! From the clips I’ve been seeing these writers dont look like they really want to write for RS..which sucks for people who do!!

I love im from rolling stone and i think its my favorite show now i absouluty hope and wish i could get a chance like that! i would really like an internship for rs cause i absoulety love this magazine/website~ u guys are the absoulte best!!!~~

Cool show but some of the editors are too f***ing serious. It should be about cutting edge and freedom to express the writers ideas without some corporate jerk off acting like the adult supervision. Let ‘em rip.

This show is an incredible way for reinvigorating the passion and respect that print journalism deserves. I’m also a journalism major in college, and when I told people about the career path I wanted to pursue, they gave me these uncanny looks and told me “Are you stupid or something? This show is finally putting journalism on the map. My advice for Colin Stutz would be to step up his game and to put the USC education to good use, because according to his profile, he is the best candidate for a writing position with rolling Stone. He completely stumbled in his interview with that Indie Rock band and he is getting outperformed by Russell Morse. Great Show!

we’re all jealous, or envious, or whatever. but i missed the opportunity, so i make like the rest of you monkeys and tivo the s@#* out of it. good times.

I have to admit I’m a fan of the show. However, as a working journalist it is a little sad to watch these kids conduct horrible interviews. Maybe a real reporter should be shadowing them during their tasks. It is an embarrasment for the magazine.

as a former award-winning journalist for whom an opportunity like that afforded these young people would have been the dream of a liftime come true, I found Colin’s lack of preparation and slacker attitude appalling. He must have picked up whatever he found to write on by osmosis to have earned the honor of first blog posted. Meanwhile, Russell is earning my grudging respect. I was prepared not to like him after his cell phone glib condom question upon learning he’d got the gig, but he’s street savvy and extremely professional once it gets down to it. Meanwhile, Colin is an embarrassment.

Whoops!! The copy editor in me says I needed to proof the following post. It should read “lifetime”, instead of “liftime”.

I just love the show. I hope one day I will be a journalist for Rolling Stone. I think it would be cool interviewing all of my favorite artists.

This show is so funny how the best writer is hilarious and fun spirited..while the rest are just uptight prissy people. “Later Sk8er”

Okay, I have a comment to make about Kristhine or Krista…whatever. Most of us would kill for an opportunity like this. Why in there world is she so unprofessional? I mean when she had to do the paper over…you all know what happened…ugggggggghh! It kills me. Put me in her position! Please…lol

If you don’t have talent to back you up like Russell. Then act right! I agree with Lulu.

ERR R