Meanwhile at the Denver MessageBoard...

• Oh, and her interview with Jeff Wood of Shat was one of the funniest things I've read in a long, long while. Her interviews are brilliant.

• I think the board comments were overall positive about Tuyet's skills as a reviewer. Dave's original letter was quite negative about a particular review, but his criticism is a common one; that a reviewer doesn't have enough knowledge about a genre to make a fair assessment. Another comment stated that Tuyet has more knowledge of the indie scene that most people on the DenverMessageBoard, which I think is accurate. My comments were probably the most negative, but I have to say that I really like her Club Scout pieces, and I also like her interviews and knowledge of the history of certain bands. I find her commentary on music itself to often be either too general, too obvious, or to make references that I find to be odd and not very informative. That's not to say that she doesn't write well, and that's also not to say that I don't appreciate other aspects of her contributions to Westword. I just find her skill at communicating musically nuances - to ME - personally - lacking. I find some of her "philosophy of the creative process" intros to be irritating. Perhaps it's just an unfair comparison with Tom Murphy, whose opinion I often share, and whose reviews are of amazing quality. By no means is Tuyet Nguyen a bad reviewer. She's simply one that doesn't appeal to me.

• SUKKIT!

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