Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[pmcd9]

Hey, all I did was tell you that ELO isn't prog. 

[miles]

Hipster douchebags are now in season.

Seeing that can of PBR convinces me that hipster is more insulting than douchebag.

[JorgeFabregas]

Douchebags and douche....baguettes?

http://www.hotchickswithdouchebags.com/

Hipster douchebags are now in season.

This is pretty much those two links combined: http://lookatthisfuck*nghipster.tumblr.com
I'll let those of you at home correct the url.

[theinevitable]

I plan on wearing my KWUR deep-v-neck t-shirt, smoking cigarettes, and drinking PBR during the judging.

also, stealing someone's girlfriend who is going through an "arty" phase.


I won't apologize for liking PBR, ever since it came in 2nd place in our blind taste test of cheep beers.

I forget what number one was, but it was something surprising.

[Toaster]

Today, I'm gonna seriously consider getting a new internet name. Not here, I'll still be Toaster here, but out there.

[littlefallsmets]

If you get to talk during judging, tell a band that you don't like that their influences are too obvious.

If they fight you, tell them that if they're influenced by any bands who actually got around to pressing CDs, they're unbearably pedestrian.

Real bands are only influenced by bootlegs by bands that only existed for one show, thirty years ago, acquired by decipering the secret code in zines.

Make up a bunch of silly band names and place them all in known college towns and tell them what they're supposed to be listening to and emulating.

"Oh, for God's sake, gentlemen, get your hands on some of The Filch out of Chapel Hill or... Voluminous Thump from Ithaca back in the Eighties or... Christ, even something introductory from back when Steve Zilla and the Klu Klux Kongs were in their Austin days. For God's sake. For God's sake. I bet you people appreciate Saved By The Bell in an unironic matter."

The Simon Cowell of scenester douchenozzles would be the best character ever.

[theinevitable]

I found out that actually we just rank them, silently.

So I'll have to sneer and roll my eyes SUPER hard.

It's funny, I had forgotten that there is/was a stereotype of "indie" types loving bands in proportion to their obscurity.
probably because the ones i interact with seem to work more on a level of "i like whatever is newest, and gets the best reviews on (music blog/site of choice)."

[littlefallsmets]

I once had a pretty good idea for a script about a small group of friends who make up an obscure band (that does not actually exist) so as to tweak the sensibilities of the scenester fucknuts at the local used music store but when everyone starts claiming to have heard them and love them and so on, one of them tries to cash in a little on the joke gone out of control and... it descends into a mess of them trying to create just enough evidence that the band actually existed without providing so much evidence that it would be real and hence instantly not-so-cool via the accessibility.

Problem was that it was a good IDEA for a STORY and not... a good idea for translating into something that would eventually be 100 minutes of moving pictures.

...a lot of my ideas are better as diatribes than when smushed into the mold of a linear visual narrative. Too much Vonnegut in my formative years.

[Toaster]

Maybe you should do it in real life. It would be an adventure. (I love adventures.)

[Doc]

I once had a pretty good idea for a script about a small group of friends who make up an obscure band (that does not actually exist) so as to tweak the sensibilities of the scenester fucknuts at the local used music store but when everyone starts claiming to have heard them and love them and so on, one of them tries to cash in a little on the joke gone out of control and... it descends into a mess of them trying to create just enough evidence that the band actually existed without providing so much evidence that it would be real and hence instantly not-so-cool via the accessibility.

Problem was that it was a good IDEA for a STORY and not... a good idea for translating into something that would eventually be 100 minutes of moving pictures.

...a lot of my ideas are better as diatribes than when smushed into the mold of a linear visual narrative. Too much Vonnegut in my formative years.

Did you just try to set 'The Importance of being Earnest' in a record store?

[littlefallsmets]

That's... not how I came up with it... but it's certainly apt on some levels.

Bears comparison.

Looking deep into my journal, it appears the idea was inspired by the idea of the famous Sasquatch film and... how some conspiracy theorists believe that it was actually part OF the hoax to cover-up the Sasquatch... by making a fake film of a hoaxed Sasquatch with obvious flaws upon close inspection and making it famous, so as to discredit all "real" evidence of skunkapes out of hand, in reaction to that faked fake.

Because that would be the ultimate ending, you know, that these people would eventually come clean that this band was all made-up and... no one would believe them, would claim that they were just "haters" who "don't get it". Their attempts to disprove their hoax would be written off as these people all trying to be cooler than everyone else.

It appears that my name for the fake band was "Tragina" and their first imaginary album would be called "Horrible Failure".

(took a while to find this in my journal as it is thousands of entries long and all entries have vague titles. I searched "band" and "fake" and had no luck. "hipster" was the key search.)

[CortJstr]

Well I'm in that awesome band the Tree Brains with Adam Savage. Aren't you?

[Lister]

Today I'm gonna find out if the house I put a bid on can actually legally be sold by the title holder.

[lprkn]

Suspense

[wombat]

Italics