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[AugustWest]

Education.

[Lister]

Well, the good news is it can be sold.  The bad news is that the highest bid beats mine by ninety thousand dollars.  Yeesh.

[Doc]

Resolution?

[Toaster]

Denouement.

[jaydub]

Afterglow

[littlefallsmets]

To Be Continued...?

[Choop]

Sequel.

[littlefallsmets]

Prequel with a young sexy cast that really misunderstands most of the core concepts of the earlier films.

[Toaster]

But... the original cast was also young and sexy... at the time.

[theinevitable]

Have you guys all seen those ads? What with the punching and the rock music? What gives??

Also: beer first thing in the morning is a LOT less satisfying than I hoped it would be.

[theinevitable]

today is the last day of classes, it is historically the day that we drink all day.

the battle of the bands thing was...
well, I had low expectations.
But my expectations were WAY too high.

When a band came on that was a really unoriginal and uninteresting band THAT HAD ORIGINAL SONGS, AND COULD PLAY THEM COMPETENTLY I almost stood up and cheered.

oh my god, why do people think it is funny to do punk or acoustic covers of pop songs.

(also: the other judge, who was from the music magazine on campus, showed up with a PBR button and dark jeans and plaid shirt on an 85-degree day, with wayfarers and cowboy boots. he wins.)

[littlefallsmets]

I think that they do those covers less because they think they're achingly funny and more because they think that the familiarity of the material will draw in the casual audiences... but putting an "ironic" spin on it that won't scare away people who dislike the original song. I think it's more a question of marketability and accessability... especially in something like a battle of the bands, where they're trying to strategize how to stand out in a crowd of people.

When everyone takes the same path, it backfires of course, but there we are. But I understand the premise... they weren't trying to necessarily show their best material or best talents, they were trying to tailor their material toward what they thought would win the contest, which they would then hopefully parlay into getting noticed enough where people would listen to their original stuff which... 99.44% of people would immediately tune out because it isn't familiar.

But then... we've covered your opinion on accessability. *winky emoticon*

[Toaster]

So original material is like recessive genes?

[theinevitable]

I think it would be overestimating these bands to think that "original material" exists.

I was anticipating that the bands would fit into like... "blues-rock band," or "kind of metal-ish band" or something. categories that I find generally uninteresting, but hey, it's their thing. they're trying.

But instead it was "jam band, but without skill on their instruments, playing dave matthews songs."

99.44% of people would immediately tune out because it isn't familiar.

Arguing this the other day is what led to a guy calling me a cultural elitist, pretentious, intellectually dishonest, etc.


...lately I am in what qualifies for me as a really rude and abrasive mood. later I will feel bad for being so down on these people who at least seemed to be enjoying what they were doing.

drunk whiffle ball in vacant lot: best ever.

[pmcd9]

oh my god, why do people think it is funny to do punk or acoustic covers of pop songs.

Or entertaining in anyway, ironic or otherwise.  I have been saying this for years.  Please stop it already.

...lately I am in what qualifies for me as a really rude and abrasive mood. later I will feel bad for being so down on these people who at least seemed to be enjoying what they were doing.

You need to get laid!