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[littlefallsmets]

Trust-fund hipsters do those things in Los Angeles all the time.

It's just that people with the bread to make quirky pseudo-indies tend to move mostly in circles with trust-fund hipsters so...

Y'know. Assuming a whole from a small slice of the whole. Synecdoche.

[KeithHernandez]

It is kind of a mix of the big three.  You can get close to the classic tele sound, close to strat, and it is the guitar with the most possibilities (ie jazz/jag) that I can actually afford.  That is why I am getting it, closest I can get, or justify buying at this point, to a Jazzmaster.

[theinevitable]

I wish I had looked at a jazzmaster before buying my jag. I love the jaguar, but I'll always wonder, you know?

But yeah, I love that damn guitar. Right now it is sitting prettily in a case in my friend's closet. I am ready to be playing it loudly in the basement of my new house soon. I hope the people who live below us (on the first floor of our duplex) are cool. The dream goes like, maybe they play bass and drums.

[Toaster]

Next summer: Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a lovesick teenage detective space alien molestation victim evil disfigured scientist, IN: 500 Bricks of Mysterious Joe From The Sun.

Dude is easily one of my favorite actors.

[Doc]

I'm not particularly planning on seeing 500 days of summer but between mysterious skin and brick I have to agree with you.

[theinevitable]

I will probably be mad at myself later if I don't go see sonic youth tonight, right?

yeah, I think I'm gonna go.

[Doc]

No, you should stay at home.
Sit at home, maybe fiddle with your guitar, maybe chuck in a dvd.
Sit at home and post on a messageboard about cartoon cats instead of attending a concert.
Daniel.

[theinevitable]

yeah, I'm going. Going, and sitting in row V out of A-Z... rows A-Z of the balcony.

YEAH.

Gonna bring a book to read for class in between bands. This is how I justify going out while way behind in all classes.

(also, my uncle pointed out that none of these grades will ever matter to anyone)

[jaydub]

(also, my uncle pointed out that none of these grades will ever matter to anyone)

Except grad school admissions boards.

[theinevitable]

I mean, they don't get included in my GPA or anything, they just count for credit.

But I still don't want to do badly in them, because, I am bad at not-caring about things.

Caring but still not putting in enough effort, and then realizing too late, and trying to make it all up at the last moment and not succeeding? Yes. I am great at that.

Sonic Youth were flipping awesome.

[pmcd9]

Here you go Dan, it's Sonic Youth recorded a couple of weeks ago in DC for NPR.  Ace show.

link.

Maybe you want to relive the experience.

[theinevitable]

thanks paul, this is cool.

apparently for the last several years I have been making fun of Freud in front of my best friend/roommate whose dad is a freudian psychoanalyst.
it is taking so much effort to apologize for this. I did not know that such people still existed and had medical degrees. because like, it would seem like learning about how brains work would preclude buying into... really archaic proto-psychology.

it doesn't help that now every joke I think of relies on humorous misreadings of ego/id/superego/whatever stuff.

[Choop]

inev start a jokes thread with your freud material

[greenkoolayd]

thanks paul, this is cool.

apparently for the last several years I have been making fun of Freud in front of my best friend/roommate whose dad is a freudian psychoanalyst.
it is taking so much effort to apologize for this. I did not know that such people still existed and had medical degrees. because like, it would seem like learning about how brains work would preclude buying into... really archaic proto-psychology.

it doesn't help that now every joke I think of relies on humorous misreadings of ego/id/superego/whatever stuff.

your friend got butthurt over your less-than-stellar-opinion of freudian psychology?  and freud jokes?  that would be like me getting upset when people ask if working at a septic company was a shitty job......

seriously though, what exactly do you have to apologize for?

[theinevitable]

I don't think any of it is funny to anyone but me. And maybe like, other (former?) psychology dorks who don't like freud. There is a very specific kind of joke my roommate and I make that... I can't describe without it just being a definition of what a joke is. But they come out being only funny to us, because we have created this frame of saying things that sound stupid, but are actually jokes about the thought process that would go into saying something like that...

It is basically only funny to this roommate and me, which makes this extra rough. I will try to think of an example that works out of context.

Maybe like, we read The Game and make jokes about using it on people, but in situations where it would make no sense. like, maybe I can get out of this exam if I do the dual-induction massage on my professor and the TA.

Or, related, this girl we know seems to have this false impression that I am somehow a manipulator, and use my charms to take advantage of women. This is practically a joke in itself, but now there are a lot of jokes about like, interpreting my incompetence with women as part of some kind of sinister plan. (it also says horrifying things about this girl that she is also the person i have come the closest to sleeping with in a very long time, and she made these statements both before and after that situation.)

We also have a series of jokes that have long set ups about, one day we'll show this to our kids, etc.... and always end with, but our kids will be too busy interacting with the hypercube/serving the overmind.

Basically what I am saying is: Bromance, I miss my roommate and am ready to be living with him again after not seeing him since last December. Even if I have to pretend to respect Freud and post-modern literary analysis and stuff.

greenkoolayd: yeah, I don't know, it was kind of a weirdly intense moment. I guess it is different making fun of someone's parent (albeit unintentionally). And like, I think I have made statements a while ago that... might have been extreme along the lines of "what kind of idiot buys into this" or something.