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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #75 on: August 13, 2009, 02:21:09 pm »
Quote from: Doc on August 13, 2009, 02:03:10 pm
Very nice.
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I had no idea that vikings surfed.
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #76 on: August 13, 2009, 02:57:36 pm »
My dad says he wants to be cremated, put in a fried chicken bucket and floated away down the Erie Canal while a Dixieland band plays "Oh When The Saints Come Marching In".

Dad... Dad says a lot of things. Runs in the family.
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #77 on: August 13, 2009, 03:22:03 pm »
Quote from: AugustWest on August 13, 2009, 03:52:04 am
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #78 on: August 13, 2009, 04:15:15 pm »
Quote from: littlefallsmets on August 13, 2009, 02:57:36 pm
My dad says he wants to be cremated, put in a fried chicken bucket and floated away down the Erie Canal while a Dixieland band plays "Oh When The Saints Come Marching In".

Dad... Dad says a lot of things. Runs in the family.

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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #79 on: August 13, 2009, 04:32:54 pm »
Quote from: greenkoolayd on August 13, 2009, 04:15:15 pm
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #80 on: August 13, 2009, 05:36:38 pm »
That reminds me... I saw a movie a couple of weeks ago that was set on the Eerie Canal in the 1860s.  Can't remember the name of it, but it was Henry Fonda's first movie so it should be easy to look up.  In the movie they spent a lot of time in Little Falls and it reminded me of you Mike.
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #81 on: August 14, 2009, 12:34:47 am »
Quote from: AugustWest on August 13, 2009, 02:21:09 pm
I had no idea that vikings surfed.
They totally would have though.
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #82 on: August 15, 2009, 06:13:47 am »
Just watched this episode of Frontline about marketing to teens.  How they find what's cool and market it.  They seek out teens that are trend setters and then expose it to a mass audience in the process killing it.  Therefore what's cool was constantly shifting.

They make the point that the marketing reflects the culture and then becomes an echo chamber and the culture begins reflecting the marketing.

They used ICP as an example of authentic youth culture because they weren't created in some MTV lab.  And that the rage they displayed was against the mass marketed culture itself.  The show then posed the question was ICP so out there, so obnoxious and terrible that it couldn't be marketed.  But yet they actually managed to do just that with the result being Limp Bizkit.

As horrible as they are I think they earned a little bit of respect from me for being who they are and not what Madison avenue created them to be.

I'm saying this very poorly.  I encourage everyone to watch that program it was very enlightening.
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #83 on: August 15, 2009, 06:18:30 am »
I am disappearing for a short while. If I don't come back by monday... start to think things.
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #84 on: August 15, 2009, 06:33:51 am »
A-CAP is infiltrating the juggaloes.
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #85 on: August 15, 2009, 06:46:24 am »
Missionary work preaching Objectificatologism to Juggalos is one of the funniest ideas ever.

It is like "The Gods Must Be Crazy" except with children raised by wolves and an autographed picture of Rush Limbaugh.

Surely, whether the outcome be accidentally fair (through cancelling out) or horrifically foul (through amplification) it shall be... interesting.

Godspeed, little doodle.

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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #86 on: August 15, 2009, 05:44:33 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on August 15, 2009, 06:13:47 am
Just watched this episode of Frontline about marketing to teens.  How they find what's cool and market it.  They seek out teens that are trend setters and then expose it to a mass audience in the process killing it.  Therefore what's cool was constantly shifting.

They make the point that the marketing reflects the culture and then becomes an echo chamber and the culture begins reflecting the marketing.

They used ICP as an example of authentic youth culture because they weren't created in some MTV lab.  And that the rage they displayed was against the mass marketed culture itself.  The show then posed the question was ICP so out there, so obnoxious and terrible that it couldn't be marketed.  But yet they actually managed to do just that with the result being Limp Bizkit.

As horrible as they are I think they earned a little bit of respect from me for being who they are and not what Madison avenue created them to be.

I'm saying this very poorly.  I encourage everyone to watch that program it was very enlightening.
They started out selling their albums out of a van in high school parking lots (according to the legend, at least).

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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #87 on: August 16, 2009, 07:22:34 am »
I do not know if authentic youth culture should involve like, renting out the hot dog stands that they have at state fairs, and charging people a lot of money to come to see your weird festival thing.

mostly I just hate the idea that the only way to avoid commodification of your culture by outsiders is to make it so... unlikable to me personally.


Let's be honest, one of my favorite bands is Nirvana. I can love something after it has been ripped off a whole lot. As long as it's, you know, good.
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #88 on: August 16, 2009, 07:50:27 am »
I don't know, Nirvana has spawned so much terrible music I can hardly forgive them.
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Re: Great thing, or Greatest Thing?
« Reply #89 on: August 16, 2009, 04:47:38 pm »
My idea is that terrible music will always be around, and all Nirvana did was maybe shape the sound of terrible bands. I just watched hype! again yesterday so it's on my mind.
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