Darz wrote:Me, I hate this quote. Obviously enought to make this my first post. Why, I graduated the that very degree, and funny it changed my thinking entirely. The even funnier thing is I'm not a hippy. I probably hate hippies more than you do.

Did a professor give you a bad grade, or something? You sound more spiteful than truly hating. C'mon, justify that. I wanna know. Is it the left leaning bent of the faculty? Honestly the only way I can see someone hating that department is if they were so diametrically opposed to the ideas presented within it. If that's the case you probably shouldn't have been exploring classes with the word "Culture" in them in the College of Liberal Arts at a big univeristy.

Ok, a response. I have never taken a cultural studies class. Maybe things have changed since you were here, but the people are just mindless, dirty imps. You know? It's trust fund kids acting poor because they feel they should be? It's pretty dumb.

I have really good friends in that program who say the same thing.

The other thing that I really hate is that by applying numerous dialectics and theories, I have had CSCL students engage in debates with me and crap out all of these theories about how genetics (on a molecular level, mind you) is influenced by some XXXXXian Dialectic. It isn't and doesn't. I'm sorry.

PS I'm a biochem/genetics major. whozz-a goin' to Med school.

Puff Daddy / P diddy. whatever. yuk.

Zak THICK wrote:Puff Daddy / P diddy. whatever. yuk.

I would like it if he officially changed his name to "P. Puff Diddy Daddy." I still wouldn't listen to the music, though.

Maurice wrote:

Zak THICK wrote:Puff Daddy / P diddy. whatever. yuk.

I would like it if he officially changed his name to "P. Puff Diddy Daddy." I still wouldn't listen to the music, though.

I would like it if he officially changed his name to CRAP and was flushed down a toilet.

Puddle of Mud
50 Cent
Tupoc
P.Diddy
Linkin Park
All American Rejects
Staind, Korn, Mest, Fuct, Krapt
Nickleback, Lucky Boyz Confusion
Ska music
Thrice
...there's always more

danmohr wrote:In general, I will despise you and/or your band if you:

- Play to prerecorded music

so are you trying to discredit all music featuring live tape manipulation?

and what about pre-sequenced music? a drum machine is just a bunch of prerecorded drum samples sequenced in a premeditated arrangement.

danmor wrote:And you are definitely fucked if you:

- Have a laptop on stage

i saw kevin drumm do that once and it fucking ruled. you might want to reconsider.

and for the rest of you who hate music like the white stripes and the strokes etc. i'll just say this: yes those bands suck, but when you have to work in a kitchen all day and listen to shitty pop radio, you'll realize there are much worse musical acts out there worth you're hate energy. like staind.

as for my contribution: 4 non blondes
i've only heard that one song, but boy do i fucking loathe that song. basically because it's impossible to ignore.

and for the rest of you who hate music like the white stripes and the strokes etc. i'll just say this: yes those bands suck, but when you have to work in a kitchen all day and listen to shitty pop radio, you'll realize there are much worse musical acts out there worth you're hate energy. like staind.

I have to agree. I think the White Stripes and The Strokes and all those "the" bands on the radio these days stink (annex in "The Coldplays"). But has anyone heard 3 days grace? or whatever they call themselves. or Trapt? I seriously am revolted.


Chris

Yellowcard, hahahaha, that band is hilarious. I can't hate them because their video always makes me break up into laughter.

re: playing to prerecorded music

so are you trying to discredit all music featuring live tape manipulation?

and what about pre-sequenced music? a drum machine is just a bunch of prerecorded drum samples sequenced in a premeditated arrangement.

Tape manipulation ala Mission of Burma or Ein Heit can be quite great. I was only denoting the case where the manipulation of the tape consists solely of: start tape, sing/noodle on guitar over tape as it plays uninterrupted, stop tape.

One could argue that all non-improvised music is pre-sequenced and one would certainly be a moron for despising all non-improvised music. Sure, I'm predisposed to be suspicious of drum machines as they are more often used in bad music than good (and I play drums), but I'm a huge fan of Big Black and Suicide so there you go.

re: laptops on stage

i saw kevin drumm do that once and it fucking ruled. you might want to reconsider.

Yes, when I saw Wire last year I'm fairly certain that I saw an iBook on stage and I doubt that they were just checking email. Again, I'm just playing the percentages here (note use of bet-hedging phrase "In general..."). I've seen probably 40 bands with laptops on stage and exactly one of them was not terrible. I don't think the fact that that band was, in fact, fantastic makes my assertion any less true. Well, maybe the "definitely fucked" part. But c'mon - hyperbole!

Dan