air your prejudices
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 1:46 pm
burun wrote:steve wrote:adults in short pants
Do not hate on mailmen! They have to wear those things.
Or the bassists, for that matter
Or the bassists, for that matter
Premier Rock Forum
air your prejudices
Page 19 of 20
Or the bassists, for that matter
air your prejudices
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 2:21 pm
what-what-what!, steve? you guys are all like, "that donk got cracked, stacked and offsuit-jacked", "dingo plays swingo at midnight with the buzzsaw", seriously what the fuck is this stuff? English? I don't understand 80% of what you're talking about. maybe 100%, I don't know.
the *new* new nuts, is 3-6 right?
the *new* new nuts, is 3-6 right?
air your prejudices
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 8:47 pm
Honestly, the prejudices I'm the most worried about are the ones I'm unaware of...I've noticed a couple that just shot out of the blue recently:
1. Indian fellows
2. Crusty Punks
3. Homeless folks
4. Attractive women
etc.
The odd thing is, I also happen to have pretty decent friends in these semi-consciously assumed prejudiced demographics.
Almost all of the work I do on a daily basis is for the benefit of the sickeningly rich...even the auctions for more 'beneficial' organizations. Personally, I feel they should be rounded up and shot...
1. Indian fellows
2. Crusty Punks
3. Homeless folks
4. Attractive women
etc.
The odd thing is, I also happen to have pretty decent friends in these semi-consciously assumed prejudiced demographics.
Almost all of the work I do on a daily basis is for the benefit of the sickeningly rich...even the auctions for more 'beneficial' organizations. Personally, I feel they should be rounded up and shot...
air your prejudices
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:23 pm
home game here in Athens this weekend.... let me add:
College Football People.
God fuck a duck, I hate those people. They descend on my town like a plague of dumpling shaped locusts in red pants and black shirts, and suddenly there's no wait less than an hour in any restaurant in town, and the streets are full of middle class drunks.
FUCK football season.
College Football People.
God fuck a duck, I hate those people. They descend on my town like a plague of dumpling shaped locusts in red pants and black shirts, and suddenly there's no wait less than an hour in any restaurant in town, and the streets are full of middle class drunks.
FUCK football season.
air your prejudices
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 9:58 pm
Ace wrote:itchy mcgoo wrote:The arbititrary line is yours to draw and I understand the punch of significance and connection to things created in struggle. The cost of that is yours alone, but there's whole lot of baby in that bath water.
I say this without knowing how you define open and democratic, but the things that come to mind are the US, France, Denmark and certain pre-historic cultures. So much baby. Big, big chunks of baby. Not even really stew anymore.
Point taken, I can't really defend my position in a complex way on a message board. Let's just say that I think in lots of modern democratic societies, the ability to express oneself freely causes the subjects of most art to be based on gender, ethnicity, sexuality, etc... Often, art gets lost in these ideas - Social restrictions and oppression are indeed fodder for art, but they are a ton weaker than governments with caste systems built into their very framework.
The brilliant thing about art made in restricted societies - and not ALL of it, a lot of it is gross propaganda, but the best i think is often the best - is the great artist's ability to transcend his limitations: Rodchenko and Lissitsky HAD to make propaganda, but they made so much more than propaganda. This can be applied in countless cases.
Don't get me wrong, I would rather have a society that preserves human life over great art, but I'm going to have a prejudice. Just like everything else, a lot of contemporary art and architecture, though not all of it, looks to me like a stereotype of art and architecture - really obvious, and boring.
Genius is something that practice rarely makes perfect - i honestly believe it comes in moments of inspiration (this explains shoddy work quality/ artist declines over the years). This is a very inequitable and unpopular perspective, so I really understand a lot of the opposing opinions.
I just don't agree with them.
Are you sure it's democracy that gradually spoiled art and not photography and "mechanical production" or whatever the heck Benjamin called it? I lived in Prague for a while and from what I could tell the art 1948 - 1989 wasn't qualitatively that different from the art in Western countries.
My ideas about why contemporary art is often so fatuous mostly come from these:
neither of which I have looked at in over a year. Now maybe I will.
air your prejudices
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 10:06 pm
lemur68 wrote:that damned fly wrote:career waitresses.
Come on, who else is gonna ever call you honey?
bees.
air your prejudices
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 12:46 pm
dontfeartheringo wrote:home game here in Athens this weekend.... let me add:
College Football People.
God fuck a duck, I hate those people. They descend on my town like a plague of dumpling shaped locusts in red pants and black shirts, and suddenly there's no wait less than an hour in any restaurant in town, and the streets are full of middle class drunks.
FUCK football season.
Is it safe to say that without the dominance/hegemony of Bulldog football idiocy in Athens that the heydey of the Athens music scene ('circa '79-'82) would not have been as strong/motivated, etc?
air your prejudices
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:07 pm
don't know about that, every southern college town goes completely apeshit over football
air your prejudices
Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:22 pm
PEPPER! wrote:don't know about that, every southern college town goes completely apeshit over football
Sure. I realize that. Yeah, there are lots of variables and contextual issues, blah blah blah...but it seems like everytime i read something about the history of the Athens scene somewhere it mentions Stipe, Fred S, et. al. getting harrassed/beaten up/taunted/disgusted by the football frat types and their monopoly of Athens. No big surpise of course, but I think maybe all those B-52ers, Pyloners, REMers, etc. kind of formed their clique/scene, at least partially, as a reaction against, or a desire to create something for themselves, something other than that dominant football fan mentality.
air your prejudices
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:52 am
Marsupialized wrote:Oh yeah, cops.
I despise the police with a passion unrivaled.
I wish great sorrow and pain upon every single police officer on the face of the Earth. Everyone who's even considered becoming a police officer, or who has encouraged someone to become one.
Fuck them all.
Perfect example of why:
http://www.nothingtoxic.com/media/1195615416/Aggressive_Cop_Busts_Out_his_Taser_Over_a_Speeding_Ticket