Eh, I've decided to stop posting because I felt like I was becoming another Rick Reuben... insisting on some untenable, highly idiosyncratic point until I'd alienated everyone. It was stupid and I'm stopping.

You're right. Using the adjective "black" was highly ill-advised and I thought badly of it after I had done it. I'm not a rich kid, though. I'm the child of a single mother paralegal whose father did not pay child support and who put herself through school, if you really want to know.

rashiedgarrison wrote:I like the album. So there.

Yeah it's pretty good, isn't it?

ecunt wrote:I have a gut feeling Matthew will come back in 2008.

Matthew & Rick would have trouble co-existing don't you think?

No offence to either of these gentlemen but switch "Jesus" with "Ron Paul" and they essentially occupy the same position on the forum.

tommydski wrote:switch "Jesus" with "Ron Paul"

POW!
Mind=blowned!

Rick, whomever you are, you live your life on the cusp of rage...so angered by the Internet, that you misspell/miscapitalize words that you otherwise would take great care to spell correctly to further your non-role in the Electrical "information war."

So angry that he has to do opposition research on those whom he wishes to "take out."

Reading through all their posts.

Rick Reuben wrote:

Minotaur029 wrote: You are the one who decided "EXCUSEEEE ME" was a uniquely "black" trait.

You lying motherfucker. She put the word 'black' in her post, before she quoted the woman. I didn't have to interpret anything, you idiot.

Rick, it's cool. If you invoke a racist stereotype when telling a story, you deserve to be called out on it. If you go on a punk rock message board and say you think the music is trivial (I still kinda think rock is quiche) you deserve to have your ass handed to you.

Apologies all around.

Can I have my asshat now?

This thread was awesome when we were talking about kitschy shit, and art, and whatnot.
Now it's kind of lame? Like Burial?
Tocharian, your argument holds water as long as the definition holds anything can be kitsch given the right circumstances - in which case it's an empty argument, a 'so what' thing. The definition is useless.

tocharian wrote:(I still kinda think rock is quiche)

Oh. OK, that changes everything.

Man, I fucking love quiche.

There is a recipe in Thomas Keller's Bouchon book that is about the most delicious thing I have ever eaten.

Yeah, so, Burial.

Rock is not quiche. I don't even like quiche as kitsch.

You know who makes some great music using a similar aesthetic? DJ Shadow. Consider:

http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=54_7m-CVTMY
http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=VQG-LvU9N ... re=related
http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=1gpKYnRdf0A