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i was feeling depressed about my life, so i watched clerks and ate some salsa chips and now i feel better. so, what do you think of films/music/books that justify your own worthless slacker existence as oppossed to, say, taking you away on a shiny fanciful journey of magic and intrigue? this seems to be a major aspect of indie backlash, for one.

― ethan, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hm...if they're entertaining they can work, but such is always the way, is it not? I like Slacker itself as a stream of vignettes, but I don't think it justifies so much as wryly observes and then moves on. And while I don't particularly care for Merge's own Superyawn, I was always amused by how "Slack Motherfucker" was apparently supposed to be a condemnation of being lazyass.

Now, the Church of the SubGenius and the worship of Slack, another matter entirely...

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'm too lazy to need external justification.

― Geoff, Tuesday, 21 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would think that the fellow squatting in the Oval Office should put an end to the "slacker mystique." But too many Americans are too dumb to realize that you can't schlepp through life and end up on top unless, like Dumbya, you were born on third base to start with.

Anyway, these things do seem to come in cycles -- a string of art, movies, books, music, etc., all about "keepin' it real" or whatever, followed by the opposite (about being larger-than-life, fantasy-type stuff). Don't they?

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Frank O Hara .

― anthony, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"...the poem whose words become your mouth..." ?

― rainy, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"I wear workshirts to the opera" or Lana Turner has collapsed or esp. Havign a coke with you or Lady Day ...

― anthony, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

37... clerks is a place of fantasy if i ever heard.

― matthew james, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm tentatively feeling this way about the Smiths these days. In a way they could be said to have ruined my life, but I cling to the notion that it was in a good way.

― Nick, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The year 1996 ruined my life. I'm just about beginning to accept the idea that this might have been for the better.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 22 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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