but the film also deconstructs the hermetic world of prick worship

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what is the most pretense ridden sentence you have said or written this week ?

― anthony, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"As a raving separatist lesbian feminist I am totally offended by the whole thing - but I'd still rather men do the coal mining than women."

― toraneko, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Your thought patterns become quite precious to you over the years, even if they are destructive ones."

― toraneko, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

WHat a lot of the latter day critics forget is while the protagonist in Tarantula may well be a metaphor for the red menace, science gone awry and the atom bomb - it is also a big fuck off spider laying wreck to Arizona.

― Pete, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, the word pretence is a bit of a worry. I mean, in the first example I gave, I was thinking of pretence in the sense of a hypocritical statement and in the second example I was thinking of pretentious. In terms of pretence as in bullshitting, then when I said sorry for being late in the morning it was pretty pretence ridden.

― toraneko, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Sinker in particular has written about music through an extraordinarily diverse group of conceptual lenses (Attali, Meltzer, Xena: Warrior Princess), refusing to acknowledge the divisions between them simply because there aren’t any." - in an application for a class being taught by Greil Marcus

― Dave M., Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"I don't care".

― Ronan, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

haha meep RAH urk?

― mark s, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

in the hermetic world of prick worship I r00l!! oh wait...

― mark s, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"It is these extensive reflections on how history inflects epistemology in the process of "finding" a utopia, in particular the ways in which time is 'spatialised' in hegemonic discourses about the future (so that it might be colonised by progress), that prevents (x book) from falling into the conservative pastoralism decried by (y) in (blah blah blah)."

Ha ha this is not only pretentious but unreadable. I rewrote it as: 'I think x is a good book and y is both wrong and stupid.' (Not really. But I might).

― Ellie, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably about some band that brought the rock. But not in those terms.

"[Ethan] Miller's attempts to be both Rob Tyner and Robert Calvert (not to mention Wayne Kramer and Dave Brock) work not as mere revival but its own form of insanity."

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

ducking in...the most pretentious statement I made this week was "my ex-wife fell in love with a mountain man and became a professional clown"

maybe it's not pretense, because it's true

back to altfandot momus

― jameslucas, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm writing an essay so its full of this wanky shit. i even used the word "plethora".

― di, Saturday, 17 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

A plethora of pretension! I've heard worse.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 August 2002 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hi."

― Kim, Sunday, 18 August 2002 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"You have to consider the longevity of the creative artifact though. There's a value attatchment there."

Joint winner (because there are different kinds of pretentious awfulness) with:

"What do you mean I'm not on the guestlist? Try that page."

(Shoot me now. Although the first was motivated by alcohol and the second by lack of money.)

― Anna, Sunday, 18 August 2002 13:54 (twenty-two years ago)

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