MitchAnon: i saw a great cartoon about indie guilt today
Dubplatestyle: haha
MitchAnon: seriously it was this daytime tv animated thing with a kid in a wheelchair, i've never seen it before
MitchAnon: and it started off on the playground with all of the kids listening to their different stuff, the goths, the folkies, the boybanders, the metalhedz, and it gets back to the main character and his friends and he says "you know, our generation has such a wide variety of music to listen to. of course, ours is the only real stuff."
MitchAnon: the main character says "the worst are the boybands, they don't write their own songs or their own words! they just dance!"
MitchAnon: and the band is called 'ntalented so i was worried it was going to be this rockist thing
Dubplatestyle: !!
Dubplatestyle: hahaha
MitchAnon: but wait
MitchAnon: the main character (i cant remember his name), who has previously stated that his taste favours "unsigned alternative artists and acid house technosomethingorother", has a crush on this one girl who wuvs ntalented
MitchAnon: he tells her he likes them to win her over, she finds out he was bluffing and calls him on his narrowmindedness
Dubplatestyle: holy crap what is this show, mitch?
MitchAnon: dejected, he goes home with an ntalented cd and finds he actually likes it a whole lot! this drives him crazy and his tries various methods (including self-hypnosis) to unlike the band
MitchAnon: (i cant remember the name of the show either!)
Dubplatestyle: good lord
MitchAnon: after many futile days spent trying to change himself, he admits that he likes it. but finds himself humiliated when the music fascist kids at school stop him in the hallway, ask him what he's listening to (he mumbles a non-answer), and then pop open his discman and find the ntalented cd and all point and laugh mercilessly
Dubplatestyle: my god, thats happened to me too
Dubplatestyle: sigh
MitchAnon: he then decides to attend the concert out of pure aesthetic motives instead of simply trying to impress the chixors. there is a bit that [reg poster's name removed so it doesn't like like a personal insult] wouldnt like where there's this kinda creepy sad gray-haired old guy waiting in line for the band, and he says to the rest of the girls in line: "ah, i'm glad to see it's not just middleaged men who can appreciate the band!"
MitchAnon: while at the concert, he's forced to go up right next to the stage, cause his wheelchair blocks the fire escapes and is a hazard. so he's up there w the girl he likes, and her best friend storms up to her all angry likes and accuses her of deviously trying to steal her future husband (the cutest guy in the band is called mitch haha) away from her by getting real close to the group
MitchAnon: the girls argue, he attempts to distance himself and accidentally trips over the background curtain thing, revealing a group of aged rockstars programming all the equipment and the pulling all the strings behind the scenes
MitchAnon: this disgusts the audience, and they all head for the exits. however, it delights the boy's father, who had previously dismissed the band and had been puzzled as to why he had been enjoying the concert - the answer being that the guys behind the curtain were once his favourite group as a teenager (metaldudz or megadef or something like that)
MitchAnon: (there was also a good bit before that where they show the aformentioned band rockin out and the frat boys love it until they see the aging frontman's bald patch and, foreshadowing the ntalented audience reaction, run screaming from the concert)
MitchAnon: THE END
MitchAnon: how does stuff this good make it onto the 3pm timeslot?
MitchAnon: should i post this clumsy synopsis onto ilm?
Dubplatestyle: its like the ilx story in animated microcosm
Dubplatestyle: and yes
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Tuesday, 26 November 2002 00:32 (twenty-three years ago)