New utterly confused answers. -- geeta (geet...), May 30th, 2002.
This post from the GBV thread succeeded in tick-a-ling me. I want to complain about cigarettes in supposedly hella cool and intelligent music. Actually, let's talk about cigarettes as an enduring accessory of coolness in high art altogether. First off I started smoking in grade 9 to look hard and shit but now have reached the point where I'm so ashamed of the habit that I'll only smoke outdoors and when it rains I'll get so paranoid about the stink clinging to my fingers and making my forehead greasy I'll spend 10 mins airing out and washing hands if I know I'll be encountering pretty chicas that don't smoke (and there are TONS). So why do so many artistes insist on keeping smoking a part of their public image? Interpol smoking in their press shots like it'll make em look less pussy somehow. Countless authors smoking cigarettes on Charlie Rose like it'll shroud them in enigma and anomie when it just looks like boring men butching up. I mean I try to look up to these artists cos supposedly they have interesting, creative approaches to the universe, but what gives with this high-school impress-me shit. I'll have to repurpose geeta's theory and just assume that non-mainstream music and the literary elite are two circles with such naturally bitchmade images they feel the need to be so irresponsible in public. Yeah I want my kids to know that their new underground hero mr. modular critical theory freedesign fag thinks they should question the status quo, reevaluate their peers, find their own secret misshapen yet beautiful blisses apart from the fold, but smoking is totally dope. Oh man I want to shit on that shit.
― DarrensCoq, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)
And I want to shit... ON YOU.
― Dave M. (rotten03), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)
― DarrensCoq, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:21 (twenty-one years ago)
― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:30 (twenty-one years ago)
― DarrensCoq, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dave M. (rotten03), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:51 (twenty-one years ago)
― DarrensCoq, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 10:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Darrenscoq, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― DarrensCoq, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― MichaelB, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)
Anyone else read Thomas Frank's "The Conquest of Cool" or "Commodify your Dissent"? I think this plays into his arguments quite well.
― DarrensCoq, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)
thanks for teaching me about marijuana. now i have half the brain cells i did when i was eighteen and i'll never get my harvard phd.
love,
― vahid (vahid), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)
That's pretty funny.
My wife and I have done the "quit together on Monday" thing more than once. Doesn't make for a very good week.
― Sicily (Sicily), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)
What a bummer sticker. And this guy's Mr. Rock'n'Roll ? He didn't give a fuck what anyone thought then, so why should he now ? he probably kids himself that he still doesn't. and he's always kidding us one way or another, ain't he cool. did he care about the kids at all or just give them a new idea ? and would he give a damn about anyone else's kids ?
― george gosset (gegoss), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)
― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)
― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 22:22 (twenty-one years ago)
― DarrensCoq, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― DarrensCoq, Wednesday, 5 November 2003 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)
http://www.zpub.com/aaa/wb-1.jpg
― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 6 November 2003 06:59 (twenty-one years ago)