the wit & wisdom of mr snrub

-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...)

-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...)

Back in the summer of '94 when my parents took the television away because my sister and i were spending too much time wasting away in front of it, i fell in love with the next best mass media outlet, the radio. i spent just about every day of that summer reading and listening to the radio, mainly the latter. the local "alternative" station's playlist was pure bliss to me. it was a flood of weezer, smashing pumpkins, nirvana, hole, green day etc. Every song that came on put me in an altered state in which i completely forgot that i was a beanpole star wars geek that no girl would ever talk to.
Then came hootie.
The first time i heard "i only wanna be with you" all i could think was "why is my beloved 106.1 the Zephyr playing this shit? this isn't real music." I wrote it off to the DJ trying out new stuff and figured nobody on earth would request such a dismal lump of sound (this was back when i thought every song that came on was requested save a few of the dj's picks). boy was i wrong. every couple of hours for weeks on end my sense of bliss was shattered by Hootie and his merry gang of gatecrashers. it was really unbearable how quickly that song and a few of their other shoddy attempts at worthwhile music permeated the airwaves. i had never hated anything with as much passion as i hated hootie. luckily after a few hellish months Mr. Rucker and co. dropped off the face of the planet.
and i thought i'd never have to hear that shit again after the near universal backlash against hootie saturation but unfortunately some cock-addled marketing exec never got over how much he liked that soulless song and decided to put it in a car commercial that's now in heavy rotation.

-- Felonious Drunk (wangchungvsah...) (webmail), August 18th, 2004 2:08 PM. (Felcher) (link)

Oh fer fuck's sake, they're not THAT BAD!!

-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...) (webmail), August 18th, 2004 3:05 PM. (link)

Chris Martin's a nice bloke that you wouldn't mind buying a pint for. Thom Yorke is a weird unsociable Aspy. Chris wins.

-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...) (webmail), April 5th, 2006 2:02 PM. (Mr. Snrub) (link)

ah, mr. snrub. you appear with the tedious inevitability of an unloved season.

-- mookieproof (mookieproo...) (webmail), April 5th, 2006 2:23 PM. (mookieproof) (link)

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/3175/hatersball03300019xc.jpg

i've used it a few times in real life.

mr snrub used to annoy the shit out of me, now i look forward to his posts.

-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...), Yesterday 6:32 PM. (Mr. Snrub) (later)

SONG ID: Snoop rapping over the "P.I.M.P." beat

-- Alex in SF (clobberthesauru...), March 25th, 2005.

shut the fuck up, Mr. Snrub.

-- Alex in Baltimore (shipley.a...), April 21st, 2006.

-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...), September 19th, 2004.

-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...), October 19th, 2006.

-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...), October 24th, 2006.

-- Dom Passantino (juror...) (webmail), July 28th, 2006 10:09 AM. (Dom Passantino) (link)

What the fuck is a ricer? A Chinaman?

-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...) (webmail), July 28th, 2006 10:10 AM. (Mr. Snrub) (link)

-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...), December 13th, 2006.

From "The Wire" thread:

This sounds like the most depressing unfun show ever.
-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...), December 11th, 2006.

Seriously though, RIP.

-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...), December 25th, 2006.

-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...), January 5th, 2007 11:28 PM. (Mr. Snrub) (later)

"dance punk genre"

-- Shakey Mo Collier (audiobo...), January 5th, 2007 11:33 PM. (Shakey Mo Collier) (later)

Or whatever the fuck it's called.

-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...), January 5th, 2007 11:34 PM. (Mr. Snrub) (later)

I call it "flavor of the month" (this month: "freak folk")

-- Shakey Mo Collier (audiobo...), January 5th, 2007 11:37 PM. (Shakey Mo Collier) (later)

They release an album only slightly less-gooder than their last album (still one of the greatest double albums ever made) and all of a sudden everybody is just supposed to completely and totally ignore/hate OutKast now???

-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...)

Incubus?? Fucking INCUBUS?!?!? All I know about Incubus is they had that one hit "Drive" LIKE TEN FUCKING YEARS AGO!!!! And then all of a sudden they release the number one album in the country???? Zuh???

-- Mr. Snrub (mistersnru...) (webmail), January 3rd, 2007 2:36 PM. (Mr. Snrub) (later) (link)

I like the implication that if wasn't discussed in the sandbox, well, it just didn't happen

the alex in sf/al one-two upthread kills me every time.

the zen of snrub

http://lbtoronto.typepad.com/lbto/images/steve.jpg

"A surefire theory of blogs in honor of Mr. Snrub!"

now they might be my favorite hip hop tracks of the year.

all three days of it?

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, January 3, 2009 3:46 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you just got Snrubbed

― aggy new year (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Saturday, January 3, 2009 6:34 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Who the hell is the Animal Collective?

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, May 20, 2009 3:29 AM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

lololol classic. i played the "who???" joke when my roomie mentioned going to see animal collective last week, but i was only joking. mr snrub is probably being sincere and that is AWESOME.

There's like fifty Beach Boys songs worse than Student Demonstration Time!!

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 17 June 2009 00:09 (2 hours ago)

What a piece of shit. Compilation albums are the fucking worst. All the great Nirvana songs to choose from... AND THEY PICKED "VERSE CHORUS VERSE"!?!?!?

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, October 29, 2004 2:14 PM Bookmark

that's a good song

is that the 'you will make him happy' one? that slays....

lady gaga gets a free pass from hipsters and britney spears doesn't because "poker face" and "just dance" are much much better songs (and better suited for the dancefloor, which is key) than fucking "hit me baby one more time" which is music for ten-year-olds.

plus, lady gaga sings about fucking all the time!! (even if she's really really ugly in real life)

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, August 7, 2009 9:30 PM (Yesterday)

on a board where everyone else has fallen off snrub keeps bringin it day after day

that lady gaga thread is a trainwreck in the biggest way

Lazy bastards. I'm sick and fucking tired of everybody taking five years to make a new album. Is it really that fucking hard to make fifty minutes of listenable music??

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 28 August 2009 01:02 (13 minutes ago)

snrub on massive attack (<3)

fair question

I am sad that this show was not mentioned much in the "Best TV shows of the '00s" thread.

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, September 20, 2009 9:27 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

You mentioned it ten times.

― jaymc, Sunday, September 20, 2009 11:28 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

now they might be my favorite hip hop tracks of the year.

all three days of it?

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, January 3, 2009 3:46 PM (4 months ago)

you just got Snrubbed

― aggy new year (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Saturday, January 3, 2009 6:34 PM (4 months ago)

this totally kills me every time

oh, mr snrub. years and years later, you are always there to give us the predictably smugly awful answer. sometimes you are are even right. tell us more about you.

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Sunday, January 21, 2007 3:38 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark

If I think Miley Cyrus is hot, does that make me a pedophile?

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, November 26, 2009 9:09 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_North_America#State_laws

It looks like you're legally free to make a move anywhere except Arizona, California, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin, or Wyoming.
Good luck, Snrub.
Go get 'er, Snrub.

I think she's kind of a dog.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, November 27, 2009 11:18 AM (2 months ago) Bookmark

mr. snrub you are a motherfucking idiot. with every post you make i believe this more and more.
― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Tuesday, January 4, 2005 4:01 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark

nobody fucking liked Arcade Fire in the first place!! Except for that idiot at Pitchfork of course. Sure, people may have "tried to get into it," but that was it. Same goes for Hercules and Love Affair and the Junior Boys.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 9:39 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest

companion piece:

speaking of "roses," where are all y'all who once supported THE LOVE BELOW?

― cupcake 24/7 (Tape Store), Wednesday, April 14, 2010 1:12 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Still supportin'.

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, April 13, 2010 7:44 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

from upthread:

The problem with the Internet is that it gives everyone the illusion that they have something interesting to contribute to the world, when in reality something like 99% of the people out there have absolutely nothing interesting to contribute to the world.

-- Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, August 5, 2008 7:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

― sleeve, Wednesday, August 6, 2008 9:12 PM (1 year ago)

Mistersnrub 03/22/10

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This schlub is a glorified copywriter masquerading as a tough, national security policy expert. He probably has a small you know what.

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its probably not an uncommon username

OK I'm only halfway through my first listen to "Ante Up" and already it's got to be one of the most annoying songs I've ever heard in my life.

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, October 17, 2010 10:27 AM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wait til he gets to the second half

is he listening to the OG or the Busta/Remy vers?

Nof quite "embarrassingly basic", but: Whoever says CSS is easier to use than table-based HTML needs to be raped until they die.

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, January 15, 2011 6:58 PM

Mr. Tsipar

i dont know if they "need" to get raped until they die

yrutdmv

pretty inspiring that snrub is still up and at em imo

inspires me to sb him

TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Against Me! - New Wave
TV On The Radio - Dear Science
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillion
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Fucked Up - David Comes To Life
Frank Ocean – Channel Orange

^^^ I've never heard any of these. Are any of them any good?

The 2000s list looks so different from the 90s one.

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, October 17, 2013 3:07 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

#SnrubLife

― J0rdan S., Thursday, October 17, 2013 3:12 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

US #3 Hits (1998 and 1999)

What... the... fuck...

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, August 6, 2014 2:43 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know where else to ask this but is that "l0u1s jagg3r" and if not is l0u1s jagg3r a real poster and what is he notorious for. I read ILX a lot but I feel like I'm being punked whenever I hear him referenced? I would ask on the main board but I don't want to cause a dust up. Thanks in advance
― A B C (sparklecock), Saturday, 6 January 2007 04:52 (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

everything old is new again

I don't know where else to ask this but is that "l0u1s jagg3r" and if not is l0u1s jagg3r a real poster and what is he notorious for. I read ILX a lot but I feel like I'm being punked whenever I hear him referenced? I would ask on the main board but I don't want to cause a dust up. Thanks in advance
― A B C (sparklecock), Saturday, 6 January 2007 04:52 (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hi deems, it's quiet down here isn't it

I have faith, quietly. The leaves are turning in their own time.

Sparklecock's post will never not reduce me to tears of laughter.

there it is

snrub life across the belly
I prove you lost already

What in God’s name do you people hear in this generic shitmusic? Just the blandest pop music I’ve heard in quite some time with high school poetry lyrics. Granted I’ve only heard the “You’re a… dreamcrusher” one and “Get Him Back”, but still. WORST CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ARTIST EVER OF THE DECADE EVER.

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, February 28, 2024 7:44 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

finally, one man is brave enough to stand up

Against Me! - New Wave

^^^ I've never heard any of these. Are any of them any good?

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, October 17, 2013 3:07 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

has to be one of the last times anybody mentioned against me!'s "new wave" album

"transgender dysphoria blues" came out in jan 2014

laura jane grace was already out by oct 2013, though, right? was against me! that well-known a band in '13, or was "new wave" being on this list more of a "oh wow we should really give this stuff another listen" thing?

New Wave was Spin's #1 album of 2007, fwiw

good to know. i was kind of out of it for most of the '00s and didn't really know what was going on. took a gap(dy) decade.