New bohemianism: beards, pickling beets, Fleet Foxes, rye...

look, I don't know if Bill Buford is in Fleet Foxes or has a beard or is an Uncle Tom or what, but I hope we can all get behind beets, pickled or otherwise, because they are awesome.

Oh well, never mind, next time I'll try to make my throw-away references more on point. I've actually never heard of David Brooks, probably because his kind of thing irritates me and I forgot it immediately.

i'm with jaymc here. but i haven't read gladwell or brooks because they seem ultra douchey.

xpost--we agree on david brooks! he is a total booger eater

And obv. I meant to say "soccer fans," not "players."

I think Buford is kind of a booger eater, too, which is probably why he came to mind.

yeah he was really into Mario in that book, wasn't he?

this marks the third time today i've read the word "booger".

xpost- fourth.

I think he's really into himself, when you get right down to it.

hence the booger eating

booger eating is totes the new hotness

He does the whole self-deprecating thing that everyone else does, but unfortunately he seems kind of to be missing the point -- he should be more self-deprecating about being a small-hearted asshole who thinks of himself first, and less about things like a lack of athletic prowess or physical coordination.

pickled boogers?

the right thread for this song...

Gladwell isn't bad in individual doses, but after a while you realize he's kind of shticky (everything's all "humans make choices that are counterintuitive!"); plus, I sometimes feel like the artful construction of his essays disguises the fact that his arguments aren't always built on the most solid foundation.

http://www.luminomagazine.com/2004.10/spotlight/nerds/images/booger/booger1.jpg

I'd never heard of Bill Buford before. Thanks guys!

Not the drummer for Yes, then?

curtis armstrong, like steve buscemi, makes any movie he's in better just by him being in it.

i don't want to meet the hipster with a chamber pot fetish. christ, if you thought the Rainbo smelled bad BEFORE...

I knew a hipster with a chamber pot, it didn't smell but I had to kneel to piss because I had drunk aim and didn't want to splash all over her bedroom. I didn't feel too bohemian.

jaymc, would i like the fleet foxes? they are playing here for free on friday.

i don't know about beets, foxes, or rye, but this shit just sounds like urban kids that know how to camp

or are you talking about tripsters?

wait, i don't care

http://www.rivbike.com//

^^^ i know plenty of dudes who subscribe to these guys' philosophy, which would appear to be whatever it is you're talking about. they're just called "retro-grouchy." or telemark skiers.

http://remote.lohudblogs.com/files/2008/02/mose1.JPG

Beards, beets, Battlestar Galactica

http://remote.lohudblogs.com/files/2008/02/mose1.JPG

rockin chin scrub

Can I cross-post to several days ago and say that I like the semi-archaic "wear a beard" construction? It refers to a stylistic choice, like wearing your hair down or wearing your trousers loose. If we were really awesome we could even try and use "wear" and "have" differently, to denote this: i.e., if you live in the woods and don't care either way, you have a beard; if you woke up one day and decided you'd look snappy with a beard and proceeded to grow one, you wear one.

P.S. I realized the other day that Fleet Foxes have some really terrifically constructed lyrics! Or at least one song ("White Winter Hymnal") suddenly jumped out and I noticed all the stuff going on with sound and internal rhyme and whatnot. It looks way worse on paper because the internal rhymes are all emphasized in specific ways, but:

I was following the pack
All swallowed in their coats
With scarves of red
Tied 'round their throats
To keep their little heads
From falling in the snow
And I turned round and there you go!
And Michael you would fall
And turn the white snow red as strawberries
In the summertime

^^ this is just really well put together, the general images, the set-up with colors, the internal rhymes and assonance and alliteration ... so now I have this increasing respect for Fleet Foxes, who aren't always doing the most interesting thing in the universe but are really quite good at what it is that they're doing.

that is terrible

i only count one example of alliteration ("from falling", and maybe strawberries and summertime???) unless I'm missing something huge

ilx prac crit club

and where's the assonance, nabisco, where is it??? is it internal?

i only took one poetry class ever

"their throats" = I guess that counts as alliteration

why would anyone ever say 'wear a beard'??
unless this is a british thing to say, in which case, carry on being british or whatever

follow/swallow

Tied round Their Throats

their/there

etc.

it's not bad -- i'd have to hear it though. i guess i should go to that free concert tomorrow?

not many internal rhymes, but lots of assonance

lots of "rr" sounds

i understand yr point re construction and internal rhyme but blargh

yeah i think the strongest part about those lyrics is the imagery and the imagery is not. . .that great

edie brickell to thread.

And I turned round and there you go!

this line doesn't fit well into the verse... it seems to me...

crunk foxes

I think the free concert is tonight, Am.

RYE

http://i.timeinc.net/recipes/i/recipes/su/07/03/beer-rye-bread-su-1589348-l.jpg

http://www.bellewood-gardens.com/Rye%20Bread_1.jpg

I CAN TOTALLY SEE ROBIN PECKNOLD IN THE CRUST

butter churning is so hot right now

jordan's concert is tonight, the fleet foxes are tomorrow (the 18th)

Oh, I thought you meant in Chicago. It looks like Fleet Foxes are playing a free show in Chicago tonight, a free show in Madison tomorrow, and then coming back to Chicago on Saturday for Pitchfork...?