Chapo Trap House and the rise of the dirtbag left

there probably aren't, like, wealthy hot couch guys, but otherwise yeah I think it exists as a phenomenon all the way from working class to college-educated professional class.

I dunno, Richard Branson seems like a billionaire hot couch guy but the couch is a chaise on an island.

there probably aren't, like, wealthy hot couch guys, but otherwise yeah I think it exists as a phenomenon all the way from working class to college-educated professional class.

azealia banks got me wonderin if elon musk is a hot couch guy

Insane ego/braggadocio about shit that no one else cares about or believes - yes, definitely

chaiselongue musk more like amirite

Weed unites people across many boundaries

surprised they didn't discuss the hot couch guy apartment smell, that dormy mix of socks, body spray, liquor and weed.

Sophomore year I lived in a mostly cool house of ag school students who were studying organic farming and that sort of thing, but there was this guy I'll call paul who, at every single house party we ever had, (which were otherwise mostly fun affairs), would at some point put on either Pinkerton or Paul's Boutique, take off his shirt, and enthusiastically put an old wooden door up on two chairs for beer pong, even though there was absolutely zero demand for beer pong in that crowd.

Paul was a tall lanky dude with long blonde hair and in my memory he is always on rollerblades. He was a huge Opie and Anthony fan and couldn't shut the fuck up about Whip-em-out Wednesdays (WOW), and made his own girlfriend flash the crowd at an Opie and Anthony show. She left him not long after that. He often bragged about her "great fuckin tits dude, great fuckin tits" to us. Everything was a "great fuckin x dude, great fuckin x." Maybe just a hair too alive to be a true hot couch guy.

There were others, like the guy who actually smuggled cooking wine from the dining hall for drinking purposes. A lot of memories of being in an efficiency campus apartment with seven other dudes and two girls listening to Meddle, making an extremely blurry late night run to quik chek, and later waking up on the hot couch. The pink floyd asses poster was probably the crucial piece of decor.

Hot couch guy is basically a dirtbag but with no style or aesthetics.

the off campus houses that were just giant hot couches

This ep gave me intense flashbacks of scratched up family guy DVDs face down on coffee tables and broken guitar hero guitars

Hot couch guy is basically a dirtbag but with no style or aesthetics.

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, September 3, 2018 9:30 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

doesn't even have his own raw mattress

Woken up by my feet being licked by a couch guy’s pit bull (named Turbo)

there probably aren't, like, wealthy hot couch guys, but otherwise yeah I think it exists as a phenomenon all the way from working class to college-educated professional class.

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, September 3, 2018 4:45 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

may I point you in the direction of silicon valley

or really anyone involved with bitcoin who isn't broke by now

I still have dreams of the hot couch I slept on in Cincinnati in 2014. I got the cool spot. My bandmate woke up in cat pee.

or really anyone involved with bitcoin who isn't broke by now

I guess technically this is going to include me soon, oh fuck am I doomed to see my couch heat up???

i have literally woken up on a hot couch with the running scared dvd menu on the tv

I was long out of college by 2006 and have no recollection of the movie Running Scared existing

haha I've just realized that it's the paul walker movie from 2006 i had no idea existed that's he's referencing and not the gregory hines and billy crystal movie which is what my experience was

Sarah Jones on the book and the boys

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/chapo-trap-house-book-dirtbag-manifesto-satire-liberalism-socialism

For those who missed out on lo-fi Matt call-ins

https://thisishell.com/interviews/1019-matt-christman-brendan-james

Matt & Virgil on Zero Books:

https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2018-09-05T16_55_02-07_00

Gets into the book, their reactions to the reviews, the growth in popularity of DSA and AOC, and how even a basic social-democratic platform would be a great thing to have about now

My friends @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE have written the funniest Guide To Revolution since Pol Pot's zine from his Paris years. (There are cultural references I don't get, but I trust the jokes still landed.) So buy it, read it, then burn it. Because like Nike, it's an affront to patriotism.

— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) September 6, 2018

wow, they know *the* dennis perrin? they really did make it big

a true radical would burn before reading

ah it's iatee... burning as brightly as ever

dennis perrin is actually dennis miller

Chapo has hit the big time, fans are bootlegging shows, the tape trading will start soon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgxrO3aCGeM&feature=youtu.be

how soon until they all drop solo podcasts on the same day?

Trying that link again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgxrO3aCGeM

thanks for the link, didn't want to go last nite. was funny, Mac DeMarco played a surprise show at the venue across the street yesterday. can't imagine how insufferable the combined crowds downtown were for this and that.

Micah Uetricht interviewed Matt for Jacobin.

https://jacobinmag.com/2018/09/chapo-trap-house-guide-to-revolution

Ha, thanks for the show link. I think people have been bootlegging the live events since they’ve been having them. Somebody on the dirtbag leftist/Chapo fan Discord posted a full show right after it happened in May of last year, I think.

great version of "playing in the band" in this show

I have mixed experiences with E1 but this one, which features Felix doing his Knausgaard knock-off character, is absolutely killing me

https://soundcloud.com/episode-one-868768631/e1-e1-live-disaronno-presents-lonely-at-the-top-50#t=0:00

this thread is so much more fun for me than the show because i actually like most of you

always happy to amuse a HOOS

btw Plaid Shirt Guy at the Trump rally in Billings put a DSA rose emblem on just before he was escorted out

https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/bonus-virgil-interviews-cynthia-nixon

def voting for her. Nice interview, fairly straightforward (ganked NPR outro music maybe subtly poking fun at this?). She seems def on the outer edge of DSA endorsements in terms of pretty clearly just being a social democrat at most, so I sort of get the strife over whether to endorse her.

I liked her interview, but wished she would have come out more vociferously for sex workers, and I’m glad Virgil asked her directly on that topic

Also, whodathunk that the ep most like CT is the one without Stav there.

god the one they dropped today is so dire

it was like being in high school and listening to people talk about tripping over the weekend

I don't think I can listen to any of the guest-free episodes anymore, they're so wanky.

I can't really blame them, I just think they've sort of fulfilled their purpose and maximized the mileage they can get out of what they do best.

yeah i have no appetite for guest-free episodes. basically no appetite for a reading series unless it's something particularly good like douthat memoirs, seagal, or true allegiance. i guess I've grown weary of the shtick

i honestly am more likely to tune into felix streaming on twitch than chapo nowadays though so I'm not saying like I'm above this shit or anything

The first bit was sort of entertaining as a reminder of how awful all of them would be to do anything with.

They remind me a little bit of the guy who goes to blockbuster movies and mutters under his breath the whole time "Oh god. Please. Yeah right. Well that's original."