Indie Guilt: C/D

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fat girls with ironic backpacks?
I am not fat. i am just physically challenged. And that backpack is now replaced by a bum bag that I wear over my shoulder.

cuba libre (nathalie), Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ethan turns to indie when he's feeling like a pussy (the Apples, Belle & Sebastian, etc.)

Mark, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

drink up dom

ethan, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bye bye liver.

Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(Which makes sense)
(Also, how indie is it that I left the "In Stereo" off?)
(If pussy hip-hop=PM Dawn then count me in)

Mark, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

go find the roots and mos def c/d threads haha

ethan, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

2. not misattributed, merely misparsed (cf later post abt "guilt" as a basis for fandom) => it is i think exactly as silly and exactly as plausible as the original thread-claim

4d. i am as all know a huge DC fan of course, and far too old ever to have been an indiekid (beside, indie killed punk rock, maaan)

(sorry abt yr bad day)

mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Where is the pity? Where is the pity?

John Darnielle, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark S your condolences crossed wires with my plea for more of them: thank you so much, they mean more than I can convey on-screen

John Darnielle, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Gareth, I was thinking of contributing something to this thread, but I've had too much trouble following it.

DeRayMi, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

alan = indie
virgil = 60s garage
john = idm (well, duh)
scott = ryan adams
gordon = dub

mr tracy = dave van ronk
parker = mingus
lady p = the shirelles
tin-tin = bratmobile
brains = the brazen hussies

mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

GUILT By Association -- Orlando, Florida INDIE Rock band

Brian MacDonald, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My Jack Daniels comment was aimed at Ethan's "pussy assed indie hop" claim, rather than the "crazy shit" claim. I still could be drinking lemon flavoured Coke tonight...

Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

now do us!!

ethan, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

They are not indie. They look like a roleplaying society. Roleplaying = prog, obviously.

Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

But but I thought indie rock was all about Iron Maiden T-shirts, two piece virtuouso math rock bands with really good drummers, and and and Iron Maiden T-shirts????

Brian MacDonald, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the hood = alien hiphop

mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dom i knew what you meant and thats what i meant so DRINK UP

ethan, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bowacks.

Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://members.aol.com/dubplatestyle/emined.jpg

indie hiphop., Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ethan, the people that first got me interested in indie were, at the time, driving around listening to stuff like Wu-Tang, Schoolly D, and Gravediggaz. Is that "pussy-ass hiphop"?

Phil, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

jeff!! bah, i haf been trying to remember dad tracy's name for 20 minutes which = pathetic in anyone's language

mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Heh heh heh. I like the way my hair looks there.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and mine was young mc, what's yr point?

jess, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think the accusation is something along the lines of "indie rock people are a bunch of Arrested Development-listenin', troo hard beatz-fearin' college students" and all I have to say to that is N.W.A. + the Posse continue to astound fifteen years after tha FAKT

Gin + Tonic = the answer to so very many problems

John Darnielle, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

haha gravediggaz were the INDIEST!!

ethan, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

and only rock critics liked nwa and schooly d

ethan, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

http://www.kuci.org/~brianm/ile/indie7.jpg

sigh

Brian MacDonald, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

is that a record by PINKY KRAVITZ??!?!

ethan, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i think it's by ritzy kranmer.

jess, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

That "indie kids listen to some pussy-ass fuckin hiphop" is tired stereotyping, basically. And actually, most of the people I've known who are into stuff like the Roots and the Black-Eyed Peas are pretty single-mindedly into hip-hop.

Anyone who engages in two-dimensional, broad-brush slags of indie people -- a group among whom I don't really number myself, by the way, although I do like a fair amount of indie label stuff -- is implicitly waiving their right to ever complain at receiving the same treatment. I don't like sneery pissing-contest stereotyping from any genre's Pod People, be it indie, hiphop, chart pop, jazz, or whatever else.

Phil, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

code money is the only dj evah

mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ethan I should have liked for you to have said so to the assembled "rock critics" at the Ice Cube show at the Palace in Hollywood in 1989: the turtlenekks & blazers were conspicuous by their absence

point being if you'd've lived in SoCal during N.W.A.'s ascendance you'd know that you couldn't be more wrong in your assesment

John Darnielle, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mark bought rap attack 3 at the hmv remainder sale.

jess, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

john i was six years old for christs sake

ethan, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i was at a wu tang show once and they didn't show up for almost 2 hours! let me tell you, i've never seen such indignant white people in my life.

jess, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

but if you keep playing hardcore you're never getting my three dollars again

ethan, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i've never seen such indignant white people in my life.

And so the race card, implicit throughout this discussion, is finally played...

Phil, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i mean i like your ace of base song and all but there were too many turtlenecks and blazers there

ethan, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

haha maybe i need to repost that irony definition.

jess, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i'm keeping it real jess

mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Er, I don't think you do, unless you were being ironic about being ironic...(?)

On the other hand I do indeed think there are major race-driven subtexts going on in this discussion. I too am capable of Ye Olde Semi-Ironye.

Phil, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

also phil you forgot that jess fucked your girl

ethan, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

OVER THE FUCKING LINE, Ethan.

Phil, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

why wd i buy an LP with "3" on the covah? think b4 you post, fool...

mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

was the wigga html tag too subtle for you phil??

ethan, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I would like to apologize for not liking fun.

Melissa W, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

being six is no excuse for not going to the Ice Cube show

if you got into my show for three bucks then you owe me a pack of smokes

John Darnielle, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the actual line

mark s, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

mark, was that directed at me??

jess, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)


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