fucking insane that this thread has four hundred posts in like a day. but yes, this shit is painful. so painful that i was doubly pained to find i that half liked the (equally intolerable) "real" pomplamoose song someone linked yesterday. but why? why do i find this cheerful, childlike, wildly inoffensive plinkety-plonk so face-smashingly hideous? why has "hipsters" become shorthand for "indie-liking white people," most of them cuddly-faced, suburbs-bound, would-be-baby-making non-hipsters?
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I actually think the cooing baby-making aspect of Pomplamoose is borderline-adorable, but it's the suburbs-bound thing that kinda gets to me. Depressed that there are people out there who are tailor-made for the cozy life (class-warfare part in me), outraged that they are so well-adjusted about this, and lack the ambition to fight against it, let alone transcend it.
But I'm a pretty corny fuck, and actually I truly don't wish harm on these people at all.
― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:22 (thirteen years ago) link
...the cooing baby-making aspect of Pomplamoose is borderline-adorable, but it's the suburbs-bound thing that kinda gets to me. Depressed that there are people out there who are tailor-made for the cozy life (class-warfare part in me), outraged that they are so well-adjusted about this, and lack the ambition to fight against it, let alone transcend it.
thing is, i'm totally cool with that. i don't think there's anything wrong with the suburbs-bound baby-makers, and i don't want them to be any other than what they are. more power to them. but they are not hipsters. they are the opposite of hipsters. fact that the word "hipsters" has come to signify these people (well-adjusted, beard-sporting white dudes and the ladies that love them) is mind-boggling to me.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:30 (thirteen years ago) link
^right. the more mature I get, the more I realize there's a lot to be said for not apologizing for who you are.
but yeah, def. not hipsters. Nerds.
― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:38 (thirteen years ago) link
it takes guts to be gentle and kind.
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:40 (thirteen years ago) link
NO NOT NERDS EITHER.
I want a new classification. "Lamesters"
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:40 (thirteen years ago) link
thought Corny Indie Fuxxxors was a perfectly serviceable label tbh
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:42 (thirteen years ago) link
@T3mp3Tr0y Pomplamoose (sp?) has lost all hipster cred with those ads. So they're paying the ultimate price. 7:44 PM Jan 2nd via Twitter for iPhone in reply to T3mp3Tr0y
k1mho1combK1m Ho1comb
― markers, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:42 (thirteen years ago) link
THE ULTIMATE PRICE
what is the ultimate price?
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:46 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/e3Rg5.jpg
― markers, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:47 (thirteen years ago) link
spaying and neutering your pets?
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 07:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Cosign upthread, the pomplemousse shred vid is lol
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:00 (thirteen years ago) link
this might be the worst thing in the history of things http://spinningplatters.com/2011/01/01/show-review-the-dresden-dolls-with-pomplamoose-at-the-warfield-12312010/#
― windham chill (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:07 (thirteen years ago) link
the biggest slap in the face being starting the setlist with a trex cover and ending with a sabbath cover THATS OUR MUSIC STAY AWAY CORNY INDIE FUXX
― windham chill (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:08 (thirteen years ago) link
"15. (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) (Beastie Boys cover with Jason Webley, Zoe Boekbinder, Whitney Moses, and Pomplamoose)"
― markers, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:12 (thirteen years ago) link
the more i look the more things i find offensive about this picture http://spinningplatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/dollsgroup.jpg
― windham chill (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Forget what you thought you knew about how to celebrate for the beginning of a new year. Forget what you thought could happen with two Bostonians, a collective of YouTube musicians, a pile of balloons, two cannons of confetti, and two thousand lovers of punk cabaret. If you were not one of the aforementioned fans that filled San Francisco’s Warfield Theater to nigh-overflowing to see the triumphant Bay Area return of the Dresden Dolls, you missed one of the greatest shows in the band’s career, and one of the best shows of 2010, and, quite likely, 2011 as well.
u_u
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:13 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost: UNLAWFUL DISPLAY OF METAL HORNS.
YELLOW CARD.
YELLOW FUCKING CARD.
chillaxin beer bro challenges your call
― windham chill (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:15 (thirteen years ago) link
who's the bloke in the bra playing drums?
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:17 (thirteen years ago) link
think it's Amanda Palmer ???
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:18 (thirteen years ago) link
also wtf @ tall dude with red puffy ski jacket and pyjama pants/1990 happy pants
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:19 (thirteen years ago) link
if you're chugging whiskey, you're allowed to throw the horns, no matter who you are
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:20 (thirteen years ago) link
but yes, mysterious pyjamaman is mysterious
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:21 (thirteen years ago) link
This review pretty much sums up my experience with the concert. It omits some of the more entertaining small bits of the night (like the improvisation after 3 keyboard malfunctions or Amanda, while in the balcony telling a mother of someone that "this is no time to be taking pictures," and to "touch my vagina") though…
― windham chill (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:22 (thirteen years ago) link
TOUCH MY VAGINA
words to live by
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:23 (thirteen years ago) link
heard it was one of the best shows of 2010, in all honesty, and comma quite likely comma 2011 as well
comma UGH comma
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:28 (thirteen years ago) link
comma coma comma comma argh
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:29 (thirteen years ago) link
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 8:20 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
no way dude. horns get earned. 5th graders can chug makers
― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:39 (thirteen years ago) link
fifth grader chugging makers and paying digital tribute to our southern lord = dude
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:42 (thirteen years ago) link
^truth
― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:46 (thirteen years ago) link
ok, true. get that dude up there in place of these squares tho imo
― bear, bear, bear, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:48 (thirteen years ago) link
i like the c86 version of "twee" a lot -- somehow it's preferable with a dose of UK gloom/sarcasm and loud/distorted guitars. the 2010 iteration of "twee" (especially as done by shiny happy kids from the u.s. and canada) is just infantilism. i'm not a class warrior but i look at nataly dawn and think "white, christian, nordic surname, has 'good' (straight, blondish) hair that isn't a wisp out of place, her contented face signifying that nothing bad has ever happened to her other than the painless death of a pet goldfish." Basically, congratulations, you "win" at "life." Your prize is you get to pretend you're a baby. Goo goo ga ga. Ka-ching.
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:58 (thirteen years ago) link
...damn
― dayo, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 09:01 (thirteen years ago) link
infantilism appeals to all sorts: black & white, rich & poor, attractive & not so much so. nataly dawn may have seen some shit for all i know. the intense hatred of comfortable twee seems predicated as much on contempt of the comfortable as distaste for their cutie-pie boo-boo noises. me, i don't hate the comfortable even when they're white christians with nordic surnames and straight hair. i hate sappy, smarmy tweedle-tweedle nothing music no matter who's making it. (this is not "taste," mind you. it's merely an expression of my cynicism and perverse pride in social maladapation.)
though her kooky askance-looking grates, she's a million times less annoying than prancing dude.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 09:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Do pompalmoose choose to perform "single ladies" because they see it as cute irony, or is something more insidious? (a celebration of that whole Christian "virginity pledge" nonsense, perhaps?)Maybe i should also apologize for bumping this up to the top o the board...
― Sanford, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
congratulations, you "win" at "life." Your prize is you get to pretend you're a baby.
lawl
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm sure they chose "Single Ladies" because of some stupid shit Beyonce said a dozen years ago, yes.
― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
is all of this ultimately laid at the feet of calvin johnson?
like there's something gratingly childish and infantile about this that seems to stem from beat happening, right?
like somehow beat happening ended up leaking into the mainstream via kimya dawson and juno and shit and then dorks that were "activities people" in high school thought it would look good for their college transcripts to have a band or something ended up turning it into this corporatized dreck?
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
and like ugh i'm challopsing but this shit makes it really hard not to get in a henry rollins mindset you know?
you guys should buy DVRs and fast forward through TV ads
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:12 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry but mad lols @ "these people are not true hipsters" upthread
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:14 (thirteen years ago) link
the only time ive ever thought something along those lines was when i saw that 'teen hearts' video where a bunch of late 20s label dudes appear to be dressing up like 17 yr old emo fans. but this?? cmon guys. narc of small diff for sure. give or take a hyundai spot
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqzAUFFg_Z8
look at these fucking hipsters
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_vGbB8moyg
so THIS is what became of new wave, a fucking hyundai ad
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G5JaicYuVU
― buzza, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
xxpost, seriously
at least when most ppl had their GREEN DAY IS NOT PUNK tantrums they were like 15 not adults posting on messsage boards
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link