@hateindierock - opposed to the bourgeois selfish privilege orgy that is modern corporate youth culture worldwide

and i think a trip to haiti is in order for those guys:

"Montreal's a place that's always losing its charm. It's a corrupt city in a corrupt province, where somehow the light rings loudly anyhow. So many crazy plans hatched in spite of, so many minor miracles. The dust of this place is caked into our scalps and beneath our nails – there would be no band if it weren't for this lovely rotten town."

the dirty stinking dust of motreal. mon dieu!

But now we all live in harder times, now a whole lot of bands react to the current heaviness by privileging the party times, like some weird Scientology will-to-power bullshit, hit that hi-hat with a square's fist until we all make it to heaven, until Sunday morning's bringdown. Self-conscious good vibes like love-handles poking through some 22-year-old's American Apparel T-shirt at some joint where you can only dance once you pay a $10 cover charge just to listen to some internet king's iPod.

haha good grief

I for one applaud them for successfully monetizing about six or seven different tropes of DIY/punk rock aesthetic/anti-nationalism/"classical music"/"metal"/"mystery politix" and have done so in a way that has mostly benefitted their listeners and other folks in their city and my city and possibly yours, but yeah.

I mean, I <3 them but yeah.

they haven't benefited anyone from my city

We're all of us born beneath the weight of piss-poor governance. It's a miracle that so many of us make it through our teens. Politics is for politicians and all our politicians have the whiff of death to them, it's why they wear so much perfume and cologne, it's why they wear brightly coloured scarves and ties, just to distract from the pallor of their skin. So many of us just want to live away from that stench – we stagger towards the light awkwardly, astonished that so many of us are staggering together thusly, amen.

these people are like 43 y/os now, aren't they?

haha wow that interview is even more Society is in the gutter than the indie rock twitter

We were poor but we were happy. We knew the value of things. We never wondered about the value of valuing things.

It's a shambles.

― Local Garda, Monday, August 25, 2008 4:04 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Matthew Perpetua ‏@perpetua
@hateindierock You may want to re-read a lot of your tweets! I get that it's coming from an EXTREMELY EARNEST place, but seriously...

I like that the Godspeed folks answer interview requests as a collective. Laibach used to do that. But they don't have a one-liner 1/1000 as good as Laibach's "Pop is music for sheep, and we are wolves disguised as shepherds."

ah for the wit and wisdom of Laibach.

a friend of mine had dinner with Laibach last week. don't know if they ordered the lamb.

o man that godspeed thing, unbelievable

GYBE bux, studio space and personnel were instrumental in the creation many of my favourite local records (Eric Chenaux "Dull Lights") so I have a large reserve of patience and goodwill for "the stench! the apathy!" etc. and also I love ASMZ

it's cool, dude. we all have friends and family. we cringe, we love.

and hey my brother just helped put on a godspeed show and 800 people came. that helped his town. and he made 200 bucks. that's like weed for a week. they're spreading cheer.

ugh am I always the "no no guys he's cool" guy, sometimes I feel like it

dear @hateindierock: should i go see krs-one at the ucsd student coop next month?

hateindierock is really bananka, no?

well its not the person who started this thread anyway. i checked and they love xiu xiu, dan deacon, husker du, and cat power. and that's very serious indie love, not hate.

if you still have any reaction at all to gybe's schtick i don't even know.

a taste for the pessimistic and slipshod is an affection the well-to-do alone can afford to indulge in a society growing increasingly rigid in its class stratification ~ my takeaway from "mr." ihateindierock. i am thinking "he" reads mssr. bourdieu

wow this guy has succeeded at jackin' pop discourse for a whole weekend, a+ everybody

not sure an ilx thread half-concerned w/ a gybe interview counts as taking over pop discourse.... unless you're dropping a hint that jackin' pop is coming back this year in which case awesome

I've been hearing about this dude (it has to be a dude) since Friday and he's already inspired a parody Twitter.

8. Start fresh today: break up your band, cut your hair, and get live with it. Does your music really need to be public? Maybe?

jackin pop is the most pressing thing discussed here so far

word

<3

how I hate dan deacon

opposed to the bourgeois selfish privilege orgy that is modern corporate youth culture worldwide dan deacon

does your music really need to be pubic? @shaveindiecock

can definitely see the walking dead t.v. show using new swans and new gybe as soundtrack music. they are the harbingers of nu-zombification post-explosions under friday night lights consumer hegemony. plus, they could all probably use the money. @willmakedystopianindierockforfood

i mean they were the old harbingers too it just took people a while to catch up.

wow this guy has succeeded at jackin' pop discourse for a whole weekend, a+ everybody

― maura, Sunday, October 14, 2012 5:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

yeah no shit. what the fuck is wrong with everyone (i'm not talking this thread)

their feelings are unspeakable iirc

dude touched a twitter nerve. is it that hard to do?

it should be!

people on the internet have no self-control

so is op the author of this?

i guess i'm surprised that people actually still care about "indie rock" in any respect

thankfully I checked my telex this weekend and saw no messages related to this guy.

he has been posting about godspeed in another thread...

no i already said i did a search and the op loves indie rock.

x-post

yo, op, if you are the author you should give ilx a shoutout for being capitalist-free haven for restless intellectuals

xp oh, too bad

maybe ppl are craving a more theoretical/critical grappling w/ current music culture and they aren't being satisfied elsewhere

(this is obv my most wishful thinking)

i imagine that the person who created this account has more self-respect than to self-promote on ilx but you never know

it's a shame the internet failed to provide a theoretical grappling with music culture

he doesn't have the self-respect to not post reactionary nonsense tweets