PIZZA!: 500 examples of the hackiest signifier of post-Y2K punk cool, childhood lolstalgia, and "so random" larfs

s1ocki puttin' on (the money)

Understand the concept, but hate the term "late capitalism," with all its totally unsupported implications that the Marxist revolution is in fact right around the corner.

i relate to being annoyed by it but feel like pointing fingers at something "hacky" is a misapplication of the critique and ends up looking like protesting too much.

― mattresslessness, Friday, May 30, 2014 4:31 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

mattresslessness otm

https://soundcloud.com/para-one/sets/slice-soda/

What are the post-Y2K punk cool pizza places for each city?

Philadelphia: Pizza Brain
DC: Comet Ping-Pong

Haven't been there but based on this thread:
Portland: Ned Ludd?
Brooklyn: Roberta's?

Is Mellow Mushroom as close as your city gets?

Johnny Rad's in Baltimore is pretty cool. Skate punk themed pizzeria, been there for a couple of years.

http://www.johnnyrads.com/JohnnyRads/main.html

Other band playing around here tomorrow night: Cowabunga Pizza Time

http://i.imgur.com/wurH8T3.jpg

R.I.P. Pizza

That's actually the last show before the place closes down, so OTM.

I'm sure those bands would bore me but that's a great picture imo

ironic tmnt references are kind of annoying though because tmnt was pizza punk to begin with.

how badly do you think they're gonna screw up the pizza in the michael bay movie

it's gonna be a panini or something

it'll have prawns & rocket on it & will get smothered in cgi ketchup

"prawns & rocket" uh not unless michael bay has become an anglophile

which would be pretty amazing to see tbh

Big Birds II

big bottomed boogaloo

I think pizza's appeal as a lol signifier is a little different than "OMG BACON" etc. although it has the potential to be dragged to that level. The bacon craze is actually about eating bacon -- giving in to carnal desires under the guise of "comfort" food. There's an irony to it, but the irony is pretty weak, and mostly just a cover for consumption. The pizza thing is more meta -- it's not about eating pizza but about 80s/90s pizza marketing, which, with the benefit of distance, seems to promote a crazed, junkie-like state of existence of pizza-seeking. Pizza is carnal yet not flesh, a simulacra of meat. It is quasi-sexual, it is appealing yet vaguely disgusting, it is to be consumed in orgiastic amounts. It drips with sweaty grease, its cheese melts away from us, never quite satisfying us. The marketing of this is both humorous and horrific, e.g. the hyper-stimulated kids in the bagel bites commercial.

Anyway, soon enough it will probably just be another "OMG Bacon" type thing because capitalism has a way of reappropriating and resanitizing everything that is appropriated from it.

/trenchantsocialcommentary

punk/metal pizza place in Portland is Sizzle Pie:

http://sizzlepie.com

pizzas include Pig Destroyer, Napalm Breath, Don Caballero, Exploding Hearts, Hawkwind, Buffalo 666

Rudimentary Penne is pretty brilliant, tho

masterful post, Hurting 2

bacon's good stuff

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lo7z5hYzPF1qzxxjb.gif

ya good one hurting

i also think pizza just has this childlike universal appeal. kids go insane for pizza. so it's part of that rock-reclaiming-youth thing.

tbh, everyone goes insane for pizza. its probably the most universally liked thing there is.

it really is true that even when pizza is bad it's still p good

like this thread

We are all Kevin, trying to reclaim the last slice of cheese pizza (our innocence) from out of Buzz's stomach (this thread).

if u guys think this thread is bad, BCO has had a thread for years dedicated to △TRIANGLES△ as a hipster signifier

bacon is just salt

pizza's fuckin excellent

just clarifying this for you amateur eaters

does anyone else always hear "PIZZA PARTY!" when the guys starts shouting in Yello's "Bostich"?

xp bacon is fat as well we aren't talking bits here keep your Cobb game tight

<)

Can someone replace the triangles in the ALTERED ZONES thread title with little pizza slices?

if you don't eat meat bacon may well be 'just salt' but for most of us bacon includes 'bacon'

yeah bacon is irreducible. the fundamental particle in a nucleus we all orbit around. we do it all for the bacon.

http://i.imgur.com/MCmkFT7.png

Guy on the right is all *shrug* "Yeah, I'm cool for whatever*

guy on the right looks like a hoos

http://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/Macaulay-Culkin-s-band-Pizza-Underground-cancel/story-21169654-detail/story.html

didn't even realise the little twerp was coming here until they cancelled

lulz

The band, who perform pizza-themed covers of Velvet Underground and Lou Reed songs, were pelted with beer at Nottingham's Rock City after performing for just 15 minutes.

Isn't that his whole set?

you'd think

At another show in Manchester, fans invaded the stage and interrupted Culkin's kazoo solo

great post hurting :)

also think the pizza fetishism runs parallel to the "beach" craze of however few years ago. tongue half in cheek and at the same time guilelessly dorky enthusiasm for eterna-childhood totems most suburban americans will agree are great. pop-punk in spirit, beholden to the ramones. we like: beaches, burgers, parties, chucks, ripped jeans, pizza, girls, boys, kissing, etc. plus TMNT yeah.

e.g. burger records, key players in meme curation

Oh yeah, def see parallels to the beach thing. Which, also, I think, started out with some subtle overtones of horror, apocalypse, maybe in part connected to anxiety about global warming.

Also in re prior post I think that's why "Gimme Pizza" slowed down work so well, because it's like slowing down the track reveals the "hidden message" -- these *cute* children are actually ravenous monsters.

Oh yeah, def see parallels to the beach thing. Which, also, I think, started out with some subtle overtones of horror, apocalypse, maybe in part connected to anxiety about global warming.

― Doritos Loco Parentis (Hurting 2), Sunday, June 1, 2014 12:55 PM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

really?

caaaaaalifornia
tumbles in to the sea
*horns*