What Is Rockism ?

Condescension toward bros as a class is absurd. I’m trading in my outdated late-00’s hipster costume for some sperrys in solidarity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT3NVv7IZ8Q

the Nautica wearer, the Karl Kani bear
Mr. Get Jig the fly bear
Notorious, ready to die bear

won't someone please think of the bros

I’m doing it. Without irony. While comfy in nautica.

https://i.ibb.co/dMskzqk/FB-IMG-1544656107811.jpg

Brogrammer was robbed

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LOL IRL

Rivers: There was this one time in Japan that was really emotional for me because this is when I was first starting to figure all this stuff out about being really aggressive. I'd been in Japan for a week and every night there were ten or fifteen girls in my room and nothing happened because I wasn't confident enough to say "Let's have sex or get out of the room." So finally, at the end of my stay there I said, "Whoever wants to stay in the room has to take their clothes off and get on the bed."and most of them left but four of them stayed. It was a very difficult step for me to take but I hadto take it. It was the truth about what I wanted.

cool story bro

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, December 12, 2018 11:19 AM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

um this is h0t as fuck lol. almost as good as some of mingus's stories

hm something tells me you didn’t make it to the end of his book. ffs that’s almost like saying “lol dude malcolm x was a badass dope dealer with an awesome conk, love those old stories !!”

also mingus’s stories are way more depraved, interesting, and far darker and more insightful than anything this idiot has to say. are you high

somehow weirdly I thought that was about Sam Rivers and was v surprised to hear he had that many groupies in Japan

lol

Actually it was Joan Rivers.

also mingus’s stories are way more depraved, interesting, and far darker and more insightful than anything this idiot has to say. are you high

― budo jeru, Saturday, December 15, 2018 8:53 PM (forty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i said 'almost'

I doubt Weezer does any roundhouse kicks to people in cowboy boots ala Dickie Betts.

um this is h0t as fuck lol. almost as good as some of mingus's stories

― esby, Saturday, December 15, 2018 8:06 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol...

looks like ilx has a new bad boy deej

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My fantasy would be a roomful of people leaving me alone, so I can sleep for 9 hours straight.

#dadjoke #happytodoit

https://jezebel.com/the-united-states-of-bros-a-map-and-field-gide-1550563737

― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine)

this is good but "portland bro" actually lives in beaverton

10 years ago, I worked at a 7 night a week karaoke bar and there was a group of bro regulars (boat shoe and polo bros) who would come in and drink Bud Light and Jaeger and take turns night to night singing "Africa." No idea if it had permeated bro culture at that point or if it just had special meaning to them but they seemed to love it unironically.

Apparently "SNL" had a sketch about Weezer last night -- characters debating their greatest "era," etc.(?) Are they, like, "canonical" now?

The sketch doesn’t really depend on that distiction

*distinction

Right, in theory the sketch could have applied equally to people talking about Seventeen Seconds vs. Disintegration, or Fables vs. Up.

But it wasn't, because "has Weezer gone soft / sold out / jumped the shark" or whatever is a comparatively current topic (indeed, ILX discussed it at length just this summer). Other mainstream white middle-ager bands' career arcs are not - or not as much - topics of current discussion.

Tried to watch the SNL Weezer skit, but the uploader has not made this video available in my country. That's not fair, we're very concerned about rockism too.

i was also unable to watch it in my country

I just watched it, and I’m not even sure I really get what the “joke” is supposed to be... just the randomness of a big dinner-party argument over Weezer?

yea. i thought it was p funny that they'd get that niche (lmao arguing about 'Pacific Daydream' and 'Raditude')

I feel like this dude is really brimming w/personality: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/snl-weezer-rivers-cuomo-768140/

It does seem like the sketch captured something about the way some fans feel about Weezer — this intense loyalty to specific parts of the catalog. Why do you think that is?

Well, let me ask you, as an outsider, do other artists have this kind of intensely opinionated and passionate and conflicted following?

I don’t think so. I don’t hear people having the same kind of debates about, say, Pearl Jam or Radiohead that they do about your band.

I wish I knew why. It’s almost worthy of an academic study to figure out what’s going on in the psyche of these few hundred thousand people. I feel like it must come back to something in the four of us, or something in me. There’s some character flaw or some quirk of my personality that is permitting a vacuum, where a normal band leader would be projecting some kind of stronger leadership. Or maybe he’d just be a more consistent artist stylistically.

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I don’t think so. I don’t hear people having the same kind of debates about, say, Pearl Jam or Radiohead that they do about your band.

Radiohead and Pearl Jam didn't start to totally suck like Weezer

nor have they always sucked like Weezer either

lol otm

actually wait I don't care about Radiohead or Pearl Jam either, but neither of those have been as actively offensive as Weezer

the lebowski fest of bands, total bacon

It's true, 50-75% of Radiohead's catalog wasn't seemingly ghost written by a bunch of middle schoolers.

50-75% of Radiohead's catalog isn't songs.

Thank God, few things are as boring as bands that never stretch songs until they break.

songs could be anything man, think about it

I did and it broke me.

Right. Not songs; they're cacophonous yet tranquil, experimental yet familiar, foreign yet womb-like, spacious yet visceral, textured yet vaporous, awakening yet dreamlike.

This thread has achieved escape velocity.

somehow both as smooth as the gleaming facade of a sleek new coupe and as weathered as the prematurely aged face of a train hobo

ok lol

50-75% of Radiohead's catalog isn't songs.

― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, December 19, 2018 4:39 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

now that's what i call rockism (TM)

or maybe poptimism

Could it be that… they're one and the same? mindblown.gif