^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
To be frank about it, calling them hipsters is not totally inaccurate, but certainly they are involved in a far, far, far lower-level of hipster than someone drooling coke-bubbles in the bathroom at Whartscape
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
amazing thread--may it indicate good things for ilx in 2k11
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:31 (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.
I almost want to get into it over this post, but instead I'll just recommend that you head out to your back deck and take a nice long look out at the community park. That's what I do when I want to calm down.
― Captain Ostensibyl Shepherd (kkvgz), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 10:27 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this breakdown isnt really any more defensible, but as an extremely characteristic post ill allow it
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
low level hipster in the pomplamoose crime family
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
the ben folds connection makes total sense
at some point pomplamoose will record the soundtrack to a dreamworks animation film scripted by the pitchfork reviews reviews guy and ilx will collapse in a supernova of apoplexy
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img35.imageshack.us/i/grit.jpg/
you can blame the original true grit for this
― 2and2is5, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
picture not working but here is the link
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3288434432/tt0065126
― 2and2is5, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
pomplamoose was a hero to most
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
― da croupier, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 10:12 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i have the worst habit of watching shit on DVR and then forgetting i can fast forward, drives me crazy
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost lollllll
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
isn't Amanda Palmer the lady that made a mint doing a 'pay what you want' album of playing Radiohead covers on ukelele? she and Pomplamoose deserve each other.
― washa flocka brain (some dude), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
who does neil gaiman deserve?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:02 (thirteen years ago) link
like somehow beat happening ended up leaking into the mainstream via kimya dawson and juno and shit― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
Good call; I'd forgotten about that whole K scene.
The secret link exposed: wiki touts BH's "pivotal role in the International Pop Underground Festival, which brought anti-corporate rock its earliest mainstream acceptance." Cue crushingly cute waves of irony.
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
We've sure put a lot of energy into this thread and I'm still not sure why. I'd love to hate Pomplamoose (firstly for mispelling a fruit I'm rather fond of and secondly for being from Corte Madera just on principle) but I find I don't have the energy.
― Please fetishize responsibly (Michael White), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
my only contribution to this thread is that I assumed it was Feist appearing with some random bearded dude I didn't know
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
It's an advert!
So, what about that one that's "That's just me" about the Godfather 3, while picking a vintage Gretsch off the wall of a junk store, about? Hmm?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
...and don't even get me started on the Honda Odyssey / Judas Priest commercial. But that's a whole other topic.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Or the Toyota one where AC/DC is singing "Tundra-Struck!" That one split my mind open.
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
yeh that dating one is weird, they are two kind of cuddly alt looking ppl too
i like old movieslike godfather 3
ok godfather 3 is not really an old movie in a medium with like a 120 year history
it's not considered the best one
it is in fact considered a travesty ruining the legacy of two of the finest american films of their decade
but that's just me
― zvookster, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
yep, that's just you...
oh sorry, you directed it? fair enough....
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure there's only about 4 people on this thread who are incandescent with rage and the rest of us just love a pile-on
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
That Godfather 3 ad did lead to my family wrestling a hammer out of my hands tho.
sophia coppolol :-(
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
there's a new ad for godfather 3?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Nah it's an ad for an online dating agency. I don't even hate Godfather 3 with any intensity it's just that fucking advert.
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:32 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z4aguu4Ex0
WHERE'S YOUR SO-CALLED PAMPLIMOOS NOW, AMERICANSES???
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:33 (thirteen years ago) link
accents alone can induce stabbage at several hundred yards
― Shanty! Shanti! Shanté! (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah, (penny drops) so if you are the person that wants a vintage gretsch cheap, and a doe-eyed girl in a cardy who also has only seen the third Godfather film, then you had better sign up to an online dating agency, as you will not meet her in a stylised junk shop!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh and re 'why don't you fast forward on your DVR' - only reason I ever saw the Pamplemoose commercial in its entirety ad-nauseum was bc I don't DVR football games, and for some ridiculous reason football fans are Pompdepomp's target audience. Hence my irrational anger (though if you go to the irrational anger thread you know that not much goes by without some daily IA from me, lol)
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:58 (8 hours ago)
see if yr going to hate on crap but innocuous popkult drivel, do it like that
a+
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/theory-of-hipster-relativity-20101117-162940.jpg
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
in UK, is it considered provincial to like guy ritchie gangster movies over godfather 3?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link