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
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 (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
since I don't watch sports, if I ever see a grating or treasured-song/movie/memory-raping ad I figure it's my fault for bothering to witness the fucker
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^ irl lol at that cartoon..
I actually liked the match.com spot. (But that's just meeee...)
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost dacroupier not even the direst Rams vs http://c0848462.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/3d93bd2c4f3f1b33c02182fd0f20476f.png game would ever make me feel like I deserved to be assaulted in such a way. But that's just meeeee
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
oops hatcat lol. Sea-hawks.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
match.com ad is horrifying nadir of the tweepocalypse
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:40 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark
yes
― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Match.com more like challops.com amirite
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:47 (thirteen years ago) link
twee beardos in between bike punks and ironic tees seems alright to me
though i gotta say that when i was in college, being into olde timey music and wearing flannel and having a beard was not at all "hipster," it was just "outdoorsy"
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Re: K and C86, however annoying some of it may have been, it was a legitimate aesthetic retort to mainstream 80s rock - a rejection of machismo, slickness, virtuosity, the "adult" world, etc, which is what made it part of the backdrop to Riot Grrrl. Tweeness was politicised only as long as it was a long, long way from the mainstream (and a long way from making any $$$). As soon as that connection with the legitimate underground was broken, there was no limit to how horrible it could become.
― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Nice try at ginning up another 400 posts of vitriol, but no Muppets on kickdrums, no big waif-eyes at camera, no manic fun-having. Pomplamoose infinitely worse imo.
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
where did beret-sporting unicorns fall
xxp
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
o wait that's a baseball cap nm
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
hyundai commercial vs. match.com commercial
it's like rugburn vs. bleach in the eyes but pomplamoose are worse only because of their cultural juggernautics
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
"no big waif-eyes at camera, no manic fun-having."
i thought people here liked Elf. is will farrell inoculation against twee?
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Re: K and C86, however annoying some of it may have been, it was a legitimate aesthetic retort to mainstream 80s rock - a rejection of machismo, slickness, virtuosity, the "adult" world, etc, which is what made it part of the backdrop to Riot Grrrl.
I think one of the dominant themes of ILX as of late is how great ideas from the 80s have gone horribly horribly wrong...
― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
actually the hyundai commercial was fairly innocuous the first time I saw it but they really drove it into the ground hur hur hur
― Є|Э (Edward III), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
though i gotta say that when i was in college, being into olde timey music and wearing flannel and having a beard was not at all "hipster," it was just "outdoorsy"exactly! i spent plenty of time w/ guys like this in high school/university days on long weekends at the lake, etc..Of course there would be the obligatory Neil Young strummery around the fire, but also drunken fist fights while Thin Lizzy's "Thunder and Lightning" was blasting from someone's Pontiac Firebird...
― Sanford, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:04 (thirteen years ago) link
these guys are totally a subhipster type when they live in a major city!
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
One man's stoner is another man's hipster.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Or something.
just read this thread and the fact that anyone in the world sees their harmonies as "elaborate" makes me want to commit suicide
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
that image is pretty fucking otm except the kyp malone part honestly
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Aw, that Match.com thing is cute.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah makes me misty with the implied possibilities
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
http://grab.by/8ch9 lmao
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
lol!
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, and one of the big things about K, or at least flagship K-ers Beat Happening, was the contrast between super creepy guy with bass voice and ingenue (of sorts). It helps.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I was gonna toss in Beat Happening yesterday, there is a bit of this aesthetic in lots of K Records stuff, but it (they) always seemed to me to be more about inspired amateur cacaphony more than cutesy schtick.
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i think beat happening would have died before staring into a video camera lovingly for hours
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link