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08-03-2015, 09:57 PM | #151 | |
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Stop thinking of them as "top 40 chart people" cause it's just a fucking gross misrepresentation and oversimplification of what makes a shitty person. |
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08-03-2015, 09:58 PM | #152 | |
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And the Art culture is one that does that |
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08-03-2015, 09:59 PM | #153 |
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Have you ever thought about what you must sound like to other people
I mean it's a healthy exercise. You don't have to go on believing you sound arrogant, but try it for a second just to get a dose of what it must be like for them. |
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08-03-2015, 09:59 PM | #154 |
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Like surely you can see what my point is here dude - that sort of punks vs mods tribalist bullshit belongs in high school for people who haven't worked out who they are yet. You're an adult now - it's time to take each person on their own merits regardless of their taste.
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08-03-2015, 10:00 PM | #155 | |
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I mean I hope so. otherwise you'll be one of the smug fucks who can't enter a truck diner and have a chat with someone who listens to the local country station because that's "beneath you" when you are 40. |
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08-03-2015, 10:00 PM | #156 |
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08-03-2015, 10:01 PM | #157 | |
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you rob yourself of so many cool experiences and people and opportunities and yes EVEN MUSIC when you stick your nose up at others over your assumption of their value and values. |
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08-03-2015, 10:02 PM | #158 |
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It's not about their music tastes really ugh
But rather the qualities, life philosophies, beliefs etc. that end up shaping the music they naturally enjoy |
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08-03-2015, 10:02 PM | #159 |
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Which is, by the way, the dictionary definition of prejudice.
EDIT: In addendum to my last post, not in reply to elphys above. |
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08-03-2015, 10:04 PM | #160 |
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What else makes a person if not their values and beliefs
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08-03-2015, 10:05 PM | #161 |
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yeah but this is a bullshit fallacy. There are a huge number of factors that can affect what people enjoy musically, and sometimes people shitty have taste that belies what cool people they are and vice versa. It's a phenomenally shitty and short-sighted way to measure people.
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08-03-2015, 10:06 PM | #162 |
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08-03-2015, 10:07 PM | #163 |
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well you are right SJ, no doubt, but honestly there are a whole fuckton of godawful braindead people out there. and yea, I spot them via prejudices, sometimes I'm wrong, but mostly they are exactly what I expected.
woman my age starts chatting on the train with me. same route, every day. she seems to be wearing nothing but pinkish yoga pants, has a playboy bunny button on her bag, and talks about the latest lady gaga concert. why should I bother to get to know her beyond that - I'm just not interested. my brain goes "does not belong to a "scene" I want anything to do with." now if I'd end up having to be around someone like her - say at work or wherever, sure, we could get along, why not. but in private? small chance. |
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08-03-2015, 10:07 PM | #164 |
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Still haven't met a post-punker I didn't just fucking love
It's always one of those experiences of "wow it's like we grew up together" |
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08-03-2015, 10:09 PM | #165 |
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haha not at all, I love it. but then again by now I'm so fucking old I seek out to spend time in my not-as-usual-setting, because bars and restaurants full of people discussing the latest, greatest, hippest art gallery opening bore me to tears.
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08-03-2015, 10:11 PM | #166 |
Braindead
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08-03-2015, 10:12 PM | #167 |
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how is that blanketly shit
that's one of the most broad demographics of a place you could be i've ever seen |
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08-03-2015, 10:13 PM | #168 |
Through Silver In Buds
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I just feel bad for you at this point Elph. I hope you can mature enough to see people as nuanced individuals with something to offer and not a bunch of compatible band shirts. Believe it or not, it will deeply enrich your time on the planet. If a grizzled misanthrope like me is telling you to open your mind i'd give it some thought.
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08-03-2015, 10:15 PM | #169 |
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well I didn't mean the small family owned Greek tavern somewhere, where you can end up dancing Sirtaki and talk about god knows what at 4am.
the places "my people" would hang out at - white, over 30, academic degrees, good income, familiar with the newest people in the GALLERY SCENE and it's just...barf. I had better times at roadstops in yes, truck diners and afternoon strip joints. |
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08-03-2015, 10:16 PM | #170 |
Braindead
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I mean thanks, but I do just fine socially hanging out with musician types
It's whenever I try to relate to people outside that, that I just end up depressed |
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08-03-2015, 10:17 PM | #171 |
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These places are my favourite kinda places. There's an old greek club called The Hercules Society near my house, sometimes if i'm walking home from the pub and its open i'll drop in and shoot the shit about the football with the old barflys. Best times.
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08-03-2015, 10:17 PM | #172 | |
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08-03-2015, 10:18 PM | #173 |
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08-03-2015, 10:19 PM | #174 |
Braindead
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Nothing more smug than trying to judge what it means to be "grown up" for everyone else
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08-03-2015, 10:20 PM | #175 | |
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there was one right next to a college dorm some friends lived in, I still remember the owner, we'd come in at 3am, 5 people would still sit around one table, his wife trying to get him to close, but we come in and bam- chairs out "sit down sit down". next thing you know it's 5am and he's giving me shit that Moby Dick is the greatest book ever written and what the hell us kids learn in college. besides that one day.... soccer.... Greece and Germany....and boa, I chose to make an exit haha. |
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08-03-2015, 10:28 PM | #176 |
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also at some point life is just more interesting outside your "comfort similar zone" - at least for me it sure is, elphie.
I mean I get it that it's nice to be out of high school and finally find some people who seem similar to you. "post punkers musician types" or whatever you call them. but just recently I ended up in a strip booth in South Side - and had one of the best conversations with a total stranger I had the entire year. it all started because she made fun of my white not existing bootie and wanted to trick me into pole dancing to some god awful Beyoncé remix. just saying, you sound more scared than smug to me. different backgrounds and tastes are a good thing, not necessarily a bad thing to stay away from. and it reminds me that a few months ago you said about rap that you couldn't get it because you are not "from the streets" - and that's damn close to US vs THEM and yea, smug. |
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08-03-2015, 10:32 PM | #177 |
Braindead
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Oh I was wrong about that haha
wannabe rappers are so similar to us wannabe guitarist types But I mean I still can't get into Hip Hop try as I might |
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08-03-2015, 10:33 PM | #178 |
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08-03-2015, 10:35 PM | #179 |
Braindead
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I mean I hardly derive any pleasure from social interaction that doesn't involve drugs or making music so there's that too
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08-03-2015, 10:39 PM | #180 |
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that opens a whole TON of possibilities!
hang out at the subway station and do some meth, hang out in empty buidlings and score some h - you never know who'll you meet! no but okay. |
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