"Art" You Should Get Paid for Promoting So Much...
I agree, Justin.
I think I've posted this before but I generally don't get along well with other people who are big fans of the same things I'm into. This board seems to host some exceptional exceptions, but who knows which of us would get along in real life.
Like Kitty said, it's the overzealous twits who drive me nuts.
I'm a huge Star Wars fan- check out the Star Wars BBS sometime- it's not even worth registering. I suppose though, everyone would guess that without even going there though. But the same stands for The Doors, Pink Floyd, Nine Inch Nails and Tom Robbins so far as I'm concerned.
Rabid fans of anything tend to be abrasive- picture the Chuck enthusiast who just cannot stop quoting Fight Club and changes his name and .... just picture LegallyTylerDurden.
Never get so attached to a poem you forget truth that lacks lyricism.
thing is, i was an overzealous twit at the nin concert...but they play at about 30,000 decibels, so my shrieking gets lost in the noise. tori, on the other hand, is easily drowned out by her fans' obsessive love.
i can't even listen to live tracks of her because of that shit.
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What kind of overzealous twit though?
Singing along- cool.
Shreiking "U R SO KEWL! FUCK ME TRENT!!!!"- not cool
Dancing crazily into the groove- cool
Dancing to hurt people- not cool
Loving Star Wars and getting weepy when Yoda whips out a lightsaber- cool
Complaining about the missing tie fighter during the space battle in Return of the Jedi and how "that just ruins it for me"- not cool
Really admiring the ideas that go into Jitterbug Perfume and adopting some of the finer points of Alobar and Kudra's lifestyle because they make personal sense- cool
Coming up to people in coffee shops and screaming "FOOK! Still Life With Woodpecker is THE SHIT. That book is why I dye my hair red!!! If you don't have red hair when you're done with the book YOU ARE NOT A TRUE ROBBINS FAN."- not cool
There are distinctions and layers.
Never get so attached to a poem you forget truth that lacks lyricism.
singing/screaming along, jumping up and down a lot.
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wow, look what i started. i'm happy that tom robbins and tori, and especially ani, are gettin all the love out here in chuck palahniuk world.
really, all these posts made my day.
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[B]singing/screaming along, jumping up and down a lot. [/B][/QUOTE]
-Cool
Never get so attached to a poem you forget truth that lacks lyricism.
the people behind me didn't seem to think so.
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The first time I saw Ani in concert, she was an opening act for Bob Dylan. The show was just outside of Buffalo and I'd say 70% of the show was there to see her. Understandable in your own hometown.
But those fucking people scared me. Hell, they scared her. I was in the 4th row and you could see the look on her face like, "What the fuck." A freak is a freak is a freak...but when the love for someone's music/art crosses over into them not being able to seperate that from their own reality, it's pretty fucking freaky.
And the "I love you..." screaming is really, truly annoying. Nowadays, with the prices of concert tickets, you having to mortage the house just to afford to get into the show is enough showing of "love."
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[B]BOOK- House of Leaves. I sometimes issue instructions for what book to read before and after this and how long before and after "so it goes down better." Seriously, I think I've even preached to people in the Book Club forum about this.
MOVIE- Donnie Darko. Everyone I can get to watch this watches it. No one seems to think it's as well constructed and amazing and intricate and full of ideas as I do, bugger all.
ALBUM- Still by Nine Inch Nails. See the brutal songster behind "Happiness In Slavery" and "March of the Pigs" and "Heresy" go all out with his classical pianist training and create my three favorite musical compositions of all time. All instrumental, all amazing and tearjerking. And it was incidental. It's poetry without words. It's the sound of God. [/B][/QUOTE]
Yes, yes, yes! Jesus! Those are the exact same three that I reccomend! Well, sometimes I switch Donnie Darko with Fando and Lis, but that's only with people who have already seen Donnie Darko.
P.S. I think Fando and Lis is better, but less people are willing to read subtitles, and it is a little hard to find.
i'd never go see a tori concert. i can't stand all the lesbians and pseudo-lesbians who yell shit like "i looooove you toreeeeeeeeeeeee" through every song so you can't hear them.
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