wtf, is the concept of HCG just a way to be snobby towards the lumpenproletariat?
How on earth would that be your takeaway from a group of people recounting their favorite hot couch guys?
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 3 September 2018 20:40 (five years ago) link
yes the segment was very affectionate
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, 3 September 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
there probably aren't, like, wealthy hot couch guys, but otherwise yeah I think it exists as a phenomenon all the way from working class to college-educated professional class.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 3 September 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
I dunno, Richard Branson seems like a billionaire hot couch guy but the couch is a chaise on an island.
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 3 September 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
― flappy bird, Monday, 3 September 2018 21:11 (five years ago) link
azealia banks got me wonderin if elon musk is a hot couch guy
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 3 September 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
Insane ego/braggadocio about shit that no one else cares about or believes - yes, definitely
― louise ck (milo z), Monday, 3 September 2018 21:33 (five years ago) link
chaiselongue musk more like amirite
― my dream is to never be a champion (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 3 September 2018 21:40 (five years ago) link
Weed unites people across many boundaries
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 04:13 (five years ago) link
surprised they didn't discuss the hot couch guy apartment smell, that dormy mix of socks, body spray, liquor and weed.
Sophomore year I lived in a mostly cool house of ag school students who were studying organic farming and that sort of thing, but there was this guy I'll call paul who, at every single house party we ever had, (which were otherwise mostly fun affairs), would at some point put on either Pinkerton or Paul's Boutique, take off his shirt, and enthusiastically put an old wooden door up on two chairs for beer pong, even though there was absolutely zero demand for beer pong in that crowd.
Paul was a tall lanky dude with long blonde hair and in my memory he is always on rollerblades. He was a huge Opie and Anthony fan and couldn't shut the fuck up about Whip-em-out Wednesdays (WOW), and made his own girlfriend flash the crowd at an Opie and Anthony show. She left him not long after that. He often bragged about her "great fuckin tits dude, great fuckin tits" to us. Everything was a "great fuckin x dude, great fuckin x." Maybe just a hair too alive to be a true hot couch guy.
There were others, like the guy who actually smuggled cooking wine from the dining hall for drinking purposes. A lot of memories of being in an efficiency campus apartment with seven other dudes and two girls listening to Meddle, making an extremely blurry late night run to quik chek, and later waking up on the hot couch. The pink floyd asses poster was probably the crucial piece of decor.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 04:28 (five years ago) link
Hot couch guy is basically a dirtbag but with no style or aesthetics.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 04:30 (five years ago) link
the off campus houses that were just giant hot couches
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 04:42 (five years ago) link
This ep gave me intense flashbacks of scratched up family guy DVDs face down on coffee tables and broken guitar hero guitars
― Perverse Mortgage (latebloomer), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:03 (five years ago) link
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, September 3, 2018 9:30 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
doesn't even have his own raw mattress
― princess of hell (BradNelson), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:06 (five years ago) link
Woken up by my feet being licked by a couch guy’s pit bull (named Turbo)
― Perverse Mortgage (latebloomer), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, September 3, 2018 4:45 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
may I point you in the direction of silicon valley
or really anyone involved with bitcoin who isn't broke by now
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
I still have dreams of the hot couch I slept on in Cincinnati in 2014. I got the cool spot. My bandmate woke up in cat pee.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:46 (five years ago) link
I guess technically this is going to include me soon, oh fuck am I doomed to see my couch heat up???
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 16:47 (five years ago) link
i have literally woken up on a hot couch with the running scared dvd menu on the tv
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
I was long out of college by 2006 and have no recollection of the movie Running Scared existing
― 5th Ward Weeaboo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
haha I've just realized that it's the paul walker movie from 2006 i had no idea existed that's he's referencing and not the gregory hines and billy crystal movie which is what my experience was
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 17:27 (five years ago) link
Sarah Jones on the book and the boys
https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/chapo-trap-house-book-dirtbag-manifesto-satire-liberalism-socialism
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Tuesday, 4 September 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
For those who missed out on lo-fi Matt call-ins
https://thisishell.com/interviews/1019-matt-christman-brendan-james
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Wednesday, 5 September 2018 15:36 (five years ago) link
Matt & Virgil on Zero Books:
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2018-09-05T16_55_02-07_00
Gets into the book, their reactions to the reviews, the growth in popularity of DSA and AOC, and how even a basic social-democratic platform would be a great thing to have about now
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Thursday, 6 September 2018 02:38 (five years ago) link
My friends @CHAPOTRAPHOUSE have written the funniest Guide To Revolution since Pol Pot's zine from his Paris years. (There are cultural references I don't get, but I trust the jokes still landed.) So buy it, read it, then burn it. Because like Nike, it's an affront to patriotism.— Dennis Perrin (@DennisThePerrin) September 6, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 September 2018 17:13 (five years ago) link
wow, they know *the* dennis perrin? they really did make it big
― iatee, Thursday, 6 September 2018 17:35 (five years ago) link
a true radical would burn before reading
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 6 September 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
ah it's iatee... burning as brightly as ever
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 September 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
dennis perrin is actually dennis miller
― the bhagwanadook (symsymsym), Friday, 7 September 2018 04:52 (five years ago) link
Chapo has hit the big time, fans are bootlegging shows, the tape trading will start soonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgxrO3aCGeM&feature=youtu.be
― louise ck (milo z), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
how soon until they all drop solo podcasts on the same day?
― President Keyes, Friday, 7 September 2018 16:17 (five years ago) link
Trying that link againhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgxrO3aCGeM
― louise ck (milo z), Friday, 7 September 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
thanks for the link, didn't want to go last nite. was funny, Mac DeMarco played a surprise show at the venue across the street yesterday. can't imagine how insufferable the combined crowds downtown were for this and that.
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 September 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
Micah Uetricht interviewed Matt for Jacobin.
https://jacobinmag.com/2018/09/chapo-trap-house-guide-to-revolution
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 7 September 2018 17:39 (five years ago) link
Ha, thanks for the show link. I think people have been bootlegging the live events since they’ve been having them. Somebody on the dirtbag leftist/Chapo fan Discord posted a full show right after it happened in May of last year, I think.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 7 September 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
great version of "playing in the band" in this show
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 7 September 2018 19:52 (five years ago) link
I have mixed experiences with E1 but this one, which features Felix doing his Knausgaard knock-off character, is absolutely killing me
https://soundcloud.com/episode-one-868768631/e1-e1-live-disaronno-presents-lonely-at-the-top-50#t=0:00
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Friday, 7 September 2018 19:57 (five years ago) link
this thread is so much more fun for me than the show because i actually like most of you
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 September 2018 22:27 (five years ago) link
always happy to amuse a HOOS
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Saturday, 8 September 2018 02:02 (five years ago) link
btw Plaid Shirt Guy at the Trump rally in Billings put a DSA rose emblem on just before he was escorted out
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 8 September 2018 15:38 (five years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/bonus-virgil-interviews-cynthia-nixon
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 16:56 (five years ago) link
def voting for her. Nice interview, fairly straightforward (ganked NPR outro music maybe subtly poking fun at this?). She seems def on the outer edge of DSA endorsements in terms of pretty clearly just being a social democrat at most, so I sort of get the strife over whether to endorse her.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
I liked her interview, but wished she would have come out more vociferously for sex workers, and I’m glad Virgil asked her directly on that topic
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
Also, whodathunk that the ep most like CT is the one without Stav there.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 18:31 (five years ago) link
god the one they dropped today is so dire
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
it was like being in high school and listening to people talk about tripping over the weekend
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
I don't think I can listen to any of the guest-free episodes anymore, they're so wanky.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
I can't really blame them, I just think they've sort of fulfilled their purpose and maximized the mileage they can get out of what they do best.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
yeah i have no appetite for guest-free episodes. basically no appetite for a reading series unless it's something particularly good like douthat memoirs, seagal, or true allegiance. i guess I've grown weary of the shtick
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
i honestly am more likely to tune into felix streaming on twitch than chapo nowadays though so I'm not saying like I'm above this shit or anything
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 19:08 (five years ago) link