invididuals drinks it because it tastes good. groups drink it because its trendy. /sociology 101
― Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
There's no sign anymore, though: I think they want to make it like a speakeasy or something.
yeah, thats where i was thinking it was. that boarded up door/speakeasy concept is fucking ridiculous. it's not like they're hiding anything considering there's always a cluster of people smoking on the sidewalk right in front of the place.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I find the implication that people rejecting urban consumerism in various ways is in itself some kind of uber-trendy-urban-consumer-choice oddly paradoxical
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
all this thread has done is make me want to go out for a cocktail after work.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:34 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm going grocery shopping after work and making dinner in the house of a crazy hippie person who gets her all her food upstate and agitates for food policy reform.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Then we will go out for cocktails.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:36 (sixteen years ago) link
i want to go somewhere i've never been and order something complicated that i probably won't like anyway.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:37 (sixteen years ago) link
i want to make up some bullshit beardo trend and write a book about it and get paid
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
oh goddamnit that's fucking brilliant.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
get in line man
― dan m, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh sure, write a couple of half-decent message board posts and you think you're Bill Buford.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
jesus has a new ride: beardos driving benzes 2002-2008
― omar little, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
i think i'll follow one around and write a field guide to beardos.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
fffft. "half-decent," yeah right. also i think you mean david brooks?
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
chicago kevin i am suing you for beardo infringement
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
how soon we forget "bedpunk", ILX
― Will M., Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:40 (sixteen years ago) link
what they eat, their mating rituals, how they interact with each other, what their natural environment is, etc.
xpost go ahead and sue, nothing from nothing is easy.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Considering that I just finished Heat, no, I think I meant Bill Buford. I could have said "Malcolm Gladwell" but I actually kind of like him.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:41 (sixteen years ago) link
but Heat is about kitchen workers, and cooking and shit, not bullshit trends is what i meant
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
xp But neither Buford nor Gladwell do the kind of broad trend-theorizing that Brooks does.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Buford is just good reportage on subcultures (food industry, soccer players, etc.); Gladwell is basically doing pop social psychology.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Yes, and books about kitchens were already a bullshit trend when it came out.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:44 (sixteen years ago) link
look, I don't know if Bill Buford is in Fleet Foxes or has a beard or is an Uncle Tom or what, but I hope we can all get behind beets, pickled or otherwise, because they are awesome.
― Euler, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh well, never mind, next time I'll try to make my throw-away references more on point. I've actually never heard of David Brooks, probably because his kind of thing irritates me and I forgot it immediately.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm with jaymc here. but i haven't read gladwell or brooks because they seem ultra douchey.
xpost--we agree on david brooks! he is a total booger eater
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
And obv. I meant to say "soccer fans," not "players."
― jaymc, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I think Buford is kind of a booger eater, too, which is probably why he came to mind.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:47 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah he was really into Mario in that book, wasn't he?
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
this marks the third time today i've read the word "booger".
xpost- fourth.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I think he's really into himself, when you get right down to it.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
hence the booger eating
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link
booger eating is totes the new hotness
― bell_labs, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
He does the whole self-deprecating thing that everyone else does, but unfortunately he seems kind of to be missing the point -- he should be more self-deprecating about being a small-hearted asshole who thinks of himself first, and less about things like a lack of athletic prowess or physical coordination.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago) link
pickled boogers?
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:51 (sixteen years ago) link
the right thread for this song...
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Gladwell isn't bad in individual doses, but after a while you realize he's kind of shticky (everything's all "humans make choices that are counterintuitive!"); plus, I sometimes feel like the artful construction of his essays disguises the fact that his arguments aren't always built on the most solid foundation.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.luminomagazine.com/2004.10/spotlight/nerds/images/booger/booger1.jpg
― carne asada, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
I'd never heard of Bill Buford before. Thanks guys!
― milo z, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Not the drummer for Yes, then?
― Oilyrags, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:56 (sixteen years ago) link
curtis armstrong, like steve buscemi, makes any movie he's in better just by him being in it.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't want to meet the hipster with a chamber pot fetish. christ, if you thought the Rainbo smelled bad BEFORE...
I knew a hipster with a chamber pot, it didn't smell but I had to kneel to piss because I had drunk aim and didn't want to splash all over her bedroom. I didn't feel too bohemian.
― ogmor, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
jaymc, would i like the fleet foxes? they are playing here for free on friday.
― amateurist, Thursday, 17 July 2008 11:29 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't know about beets, foxes, or rye, but this shit just sounds like urban kids that know how to camp
or are you talking about tripsters?
― gbx, Thursday, 17 July 2008 12:42 (sixteen years ago) link
wait, i don't care
http://www.rivbike.com//
^^^ i know plenty of dudes who subscribe to these guys' philosophy, which would appear to be whatever it is you're talking about. they're just called "retro-grouchy." or telemark skiers.
― gbx, Thursday, 17 July 2008 12:47 (sixteen years ago) link
http://remote.lohudblogs.com/files/2008/02/mose1.JPG
Beards, beets, Battlestar Galactica
― The Yellow Kid, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:09 (sixteen years ago) link
― The Yellow Kid, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link
rockin chin scrub
― Edward III, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Can I cross-post to several days ago and say that I like the semi-archaic "wear a beard" construction? It refers to a stylistic choice, like wearing your hair down or wearing your trousers loose. If we were really awesome we could even try and use "wear" and "have" differently, to denote this: i.e., if you live in the woods and don't care either way, you have a beard; if you woke up one day and decided you'd look snappy with a beard and proceeded to grow one, you wear one.
― nabisco, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
P.S. I realized the other day that Fleet Foxes have some really terrifically constructed lyrics! Or at least one song ("White Winter Hymnal") suddenly jumped out and I noticed all the stuff going on with sound and internal rhyme and whatnot. It looks way worse on paper because the internal rhymes are all emphasized in specific ways, but:
I was following the pack All swallowed in their coats With scarves of red Tied 'round their throats To keep their little heads From falling in the snow And I turned round and there you go! And Michael you would fall And turn the white snow red as strawberries In the summertime
^^ this is just really well put together, the general images, the set-up with colors, the internal rhymes and assonance and alliteration ... so now I have this increasing respect for Fleet Foxes, who aren't always doing the most interesting thing in the universe but are really quite good at what it is that they're doing.
― nabisco, Thursday, 17 July 2008 20:32 (sixteen years ago) link