R u ‘sitting this 1 out’? [via culture]

Off topic, but is Pitchfork still an imposing entity? I remember a time when it seemed to have a stranglehold on music criticism, and many feared that it would sink bands who didn’t conform to its aesthetic preferences (creating a bland, homogenized musical landscape in the process). It appears that music criticism has become more egalitarian since 2k10, though I could be wrong.

It seems like the “sitting this one out” feels might come from society’s expectations on our age group in 2k15. I assume Carles is the same age as me (via late 20s/early 30s) because I connect with what he’s saying. For the last millennium it was expected that after ur wanton youthful phase the next movement was making a bunch of babies and acquiring mad cash and equity (via keepin up with the jones’).

Now we have a generation where ppl don’t have kids till their late 30s, having no money but pursuing your dreams is noble, etc. There’s no defined culture to assimilate to, but as a result there’s no defined culture to create a counter culture.

It’s easy to be punk when the only alternative is corporate suit. It’s easy to be indie when the only alternative is mass brick n mortar retail normcore. How do you defy culture when you now have information and access to every scene on earth thx to global communication and rapid scalability of ideas? I have no idea.

I’m in2 things where sharing information through the internet is either physically impossible (no G3 hotspots yall) or the participants are too poor/unaware to access it. Seems like the only way to achieve a chill connection with a group of humans.

do u listen to the ‘american primitive’ genre?
for example
it never scaled
maybe it isn’t auth (via not goth)
i feel ‘good’ abt the world

Hello, Masc Gay Bro here!
I think trend chasing is a bad idea. We are all unique and special. Do what speaks to your soul, dudes!
That’s why my hobbies include brewing craft beer and participating in an intramural rugby team (by the way, NONE of my teammates know I’m gay, because I’m VERY straight acting!)

i alway feel like ‘sitting everything out’ bc ‘nothing matters’ but then again sometimes i get that torturous #FOMO that comes from the realization that #YOLO

indie used to feel like u were sitting this one out by being in2 stuff that the mainstream world didn’t know/get/understand, but we might’ve been hoodwinked in our teen years in2 thinking that by not having the perspective of older ppl who had open minds and kept participating in the modern world enough to cherry pick or become affected by new art that finds you in the world after your teen college child years. what kind of phony shit would it be to still want to fit in after for better or worse, you ‘know thyself’

been vibing to my musical usual suspects and auditioning new things to vibe to. sun kil moon, mirah, hauschka, chris thile, mr twin sister, stars, and the pantheon of artists who died or are older now or were from another time. in the stuck up indie community everyone wipes their ass with the artists you love and u should care what they think like an alt lemming.

just want to turn the lights out and dance with my headphones on [via human version of vintage ipod ad]. should i get gas chambered for seeking out such basic enjoyment from this shittie life?

been vibing to ‘the orphan masters son’ and ‘the goldfinch’ book novels. if u wanna feel like an outsider, try talking about books with ppl

the thing i’ve vibed to most this year was going deep with WW1 history [via Apocalypse ww1, The Dan Carlins, Prof. Vejas Gabby Liulevicius, Jacques Tardi war comix]. u ever think about what would happen if 37 million late teens to early 30s guys were ground into burger meat in 4 years?

been vibing to Kurt Metzger yall, he’s the greatest

‘a life in art, or a life in mimicry, its the same thing’ – bejar

definitely feeling the vibes of this post
‘popular culture’ is a terrible nightmare to me

I’m into nature walks. I want to come into balance with the magickal element of Earth. I’m also into being nude as much as possible. I’m into myself. I love myself. I’d totally have intercourse with my clone.

This is meta. People connecting with others trough an article about not being able to really connect.

hi Carles. my infinite Carles feedback loop isn’t working. i’m pretty sure its still meaningful, but not so sure how its rewarding. do you have a number i can call to fix this? are all of the commenters here you?

Carles, I feel exactly like what you feel, except about yogurt. I used to rush to the dairy aisle every Saturday night to get the latest cups of Dannon (via “the Flavah Cannon”). It was 2011. It was suburban/white people urban America. Do U remember when:

They made the peel-off lid overhang the plastic tab just so for easy grippin’ and appeallin’ peelin’?

They raised the roof on taste by miscegenating bananas and strawberries in the same cup? Our parents were all like “Aaargghhh kids!” but knew that their tired old ways were falling away in the light a new dawn of forbidden taste sensations.

They mixed the fruit and yogurt elements together into a smooth, homo-geneous creamy whole. The rainbow-colored fruit in the bottom rose up to join the oppressive white upper class! Huzzah!

But now the yogurt aisle is full of little punks buying corperate “Greek yogurt” in weird packages with frat letters all over them, and I just can’t care anymore. I guess they like it or whatever, but they will never understand how we consumed REAL CULTURE.

u don’t have to live like a renegade

miss u carles </3

#FreeCarles

I’m not sitting it out, Carles. I’m active; I’m progressive. Wie geht’s?

mdma and lemon kush (sitting this 1 out)

just this – https://miloraps.bandcamp.com/album/so-the-flies-dont-come