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1. Avoid running at all times.-S. Paige Posted: January 23, 2012 at 02:32 PM (#4043357)Better a pothead than a Canadian!
TEE-HEE!
Maybe Darvish can opt for a plastic bubble a la John Travolta so that he won't be too contaminated by those who would want to "purify" his thoughts. The boy has enough to think about, not to mention those alimony payments...
Repoz: John Barth sez hi.
Roxalot: You must have spent a lotta time under those headphones at full volume while under the influence of Ye Olde "magnolia leaf"...your hearing seems to have been affected to the point where you have to SHOUT A LOT and spell your real name backwards!! :-)
They're beautiful trees, turning a brilliant fire-red in the fall.
Geovany Soto would totally be his personal catcher.
I've been in Vancouver for the last 2 weeks and one day 3 saw a dude smoking a joint out in the open in Gastown and noone, including families passing by, gave a single sh*t. I've smelled the stuff several times already just like Post 1. It's a wonderful substance.*
*...In the right context yadda yadda yadda...
Among his favourite tales is one of seeing an amateur bodybuilder filling out a pink t-shirt bearing the phrase "Bun in the Oven", with an arrow pointing to the wearer's mid-section.
Manny Ramirez would be proud.
Related.
I taught English to third graders in Jakarta. One day a kid walked in with the shirt with the phrase "I'm getting too old for this ####\". A lesson was born.
Surely Husker Du's cover of the Mary Tyler Moore theme song predates this by a decade.
Wasn't aware of that one. It kind of qualifies - certainly the choice of song, but Husker Du didn't really have the same generally ironic ethos as Cake. So let's call it the "missing link" of the hipster-ironic cover. Coverus Ironicus Habilis.
I think Biz Markie is the one that really kick started it.
Though I'm not sure I've heard anyone describe Nirvana as hipsterish.
Cobain wore a cardigan! A ############ cardigan!!!
In all seriousness, Nirvana was kind of the antithesis of the ironic, condescending-yet-transparently-insecure detachment of the hipster.
It kind of qualifies - certainly the choice of song, but Husker Du didn't really have the same generally ironic ethos as Cake.
I always figured it was some kind of ode to their shared Twin Cities heritage.
As for I Will Survive, I thought the Cake version was an abomination, but the original has always been one of my favorites from the disco era.
The EP in my closet of this cover disagrees it was hipster ironic; but me, I have no idea.
My fave in that vein goes back a little further, to The Beat doing Andy Williams's "Can't Get Used to Losing You" (admittedly they were probably taking off of Alton Ellis, but still). And don't forget Sly and the Family Stone doing "Que Sera, Sera".
In his "Our Band Could Be Your Life" book, Michael Azerrad claims it was The Replacements who brought the lame-cover-of-bad-music into the front of hip, indie culture. On Let It Be, they cover KISS's "Black Diamond."
compare and contrast
P.S. Jackie DeShannon was a very talented songwriter, but her career as a singer was based on her renditions of Burt Bacharch songs (not that there's anything wrong with that)
Edit: No pun intended (or achieved) on "replacement."
So then William Shatner is the trailblazer?
Sounds like a teacher in high school. The egos on them and their absolute refusal to admit they are wrong is unrivaled.
As Conan O'Brien observed, the real lesson is "Never share your pot with someone who has the lung capacity of a dolphin."
With this comment, I can't not mention this (probably) ironic but faithful cover of Bacharach's "Something Big" by baseball Hall of Famer/indie omnipresence Jim O'Rourke.
I laughed.
Wait, what? Don't blame the teaching professions for just general ########. Blame the ######## instead.
Of course you did.
Wait, what? Don't blame the teaching professions for just general ########. Blame the ######## instead.
I think I did.
True story: a friend of mine was going to a public high school in the very early 80's. At that time, some students were starting to write their papers on home computers (Commodore 64s, Apple IIs, Radio Shack TRS-80s, and so on). The schools were concerned that being able to just save a copy of the paper to another disk meant that plagiarism would be much more common.
In order to fight this potential scourge, the math teacher (who was in charge of anything computer-related because, well, math teachers MUST know something about computers) instituted a new policy: if you turned in a paper written on a computer (and it was pretty easy to tell the difference), you had to also bring in the disk that contained your paper so they could destroy it.
Now, putting aside the fact that a blank disk cost anywhere from $4-$7 in those days, the idea was stupid beyond belief. Naturally it would be child's play to make a copy of the file prior to turning in the disk, but even beyond that...the school didn't have a room full of different computers or anything. They had no way to even CHECK the disks to see if the paper (or anything) was on it. My friend just kept a small box where he'd toss bad disks; he'd pull one out whenever he needed to turn in a paper.
That math teacher was an idiot.
I just want to throw this in because it's tech-ignorance-related... bookstore I used to work at, the tech buyer insisted we should not demagnetize books that came with a CD, because the magnet would destroy the CD. I tried repeatedly to explain to her that it would be fine, but finally she said, "Well, my husband works with computers, and that's what he told me."
EDIT:
On the flip (obverse? orthoganal?) side of this, one of my law students turned in his first paper, handwritten.
Not a printer problem, he just thought that was fine. In law school.
The Cure's Voodoo Lady comes to mind. The Stranglers' Walk on By. The Rezillos' (as well Drinking Electricity's) Glad All Over. The Damned's Help. The Drones' Be My Baby. Wire's After Midnight. The Dickies' Knights in White Satin, Eve of Destruction & Paranoid. The Germs' Sugar Sugar.
Dunno if Devo's Satisfaction is considered "ironic," but it's by god great.
Ugh. Possibly even worse than hipster ironic covers.
Nope. Devo themselves come close to the ironic aesthetic, but without the smug condescension. However, to be a hipster ironic cover, the song covered has to be nearly universally acknowledged as bad/lightweight/kitschy/etc. so that by covering it, the hipsters can be so uncool that they're cooler than you (in their minds at least). A rock classic like Satisfaction doesn't fit that bill.
I always viewed it as a symbol of an era/trend/fashion/style that is now out of fashion.
You don't see people walking around with Golden Child t-shirts or dressing like Michael Jackson/Eddie Murphy from Thriller/Raw.
That's part of it too - so out of fashion that they're now more fashionable than you, in their own minds. Same principle. See also: 95% of Tarantino's casting decisions (Travolta, Grier, etc.).
Thought you were engaging in a bit of self-parody. Maybe you had a bad time in high school or something.
When I think of egotistical, a high school teacher is nowhere near the first thing that comes to mind.
A lot of the change was driven first by computers becoming more ubiquitous, and second by the revolution started by (somewhat) laser printers and (more widely) the HP DeskJet, which allowed you to produce "letter-quality" output (i.e. comparable to a typewriter) without having to suffer with a separate daisy-wheel printer just for papers. When I was in high school (and college), many teachers/professors would not accept dot-matrix output, especially from 9-pin printers -- and even 24-pin printers didn't satisfy everyone.
Most of my kids' teachers demanded computer-prepared papers for anything other than simple, short homework essays. Heck, even when I was in college in the mid-80's you couldn't turn in something that was hand-written; at the very least you needed to type the darned thing.
Nice to know I'm not the only one who loves that.
Didn't even know it existed until I saw Casino.
Obviously some people are aware of the weed association.
This is innocent, too.
My wife used to teach high school and those were always popular with boys who thought they were a lot cooler than they were. Youth, what a concept, although to be honest I don't give a crap what they wear or what they look like as long as they don't make loud noises after 10:00 PM.
See: Redd Kross - Dancing Queen, the aforementioned "Black Diamond", and They Might be Giants' New York City. (I include that last one because even if the original wasn't a popular song, the review in the Stranger in Seattle went ON AND ON about how ironic and snarky and even bitter the song was. Forgetting, unaware, or uninterested that TMBG has lived their entire lives there, and meant it.)
Yeah, I just disagree with that.
(Although upon re-reading, I may not understand it.)
Related.
How about the Diodes' cover of "Red Rubber Ball"?
College profs yield to no group wrt their arrogance and refusal to admit error. I spent an entire semester dealing with the vengefulness of a prof whose husband had taught a class I took the previous semester. I admit I was pretty hard on the guy--his combination of arrogance and stupidity was enraging then stupefying, and he managed to utterly demoralize an entire studio of talented kids--but he deserved it. Between the two of them I have no idea how they survived together. The self-righteousness was precedent setting.
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