Off My Lawn Report 2012

[sabotabby]

Things I don't really get:

1. Homestuck
2. Here Comes Honey Boo Boo
3. Dubstep

Which is okay, a lot of people don't seem to get these, except:

1. I read Ulysses, and not for a university class.
2. I have a fascination with older forms of the spectacle, like carnivals and cabarets
3. I listen to German industrial music

This isn't a judgment thing; this is me feeling old.

Comments

[lienne.livejournal.com]

<3

[sabotabby]

Also, kids wear their pants too low. What's up with that?

[lienne.livejournal.com]

hey, at least today's cool kid trouser fashion does not involve safety pins

[symbioid.livejournal.com]

1. I dunno what homestuck is. Maybe it just sucks.

2. Exploitation of children like that just feels wrong. Freak show wrong. It makes me feel more pity than laughter, and that's not something I particularly enjoy. It's like those starving child in Africa photos, only... the starving child in Africa is wearing a tiara and a pink chafon dress while tapdancing with a beaming glow of pride (before stumbling due to lack of energy from lack of nutrition).

3. What passes for "dubstep" is shit. Lots of older dubstep folks (including me, though I have to admit I'm not like one who got in on the ground floor, I still got in before it was all "the word that replaces techno when people discuss any electronic music") refer to this stuff as "brostep" (esp. people like Skrillex, aka Corey from Corey and Trevor wannabe lookalike).

I made a post on FB last night with this quote "Panacea eats Skrillex for breakfast and shits him as a giant messy turd any fuckin' day of the week. Techstep 4 LIFE!" (btw techstep not being related to dubstep except for the name "step" afaik-- techstep comes from jungle/dnb and dubstep comes from house (uk garage/2-step to be more precise)

along with the following link:


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As for old school *actual* dubstep (that you might like) Try something like Kode9... A lot of the people bitching about dubstep sounding like robots farting and how it's brostep are talking about how they like the original dubstep which is shit like the following...

Kode 9

"a stone will be thrown at the state and a stone will be thrown at the churches" (Lee Scratch Perry sample)



Digital Mystikz



Plastician:

[audrawilliams.livejournal.com]

I dunno! Honey Boo Boo's family seems super happy and affectionate and body-positive!

[pofflewomp.livejournal.com]

Lost me there, but then I have never managed to read any of Ulysses!

[treehavn.livejournal.com]

I had to Google one of those things, and sadly it was not Honey Boo Boo.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I do not know anything about the former trio.

I too have read, am fascinated by, and occasionally listen to the latter trio.

I don't have a lawn, but if I did, I'd beat people off with my walker, throwing the tennis balls that are attached to the legs at the babies who infiltrated it!

[outcastspice.livejournal.com]

Idk what Homestuck is, but I've enjoyed the articles about Honey Boo Boo on Jezebel.

[joxn.livejournal.com]

History of dubstep: http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/28/3262089/history-of-dubstep-beyond-lies-the-wub

[misslynx.livejournal.com]

I had to google the first two of those things because I had never heard of them.

#1 sounded vaguely intriguing, and I checked it out briefly, but got bored before long. Still, I could see some people getting absorbed in that, especially anyone who used to play that sort of game a lot.

#2 was horrifying, and I am now trying without success to erase it from my brain.

#3... Well, I know what it is in theory, and I've occasionally listened to some things that have been tagged with that term on Last.fm, but I can't say that I really have much of an opinion one way or the other. The distinctions between all the different subgenres of electronic dance music have never really been very clear to me - mostly it all just sounds like repetitive electronic noodling to me. Some tracks may be more likable than others, but overall it's not something I'd go out of my way to listen to, just something that occasional makes a good, not too distracting, background soundtrack while I'm working.

[funnel101.livejournal.com]

I think you have to see someone dance to dubstep to appreciate the music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXO-jKksQkM

[erikthedane.livejournal.com]

YES!
I love this mix! And Marquese Scott is an amazing dancer. I am in awe of his body control.

[ironed_orchid]

I am aware of Homestuck fandom, but not aware of actually encountering it in the wild.

[baroncognito.livejournal.com]

I am not aware of Homestuck fandom, but I had lunch with someone who was cosplaying one of the characters. I've apparently even read some the comic without realizing it.

[firinel.livejournal.com]

I had to look up #2(a). #1(a) Rio's really into. She said the beginning was boring and you've got to slog through that a bit, but then it gets good. FWIW, I think there's also the community aspect of it, particularly on tumblr, that appeals to people, so there's that as well. WRT #3(a) I've grown to like it, because I live with a musician that likes pretty much any kind of electronic music, and hey, at least it's not fucking zydeco (I know it, and some related sorts, are very popular now amongst our age of people, but my god).

I've not done 1(b), I.. like some of 2(b) too ('like' seems an odd way to describe it though), and I'm pretty sure I do 3(b) as well, because, uh well see my 3(a).

[radiumhead.livejournal.com]

I feel sorry for Honey Boo Boo.

No matter what you feel about people like that, she's a child, she's not in control here.

She seems like she's enjoying herself.

I bet she'll grow up to be a monster.

[fengi.livejournal.com]

1. That NPR dude owes Nick at least a dollar per second for making the Homestuck/Ulysses comparison. It's an interesting analogy, but one doesn't have to be old to not get intentionally difficult work of amorphous quality.

2. I think everyone has a limited appetite for creepy voyeurism and living in a town run by Rob Ford might mean you've had your fill of dysfunctional cherubs.

3. I've been buying random dance collections which range across the last three decades and a vast amount only works within a mix played in the club context and only a fragment can be enjoyed by itself. I'd argue everyone gets dubstep, but only some get to hear it in the context where it works.

[monster-grrrl.livejournal.com]

I know not of these things, and I refuse to learn.

At least my generation's low-riding pants were baggy. These low-riding skinny jeans are just. not. right.

[baroncognito.livejournal.com]

What is there to get about dubstep? Unless you're saying you couldn't compose a dubstep song. (Whenever someone says Dubstep, my first thought is still of Dubstar (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCW53mSd0hs).)

Or are you saying you can't critically analyze it? In which case, I don't get anything. I can improvise a bass line, but I can't listen to a jazz piece and tell you anything more than possibly the time signature it's in and when the key changes are. I'll probably be able to tell if it's a minor key, but I won't be able to tell you what the key signature is without seeing the sheet music. I certainly won't be able to listen to a piece and tell you what the artist was trying to do by putting a key change where she did. When I stick a key change into a bass line, it's generally because "it felt like it needed a key change there."

It's music. I understand enjoying it, I understand not enjoying it, but I have no idea what you mean by "getting it."

[sabotabby]

In the case of Dubstep, I don't get its mass appeal. It sounds like a bad version of industrial but the people who like it are not the kinds of people who listen to industrial.

[rohmie.livejournal.com]

Have you read Introducing Joyce, a.k.a. Joyce for Beginners? The artwork is amazing.

[mendaciloquent.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any younger, I don't know what the first three things are.

[nichtsda.livejournal.com]

1. I've already got other things to waste time on already. Maybe in the next life.

2. I can't even watch Toddlers & Tiaras. It reminds me too much of the narcissists on my family tree. Ugh.

3. Hmm, if I had to guess why you don't like dubstep, the first thought I have is that German industrial music isn't necessarily more intelligent but a good deal of it is inspired by politics and philosophies that I don't think inform most dubstep music. German industrial music is made by nihilists and anarchists. Dubstep is made by geeks. I've now opened myself up for hating. Self-identified geeks are not bad people -- but they're usually not nihilists! Can you imagine a nihilist playing a video game? "GAME OVER. THERE WAS NEVER ANY POINT IN PLAYING."