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  1. I don't know what the hell is wrong with you people. Kim Kardashian looks freaking great without makeup. Soft looking skin, big bee-stung lips, big brown eyes, nice set of boobs. Maybe her jawline is slightly masculine, but not incredibly so. Looks like a hot Indian chick to me. I think a lot of those pictures are unfair to the actresses too. It's "hot picture of them with make-up" vs "totally unflattering picture where they were most likely having a {censored} day after drinking all last night & didn't even have a bath or wash their hair" You guys sound like this to me:
  2. Yeah 250k in sales. Subtract parts costs Utilities Tool maintenance Employee costs & cost of living in Seattle Seriously. . . if you think Devi's making bank think again. She might have a lot of sales, but I could easily see how she could be broke. Also I don't think gender reassignment's super cheap. She's probably pouring any profit she has into increased production & R+D. Small business is hard.
  3. Devi alluded to making north of $200k last year in a thread awhile back so it's kind of mystifying why she'd need to raise such an absurd amount to produce one pedal. That's probably gross sales, not net profits.
  4. I think that's more a byproduct of the type of distortion it is. You can get that when playing clean. I think it is a speaker artifact.
  5. good choices btw, I love FUGAZI, Daniel Johnston, and Polvo. I'm just getting into Liars. I've listened to a little bit of Tortoise, but I have a hard time listening because I tend to think Slint and The For Carnation are better. The S/T by The For Carnation is soooo good.
  6. It's all bad, sorry for not coming off as TOO intelligent, this is the internet, intelligence is irrelevant. I don't care if it's a stupid term, if it communicates what I'm trying to communicate than it works, if it doesn't someones comprehensino is failing or they've never been aurally raped by the experience that is indie/hipster music. You're totally coming off as someone who doesn't know anything about underground/alternative/independent music and are looking like a total dumbass. There is NO sound that defines indie music, or the music that your hipsters listen to.
  7. In designating indie as hipster and hipster as somehow inherently bad, without explaining either why they're connected or why either is necessarily bad, you're not really coming off as two clever, or even making much of a coherent argument. Hipster is a stupid term that was revived by an ad agency in the '90s to sell something or other. Lots of indie music is good. Lots is bad. Lots is mediocre. There's a hell of a lot of it out there. Totally. Hipster is a stereotype for young fashionable people who like indie rock, whole foods, ipods, H+M, vans shoes, have liberal leaning politics, like ironic humor, etc. It has a negative connotation, even when used by fans of alternative/underground/independent music. I'm just a tall guy with a beard and messy hair. I like music that I find to be artistic and moving- whether it is rock music or classical music. I generally like artsy, dissonant, noisey stuff, and abrasive stuff but I have an appreciation for pop as well and I enjoy bands like Sonic Youth, Mission of Burma, and Polvo that can pull off both. I think organic food is a pretty good deal, I'm liberal, I like Wes Anderson, Woody Allen, Michel Gondry, David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch and Spike Jonze movies. But I also like Kubrick, the Coen brothers, Hitchcock, and Sergeo Leone films. I think Bill Murray is a really good actor. I think Scarlett Johannsen is hot. I'm poor. I play noisy fuzzed out guitar in alternate tunings. I like cities. I think H+M clothes is made like crap, and I don't dress metro. I wear very drab clothing- dark colors. I've probably spent 2 hours total in my whole life shopping for clothes. I think Pabst Blue Ribbon is god awful and I refuse to drink the stuff. Trucker hats are retarded, and I hate Ashton Kutcher. I feel delay is an incredibly over-rated effect. I thought Little Miss Sunshine was a god-awful movie. I liked Juno and Me, You, and Everyone We Know. I like foreign film. Amelie, Run Lola Run, City of Lost Children, Goodbye Lenin!, Alphaville, Seven Samurai. I like sports. I own several hockey jerseys- Detroit Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Chicago Blackhawks. My glasses are not your tortoise-shell rimmed and very Ward Cleaverish as opposed to the stereotypical Rivers Cuomoish. I find Bukowski, Dostoevsky, Roald Dahl, and Phillip K. Dick to be intriguing writers. I don't dye my hair, I don't have any piercings, I don't have any tattoos. I'm a carnivore. I'm a privately practicing Christian and draw my philosophies heavily from Descartes. Am I a hipster? I don't think so. You might. I do what I like, not what I think is fashionable. If I wanted to be fashionable I'm completely barking up the wrong tree. Most of the people I know are punk/hardcore or into math rock.
  8. This isn't a debate in case you haven't worked it out. If you like indie your opinion is not valid hence I do not recognise you as human, therefore you cannot debate this topic, I have already won any 'debate'. Indie is not a reference to independant labels, rather the monotonous, terrible attempts at music also known as hipster, you will know it and hate it when you hear it, if you don't do the world a favor and hang yourself. Arcadesonfire - you officially forfeited your membership to the human club. Indie doesn't classify any one kind of music. You can be indie rap or indie metal. Around the turn of the millennium it started being used as a genre title to define a certain sound. Which is ridiculous. Punk didn't necessarily mean bands that played fast power chords at the end of the 70's. It also embraced bands like Television, Gang of Four, Pere Ubu, DEVO, and a bunch of other stuff that sounded nothing like the Sex Pistols. All of these following bands are considered Indie: [YOUTUBE]150yyU3i73o[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE]jdMDcG3zAEI[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE]_PVB7TqS9Gw[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE]2T4BsnXmJaI[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE]DVl-doNlOsQ[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE]73qBnuzrjx0[/YOUTUBE] [YOUTUBE]zN9x6zckn18[/YOUTUBE] They musically all sound very different from each other. And none of those bands sound like the corporately raped version of indie. Dashboard, Death Cab, and Postal Service do not define the sound of indie rock no matter what you may hear.
  9. Oh i'm quite aware that invading of other people's land has gone on throughout history and continues today by people all over the world... by "Europeans," i meant people of European decent, which includes the settlers who pushed west, and that's got to be one of the most dramatic examples of invasion in history... while colonialism is to a great extent over in African and Asia, people of European decent still control North America and Australia... though, I don't know much about Asian or African history, so there may be larger examples there that didn't involve Europeans that aren't coming to my mind... ok, back to the music debate... People are brutal to each other everywhere. Read about the things that warring native American tribes did to each other. They'd do absolutely brutal things.
  10. I don't think he's arguing against independent music and DIY. I think he's just saying "music used to be better." I think it is a slightly narrow way to view things but it isn't far from the truth. The 50's had countless rock and roll and rockabilly musicians The 60's had the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, Pink Floyd, countless psychedelic garage bands The 70's had Bowie, Iggy Pop solo, T. Rex, Led Zeppelin, WIRE, The Clash, Roxy Music, Gang of Four, Joy Division, Television, the Ramones and countless punk and post-punk bands The 80's had Sonic Youth, Mission of Burma, Rites of Spring, Minor Threat, Big Black, Naked Raygun, the Misfits, Scratch Acid, Slint, The Pixies, the Jesus and Mary Chain and countless bands on SST, Homestead, Touch and Go, K Records, and Dischord. The 90's had Pavement, Polvo, Sonic Youth, Shellac, The Jesus Lizard, My Bloody Valentine, Guided By Voices, Don Caballero, Modest Mouse when they were good, and a ton of stuff. The 00's: Mission of Burma reunited Sonic Youth Deerhoof TV on the Radio Polysics Shellac Liars Shellac was active in the 90's, Mission of Burma the 80's (and late 70's too actually), and Sonic Youth in the 80's and 90's. Take out those bands and you have the best band of the 00's being Polysics. Now as much as I love Polysics, they don't compare to Pavement, Polvo, Sonic Youth, The Stooges, etc. Of course there are thousands of bands releasing stuff every year, so I'm probably overlooking a few that are of that caliber.
  11. Haha, I just went to Pitchfork just to remind myself why I hate it so much, and there was actually something useful on it. Apparently all of Mission of Burma's old albums are getting reissued and are going to include live performance DVDs with them. Yay. But my hate for Pitchfork has more to do with their shoddy reviews and their reappropriation of mainstream musical artists like Justin Timberlake just for the sake of it.
  12. NME is just a tad pro Brit isn't it? Wowee Zowee and Red Medicine should be higher on that 1995 list. I too feel that Closer was a pretty week album by Joy Division. I like the rawer sound of Unknown Pleasures better.
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