Posts by Danielle
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Smartarses.
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Hard News: The Advocate, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Even mucking around with Coronation Street’s timing is done in a disrespectful way.
<bugbear> I wouldn't mind all the timing being faffed about if we weren't falling behind by half an hour a week, every week. But it's apparently against their religion to keep up with the UK episodes. </bugbear>
(Yours, Disgruntled of Oratia, age 38, etc.)
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Hard News: The Advocate, in reply to Damian Christie,
I spoke to someone yesterday who complained about all the stuff Clive had been doing of late, saying it was trying to blame the rest of us for the problems of the poor
You know, I've listened to so much stupid shit in my life that I thought I was desensitised and would no longer have visceral urges to punch people in the nose. But apparently not.
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Pretty Lights
And so cheap! I think I may be calling on My Mother the Babysitter again...
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Hard News: Irony Deficient, in reply to Islander,
What is SARCASM always has its base in viciousness
Nope.
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Speaker: Music: The Vinyl Frontier, in reply to Alan Perrott,
anyway, smug wasn’t what I was being.
No, you weren't. That was in response to my post about the whole "hobbyist expertise" thing, and I appreciated it, because I really hate musical dick-waving and judgeypantsness too. My favourite thing about music nerds is enthusiasm, not jaded oneupmanship.
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I assume it’s genetic: guys go for music crap, women go for shoes / dresses / handbags and the like.
I collect shoes, handbags, and music. The key difference between the shoes/handbags and the music is that the latter is basically incorporeal and what I value about it is almost irrelevant to the packaging it comes in. It took me quite a while to get to that mental place, and I still have several hundred LPs mouldering away in a cupboard (and several thousand CDs from my marriage's joint collection, for that matter), but the last few years have been hugely liberating. It's all on a hard drive; it's all almost instantly accessible via Sonos; I don't have to worry about dusting or maintenance of condition or any of that other crap. We still have collectable music Things we keep on display (a brick from the original Stax building! The Beg, Scream and Shout box set!) but most of the common or garden stuff is just in boxes as a sort of backup, and I'm pretty much thrilled by that. I can now concentrate on the physicality of the other things I like - the shoes and frocks and handbags.
Also, I know you were joking, but it's not genetic. It's to do with the gendered "expertise" hobbyist barrier we've created around collecting things like music. The internet has been great for me because I don't have to spend so much time waiting for Some Dude to take me seriously in a pop music conversation. Hello, I am short and round and a girl and yes, *I know a lot about this shit*. Really.
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and composed of some very familiar elements
Is it what. Fun, though!
I realise that I have been thinking “All the Way Down” was a cover of Allen Toussaint’s “On Your Way Down” and they are not the same song *at all*. Silly me.
Also: I had never heard that cover of “What a Difference a Day Makes”, and I thought I was pretty au fait with disco. (Or maybe: disc’au fait. Heh.)
ETA The bassist on "Home is Where the Hatred Is" is TRUCKING. Awesome.
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Cracker: What Would Charlotte Do?, in reply to noizyboy,
Best. Degree. Ever.
(It made me HATE LIBRARIES. Which I'm sure you'll agree is not an ideal result.)
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Cracker: What Would Charlotte Do?, in reply to David Cormack,
can I just say that Lew nails it
He is indeed very good at Twitter argument construction. (Twargonstruction?) Even if he is unnecessarily snotty about pop culture he deems unworthy. And frocks. :)