I’ve never actually read CAD, just criticisms of the comic here and there, but I understand that the hatred toward it comes from Buckley way over explaining the jokes. I remember that some months ago I found a parody of is style in some thread: it was a bunch of silent “Perry Fellowship Bible” strips with the Ctrl+alt+del" header and the characters explaining exactly what we were seeing in the panel.
It’s partially guilt by association (a lot of his fans are, well, frat boys and such), partially his attitude-- I was a fan until a year or two ago, when I watched his reality show in which he toured with two other guys. What a bratty douchebag throwing random tantrums like a diva. It’s even worse that he’s now trying to make terrible movies and he can’t act (in the one with Jessica Alba he was so grating it was painful)
I’m with you here. If a classical or jazz composer does a 15 minute piece, no one complains, but if a rock band takes more than 4 minutes, it’s always self-indulgent noodling.
The only serious argument is that sometimes is can be. But there are plenty of great long rock songs that would be diminished at shorter lengths.
The prog rock became derided because of groups like the Ramones who wanted to go back to rock’s roots. And that’s a legitimate type of music, too. But there was plenty of good progressive rock songs – long and short – and I don’t see what’s wrong with trying to expand what rock music is by adding classical influences.
I thought it was only cool to hate Olive Garden in the Northeast where you’re a douchebag if you go there instead of one of the thousands of far superior local Italian places. We in NY make fun of the clueless tourists who eat there in Times Square when they could walk to an Italian place from there that would be better. Just walk in pretty much any direction 6 blocks really.
Crocs. I HATED them with a unbridled, firey passion. Then my wife got me a pair and I only wore them around the house when I got home from work. Now I wear them all the time.
Right. Now I’m going to air another little pet peeve of mine: The new, exciting music to come out of the 1970s wasn’t punk, it was disco. Punk was explicitly a back-to-basics roots rock revival. It was rockabilly by people who didn’t like country. Disco, on the other hand, took rhythms and instruments woefully underrepresented in English-language music to that point and brought them to the fore. Punk was a reboot, but disco formed an entirely new continuity.
Hootie and the Blowfish just make terrible music. Unlistenable.
I can groove to a Nickelback song but I think there is more to it than people are giving it credit for. It’s that these bands that get big and flash in the pan are highly derivative, and there is where the derision derives from. People don’t hate Radiohead just because they are popular. Though people who love Radiohead might hate Nickelback and vice versa. Because people that like Radiohead are appreciating artistry whereas people who like Nickelback just want a head bobbing tune. Not everyone has to do something new, and Nickelback certainly brings nothing new to the table. It’s the teenybopper appeal I think that makes people find them cheesy. That song about wanting to be a rock star says it all, that is the whole enchilada, it’s about fucking playboy bunnies and having drug dealers on speed dial, getting free shit and travelling around the world more than it is about reaching deep within one’s soul and expressing what’s there through a carefully practiced craft.
James Blunt. When his music was everywhere, I thought that he was a quite capable songwriter but undeserving of the mad adulation he was getting. When the backlash hit, I thought he was a quite capable songwriter but undeserving of the kneejerk loathing he was getting. James Blunt - he okay. Not brilliant, not horrible, but okay.
Yeah you have this entire street called “Restaurant Row” on 46th (which is still a little touristy) and yet you have all these dumb tourists eating at the same TGI Fridays, Olive Garden and Red Lobster they can go to back home in Ohio, just because they have bigger signs.
Olive Garden and Chili’s are both perfect when that is what I’m looking for. In defense of the tourists, it’s tough being in a strange place and not knowing which places will have what you want. I’ve been very dissapointed by going to little places that I thought would be nice. The Olive Garden and the like may be chains, but at least you know what you will get.
Right. And hating on Wal-Mart around people who never comparable shopping within a three-hour drive (round-trip) before is similarly stupid: It can only kill local business if there are comparable local businesses to kill. If it’s an improvement hating it is just ignorance.
Just as a heads up so this doesn’t happen to you again, the rumors I’m getting is that The Daily Show is heading in this direction. It’s too popular, so get prepared to deride it within the next year or so.
Well, because it’s like, they sold out man. They aren’t true artists any more. If they were, their music would stay mostly underground, and they would be playing concerts to only a few dozen people, or maybe a few hundred if they wanted to walk the line between being commercial successful, and being, you know, true artists.
I hope it’s obvious that I was being sarcastic.
