Watercooler 0: Nothing Is A Problem For Me

Let me tell you what isn't fun - manouvering a flight case on a crowded rush hour train. Bah.

It makes me mad, what with cnutish idiots rambling on complete gobshite about how there aren't actually any shoegazer guitars in Shimura Curves and I only say there are because I'm "rockist". Like, WTF do you think is in this case? An Uzi? I wish it were coz I'd gun your sorry ass down like a tarrantino.

Pot, kettle, etc?

God, he's *SUCH* an idiot.

Even my mum thinks that he looks like my brother. She said "PLEASE don't go out with him, Kate - think what the children would be like!"

As if. Hah ha hah.

Rockism is an ideology of popular music criticism, originating in the British music press in the late 1970s or early 1980s. The fundamental tenet of rockism is that some forms of popular music, and some musical artists, are more authentic than others. More specifically, authentic popular music fits the rock and roll paradigm; it is made using the basic rock instrumentation of guitars, bass guitars and drums, and fits the structures of a rock and roll song.

...a fine insult from someone dismissing Britney Spears for being inauthentic.

The term is sort of malleable though, isn't it? As in, it can be used to run down any music you don't like by criticising the process behind its creation (or something).

I think the important paragraph is:

This is as opposed to the notion of manufactured "pop" music, created in assembly line fashion by teams of hired record producers and technicians and performed by pop stars who have little input into the creative process, designed to appeal to a mass market and make profits rather than express authentic sentiments

Because this is, word for word, the kind of crap that Bumlove routinely comes out with about the music that I love.

OK, yeah, I'm making snide comments on messageboards in response but you know what? I *wrote* and recorded Stronger, I know what instruments are used on it. The only thing he's ever written are snide comments on message boards.

Anyway, I'm sick of this twat. I want pointy nosed boys.

Look at the point on that nose:

http://myspace-606.vo.llnwd.net/00954/60/62/954672606_l.jpg

Don't pay any attention to record company twit. I guess it's tiresome having to put up with that shit, but the music speaks for itself, I think.

Is your guitar bag a special Jazzmaster size? I'm gonna get a hard case for mine I think. (Only 4 weeks till I actually **get my hands on** my Jazzy!).

No, actually I was using an old bass guitarbag for my Jazzmaster - they're longer than most guitars so don't fit in the flight case I already had. Bah. I might go out at lunch and get a new bag if I can. Depends on how much they are. Also I need to get a new strap.

The peg that holds the strap on the Danny has gone, and I replaced it with a giant-headed screw, so I need to get a longer strap - and am probably going to have to tape it to the body so it doesn't pop out mid-performance. Which would be embarrassing.

I honestly believe music *should* speak for itself. And it does. But you're always going to get some twat who doesn't "get it" sticking his oar in and telling people What To Think like he's Alaistair Cooke (when really he's just the poor man's Tony Wilson). I don't think music fans need that - or if they do, go and read the sodding NME.

Whatever. Anything he does is going to irritate me, it's just worse when he gets things totally factually WRONG and then sticks my name in it.

What kind of a strap should I get?

::looks at pointy nose::

::calms down::

this is up for sale less than 2 miles from our house. I wish I was better off! It's perfect.

yeah, DiS, which is like... I don't actually care, I don't expect anyone there to "get it". It's just like... freaking Leave Off, already, you know? He left a snarky comment on the band's MySpace a few weeks ago, which I deleted. Now he feels he has to step it up again?

And my bandmates are all "oh, well, you bitched about him on your blog, you don't have a leg to stand on" - but it's like. I *STOPPED* because everyone was giving me such shit about it. And now he's starting back up again.

If it's wrong for me to do it, it's wrong for *him* to do it, but he just seems to get a free pass to do and say what he likes, and no one calls *him* on it. I've dealt with his sort before. I know that the thing to do is just to ignore him, because even slagging him off is giving him the attention that he craves.

It just winds me up and I wish it wouldn't.

God, how can a boy have such *amazingly* thick eyelashes? It just isn't fair. He's got those slighly cat-like Rimbaud eyes, all heavy-lidded and smutty.

(And maybe if I ask enough, all the boys of ILX will post pictures of their eyelashes.)

The NME cool list this year!!!

OK, I have never cared about the cool list in my life, and I haven't even bought the NME in abou 5 years, but...

Did anyone notice something REALLY UNUSUAL about the Top 10 this year?

Don't read NME.

1 Beth Ditto (The Gossip)
2 Faris Rotter (The Horrors)
3 Lily Allen
4 Jarvis Cocker
5 Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
6 Kieren Webster (The View)
7 Kate Jackson (The Long Blondes)
8 Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance)
9 Thom Yorke (Radiohead)
10 Lovefoxxx (CSS)

Yes, Gooblar, hole in one! NME is noticing that the world is actually half female shockah!

Get them to make up their own fake societies of imaginary lands, based on satire of the predominating cultural trends of today. I think that would make them realise the snide wit in Swift.