Caesar's Bath meme
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nyahnyah tagged me for it. XD It's a good exercise for such a one as me.
Said meme takes its name from Mel Brooks' A History of the World (Part I), and, upon receiving it, one is supposed to list five things that one's circle of friends or peer group is wild about, but that one can't really understand the fuss over. Quoth Caesar, "Nice. Nice. Not thrilling . . . but nice."
1) iPods. Which is why I don't have one, which sucks because I'm too lazy to research and purchase an alternative. I've tried iTunes, I've mucked around with other people's iPods, and... exactly as above. Nice but not thrilling. Original flavour iPod is too heavy (my flash mp3 player is small and light enough to dangle on a strap from my wrist, and I bought it for that specific reason), the brushed-chrome finish on the Mini makes me wince because I know I'd scratch it up within thirty minutes, and iTunes is... huge and controlling. I'm a big fan of lightweight; I used Winamp v2 until my music collection hit 50GB and I could no longer remember the name/artist of each individual track and what sub-sub-genre I'd stashed it under.
2) Death Cab For Cutie. Probably the entire genre that includes Death Cab *tries to come up with band names, fails due to utter boredom*. I don't hate this stuff the way I hate the more wail-y and bombastic woe-is-my-skinny-whiteboi-life emo rock, I don't exactly think it's lame the same way I (am encouraged by my self-identified "peer group" to) think of Bright Eyes as lame, in fact I have a fair fondness for Ben Gibbard's voice. But for all that the Postal Service is a bit too blippy-perky for me the IDM touch is sorely needed; gives the music backbone. Otherwise it just doesn't register to my ears.
Quote dance-punk unquote is nice-but-not-thrilling as well. ...Actually, so much of "indie" rock is - but if I start on this vein I'll still be here two hours later going, "Acid house? I don't really feel it. Trip-hop yes, deep house sure, but acid... eh."
Actually, wait, one more. Tori Amos. I had a snarky paragraph about this one poster on some music blog/comm or other who wrote that Sarah McLachlan was "the dippy girl-next-door who did Wiccan crafts" but Tori was "dangerous and crazy and would really put a curse on you" and thus evinced more psychological depth or something, but then I deleted it because all the Tori fans I know personally just, y'know, dig her music. For that matter I quite like a number of her songs but it's just not the sort of thing that inspires my rabid devotion. Maybe my "redheaded pop goddess with iconoclastic/intense/unbalanced persona" slot is taken up by Shirley Manson already.
3) Go. The game. I can't see the appeal... no, I lie. I suppose I can see the appeal. However I don't like playing skill-based games unless I'm skilled enough at them that I'm not just floundering about, but one can't really develop skill at something like go unless one puts in the time, and I can't be arsed to put in the time. After about an hour or so a little alarm goes off in the back of my mind buzzing "You've spent the last hour on a board game," and it keeps buzzing until I stop and go do something more "productive" instead. What I don't get is why other people don't seem to have this alarm. I was dating this guy who started playing go because of HnG and it took over his life and ability to hold a conversation and... I dunno. My hang-up, my loss, probably.
Ironically I'm kind of fascinated by computer go algorithms, but that's due to my suspicion that any AI who wants to take over the earth first needs to learn how to play go well.
4) Boybands. XD Gets its own section because it's not actually a strict music thing. I've talked about this at length, but let's just say that if the societal construct of sexual orientation were based purely on one's reaction toward manufactured pop celebrity, I would be a huge dyke. Also, boyband RPS. I was talking with some people who confessed to me that they were active in popslash fandom, reading and writing, despite the fact that they did not actually find any single member of NSYNC physically attractive. I was like, "........Uh whuh?"
5) Chocolate. Nice. Would eat it if it were good quality and placed in front of me. But not thrilling. *grins*
EDIT -- Oh, wait, tagging yes. Uhm, just do it if it seems fun to you, I wish to maximize branching for this one. XD
nyahnyah tagged me for it. XD It's a good exercise for such a one as me.Said meme takes its name from Mel Brooks' A History of the World (Part I), and, upon receiving it, one is supposed to list five things that one's circle of friends or peer group is wild about, but that one can't really understand the fuss over. Quoth Caesar, "Nice. Nice. Not thrilling . . . but nice."
1) iPods. Which is why I don't have one, which sucks because I'm too lazy to research and purchase an alternative. I've tried iTunes, I've mucked around with other people's iPods, and... exactly as above. Nice but not thrilling. Original flavour iPod is too heavy (my flash mp3 player is small and light enough to dangle on a strap from my wrist, and I bought it for that specific reason), the brushed-chrome finish on the Mini makes me wince because I know I'd scratch it up within thirty minutes, and iTunes is... huge and controlling. I'm a big fan of lightweight; I used Winamp v2 until my music collection hit 50GB and I could no longer remember the name/artist of each individual track and what sub-sub-genre I'd stashed it under.
2) Death Cab For Cutie. Probably the entire genre that includes Death Cab *tries to come up with band names, fails due to utter boredom*. I don't hate this stuff the way I hate the more wail-y and bombastic woe-is-my-skinny-whiteboi-life emo rock, I don't exactly think it's lame the same way I (am encouraged by my self-identified "peer group" to) think of Bright Eyes as lame, in fact I have a fair fondness for Ben Gibbard's voice. But for all that the Postal Service is a bit too blippy-perky for me the IDM touch is sorely needed; gives the music backbone. Otherwise it just doesn't register to my ears.
Quote dance-punk unquote is nice-but-not-thrilling as well. ...Actually, so much of "indie" rock is - but if I start on this vein I'll still be here two hours later going, "Acid house? I don't really feel it. Trip-hop yes, deep house sure, but acid... eh."
Actually, wait, one more. Tori Amos. I had a snarky paragraph about this one poster on some music blog/comm or other who wrote that Sarah McLachlan was "the dippy girl-next-door who did Wiccan crafts" but Tori was "dangerous and crazy and would really put a curse on you" and thus evinced more psychological depth or something, but then I deleted it because all the Tori fans I know personally just, y'know, dig her music. For that matter I quite like a number of her songs but it's just not the sort of thing that inspires my rabid devotion. Maybe my "redheaded pop goddess with iconoclastic/intense/unbalanced persona" slot is taken up by Shirley Manson already.
3) Go. The game. I can't see the appeal... no, I lie. I suppose I can see the appeal. However I don't like playing skill-based games unless I'm skilled enough at them that I'm not just floundering about, but one can't really develop skill at something like go unless one puts in the time, and I can't be arsed to put in the time. After about an hour or so a little alarm goes off in the back of my mind buzzing "You've spent the last hour on a board game," and it keeps buzzing until I stop and go do something more "productive" instead. What I don't get is why other people don't seem to have this alarm. I was dating this guy who started playing go because of HnG and it took over his life and ability to hold a conversation and... I dunno. My hang-up, my loss, probably.
Ironically I'm kind of fascinated by computer go algorithms, but that's due to my suspicion that any AI who wants to take over the earth first needs to learn how to play go well.
4) Boybands. XD Gets its own section because it's not actually a strict music thing. I've talked about this at length, but let's just say that if the societal construct of sexual orientation were based purely on one's reaction toward manufactured pop celebrity, I would be a huge dyke. Also, boyband RPS. I was talking with some people who confessed to me that they were active in popslash fandom, reading and writing, despite the fact that they did not actually find any single member of NSYNC physically attractive. I was like, "........Uh whuh?"
5) Chocolate. Nice. Would eat it if it were good quality and placed in front of me. But not thrilling. *grins*
EDIT -- Oh, wait, tagging yes. Uhm, just do it if it seems fun to you, I wish to maximize branching for this one. XD
