A Newbie! Make him feel shame!
Jeremy has just joined the site. Read more to find out more about them.
- Who sent you? What is your connection to the people of the scrabbled? John H and I went to HS together. 10 grade English he sat behind me. It was an interesting year.
- What album would you bring with you on a cross-country road trip? Only one album? How about only 1 ipod full? Keller William’s Live, Pearl Jam’s Ten to name just two.
- What guilty-pleasure book would you stow away in your oversized housewife bag on a trip to the beach? Anything from the Shadowrun series of novels.
- Bet movie to put on while you clean the house: It may sound lame but I love the movie Sydney White.
- How many monkey? I have 1 friend named monkeyfish does that count?
- roflcopter or lollerskates? ROFLcopter
- What ringtone plays when your mom calls? the same as everyone else: Stuck Between Stations by The Hold Steady
- If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, why the fuck do you care? Beacause I am going to go MacGyver on that tree and cut it up into a canoe.
If you could get away with murder just once, who would suffer your righteous wrath? WOW, I have no idea. - Your mom! Is a lovely woman. Is that a question?
- How do you like your hotdog? Kraut and Cheese whiz or maybe just mustard. Absolutely NO Ketchup.
- Does McSweeney’s plagiarize? I think we all do at this point. Now we call it Retweeting.
- Justify your existence: I was put here to do a little good (as much as I can) and to have as much fun as I can while I am stuck in thi place.
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which jeremy is this?
I don’t want to put his last name here, but not the one who wanted to put vaseline on a bagel and fuck it.
…I hope.
i hate him already.
Nice to have a new member. I think I remember this “bagel fucker” you speak of, Hutch. Did he act really suicidal at a Halloween party in Washington Township?
Is this the Jeremy that used to worship you as a god, walking amongst nerd and Beatles lover?
I don’t have any comment or opinion on this new person, but I do want to say that these introductory questions have not marinated well at all with the passage of time. You seriously may as well just have people introduce themselves by saying “Yeah Baby!” in the Austin Powers voice.
Big Bill said:Is this the Jeremy that used to worship you as a god, walking amongst nerd and Beatles lover?
Nope, that’s the bagel fucker. This is the Jeremy in our actual class.
And Kev, yeah. I agree.
HA HA! I didn’t know he fucked a bagel. Why would he tell you that?
It’s a reference from this thread: http://thescrabbled.com/posts/19994-Friday-Fun
He referenced the Hold Steady! Seize him!
Justin said:He referenced the Hold Steady! Seize him!
I can reference other genres of music as well? Anyone care to discuss 90s Third Wave Ska with me?
UGH.
Well, Sam has a new friend.
John said:UGH.
Well, Sam has a new friend.
this makes me hate him even more. the new guy. not sam.
If only Kevin L. were here.
Or Jay Hilyard
Ska Party 2010.
Aw, nevermind. I have something to do that day.
Jeremy said:GAH BARF EVERYWHEREJustin said:He referenced the Hold Steady! Seize him!
I can reference other genres of music as well? Anyone care to discuss 90s Third Wave Ska with me?
maggie said:Jeremy said:Justin said:He referenced the Hold Steady! Seize him!
I can reference other genres of music as well? Anyone care to discuss 90s Third Wave Ska with me?
GAH BARF EVERYWHERE
Sammy said:If only Kevin L. were here.
John said:UGH.
Well, Sam has a new friend.
John said:Big Bill said:Is this the Jeremy that used to worship you as a god, walking amongst nerd and Beatles lover?
Nope, that’s the bagel fucker. This is the Jeremy in our actual class.
And Kev, yeah. I agree.
christina said:i hate him already.
I love this Web site.
GAH BARF EVERYWHERE
I’m gonna go ahead and guess that you went about your high school years plaintively asserting your superiority over your immature and unsophisticated classmates.
Anybody that was old enough to be involved in or enjoy the 90s ska revival and can’t admit that they loved it must really just hate fun. That music was pure, unadulterated joy delivered through brass and awesome bass lines. It is not to be taken seriously or analyzed in any way. Just let yourself go for once.
And please don’t give me any of that shit about how you can’t support “ska” played by white, American, middle-class 20 somethings. Unless you grew up in Jamaica in the 1950s you do not have the right to use this argument.
Jay said:GAH BARF EVERYWHEREI’m gonna go ahead and guess that you went about your high school years plaintively asserting your superiority over your immature and unsophisticated classmates.
Anybody that was old enough to be involved in or enjoy the 90s ska revival and can’t admit that they loved it must really just hate fun. That music was pure, unadulterated joy delivered through brass and awesome bass lines. It is not to be taken seriously or analyzed in any way. Just let yourself go for once.
And please don’t give me any of that shit about how you can’t support “ska” played by white, American, middle-class 20 somethings. Unless you grew up in Jamaica in the 1950s you do not have the right to use this argument.
I endorse everything in this post.
At what point does pure unadulterated joy just become grating and annoying, like a 6 year old after 10 cans of coke? I had plenty of fun in high school with my goth, metal, and goth-metal. It was like Halloween every day!
John said:At what point does pure unadulterated joy just become grating and annoying, like a 6 year old after 10 cans of coke?
I would say by about 45 seconds into Sung Tongs or about 2 songs into any of the retro 80’s dance punk band albums from about 5 or 6 years ago.
At least they can play their goddam instruments. Sammy once played me a Less Than Jake album and the brass couldn’t even hit or hold the notes. But that didn’t stop them! They just went on caterwauling away like cats in heat. Horrid.
I like the stuff I mentioned as well as third wave ska. But as far as musical skill or caterwauling there really is no difference beyond semantics. It all relies on a sense of dispensing with ones desire for precise musicianship in favor of an communally infectious vibe or groove that makes you move your body. Same thing with rap. It’s no different than people who argue that rap isn’t music. O.K. yeah…if you want precision, listen to prog rock.
If the case being made is “I don’t like it because I prefer downer, melancholy music” or heavy music or whateverthen that’s not something that can really be questioned since…well yeah…no ska is down or melancholy or heavy. So fair enough. But I don’t think that is the case being made.
And Less Than Jake is not really third wave ska or even purely ska in terms of anything other than the beat. They were much more ska tinged punk if anything.
John said:At least they can play their goddam instruments. Sammy once played me a Less Than Jake album and the brass couldn’t even hit or hold the notes. But that didn’t stop them! They just went on caterwauling away like cats in heat. Horrid.
He probably let you hear one of their earlier albums (Pezcore?), which while still fun was definitely lacking in the musicianship/production department. Give Hello Rockview a listen and let me know if you think these guys are any good at playing.
That said -
Kevin said:It all relies on a sense of dispensing with ones desire for precise musicianship in favor of an communally infectious vibe or groove that makes you move your body.
This.
That’s not to say there aren’t many bands who play that style/form who aren’t good musicians. It’s just not necessarily the priority.
And I’m mostly just continuing my quest to get John to just admit that he (like the rest of us mortals)likes and dislikes music for a whole bunch of arbitrary, aesthetic, and non-musical reasons. I’d be more likely to believe him and leave him alone if he said he didn’t like ska because he had an irrational, crippling fear of Pork Pie hats and suspenders or something to that effect.
Oh, I totally dislike ska for aesthetic reasons. I admitted that above. It grates on me. The whole thing grates on me, from the stupid checker pants to the predictable post-chorus horn blasts. I tend to just prefer to give concrete examples of why it sucks, rather than subjective ones because I like arguing and you can’t argue over subjective things.
Aaaaaaahhhh HAAAA!!! I DID IT!!!
You did it last time, too? You’d think, of anything, your age-addled brain would remember your past victories.
Really? I’m all for claiming victory whenever I can, but I don’t think I…..OOOOH LOOK! EARLY BIRD SPECIAL!!!
Jay said:Duh, but I’m pretty sure that was the MO of everyone on this site (and ALL TEENAGERS EVER), so it’s not the astute observation you think it is.GAH BARF EVERYWHEREI’m gonna go ahead and guess that you went about your high school years plaintively asserting your superiority over your immature and unsophisticated classmates.
I owned a Reel Big Fish CD and will say that “Beer” is a great song, but I gave it away in like 2002 because in general it’s terrible and I can’t listen to that shit anymore.
And I hate reggae even more than ska, because it’s SLOW. I HATE SLOW. I HATE UPSTROKES. HATE. HATE HATE. (The issue here is probably that I do not and have never smoked pot.)
Ooooohhh I like this place. A serious discussion about SKA. Love it or hate it is just fun like kevin said. Hutch says he hates checkered pants well I never really got my head around black trench coats and makeup to make you look like the Crow. One thing I think we can all agree on musically is that Nickelback sucks and I will throw in the insane clown posse as sucking the most balls of them all.