The coffee shop/internet cafe I'm at is playing dreadful folk-chick rock

[dolo amber]

I hate living in a cliche. It's like when my dog pees on a fire hydrant...it's just embarrassing. :eyes:

[sasquatch]

1. I think you've got WAY to much time on your hands.

[jpgray]

2. Now the Bengals, there's a cause worthy of much time and energy

:D

[JohnKleeb]

3. Ouch

:D
Give the poor guy a break, he just got out of the hospital.

[jpgray]

10. I just hate when people judge other people for how they waste their time

We all have the inherent human right to waste time in some capacity however we choose. :patriot:

[JohnKleeb]

13. I would have said that if he had a Browns or Ravens logo

I mean how do you root for a team thats named after the color of shit.

[jpgray]

16. I think the last major Brown victory was v Board of Education

:D

[JohnKleeb]

17. hahahaha

I'd drink to that though to be fair they were good when they had Jim Brown and they did nearly go to the super bowl in the 80s but that guy Byrar sp? fumbled it away.

[sasquatch]

8. Hey we had a thing going there till KVO dove into Palmer's knee

:P

[jpgray]

11. What I don't know about last season could fill a warehouse

Now if you'll excuse me, I'll return to my own brand of mindless passive entertainment. :D

[JohnKleeb]

12. Ah yinz defense blew it

Two ten point leads and that was with Kitna in the game. Plus that botched snap in the third quarter didn't help. I have the game on DVD and I saw it again this weekend.

[jukes]

43. still jackin' threads

you're SUCH a kleeb!


:hi:

[Beware the Beast Man]

54. Oh, and by the way.

They lost. To the Steelers. Badly.


:evilgrin:

[rppper]

64. it'll be fun watching the stealers go 7-9 this year.......

karmic payback for bad super bowl calls is a bia-tch...so is losing key players to free agency. they had a 27 year drought after the last case of karma hit them(aka....the bad ref call against my beloved oilers in the '79 afc playoff game)...expect it again.

[JohnKleeb]

70. You really think Free Agency is going to affect the Steelers?

Because they rebuild fine through the draft and the calls in the super bowl weren't perfect but the Seahawks didn't help themselves when their so called TE dropped 4 passes among other things. Funny how people whine about the SB calls and don't even think about how bad the calls were in the AFC Divisional game against Indy.

[LynneSin]

4. Your problem is easy enough to solve

I have a Sony Netman - best way to drown out annoying music

[dolo amber]

71. I'm gonna hafta get me one of those

Dang Lynne, I saw this post all day, saw the pretty colors...but somehow never bothered to read it. I'm a bad DUer. :cry:

;)

[swag]

5. Sounds nasty.

When I go to one of those joints, they're always putting me off my scone with Belle & Sebastian. Gacky-poo.

[dolo amber]

7. I pray for the sweet release of Belle & Sebastian at this point

:cry:

[no name no slogan]

21. ew. That is REALLY bad

To this day, I cannot listen to the Indigo Girls because that damned "Closer To Fine" song was all over my campus during freshman year. It was like everywhere I turned, another no-talent picked up guitar and had formed a really terrible "folk-rock" group just to cover that song.

Between them and Edie Brickell, I was quite happy to never listen to my college radio station again.

[EstimatedProphet]

6. Like what?

And have you tried Starbucks?

[dolo amber]

9. Hell I don't know

Some chick with a guitar being all earnest and talkin' about her *feelings* and shit...:eyes:

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. As long as she's not playing

"Smelly Cat"...

:puke:

[EstimatedProphet]

15. It could be worse

It could be Bonnie Dobson

http://www.wirz.de/music/dobsofrm.htm

[MadHound]

18. Why not ask them nicely to change the music

I know if I do so in my local coffee shop, they will change things over if somebody asks. Give it a try, what could it hurt:shrug:

[dolo amber]

19. Then I wouldn't have anything to bitch about!

:o

PERISH the thought. ;)

[MadHound]

26. Oh, well, heaven forfend you don't get your bitching quota in

:evilgrin:

My local is owned by a Jordanian, and he likes to play ME music, from ME disco to traditional. I like it just fine, but I've always found it a hoot to watch the rednecks frown and scowl as they walk by, just funny as hell.

[Radical Activist]

20. I kinda like folk chick rock

And yes, I think Lisa Loeb is seriously hot.
Call me stereotypical but there's no chance of overdosing on that in the small town I'm living in.

[MissMillie]

46. me too

I'm especially fond of Shawn Colvin's music, but I also like Sarah McLachlan (I guess more "pop" than folk) and I like Aimee Mann very, very much.

[2bfree]

63. I love it!

I guess I'm old and boring now. :)

[supernova]

22. Here's some ambience: Closer to Fine

I’m trying to tell you something about my life
Maybe give me insight between black and white
And the best thing you’ve ever done for me
Is to help me take my life less seriously
It’s only life after all
Yeah

Well darkness has a hunger that’s insatiable
And lightness has a call that’s hard to hear
I wrap my fear around me like a blanket
I sailed my ship of safety till I sank it
I’m crawling on your shores

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
There’s more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
And the less I seek my source for some definitive
(the less I seek my source)
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine

And I went to see the doctor of philosophy
With a poster of rasputin and a beard down to his knee
He never did marry or see a b-grade movie
He graded my performance, he said he could see through me
I spent four years prostrate to the higher mind
Got my paper and I was free

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
There’s more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
(the less I seek my source)
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine

I stopped by the bar at 3 a.m.
To seek solace in a bottle or possibly a friend
And I woke up with a headache like my head against a board
Twice as cloudy as I’d been the night before
And I went in seeking clarity.

I went to the doctor, I went to the mountains
I looked to the children, I drank from the fountains
Yeah we go to the doctor, we go to the mountains
We look to the children, we drink from the fountains
Yeah we go to the bible, we go through the workout
We read up on revival and we stand up for the lookout
There’s more than one answer to these questions
Pointing me in a crooked line
The less I seek my source for some definitive
(the less I seek my source)
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine
The closer I am to fine

[no name no slogan]

24. NOOOOOOOOO!!

YOU DID NOT JUST POST THAT!!!! AARRRGGHH!!!!
(see my post upthread about that abomination)

[supernova]

28. Enjoy!

:sarcasm:

[Cathyclysmic]

23. Are you wearing your homemade jewelry and a long skirt?

Then it would be a modern day Norman Rockwell painting.

[no name no slogan]

25. wow, I can almost smell the patchouli

I wonder if they have any Brownmiller books on the shelves in the coffee shop?

[eyesroll]

27. Where are you?

If I thought of Rochambo as either a coffee shop or an Internet cafe, I'd assume it was there, because the music is generally dreadful.

[dolo amber]

31. Fuel

They've switched to some faux Radiohead at this point (probably Coldplay :puke:) so I think I shall exit lest I raise a rukus up in this motherfucker. ;)

[DanCa]

29. I can't wait for Bruce Springsteen's tribute to Peter Seeger folk albulm.

I can't wait to see what the Boss does to John Henry. Yeah I like folk rock but it's okay with me if you disagree with me. This is America at least for right now.

[Magrittes Pipe]

30. Why did we buy expensive coffee for home drinkage...

...if you're just going to be drinking at the coffee shop anyway? :eyes:

[dolo amber]

32. I already had that as well

Plus, the lattes here are divine, cheap and come in a pint glass! :bounce:

[jane_pippin]

33. Ouch. Are there lots of people intensely "journaling" there too?

Or worse, are the Expressionist Journal guys milling around?

"Hey man, you like poetry?"

Oooh, maybe if you're lucky a slam will break out! Maybe you should start it.

[dolo amber]

34. I'm at Fuel

I'm sure you know EXACTLY what's going on here. :D

[jane_pippin]

37. Oh dear. Uh, no comment.

Ok, comment:

How did earnest folk music get in there? Wha?

[dolo amber]

47. I know, I don't get it either

Wholly inappropriate for the punk-rawk coffee shop. x(

[eyesroll]

35. Are you a creative or artistic person?

AAAAAGGGHHHH.

[jane_pippin]

38. I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO READ, OK?

That was a fun one to say to them. Not that it stopped them because, let's get real, nothing ever has or will. But it was fun all the same.

[eyesroll]

39. I actually saw a sale once, to a goth chick...

I've been known to cross the street or fake a phone call to avoid talking to him (the first time I ran into him, I made the mistake of being nice and was there for a million years trying not to buy his overpriced lit mag). But once, before he could utter a word at me, a teenage girl in drapey black approached him and said...and I kid you not..."I've been meaning to buy a copy, here's my money, now how can I submit something?"

[jane_pippin]

41. Hahaha! Poor girl. I swear it's a cult. There's no way it isn't.

I've got three half-stories about them:

1. When I was still in middle school my dad came home from work with a copy for me because "you like writing--here's a neat little paper about it. Maybe you could send something in!"

2. When I moved to Madison I was horrified to see them there too. That's not so much a story as a terrible memory.

3. A few years ago a friend of mine dressed up as one of those guys for Halloween and part of his costume was an Expressionist Journal he penned himself. It's still one of my favorite costumes of all time.

[LeftHander]

36. I can't stand selfish music snobs....

Oh listen to that person expressing themselves...yes it is a little personal...it is making me listen and feel an emotion..I don't like that. I want TV..ahhh to stare blankly at a infomercial that is pure bliss.

:sarcasm:


And sitting in a coffee shop listening to chick rock and trying act like you are above the proprietors music selection isn't cliche...


Now that is simply boring.

[Magrittes Pipe]

40. I can't stand selfish post-content snobs.

:eyes:

[LeftHander]

72. I can't stand post

toasties...

Unless it is Tommy Bolin...

[RandomKoolzip]

53. Worst. Post. Ever.

:grr:

I seriously wish some people would get over the mindset that someone who dislikes a certain kind of music thinks of himself/herself as "above" it, (i.e. lazy accusations of snobbery) instead of actually seriously genuinely NOT LIKING it on aesthetic grounds.

And since you obviously don't know dolo amber, your image of her sitting at home watching infomercials is high fucking comedy gold (unintentionally).

[Fenris]

55. "genuinely NOT LIKING it on aesthetic grounds"

You mean like, "I don't like your band because the vocals are shite and the music sounds like something urban middle-managers in their mid-50s who spend their weekends dressed in khaki shorts, topsiders, and short-sleeved button-down shirts (top two buttons open - I like to think I'm relaxed) like to 'chill out' to while they grill steaks because they think it's hip"?

[RandomKoolzip]

56. Close.

I meant more like "I don't like bands who sound like Soul Coughing on 'ludes and record their music on outdated cheap equipment that unintentionally emphasizes the weakness of the vocal melodies, plus my toenail is off."

[Fenris]

57. Ah.

I see.

Lame.

[no name no slogan]

58. Aw yer just jealous

that I can churn out an hours' worth of material using only my Tascam Porta 03, a borrowed Hondo acoustic and a kazoo.

[RandomKoolzip]

59. Ariel Pink, is that you?

:shock:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_Pink

[no name no slogan]

60. buy my CD and then you'll find out

:hi:

[RandomKoolzip]

61. It IS you!

:scared:

How's your tour going?

[LeftHander]

73. Ouch....

thanks for review...

[CanuckAmok]

65. Not nearly as exciting as a tire-iron upside your head.

I'll give you that.

[Beware the Beast Man]

66. Raggafragginshraggamat!!!!!

Kelly Clarkson makes my PP feel funny.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

68. Wow - you went there - to the stupid place.

Have fun there.

[Taverner]

42. Galllllileeeeeeeooooooooo

King of nighttiiiiiiiiime...kind of insiiiiiiiiiiiiiight..

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

52. Don't make fun of my girls.

[CanuckAmok]

44. My eight favourite prophylactics:

[Maddy McCall]

45. At least YOUR dog didn't poop on a sacred Indian mound site...

like mine did this past weekend. With gasping onlookers pointing and scowling.

:D

[no name no slogan]

48. Hey, if you gotta poop, you gotta poop

that's the first law of nature

[dolo amber]

49. True.

Mine only pooped in front of a church. Which was at that moment hosting a huge wedding. Which had just let out. :o

:D

[Magrittes Pipe]

50. The 5-year-old rolled down sacred Indian mounds, though.

It's fun to play on the dead.

[AngryAmish]

51. I used to play on Indian mounds at lake Lawn Lodge

[mvd]

62. Well, there's a good chance I'd like it

I'm really into modern, female singer/songwriter stuff.

[Katherine Brengle]

67. What is wrong with that genre of music?

Or did you mean that the songs they are playing are literally "dreadful" themselves?

[Magrittes Pipe]

69. Are you familiar with the word "cliche?"

Read the OP. The concern was with the cliche of it all. Girly folk music in a coffee shop = cliche.

Oy. :eyes: