No, you can still be cool. You can laugh about Rush to your cool friends and call them a "guilty pleasure" and everyone laughs and understands because it is cool to have at least one or two really un-cool likes. Example: Dude #1: Dude, so, you love Iggy Pop, right? Dude #2: Oh, hell yeah. Iggy is da man. Dude #1: Right. So, you're cool, but why did I hear the Go-Go's coming out of your Datsun yesterday? Dude #2: Oh, man, kitch value. They are so bad, they are good. Dude #1: Dude, you're right. But, uh, what about that Barbara Streisand record you've got? Dude #2: Guilty pleasure, man. Dude #1: Cool. I have a Spice Girls CD. Dude #2: Dude, that is un-cool. Dude #1: What? You've got Streisand! Dude #2: Yeah, but at least she's on vinyl! Dude #1: Oh, yeah. Um, nevermind. Dude #2: (shaking head) Dude... See, you can be this cool too!
nice one. probably the most thorough thread in the hangout, imadrummer. i'm guilty. every since coldplay has started being played on the same stations that play pink, ja rule, and ms. "thanks for making me a fighter"... i've started to dislike them. sigh. anyway, i've found a different version of "Don't Panic" by coldplay since i've become a mp3 addict after buying my ipod. instead of the "we live in a beau-ti-ful woooorld"... it goes "we live..... inabeautifulwoooorld" (if you can understand that). maybe this version isn't new, but it's definitely not the version that's on the cd. it's even more depressing, but that's why it's the shiznit. maybe mannyramirez can clarify this since he likes to discount my radiohead theories . i need to stop this "depressing music" stuff even though it's the hip thing to listen to. gets me in the kinda thinking mode... you know... the "how the hell did i f*** up my life" thinking mode .
Do yourself a favor and stay away from Bruce Springsteen's Tunnel of Love. Or any of his depressing stuff. His slow songs can get you in that "thinking mode" like nobodys business.
