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Friday
07.20.07
Bad Ideas!







Indie Rock Mystery #685.

So. I'll get to the cartoon in a minute. Anyways.

One way that I can pretty much instantaneously judge how good the music on a cd will be, is I check the track list and I look for digits and single letters in the place of real words. If I see any use of 4, U, or 2 in the place of for, you, and to (or too), for example, I will quickly replace the offending cd on the rack, and put on my best hipster i-only-picked-that-cd-up-for 
-the-sense-of-irony face, sneer, chuckle, and move on; hoping that no one noticed my actions. On an aside, holy BALLS that punctuation is CRAZY. Would you look at that crap in the last two sentences (before the aside).

Yeah so, those "abbreviations" as it were, usually tell me all I need to know. What I AM curious about however, is why indie rockers fell that it's ok to use "yr" instead of "your". I think the first time I came across it was Godspeed You! Black Emperor's cd called "Lift Yr Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven" (that's a whole bunch of words that look ridiculous put together), but since then, I know I've seen it in quite a few other places.

Ok, well I just glanced through my iTunes, and maybe we have Sonic Youth to blame for it actually, but I also saw a LeTigre song called "Gone B4 Yr Home", so I really don't know what to think.

At any rate.... what the hell indie rock? What's going on.

The comic: I think swarmee might have come up with the seed for this idea? I know someone else mentioned it to me. If it wasn't swarmee, sorry whoever it was and I forgot. Yeah. I don't think it needs a ton of explanation, but it's a pretty darkly funny image. And if you don't think it's darkly funny, then you're dumb. THANKS FOR READING.

My best 2 U & yrs 4-EVAH

that zac!