Happy Birthday To Us

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

1 year
113 members
778 posts
FIFTEEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY FOUR COMMENTS!
Infinite ticky boxys.

Happy birthday Poptimists! Details of celebrations TBA...

Time for a front-page poll. The usual routine: first ten replies go up on the front page, then the poll vanishes.

Poptimism is...A club night on the 29th July in London
Poptimism is...1 year old.
Poptimism is...believing in magic
Poptimism is...never having to say you're Tori
Poptimism is...never having to say your indie
Poptimism is...Toxic beating Milkshake
Poptimism is...Paris Hilton and all she stands for
Poptimism is...a NATIONAL DISGRACE
Poptimism is...indieism about pop ";-)"
Poptimism is...the top down and the system up!

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

v. poor

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Hardwired ideological faultlines tear apart promising internet community!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I think it's called "teething". You have that little 'pleasure' to come, Tom.

[celentari.livejournal.com]

My theory is that ppl, including me, just replied in a frenzy, desperate to be in the first ten, without thinking about their answers.

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

NAME AND SHAME!!! People are hiding behind Anonymity!

[celentari.livejournal.com]

Well, mine was "is one year old" which is boringly true and uncontroversial. Don't know who the nindie and counter nindies were by though.

[http://users.livejournal.com/xyzzzz__/]

Mine ws the 'indieism about pop'

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

Well I was #10, which I stand by!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i was the rly obv one

[cis.livejournal.com]

♥!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

tom can we work out how many of those 15k comments involved either:

a. lex being indie
b. people calling lex on being indie
c. lex denying being indie?

(sorry lex :))

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

what is 90% of 15k?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I have witnessed none of a)!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

it's the joke that keeps on giving ;)

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yes because I am always so un-indie that the very idea of me being indie is automatically hilarious because it's so unlikely!

We all are indie

[koganbot]

Well, we all are indie because we often talk about pop in ways that the mainstream doesn't and because none of the commercial mags will support our conversation - which most of you are fine with, and it gives this a leisure-time flair it wouldn't have if it brought in bucks, but I'm not fine with it, since our not finding a way to finance this gives us an all-purpose excuse for not thinking through our ideas. "Oh, sorry, work intervenes, can't finish this thought."

But then, Sun Records was an indie. So was Chess, once upon a time.

Re: We all are indie

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

in the terminology of the day they were MONGRELS

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

bah i suddenly rememberd my feeble "tori" joke got messed up last time and reposted it this time and gah

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

#5 is clearly Paris herself!

#6 is me, obv.