it is not fun unless you WORK FOR IT = INDIE

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the pop defn of pop involves a basic passive laziness = it comes to you, you don't have to HUNT for it

drugs, drinking-till-unconscious, all-night-clubbing = THESE ARE ALL PURITAN-ETHIC WORK-for-yr-fun

Comments

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

surely there is an amount of work that goes into organizing the sheer amount of pop-stuff that 'comes to you'?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i am invoking the maxwell's demon defn of work

non-pynchon-reffin answer = if organising = turn on TV and pick channel, then yes; otherwise, no

[cis.livejournal.com]

this is why LJ is more pop than everything else!

lj = log in, click 'friends', job done.
ilx = log in, pick threads, return to threads to see updates, ever and ever armen.
blogs/myspaysis = endless following of link after link after link into eterniteeeeee.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

LJ = totally lazy. Have cookie set to "always logged in", friendslist as browser home page...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

You have to click on comments though :(

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

more to the point you have to search VERY HARD for new comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

However you can ignore them if you're busy :-)

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

What if the drugs are brought to you?

I am v.much wishing I could be in London for poptimism. I am now very curious what you all are like IRL.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

but we're all using our photos as icons, so you'd recognise us at least

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

LOL. I still have some difficulty reconciling the real Kat with the cross between Lily Allen and cartoon Justine that I'd imagined her as.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Hahah this is what I actually look like (http://pics.livejournal.com/katstevens/pic/0000f79s/g3)...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Actually you're better off here (http://community.livejournal.com/omgeleven/profile)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Oh crap, where are they?

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I figured it out on Monday from the Trig Brother photos (http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/209630.html).

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Aw, smashing! Well done stevem!

[cis.livejournal.com]

tbh I get confused by Kat's icons sometimes! Her default and some Maid Marian one she used to have, specifically: they're people's faces, and they're blonde (ish?), and they're not her. I connect icon to lj-user really strongly, it seems.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

clearly then i am the most lovable poptimist! :)

[cis.livejournal.com]

you are the most blue!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

this really is me. i miss that hat

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

oh yes, we only allow flyers to x-link to LJ. fair enough.

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

lol. i think i saw this picture wherever ages ago, but thought this was freakytigger!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

OH NO

Okay...

[jel-bugle.livejournal.com]

Free Metal Hammer mix CD's = the ultimate expression of pop!

Re: Okay...

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

jel it is well recognised you are the MOST POPTIMIST POPTIMIST IN ALL THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF MERRIE POPTIMISM

Dancin' Dave Spart says....

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Pop will not be free until it is set loose from the bourgeois notion of "value for money"!

[mostlyconnect.livejournal.com]

is this not just a recasting of "stuff is pop bcz it's popular"? Old pop = NO LONGER POP/

[koganbot]

Mark, what makes you think that pop dismisses puritanism and work? It does nothing of the sort. Or only sometimes does it.