Class War Revisited!*

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

*no not that one.

http://www.slate.com/id/2176187/pagenum/all/#page_start - Carl Wilson's "The Trouble With Indie Rock", where he argues that "it's class, not race" (in response to that SFJ essay we talked about)

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Though I bet they still go out dancing every weekend, albeit to indie discos. (I totally understand people not liking dance music if they don't like dancing though.)

[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

I'm still not sure this debate adquately translates to the UK.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

A lot of the big buzz issues in the States don't really translate to the UK - even MP3 blogs, I can't think of any really big UK-based ones (and had NO IDEA OiNK was a British site come to think of it).

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

clue: IT'S CALLED OINK

Vital Question For Carsmilesteve

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Did OiNK have the Uncle Pigg flexi?

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[awesomewells.livejournal.com]

Do American pigs not go 'oink' then?

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[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

as regards variant animal linguistics -- paging dr vick!

(what i guess i meant: OINK is a word that brits are more likely to find amusing and viable as the name of a greed-driven service?)

Re: Vital Question For Carsmilesteve

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

In Finnish pigs go "nöff nöff"!

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[koganbot]

Pigs go "Meow" in America and like to play with yarn.

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

arf, i've never been on oink.

i can't remember where i found the Uncle Pigg song, i honestly thought it was off of trawl...

i go poop poop jiggle jiggle parp parp oink and then i don't feel bad etc.

[koganbot]

It isn't so much that they don't like dancing, but the reasons that they don't like it (or don't like official dance-club dancing or hip-hop dancing or college mixers or the prom as opposed to, say, slam dancing), which would be a feeling of alienation from the conditions of dating and dancing and standard public display and peer pressure and parties that you're not invited to and even if you were you wouldn't know what to do at them.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Yes - to clarify, in the comment above I was specifically referring to the physical action of dancing. Of course the social awkwardness/associations can detract from one's enjoyment of the physical motion.