Comments | bashopoem: <br />i used to think there was virtue in being cool.

bashopoem

i used to think there was virtue in being cool.

Mar 03, 2004 04:20

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likeawoman March 2 2004, 20:53:05 UTC

a while back I made a post about the concept of life as a "cool contest" and how stupid the whole thing is... and the person I was referring to in the post made a post to their journal (cause thats how these things seem to work), with a picture of the record player I was going to buy from her (she already had one) with a red vinyl White Stripes album on it, and the phrase "Fuck living for yourself. Life is a cool contest, and I win"... and honestly, looking at that, I didnt know whether to laugh or cry... being cool is a fairly simple formula if all you care about is being cool... youre cool... but youre also better than that

bashopoem March 3 2004, 06:43:41 UTC

i think anyone who uses a formula to get to cool is miles and lifetimes away from it. like taking a picture of a record player with a lame ass piece of vinyl on top and saying "i win". haha. so far off. the only person in the history of the world who could claim cool and get away with it was miles davis (hence his album, birth of the cool). but thats because he was the king of bop and could say those sorts of things.

ah...yungins these days...so clueless.

did you buy the record player off her? if you did, you should have told her you were only getting it so you could spin all your old tesla and white snake vinyls in proper fashion.

wanna hear something funny? i dont even own a record player. how cool is that? heh.

writerboz March 3 2004, 07:23:15 UTC

yeah i agree as long as you don't mean miles in the 80s. he got way too wacked out.

bashopoem March 3 2004, 07:24:35 UTC

yea. heroin and those giant sunglasses really started to take their tolls on the poor guy. but he was still the king in his former days.

writerboz March 3 2004, 07:33:37 UTC

have you read his autobiography? i got it for xmas and it's the shit!

bashopoem March 3 2004, 07:39:47 UTC

no. i need to get that.

writerboz March 3 2004, 08:41:41 UTC

yeah you should. he calls everyone "motherfucker", which i think is hilarious cuz my mom gave me the book and she hates it when i curse.

fonem March 3 2004, 15:57:40 UTC

it's all about 'sketches of spain'.

okay maybe 'kind of blue' too.

bashopoem March 3 2004, 17:45:31 UTC

im all about kind of blue and birth of the cool. but kind of blue will always be number one. there is just such a cool purity to it. the session had its an energy unlike anything ive ever heard. well, that and itll get ya laid every time. haha. its like panty kryptonite.

likeawoman March 3 2004, 09:05:03 UTC

hehe... nope I never did buy it... she turned into a raving psycho before I had the chance... Im sure Ill get on eventually but its hardly pressing... and frankly Im glad I didnt buy it, because if I had to hear her speech about how "Fell in Love With a Girl" is only good on vinyl one more time I was going to vomit up an essential organ or two... not owning a record player is pretty hip indeed, although you are missing out on the greatness of Quiet Riot in their original medium... bahaha... I dont own a mp3 player, though that ma have more to do with poverty than coolness

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