Pre-Internet, anyway. The Internet was a magnet for people who felt betrayed by the Clash. Then porn and Star Trek discussion filled in the rest.Silent Majority wrote:Nor this happy since... the late nineteen seventies?Chuck Mangione wrote:The Last Gang forum hasn't been this active since EET Week V.
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Walking to school today, I passed by Inder's doppelganger, save for this guy wasn't vertically freakish.
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Just noticed this. That last sentence is basically just describing Flex, right?Dr. Medulla wrote:Pre-Internet, anyway. The Internet was a magnet for people who felt betrayed by the Clash. Then porn and Star Trek discussion filled in the rest.Silent Majority wrote:Nor this happy since... the late nineteen seventies?Chuck Mangione wrote:The Last Gang forum hasn't been this active since EET Week V.
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Pretty much. But why don't I despise the Internet as I do that demi-man Flex?Wolter wrote:Just noticed this. That last sentence is basically just describing Flex, right?Dr. Medulla wrote:Pre-Internet, anyway. The Internet was a magnet for people who felt betrayed by the Clash. Then porn and Star Trek discussion filled in the rest.Silent Majority wrote:Nor this happy since... the late nineteen seventies?Chuck Mangione wrote:The Last Gang forum hasn't been this active since EET Week V.
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Because the Internet gives you Wire bootlegs occasionally?Dr. Medulla wrote:Pretty much. But why don't I despise the Internet as I do that demi-man Flex?Wolter wrote:Just noticed this. That last sentence is basically just describing Flex, right?Dr. Medulla wrote:Pre-Internet, anyway. The Internet was a magnet for people who felt betrayed by the Clash. Then porn and Star Trek discussion filled in the rest.Silent Majority wrote:Nor this happy since... the late nineteen seventies?Chuck Mangione wrote:The Last Gang forum hasn't been this active since EET Week V.
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Wolter wrote:Because the Internet gives you Wire bootlegs occasionally?Dr. Medulla wrote:Pretty much. But why don't I despise the Internet as I do that demi-man Flex?Wolter wrote:Just noticed this. That last sentence is basically just describing Flex, right?Dr. Medulla wrote:Pre-Internet, anyway. The Internet was a magnet for people who felt betrayed by the Clash. Then porn and Star Trek discussion filled in the rest.Silent Majority wrote: Nor this happy since... the late nineteen seventies?
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Yeah but Wire are rubbish they couldn't even play punk properly.Dr. Medulla wrote:Wolter wrote:Because the Internet gives you Wire bootlegs occasionally?Dr. Medulla wrote:Pretty much. But why don't I despise the Internet as I do that demi-man Flex?Wolter wrote:Just noticed this. That last sentence is basically just describing Flex, right?Dr. Medulla wrote: Pre-Internet, anyway. The Internet was a magnet for people who felt betrayed by the Clash. Then porn and Star Trek discussion filled in the rest.
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I played Pink Flag yesterday and listening to "Reuters" I thought of Wilson Neate's observation that it's a rather striking first track for the first album in terms of setting the tone. Does it sound even vaguely punk? Slow, menacing, deliberate. It's a clue that Wire are not part of the punk scene. Even granting the punk-ish sound of "12XU" or "106 Beats That," taken as a whole, Pink Flag just doesn't sound like it belongs with the rest of that initial wave of English punk.Marky Dread wrote:Yeah but Wire are rubbish they couldn't even play punk properly.
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"Sure, sure..."Dr. Medulla wrote:I played Pink Flag yesterday and listening to "Reuters" I thought of Wilson Neate's observation that it's a rather striking first track for the first album in terms of setting the tone. Does it sound even vaguely punk? Slow, menacing, deliberate. It's a clue that Wire are not part of the punk scene. Even granting the punk-ish sound of "12XU" or "106 Beats That," taken as a whole, Pink Flag just doesn't sound like it belongs with the rest of that initial wave of English punk.Marky Dread wrote:Yeah but Wire are rubbish they couldn't even play punk properly.
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On his 100th birthday, long past paying attention to the world around him, or engaging with a family which can no longer care about him, Medulla manages, with three-quarter deaf ears, to hear a well meaning nurse read to him a claim from a dusty antique book that Wire may have been a punk band. He gathers his strength together, waning these past four decades, pulls himself out of his chair and wheezes out a firm rebuttal.
Marky, in the next chair over, stirs...
Marky, in the next chair over, stirs...
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I am a Thoreau-ian majority of one, assholes.Silent Majority wrote:On his 100th birthday, long past paying attention to the world around him, or engaging with a family which can no longer care about him, Medulla manages, with three-quarter deaf ears, to hear a well meaning nurse read to him a claim from a dusty antique book that Wire may have been a punk band. He gathers his strength together, waning these past four decades, pulls himself out of his chair and wheezes out a firm rebuttal.
Marky, in the next chair over, stirs...
edit: Re-reading this, it really must be stated outright that this is a fine bit of prose. You really can do better than Flex.
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Silent Majority wrote:On his 100th birthday, long past paying attention to the world around him, or engaging with a family which can no longer care about him, Medulla manages, with three-quarter deaf ears, to hear a well meaning nurse read to him a claim from a dusty antique book that Wire may have been a punk band. He gathers his strength together, waning these past four decades, pulls himself out of his chair and wheezes out a firm rebuttal.
Marky, in the next chair over, stirs...
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Everybody does everything better than Flex all the time. I hate that cancorous collection of cogs and bolts.Dr. Medulla wrote:
edit: Re-reading this, it really must be stated outright that this is a fine bit of prose. You really can do better than Flex.
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I was wrong to lock you up on that reservation.Bankrobber wrote:Everybody does everything better than Flex all the time. I hate that cancorous collection of cogs and bolts.Dr. Medulla wrote:
edit: Re-reading this, it really must be stated outright that this is a fine bit of prose. You really can do better than Flex.
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Detente.Wolter wrote:
I was wrong to lock you up on that reservation.
I'm so punk, I don't even take my leather jacket off when it catches fire. Which it does frequently, because of how fucking punk I am.