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Once cool, now tragic

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21:57 / 21.07.04

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle. I remember when I first saw the comic, I thought it was awesome. Then the cartoon came out, it was all downhill...

Techno. What started as futuristic funk from Detroit became dumb NuNRG for idiotic speed addicts everywhere.

Candy ravers... *pukes*

Less searchable M0rd4nt

22:16 / 21.07.04

My PVC trews.

O PVC trews, once you were sleek and shiny, and thus Cool. Now you are laddered and unwearable. You cling on, begging for a touch of gaffer-tape, a smidge of acrylic, saying "just patch me up! I'll be okay!"

Poor PVC trews. I loved you once, but I am a fickle Mordant. I betray you with less than a moment's thought.

I hate to confess it but I am almost thrilled to cannibalise my former favourites into patches and accessories.

"Noooo! Do not cut me up for patches! Wait! Waiiiiiit!"

In vain they protest. I advance, scissors at the ready.

unheimlich manoeuvre

22:25 / 21.07.04

David Bowie
Byron
Michael Marshall Smith
Rent-a-Ghost

22:28 / 21.07.04

Oh please, I must say...The Matrix indeed springs to mind.

22:31 / 21.07.04

I'm so passé.

22:35 / 21.07.04

Self-referential statements

Less searchable M0rd4nt

22:45 / 21.07.04

inchoate. Dude. Rent-A-Ghost has never, ever, ever been cool. EVER.

Being 5 is no excuse.

unheimlich manoeuvre

22:58 / 21.07.04

*wistful sigh*

The 1993 Oslo Accord

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

23:00 / 21.07.04

Yer mam.

Well, when I was at school, maybe...

23:04 / 21.07.04

The difficulty here is that 'cool' and 'tragic' are multi-layered entities. I, for example, feel that Big Brother was initially cool, was tragic for a looong time, and has recently become cool again. Those who aren't into lengthy overanalysis would likely disagree. I would then piss on their shoes (which are probably suede, and would hence be ruined).

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

23:17 / 21.07.04

Are saying you're going to wee on me?

23:19 / 21.07.04

If it's still cool, yeah.

No star here laces

02:47 / 22.07.04

Curly indie hair.
Cornrows.
Lobe plugs.
Vintage t shirts.
Hi-top Nike reissues.
Jeans tucked into boots.
Big sunglasses.
Trilby hats.
Scarves.
Sexual experimentation.
Messy hair.
Corduroy.
Seven jeans.
Champagne.
Richard X.
Bootlegs.
Vicodin.
Assymetry.
Three quarter length trousers.
Birkenstocks with socks.
Emo glasses.
Pink velour.
Leg warmers.
Sleeveless t shirts.
Pretending to be on smack.
Actually being on smack.
Buffy.
The Simpsons.
Eminem.
Erol Alkan.
2manyDJs.
Ze records.
Todd Solondz.
Absinthe.
Coke spliffs.
Derrida.
Obscure funk records.
Ms Dynamite.
Stussy.
Sweatbands.
Dub.
New York.
White belts.
Studded belts.
Horizontal stripes.
Clumpy boots.
Loft apartments.
Being an artist.
Having a blog.
Talent.
Novelty.
Zest for life.

Now fuck off.

02:58 / 22.07.04

David Bowie was, is and will always be cool.

same as Being an artist.

04:09 / 22.07.04

Deconstructionist literary/film/music/popculture criticism.

04:44 / 22.07.04

ennui.
mirth.
kismet.
beatitude.
abasement.

04:58 / 22.07.04

lava lamps.

wembley can change in 28 days

06:52 / 22.07.04

Wit (in place of learned erudition).

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

07:10 / 22.07.04

'Inventive' names for children, such as India, Moon Unit and Cheggers.

foot long subbacultcha

07:36 / 22.07.04

Birthdays

08:16 / 22.07.04

There are a large number of entires here that were never cool in the first place...

12:33 / 22.07.04

This thread.

13:39 / 22.07.04

And some have never been tragic. Sting? What the hell, man?

I'll tell you the once-coolest-now-tragicest thing in the whole world: Richard Grieco.

Now give me my money.

13:51 / 22.07.04

Sting?

Sting!

Sting.

14:09 / 22.07.04

You people wouldn't know what cool was if it did yoga and wrote beautiful beautiful music about love and family and spirituality.

pointless and uncalled for

14:28 / 22.07.04

Not to mention compositions regarding gardening in barren lands.

14:36 / 22.07.04

Oh? I don't think I know that one, how does it go?

pointless and uncalled for

14:47 / 22.07.04

Desert Rose

I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in pain
I dream of love as time runs through my hand

I dream of fire
Those dreams are tied to a horse that will never tire
And in the flames
Her shadows play in the shape of a man's desire

This desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this

And as she turns
This way she moves in the logic of all my dreams
This fire burns
I realise that nothing's as it seems

I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in pain
I dream of love as time runs through my hand

I dream of rain
I lift my gaze to empty skies above
I close my eyes, this rare perfume
Is the sweet intoxication of her love

I dream of rain
I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in pain
I dream of love as time runs through my hand

Sweet desert rose
Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this

Sweet desert rose
This memory of Eden haunts us all
This desert flower, this rare perfume
Is the sweet intoxication of the fall

I feel like I have taken a big black steaming shit on the doorstep of barbelith.

Clean up in aisle four.

14:56 / 22.07.04

Wait, Sting reads Barbelith!?! And he put it in a song?!?!?!?!?!

But why would he say something like that?

I think you're making this up, Seldom Killer.

pointless and uncalled for

14:58 / 22.07.04

Questioning my integrity = tragic.

15:07 / 22.07.04

Where my money?!?!

pointless and uncalled for

15:25 / 22.07.04

There is a processing fee which has not been paid yet.

16:42 / 22.07.04

Yeah, I just don't get the Sting issues.

And "Desert Rose" isn't about gardening in the desert. It is about mourning the loss of Eden, in the aspect of the goddess.

I think Sting has become so uncool, he is now cool again.

Haus of Mystery

17:12 / 22.07.04

Wrong.

17:47 / 22.07.04

What's wrong, Macgyver? My interpretation, or that Sting is so uncool he is cool now?

Anyway, I am adding being goth to the list.

*Really, I am not a goth, buddy. My hair really is black, I am too busy to tan, and my clothes are just simply dull, Capice?*

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