Most Overrated Composer Ever: Gustav Mahler. There, I said it.

 

Agreed. WGTE and the Toledo Symphony seem enamored with him. I've wondered if the area's large eastern European population is the reason...

^It's hard to pinpoint the source of the fanaticism people have for Mahler. In New York I suppose it's partially attributable to the fact that he was, just before his death, the conductor of the Philharmonic for a brief time, and although that was a hundred years ago, his legacy continues. I just find all of the pathological adulation too much to take. I know someone who obsessively attends practically every performance of Mahler's symphonies each season, whether at Lincoln Center or by a visiting orchestra at Carnegie Hall, and then rhapsodizes how, unlike with any other composer, she was "moved to tears." :cry: :roll: There are limits, however. Over the summer she joined a group called the Gustav Mahler Society and attended their annual Mahler birthday dinner (I wish I was making this up), held July 7th, if I recall correctly (at a mediocre Italian restaurant in midtown Manhattan on the hottest day of the year); but it was heartening to hear that even she found the crowd a little too esoteric. These are people who seem to have devoted their entire lives to the study and pursuit of all things Mahler. As a matter of fact, there's wealthy investor by the name of Gilbert Kaplan who studied symphonic conducting as an avocation and has spent decades performing just the 2nd Symphony (with any orchestra willing to engage his services). Needless to say a lot of professional musicians regard him a dilettante, but all the Mahler cultists eagerly flock to his performances.

I like mixed drinks... but not many and not often.  Nothing bothers me more than being in the same room with a sloppy drunk. Growing up we had spirits and beer at home, but it was a take it or leave it thing.  I saw my parents tipsy only once, and that was when all the relatives came to town to celebrate. They went to Plank's and all got snockered while singing German songs.  Luckily they walked back home, singing and stumbling their way down High St.

 

Some of my Friends drink, and what I've noticed is that people become mean, aggressive and say things they would otherwise never say.  It doesn't seem worth it.

 

Coffee...could not do without it!! I'm an addict through and through.

 

Yeah, I drink but usually to be on the same page as the people I'm around. I feel weird being sober at a social gathering while everyone else is tipsy. I went to Skully's last night b/c we knew one of the bands playing and got to hang out with one of the members--they just released a new cd. This guy came over to our table sloppy @ss drunk (to talk to the girls we were with, of course). He knocked over one of the mixed drinks on our table and it spilled all over my new Perry Ellis Portfolio leather jacket. I wanted to throw him off of the balcony right behind our table but I wasn't going to cause a scene. He ended up falling down the flight of stairs to the main floor anyway. That's what I hate most about people who drink. If you get like that, you have no business drinking.

 

 

You end up at places that are supposed to be somewhat classy, the people are spilling beer mugs left and right like a bunch of toddlers getting accustomed to a real cup. I'm not a bar/club snob but I shouldn't have to go somewhere, pay a cover and pay 6 bucks each for a jack and coke to walk on a dance floor with so much beer on it that I can't even pick up my feet because they're stuck. That was the case at McFaddens (worst bar ever.) Just beer...everywhere, and they were playing YMCA on top of that. They had this cocktail waitress hustling jello shots for 2$ so I bought 3 of them, passed one to my friend and ate the other two. I felt NOTHING. I don't think she even worked there, she just made Jello at home that Bill Cosby would approve of and showed up dressed like a hot, slutty cocktail waitress with a trey full of jello shots, so none of the bartenders questioned anything. My friends and I left there right after that. What a waste of money and time.

 

I'm going to start hanging out at the library.

I don't get Chelsea Handler.

 

I had to google Chelsea Handler.

 

I think she's a hoot! Wrong, but a hoot none the less.

 

I love her! She looks like a druggie and alchy but she has a lot of personality. You don't see funny women like that, often. You'd never be bored being around a woman like that. There's something hot about a chick that isn't afraid to joke about anything when it's light-hearted. Most people think Sarah Silverman is 'meh" but I think she's really attractive; then again I'm one of the few guys out there that think personality can bring you up from a 5 to an 8, or a 7-8 to a 9 or 10, depending. Only female comedian I still think is disgusting is Lisa Lampanelli. She's funny as hell but she's split and she's from Jersey. Enough said.

 

Handler is ALSO from Jersey, ya know...

I'm from Jersey....  :P

Well, grew up, in Jersey.

YOU'RE ALL FROM JERSEY!!!

I don't get Chelsea Handler.

 

I had to google Chelsea Handler.

 

I think she's a hoot!  Wrong, but a hoot none the less.

 

I love her! She looks like a druggie and alchy but she has a lot of personality. You don't see funny women like that, often. You'd never be bored being around a woman like that. There's something hot about a chick that isn't afraid to joke about anything when it's light-hearted. Most people think Sarah Silverman is 'meh" but I think she's really attractive; then again I'm one of the few guys out there that think personality can bring you up from a 5 to an 8, or a 7-8 to a 9 or 10, depending. Only female comedian I still think is disgusting is Lisa Lampanelli. She's funny as hell but she's split and she's from Jersey. Enough said.

 

 

 

Really I LOVE LL!  I want her and Kathy Griffin to go on tour together.  That would be hilarious!

^ I  might go to that show

...and blow it up!

you know you want to be the center of a KG / CDM/ LL sandwich

I would implode.

 

Then die.

I would implode.

 

Then die.

 

WHY??  That show would be right up your alley.  Politically incorrect all the way around!

By two old dingbat white women who remind me of Lucy and Ethel?  I'll pass.

By two old dingbat white women who remind me of Lucy and Ethel?  I'll pass.

 

SCREAMING ROFLMAO!

That could be the tagline when they promote it

I like a lot of the things you folks hate...i used to hate tea...then i got over my ignorance when it became clear i couldn't drink coffee anymore.

 

i have never liked Soundgarden.  Cornell's voice is too pretty.

Dane Cook is an unfunny hack with a lot of enthusiasm for his unfunny jokes (this used to be an unpopular position, not so much now).

I have less respect for men that don't grow beards (or can't).

One of my favorite movies of the last 5 years is "The Invention of Lying" (not really a cultural blasphemy...it was a great movie)

I used to feel superior because i'd never read those stupid kids books "Harry Potter" and then i didn't have anything to read while on vacation and the first book was there...i read it in like a day and a half and then whipped through the series...it taught me a lot about being pretentious and how i was missing out on a lot of stuff.

I like a lot of the things you folks hate...i used to hate tea...then i got over my ignorance when it became clear i couldn't drink coffee anymore.

 

i have never liked Soundgarden.  Cornell's voice is too pretty.

Dane Cook is an unfunny hack with a lot of enthusiasm for his unfunny jokes (this used to be an unpopular position, not so much now).

I have less respect for men that don't grow beards (or can't).

One of my favorite movies of the last 5 years is "The Invention of Lying" (not really a cultural blasphemy...it was a great movie)

I used to feel superior because i'd never read those stupid kids books "Harry Potter" and then i didn't have anything to read while on vacation and the first book was there...i read it in like a day and a half and then whipped through the series...it taught me a lot about being pretentious and how i was missing out on a lot of stuff.

 

Well I'm glad you came to your senses!

My image of you is that you don't have facial hair.  If that's true, i think less of you.

 

Nothing personal.  :-)

My image of you is that you don't have facial hair.  If that's true, i think less of you.

 

Nothing personal.  :)

Please!  I'm very hairy.  I have to shave daily!  I wish I didn't have to shave.

 

I was referring to Harry Potter.

Mmm, daddy bear!

My image of you is that you don't have facial hair.  If that's true, i think less of you.

 

Nothing personal.  :)

Please!  I'm very hairy.  I have to shave daily!  I wish I didn't have to shave.

 

I was referring to Harry Potter.

Oh, i know you were talking about Harry Potter (and i accept my faults and pretentions) and i appreciate you supporting me through it.

 

See, that's even worse, you can grow a beard and choose not to.  just awful.

Mmm, daddy bear!

 

"Daddy" and "Bear" do not belong in the same sentence with me!  You need a good old-fashioned hood ass beaten for that!

 

I am smooth.  I dont like all that damn hair, that's why God invented spa treatments!  :wink2:

 

Now if you're going to categorize me in "bear culture" I would be considered an Otter!  Ya damn hick queen!

Speaking of cultural blasphemies... does anyone else think MTS's new avatar resembles a "tramp stamp"?

Speaking of cultural blasphemies... does anyone else think MTS's new avatar resembles a "tramp stamp"?

 

Hey, he's got to stay hep to the jive for those Gen Y boyfriends of his.

Speaking of cultural blasphemies... does anyone else think MTS's new avatar resembles a "tramp stamp"?

 

 

Speaking of cultural blasphemies... does anyone else think MTS's new avatar resembles a "tramp stamp"?

 

Hey, he's got to stay hep to the jive for those Gen Y boyfriends of his.

 

Don't hate because I'm getting 25 year old A$$!  :P

Speaking of cultural blasphemies... does anyone else think MTS's new avatar resembles a "tramp stamp"?

 

 

Speaking of cultural blasphemies... does anyone else think MTS's new avatar resembles a "tramp stamp"?

 

Hey, he's got to stay hep to the jive for those Gen Y boyfriends of his.

 

 

Don't hate because I'm getting 25 year old A$$!  :P

 

I just read that Scarlett Johansson is back on the market. I'm holding out hope that we can still make it work. With my wife's permission of course.....

 

Speaking of cultural blasphemies... does anyone else think MTS's new avatar resembles a "tramp stamp"?

 

 

Speaking of cultural blasphemies... does anyone else think MTS's new avatar resembles a "tramp stamp"?

 

Hey, he's got to stay hep to the jive for those Gen Y boyfriends of his.

 

 

Don't hate because I'm getting 25 year old A$$!  :P

 

I just read that Scarlett Johansson is back on the market. I'm holding out hope that we can still make it work. With my wife's permission of course.....

 

 

Up next for AJ93s love life

If that doesn't work....then there's always

Scarlett.... yum.  My wife would have to give me "a pass" for her.  Anyone care to make an admission in this thread that you don't think she is (...cultural blasphemy coming...) foxy?

Scarlett.... yum.  My wife would have to give me "a pass" for her.  Anyone care to make an admission in this thread that you don't think she is (...cultural blasphemy coming...) foxy?

 

"Foxy?"  Are you some kind of 70's pimp reflecting on your best days when you chilled at Vel's??

Speaking of cultural blasphemies... does anyone else think MTS's new avatar resembles a "tramp stamp"?

 

:laugh: I didn't even notice that until you said something about it. Yep, that's a tramp stamp alright. Lol

Speaking of cultural blasphemies... does anyone else think MTS's new avatar resembles a "tramp stamp"?

 

:laugh: I didn't even notice that until you said something about it. Yep, that's a tramp stamp alright. Lol

 

Mmm, daddy bear!

 

"Daddy" and "Bear" do not belong in the same sentence with me!

That's right, he's a "Sugar Daddy." ;)

 

Speaking of cultural blasphemies... does anyone else think MTS's new avatar resembles a "tramp stamp"?

Haha, now that you mention it, it sure does.

 

Scarlett.... yum. My wife would have to give me "a pass" for her. Anyone care to make an admission in this thread that you don't think she is (...cultural blasphemy coming...) foxy?

No, I think she is quite attractive.

 

Eww, that skank-hoe!?!  No, she is about as attractive as a dirty dishrag. 

 

...cultural blasphemy #1. 

 

 

Okay, I don't know what took me so long to find this thread, but here's my list.

 

1) I never, ever watch TV.  I did get a convertor box for my antenna but haven't used it in about a year.

2) I hate DVDs, and I'm currently going through the process of updating my DVDs to VHS.  I'd much rather have movie be of slightly worse quality than have it skip all over the place.  F--- that.

3) I have downsized my apartment twice in the past year and it's still to large.  I prefer to live out in the city.  My house is simply for sleeping.

4) I prefer shopping at my corner market than the supermarket despite the higher prices and poor selection.

5) Lunch is the biggest meal of my day.

6) Scarlett Johansson is a nasty MTS avatar wearing wench.

7) I would rather live in Cincinnati than New York, Chicago, Paris, Portland, Seattle, etc.  None of those places come close to having the character and culture that makes life worth living.  (I'd consider ditching Cincy for New Orleans or Montreal though :) )

8 ) I purchase 98% of my clothes from resale shops.  I live in the Midwest...last year's fashion still looks good.  My only new clothes are Cincinnati T-shirts.

9) I love shoveling snow, mowing the lawn, raking leaves, etc.  I find it relaxing.

10) I think dishwashers are idiotic.  I just wash everything as soon as I use it.

11) I pee in the sink.  It's so much easier and wastes less water.

12) I ride my bicycle year-round and follow all traffic laws including stopping at stop signs and lights.

 

That's it for now...

9) I love shoveling snow, mowing the lawn, raking leaves, etc. I find it relaxing.

 

Agreed. 

 

11) I pee in the sink. It's so much easier and wastes less water.

 

 

Easier? Bathroom or kitchen sink? 

 

And have you ever combined numbers 10 and 11? Power pre-rinse?

 

Of course there is this philosophy if you want to save water...

" if it's yellow, let it mellow,  and if it's brown, flush it down..."

 

11) I pee in the sink. It's so much easier and wastes less water.

 

I had to do this for a time while I waited for my land lord to repair my toilet several years ago.  I don't think I saved much of any water and I ended up increasing my mouth wash usage to address the smell.

Mmm, daddy bear!

 

"Daddy" and "Bear" do not belong in the same sentence with me!

That's right, he's a "Sugar Daddy." ;)

 

Speaking of cultural blasphemies... does anyone else think MTS's new avatar resembles a "tramp stamp"?

Haha, now that you mention it, it sure does.

 

Scarlett.... yum.  My wife would have to give me "a pass" for her.  Anyone care to make an admission in this thread that you don't think she is (...cultural blasphemy coming...) foxy?

No, I think she is quite attractive.

 

 

Keep it up and I'll set you up on a date with Columbusite!

I used to have a sink in my bedroom. Yeah, not going to walk any further than necessary in the middle of the night.

 

I'm sure all the women here are thoroughly disgusted. The guys are like, well, okay. (MTS, of course, counts as a woman in this case.)

Okay, I don't know what took me so long to find this thread, but here's my list.

 

1) I never, ever watch TV.  I did get a convertor box for my antenna but haven't used it in about a year.

2) I hate DVDs, and I'm currently going through the process of updating my DVDs to VHS.  I'd much rather have movie be of slightly worse quality than have it skip all over the place.  F--- that.

3) I have downsized my apartment twice in the past year and it's still to large.  I prefer to live out in the city.  My house is simply for sleeping.

4) I prefer shopping at my corner market than the supermarket despite the higher prices and poor selection.

5) Lunch is the biggest meal of my day.

6) Scarlett Johansson is a nasty MTS avatar wearing wench.

7) I would rather live in Cincinnati than New York, Chicago, Paris, Portland, Seattle, etc.  None of those places come close to having the character and culture that makes life worth living.  (I'd consider ditching Cincy for New Orleans or Montreal though :) )

8 ) I purchase 98% of my clothes from resale shops.  I live in the Midwest...last year's fashion still looks good.  My only new clothes are Cincinnati T-shirts.

9) I love shoveling snow, mowing the lawn, raking leaves, etc.  I find it relaxing.

10) I think dishwashers are idiotic.  I just wash everything as soon as I use it.

11) I pee in the sink.  It's so much easier and wastes less water.

12) I ride my bicycle year-round and follow all traffic laws including stopping at stop signs and lights.

 

That's it for now...

 

Man are you some kind of hick lovin' reality tv show twisted psychopath!

 

11) I pee in the sink.  It's so much easier and wastes less water.

 

 

Easier? Bathroom or kitchen sink? 

 

And have you ever combined numbers 10 and 11? Power pre-rinse?

 

Of course there is this philosophy if you want to save water...

" if it's yellow, let it mellow,  and if it's brown, flush it down..."

 

 

 

11) I pee in the sink. It's so much easier and wastes less water.

 

 

Easier? Bathroom or kitchen sink?

 

And have you ever combined numbers 10 and 11? Power pre-rinse?

 

Of course there is this philosophy if you want to save water...

" if it's yellow, let it mellow, and if it's brown, flush it down..."

 

 

NEVER!!!  Those are two VERY different sinks.

Okay, I don't know what took me so long to find this thread, but here's my list.

 

1) I never, ever watch TV. I did get a convertor box for my antenna but haven't used it in about a year.

2) I hate DVDs, and I'm currently going through the process of updating my DVDs to VHS. I'd much rather have movie be of slightly worse quality than have it skip all over the place. F--- that.

3) I have downsized my apartment twice in the past year and it's still to large. I prefer to live out in the city. My house is simply for sleeping.

4) I prefer shopping at my corner market than the supermarket despite the higher prices and poor selection.

5) Lunch is the biggest meal of my day.

6) Scarlett Johansson is a nasty MTS avatar wearing wench.

7) I would rather live in Cincinnati than New York, Chicago, Paris, Portland, Seattle, etc. None of those places come close to having the character and culture that makes life worth living. (I'd consider ditching Cincy for New Orleans or Montreal though :) )

8 ) I purchase 98% of my clothes from resale shops. I live in the Midwest...last year's fashion still looks good. My only new clothes are Cincinnati T-shirts.

9) I love shoveling snow, mowing the lawn, raking leaves, etc. I find it relaxing.

10) I think dishwashers are idiotic. I just wash everything as soon as I use it.

11) I pee in the sink. It's so much easier and wastes less water.

12) I ride my bicycle year-round and follow all traffic laws including stopping at stop signs and lights.

 

That's it for now...

 

Man are you some kind of hick lovin' reality tv show twisted psychopath!

 

;)  Love you too.

hipster blasphemy:

i really like pop culture (although, i get my reality TV from the Soup or Infomania)

I enjoy easy to read crap fiction

I think Stephen King is an amazing author

I like button down shirts

My jeans are always going to be loose fit

My beard is not ironic

I don't have a problem working 9-5

I don't have any tattoos

I don't really have really strong feelings about things that don't matter

I like sports, a lot.

Say what you want about beards, but they keep the wind off the face this time of year.

 

Speaking of cultural blasphemies... does anyone else think MTS's new avatar resembles a "tramp stamp"?

 

:laugh: I didn't even notice that until you said something about it. Yep, that's a tramp stamp alright. Lol

Really? It was my first thought when the last time he changed it.

 

Scarlett.... yum.  My wife would have to give me "a pass" for her.  Anyone care to make an admission in this thread that you don't think she is (...cultural blasphemy coming...) foxy?

Nope, she's hot.

 

 

Hipsters love to follow pop culture. they just do it "ironically". In fact, all the biggest pop culture whores I know are hipsters. The whole hipster mode of being seems to be emulating something you profess to dislike so fully that you come out on the opposite end. To be so fake -- excuse me, "ironic" -- you come out authentic. Hence, for instance, the uber-consumeristic worship of Apple. IMO, things just don't work that way, no matter how much you wish to live in a postmodern fantasyland.

 

I don't really have really strong feelings about things that don't matter

I like sports, a lot.

Is this juxtaposition meant to be ironic?

Hipsters love to follow pop culture. they just do it "ironically". In fact, all the biggest pop culture whores I know are hipsters. The whole hipster mode of being seems to be emulating something you profess to dislike so fully that you come out on the opposite end. To be so fake -- excuse me, "ironic" -- you come out authentic. Hence, for instance, the uber-consumeristic worship of Apple. IMO, things just don't work that way, no matter how much you wish to live in a postmodern fantasyland.

 

I don't really have really strong feelings about things that don't matter

I like sports, a lot.

Is this juxtaposition meant to be ironic?

 

I try not to do anything ironically.  I the New Sincerity philosophy as put forward by The Sound of Young America.  I fail at this a lot...but, it's something that i aspire to.

 

Further, i don't think that it was a juxtaposition.  I do like sports a lot, but there are a lot of things that are more important.  If i'm at home and one of my teams is playing i'll watch it...but, if there's something else going on that i have to attend to...i'll do that.  I don't "love" sports...i find that i don't have hugely strong feelings about anything (with the notable exception being politics).

I don't get Chelsea Handler.

 

I had to google Chelsea Handler.

 

I think she's a hoot!  Wrong, but a hoot none the less.

 

I love her! She looks like a druggie and alchy but she has a lot of personality. You don't see funny women like that, often. You'd never be bored being around a woman like that. There's something hot about a chick that isn't afraid to joke about anything when it's light-hearted. Most people think Sarah Silverman is 'meh" but I think she's really attractive; then again I'm one of the few guys out there that think personality can bring you up from a 5 to an 8, or a 7-8 to a 9 or 10, depending. Only female comedian I still think is disgusting is Lisa Lampanelli. She's funny as hell but she's split and she's from Jersey. Enough said.

 

 

 

Really I LOVE LL!  I want her and Kathy Griffin to go on tour together.  That would be hilarious!

 

I remember browsing this magazine at the library and in it, they were asking celebrities what they hate the most about summer. LL was like, "Crocs! They're loud, ugly and plastic. Like the Real Housewives of New Jersey" LOL!!! One of the best analogies I've ever heard.

I love LL, she is my favorite comedienne. She is just hilarious.