Comments on: Readers Write: Dickhead From Overrated “Punk” Band Allegedly Likes To Spit On Girls

By: doozer

doozer — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:38:03 +0000

of course i meant to write BUY myself. i probably won’t go alone, but rather with someone whose band was once hipster-blog approved.

By: doozer

doozer — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:28:28 +0000

oh, fuck that. i’m going to wait a little bit longer ’til i have enough to indulge in some “self-centered, vulgar behavior”! whoooohooooo!

By: doozer

doozer — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:26:41 +0000

ohhh emmm geeee. if i had a dollar for every time i heard joey state that this blog is not intended as unbiased journalism, i’d have enough to go by myself a delicious, over-priced cafe mocha. but like, made from certified organic, fair trade beans.

By: fuckermost

fuckermost — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:01:03 +0000

here we go again with the sound of one hand clapping.

question of the day:
in order to acquire your sought after attention, is it more pretentious to spit in a girls face or to pretend that you did?

wellhungike: whatever. did you even read what i wrote? for you i offer up a quote from a classic film:

Bender: Don’t you ever talk about my friends! You don’t know any of my friends. You don’t look at any of my friends. And you certainly wouldn’t condescend to speak to any of my friends. So you just stick to the things you know: shopping, nail polish, your father’s BMW, and your poor, rich drunk mother in the Caribbean.
Claire: Shut up!
Bender: And as far as being concerned about what’s gonna happen when you and I walk down the hallways of school together, you can forget it cuz it’s never gonna happen. Just bury your head in the sand and wait for your fucking prom.

Have a nice day!

By: wellhungIke

wellhungIke — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:33:21 +0000

fuckermost,

Many in the 215 concur with you.

We are waiting breathlessy at the edge our seats for the day that Philebrity will candidly publish the long-standing child abuse history of Fishtown’s patron saint Kurt Heasley. Instead, we get that heavily-sanitized CP article from a few years back:
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2006-02-16/cover.shtml
For as much as Team Philebrity (and other similar blogs) talk shit on the Philly Weekly & City Paper (and in many instances, rightly so), you would think there would have been a counter-story to this.

Likewise, with the self-centered, vulgar behavior of other such “local heroes/hipster blog-approved bands” whose shady behavior is both rewarded and enabled-while-looking the other way, instead of being called on for what it is.

If only the pavement, sidewalks and front stoops of Catherine, Pattison, Montgomery, Bainbridge, Spring Garden, Germantown, Broad & Olney, Chew Avenue, Chelten, Oxford Circle, Frankford and even Rittenhouse Square were as sanitized as that CP article, we wouldn’t have Mayor Nagin of New Orleans informing the world of how we seem to take pride in using our city streets as dumpsters. And it does seem like that’s what we do…doesn’t it?

C’mon Philadelphia…we can do better than this.

By: horseclaw

horseclaw — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:39:27 +0000

There’s a distinction to be drawn between shock and awe and good old-fashioned douchebaggery. While I don’t like seeing him get more attention for it, it has definitely steered me away from going to see them. So it’s kind of good to know.

Classic case of dork that blossomed.

By: fuckermost

fuckermost — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:27:04 +0000

i have nothing to report on clockcleaner and plenty of things to report on a handful of philebrity-approved bands which i will not do because it is childish. to illustrate this point with an aside i can say this much: i know that the von bondies just played the grape street pub and people made fun of them for it. it’s just a place to play and if pearl jam cover bands play there and that makes it a cheesy place, then so what? why does something like this fucking matter? a gig is a fucking gig, regardless of where it is held. (case in point: philly soundclash!) this kind of provincial confusing of opinion and fact is part of larger crab-n-barrel syndrome that holds our city back on a grand scale. ever been to a wilco concert? do you think they give a shit that the largest part of their audience is made up of douchebag frat guys? that’s part of what makes wilco rad – the fact that they don’t care about shit like that.

that said, yeah, the guy is a fucking asshole to spit on someone for giving him a compliment. but he WANTS to be written about for it because that’s a very pretentious thing to do and all pretentious things are done with the anxious ulterior desire for attention of any kind. and in writing about it, you’re giving this douchey what he wants. sayin’.