A lot of people ask me ‘Carles, is ur blog relevant?’ I thought I’d ask the ppl who know best–yall! It’s kinda hard to understand ‘how important’ ur blog is after you’ve ‘come so far’ and become ‘a blog worth blogging about’ or maybe ‘a blog that is a bloggable meme. Sometimes I just need 2 ask my readers if I am meeting their expectations.
I know we are recovering from HACKGATE 2k9. So I’m just wondering what yall want me 2 do? Do u want more podcasts? More mp3s? More tweens? More mainstream coverage? More conceptual blogging?
Help me Help yall.
///What did yall vote? Might turn the results into ‘a graph’ or something like that. Do yall like pie charts or bar graphs or line graphs?
This is a post about reader appreciation.
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You better publish these results.
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i think that u should publish a HipsterRunoff 4 Tweens!!
that way all the lil alts will have some1 to speak to their unique experience and stuff
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THIRD!
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moar mp3s
and moar alt titties, still haven’t found the perfect alt breast yall
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//////////Reply by yeyep
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
@yooooooooo,
Srsly tho.
Things of importance/value/authenticity:
1. ( . )( . )
2. mp3’s
3. ( . )( . ) that make me 8===>~~~~~
I want 2tug :*(
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//////////Reply by Gurkman
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
@yooooooooo, plz moar lesbialt tittehs!
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//////////Reply by MrsOfficer
//////////Posted February 25th, 2009 at 1:02 am
@Gurkman, lol @ tittehs!
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//////////Reply by doofmoves
//////////Posted February 25th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
@yooooooooo,
near perfect alt breasts?
http://www.pedestrian.tv/uploads/images/blogs/475e06b46153b/white-stripes.jpg
is Meg stil ‘alt’?
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//////////Reply by ..........
//////////Posted February 25th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
@doofmoves, eww where have u been the last 4 years
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1.) More mp3s/Music reviews that let me know why a band is relevant
2.) More ‘Let’s Get Vulnerable’
3.) New/emerging trends….maybe artist/musicians/’partee ppl’ spotlights.
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yahh keep ‘tup
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I have said so many times already: post more alt butts
example: http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/01/i-think-im-growing-out-of-partying.html
And post more music reviews
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Get hack’d moar!
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you are too inconsistent to be relevant or authentic. but you still making your .0000001 advertising cents from me.
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kinda wish/like when HRO gets deep and intellectual :: like HRO vulnerable and talks about art and sex and economy. Sexuality and the Hype Economy
Who we are :: the rhetoric of who we are aligned more so with excavating what our purpose is, what are gift(s) to contribute are. Getting HRO active :: getting HRO is a movement :: getting HRO to PARTY THEIR FUCKING BALLZZZZ OFF AND CELEBRATE WHO WE ARE AND HOW WE <3/H8 THE WORLD.
CAN WE THROW A HRO PARTY KINDA LIKE THE MYSPACE PARTY IN LOS ANGELEEEZ.
I WANT A MEANINGFUL HRO PARTY WHERE EVEN CARLES CAN STILL BE ANONYMOUS BUT PROMISES THAT HE’LL BE THERE. I WANT TO GET DRUNK WITH YALL AND HUG YOU FUCKERS WHILE DAFT PUNK RAPPELS DOWN FROM A HELICOPTER LIKE @ BURNINGMAN TO PLAY A MEANINGFUL SET.
I <3 U / WANT TO PARTY WITH YALL
I WANT TO MAKE OUT WITH A HRO GIRL BECAUSE I’M A HRO DUDE :: DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? I WANT TO LOVE HRO BROS BECAUSE I’M A HRO BRO. JUST WANT US ALL ON THE SAME PARTY BUS PARTYING OUR BALLZ OFF FOR ONE NIGHT WHILE CARLES (WHO WE DON’T KNOW IS CARLES) “POURS VODKA INTO MY MOUF IN FRONT OF A MEANINGFUL DJ SET”
::WTF
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
@WTF,
Should it be a monthly, quarterly, or annual?
Should it be only once?
Should tix cost more then AnCo tix?
Which meaningful metropolitan area will it be?
Maybe we could just have it in NY since CRLS is in New York///maybe every1 from the midwest should get to vote where they want to have it.
Where should we have it?
How about the top of Hotel on Rivington?
How about my parents’ basement?
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//////////Reply by DancerRobot
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
@SilverTell, annual festival.. carles can be a masked DJ..
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//////////Reply by WTF
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
@SilverTell,
i like that everyone in the midwest votes to where it is. that was pretty smooth and considerate.
I think Carles should create a series of poll datacons to vote on certain HRO party preferences….and create the party that way, but with his vote to count as xtimes xamount for vector control.
I <3 U :: I WANT TO PARTY WITH YALL
THE HRO ANNUAL PARTY
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//////////Reply by bbbbb
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
@WTF, i haven’t read any of these comments b/c they are 2 long. who do u commentrs think u r, to write so much?
//////////Reply by love yall
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
@WTF, I am starting to wonder who these people are as well…they sound very edumacated, starting to worry yall…
//////////Reply by Hipster doofus
//////////Posted February 25th, 2009 at 12:22 am
@WTF, Carles should TOTES throw a meaningful party, preferably in MPLS bc “Minnesota is the new Brooklyn.”
//////////Reply by thetruthyall
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
@SilverTell, bi-annual. once when spring starts, once when summer is ending
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//////////Reply by urm0m
//////////Posted February 25th, 2009 at 5:15 am
@thetruthyall, everyones a little bit bi. HRO party plz
//////////Reply by MrsOfficer
//////////Posted February 25th, 2009 at 1:05 am
@WTF, TOTALLY DOWN FOR THE ANNUAL MEET AND GREET PARTY, CRLS COMES AS THE MASKED DJ! EVERYONE COMES AS THEY REALLY ARE, THATS THE BEST PART.
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tits and mp3s
/comments
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Fake Blood Sued For Copyright Infrindgement By Mars Candy
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//////////Reply by pete
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
@Jason,
ahhahahahahah i didn’t believe u, but did a little googling and found this
‘Fake Blood, is currently being sued by MARS Candy for their hit song MARS, which is currently being remixed by the thousanth time by another Abelton musician as you read this. Since Mars has been accused of grinding up cute animals for their candy products, they don’t want to be associated with the producer duo Fake Blood. When asked for comment, Fake Blood had this to say: “We believe that MARS candy’s bloody history can speak for itself”. Sike.
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looks like ure kindda afraid of losing part of the readers from the blog.
well, im not leaving hro!!!
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more podcasts carles!!!
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more azn tweens? miss u, yall
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Moar altbros
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Sooo should I vote old skool ironic or post-ironic?
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this is not a yes or no question
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Mooorre podcasts plz
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i think its time we had a new type of alt to collect. AZNs and lils are boring.
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//////////Reply by bbbbb
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
@bbbbb, i vote mainstream tween grls who post vids on youtube, they seem very collectable
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more noodz plz!
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
@Boner, 2nd dat
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More open polls and graphs
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maybe
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If I knew exactly what you should be blogging about, I wouldn’t be reading your blog but thinking those things and blogging about them myself. You have some interesting concepts I haven’t read about elsewhere, for instance the electro wars and the full-scale understanding of the meaning of Sparks. You excel at finding meanings and hidden meanings [via thinking and asking questions] of many pieces of popular culture, such as the ‘message’ in electro dance house songs. I think you should continue analyzing songs and other pieces of art / memes even the alts don’t find meaningful but think of them only as ’something cool’. You are the one to tell us things beyond why they are cool like why they are meaningful and how is meaningfulness constructed in our post-most everything culture.
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sad u jumped the shark :(
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Carles I am thinking that you should blog more about alt couples/love/dating…have not seen enough of this. I need help finding the Kevin Drew to my Feist, the Blaaaake to my Amy Winehouse, the DEVENDRA BANHARTto my Natalie Portman, the Ryan Adams to my Mandy Moore…the Drew Barrys to every alt. guy out there. C’mon Carles where is the alt love?
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//////////Reply by Gurkman
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 6:04 pm
@yallowpages, yah, every alt grl i like is a lesbian.
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//////////Reply by Lilliputian
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
@yallowpages, maybe C should set up an alt dating service
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//////////Reply by Gurkman
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
@Lilliputian, yah! lots of blogs/newspapers have them. Just like libruls gettin married @NYT, but with alts and carles!
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crls crls crls…would If I am not smart/educated/wealthy/culturally aware/authentic or meaningful?!?
Does that mean I can’t do your poll thing?
I think there’s going to be a discrepancy in your polling data, since it leaves out the other half.
I hope HRO doesn’t get all political, can’t read too good or fast.
<3 think of the undereducated
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still need more answers about the hack crls.
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more comments crls
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i wish there was a “who cares” choice to vote from, cuz i’m really apathetic in 2k9
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doesn matter what u vote
if you vote it means u vote yes
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i do think maybe u have crossed a threshold. i don;t know when. maybe it was hackster. i kno i’ve lost my hipsty runny innocence, don’t know bout yall.
but that doesn’t mean u’ve already passed and reached ur potential. this could be that phase when a bro is growing out his hair, and it looks awesome, then it looks kinda weird, but then after a few weeks it looks real awesome again.
u may look weird right now, but that doesn’t mean u should cut ur hair, know what I mean? it’s a pretty nice haircut.–the pavements
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asking if something is relevant is relevant to my interests.
<3 u carles.
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oh, but if ur asking WHAT u should be blogging about, maybe u could be more vulnerable. sometimes it seems like ur authenticity has too many rules, which is not authentic (altho it is relevant)
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MOAR ALTFGGTS. We need the covrge yall.
Also, this party bus/festival shit needs 2happen in Torontah. Errbody knows it’s only the single most authentic place on errth.
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i think there should be an HRO party tour… like lollapalooza, but cooler.
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//////////Reply by Gurkman
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
@Gurkman, you should stop in every city in USA and Canada over the summer.
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moa conceptual blogging
too many mp3 blogs already, dont need that here
tweens are nice, but maybs a bit of space from them is bestest??…just maybs
alsoo more stoof liiike…your oscars post. ace.
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i voted both yes and no
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//////////Reply by daffy
//////////Posted February 25th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
@mark hunter, hey pinky
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i voted for bjork. what was the question?
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I want more vulnerability bundle packs
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This place jumped the shark with that hackster B$
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bar charts r by far the best, tho a bit mainstrm
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more vulnerability bundles
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azns, celeb dating, tits n’ mp3s
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“Your response will now appear in my spreadsheet.”
Epiiiic!
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Unless you’re posting relevant reviews or content no. Most of your posts are annoying to read y’all. Maybe you’re just too zany for a mainstreamer like me, but you seem like you’re just an alt-douche who jerks off on your blog. Now you might be thinking “Why is this h8r reading my blog if he h8s it so much?” Well, some of the stuff you post is funny. Most of it is just shit though.
Pieace
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I just found this blog.
It gave me an erection.
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//////////Reply by WTF
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
@Bobo,
get ready
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//////////Reply by Marsha
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 9:03 pm
@Bobo, by next post, ‘you’ll b rite back up like viagra’
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simple – more tug material
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i think the consensus is that u post more altPorn. there’s no porn online crls, change that
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No. HRO is an amusing sideshow. A biting wit, a sense of humor I can appreciate, and a total dearth of meaningful content. I want to unsubscribe but I haven’t been able to do it yet… ’cause HRO is fucking funny.
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-Too many graphs make me think I’m at work.
-No more myspace profiles.
-Luv when you post abt current events or comment on articles from your fav music blog pitchfork.
-Sick of party pics
-Want to read more of Crls’ opinion on things, not the readers’
-Luv lists
-Less tweens
-More vulnerability
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I THINK HIPSTER RUNOFF IS ONE REALLY RELEVANT BLOG TO SOCIETY TODAY BECAUSE IT USES CONSTRUCTS THAT ARE CLOSER TO US. IT MAKES US THINK, IT IS CULTURALLY AWARE AND SPEAKS OUR LANGUAGE. THIS IS A PLACE WHERE EVEN TRAPPEDINSUBURBIA BROS AND BROADS FIND MEANINGFUL WAY TO COMMUNICATE AND LIVE AUTHENTIC LIVES!
THE TIME OF LIVING IN A PARTICULAR CITY AND IDENTIFYING WITH IT IS GONE, YALL. TODAY WE LIVE EVERYWHERE. WE LIVE ON HRO.
“WE
ARE
YOUR
FRIEND
YOU’LL
NEVER
BE
ALONE
AGAIN”
~ THE JUSTICEBRO, POPULAR ANCIENT THINKER
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//////////Reply by aggggggggggGGG44$
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 10:48 pm
@altCreep, YEHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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i voted no but i still like reading because i think you’re funny… in a nice way.
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finished reading 33% of the comments and realized that I’m way to apathetic to participate in something like this. still unsure, still “torn” [via natalie imbruglia] post-hackgate 2K9.
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//////////Reply by White Blipster
//////////Posted February 24th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
@son of steinem, A+++
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More opinions like when you spoke against the all powerful pitchfork about Steve Aoki
Less tweens, myspace profiles,
And more posts orientated around music
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So carles whines about his blarg, then he gets “hacked’, then he polls us to find out if we like him or not. Really? Really?
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post more mp3’s. i wanna listen to some bloghause while i read. also the hypemachine might lay you off.
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post more tweens and altbag/altbro comparisons because i love people watching
yes hro is relevant
i like pie
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Hellz to the nah nigga
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is the hackster era reminiscent of an altbro “doing mush’ and becoming frozen in its orig state after, is it or not
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less gta VIII ads?
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pagan alts; i hang out with a group of them regularly. so textbook hipster, the whole lot.
also would love for you to do something on the “manix pixie dream girls” who do blogs about what they wear and their international parties and their fanbase and how they’re all apparently friends/married to each other. gala darling, nubby twiglet, this is star, agent lover, etc.
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some .ppt’s that we can “download” might be kinda c00l, the artsy kind (clip art)
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your writing is genius man… i wasn’t sure what the hell to make of it till i ‘got it’… its not that your sarcastic or insincere, you’re just as much caught up in all the simulation of this world man… its all jean baudrillard and ray kurzweil man… game over the bugs got us, computers are gonna take us over, but to hell with it, we’re young and still alive… even if the worlds just a bunch of empty marketing, that marketing still has beauty… glad your blog is back up.
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Don’t know if I am <3′ing or H8′ing the sudden influx of ntrylvlrs post 2 / 19 [Via Hackgate]
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//////////Reply by Hipster doofus
//////////Posted February 25th, 2009 at 12:34 am
@White Blipster, agreed.
H8ting is s0 2k7.9-2k8.11
All about <3 in post-Hackgate 2k9
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Blog about what will be hip in 2k10
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More podcasts. More tweens. And pie charts.
<3 u.
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i just wanted to get a few things off my chest. fuck all of the readers of this stupid site. do you realize that this site is complete garbage? what do you people even value? why do you support this site? Don’t you realize he is just making advertising money off you?
you stupid fuck faces are just looking for the next big thing. but your lazy. get up off your a$$es and actually DO something. you probably come to this site because you think you’re a creative type. but your lazy and stupid and only care about how things LOOK-not what you actually are inside. most of you people are just a bunch of misfits looking for validation for your lazy ways. the truth is that you are just like every one else. just like Joe the Plummer or any other stupid secretary working a temp job and wasting time on the internet all day
at the end of the day, there’s more to life than trying to make your personal brand into a commodity. stop standing on the sidelines of life and actually LIVE. get off the internet. stop reading dumb blogs that write stupid mumbo jumbo about music and use quotations and the word “meme” too much. you are all afraid to live your life. you want it to mean something, but at the same time, you want every one else to feel more trivial than your life. i’ve got news for all of you–you’re as meaningless as i am. but this retarded blog is the most meaningless thing I have ever read.
every one who has a blog is stupid. just a bunch of failed journalists trying to let their opinion be known. but charles is a psychopath. he doesn’t care about the goodness in anything. he is just tearing down everything and making excuses for everyone, developing a terrible, terrible world view for people to think is ‘cool.’ i don’t give a shit if you call it ART or if you call it social terrorism. it has to be stopped.
you fuckfaces will just keep reading this shit, and spreading these ideas. but the truth of the matter is that your all lemmings. i know this site isnt different from pitchfork or vice or any other bullshit glorified web magazine, but still, they arent as terrible as this blog.
fuck any one who reads this blog. you should be ashamed of yourselves and your parents should take away your internet for a year and make you live on the streets, just like me. you fuckers don’t even know that there’s REAL PEOPLE out there who are LIVING LIFE and MAKING A LIVING. you just want to sit there and gawkerfy everything. like i said, i am deeply disturbed by today’s internet culture and the trends amongst the latest generation. every thing is like a mirror and every one just wants to reflect. they waste time on their bullshit myspaces posting photos and creating themselves. it’s just fucking bullshit. waste of time. you spend so much time thinking about who you are that you don’t even become someone. needless to say, with sites like this promoting that, this world is headed down the shitter. of course kids are gonna makes mistakes, but not if they are told that it is okay to make mistakes and that it is cool to act like a dumbfuck all the time.
all of the peopel who read this blog think they are smarter then every one. they think that Carles is some sort of genius who sees what is real and makes estute observations. the truth is that he is just a bullshit armchair fluff philosopher. u wanna read some real shit? actually pick up a book. Read some Salinger, or Kant, or Ayn Rand, or Richard Wright. even maybe Mitch Albom. you fuckers probably can’t even read. you probably can’t even read this post because you just come here to look at cool pictures and listen to shitty electronic music.
fuck all of you. you are all shitheads and one day this blog will be dead. the world will probably still be shittier, but i wont have to be reminded by inttellectual fucktards of this allegdly brilliant website thats so true and funny. if only you people could realize where you stand in the big picture. you are just lemmings who buy things and go to concerts and then learn to hate
there is just so much hate in the scene that we are tearing apart. i am deeply disgusted with whats going on in the world right now and because of sites like these, we are losing our culture because we are afraid to be ourselves. ive got news for all of you–our world is not going to get any better any time soon, and this website is not helping it. fuck music blogs, culture blogs, and blogs that post cool looking pictures. if you really want to save the economy, how about keeping ass hole millenials from wasting time at work all day looking at cool shit that makes them feel connected. that would save us like millions of hours worth of work if we just made you fuckheads work in the fields like the slaves that you should be.
but i cant fix this society, and i can fix years of parenting mistakes by your aloof parents. i’d just like you all to know that i am right, and i have a reason to believe these things and what I am doing has a cause. i have done more with my life than all of you and when i die, i will be happier than all of you because i won’t have led a cowardly life.
fuck all of you. fuck charles, fuck this blog. im out of here.
you may think that this is just a charles joke gimmick, and he might even pretend that it is one after he contacts hsi blogger host. but i jsut want you all to know from the bottom of my heart that i fucking hate everything to do with this website and you fuckers are going down. trust me.
you are all fucking lemmings, and lemmings get led off cliffs because you don’t have fucking brains.
fuck you.
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//////////Reply by altCreep
//////////Posted February 25th, 2009 at 9:52 am
@Carles,
TooMuchFreeTimeBro?
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//////////Reply by cor
//////////Posted February 25th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
@Carles,
NOO! flashbacks of hackgate 2/19,
make it stop
make it stop
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//////////Reply by stef
//////////Posted February 25th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
@Carles, tl;dr
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mor blips.
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I changed my mind! YES I vote yes!, not no.
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less podcasts
less mnstrm coverage
more ‘reminding of y we <3 hro’
more of ‘what makes us different’
your blog is getting less alt :(
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more ‘oops I shit my pants’ pants.
uncovering future ttrends.
shoulderpads?
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More cyberbullying please
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i like this. blogging is the future. keep up the good work charles :)
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I want more music commentary, more titty commentary, and less of a meta-blog that just blogs about being a blog .
still <3 you though.
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<3 you.
Seriously.
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which ones the black guy
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more social analysis that may or may not help ‘us’ be a ‘better’ ‘us’
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I love this blog!!!
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don’t rly like the podcasts. hire new marrator.
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HRO: the ‘most’ ‘culturally relevant’ meme.
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carlo if yo u can define the term ‘relevant’ in your own words and in this context then yes its ‘relevant’
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