I spent 4th of July ‘getting fucking hammered’–drinking beer, chilling by a man made lake in my ‘rich friend’s’ lake house, and looking at girls’ ’sweet racks’ in bikinis. We rode jetskis, and other ‘mad absurd shit’ like that. Eventually I put on the album Strawberry Jam by ANCO just so that we could hear the song ‘Fireworks.’
I stared into the bonfire that we started, and thought about life. Not just in the way that I start to think about life when I listen to conceptualcore music, but more about just all of the opportunities I have. Not just because my parents are wealthy, but just the opportunity to have this lifestyle. I’m really grateful 4 being an American. I feel different from ‘my generation’ because I ‘get’ that America is ‘bad ass’, instead of just being one of those people who ‘pretends America sucks’ just to seem liberal.
Photo via the big picture
Feels weird that my generation was ‘defined by 9/11.’ I feel like that was more of something that I felt ‘entitled to be affected by’ as opposed to something that ‘lit a fire under my ass/inspired me to unite for the greater good of my country.’ Feel like maybe I might have been different if I was ‘drafted’ to fight in Vietnam/WWII/etc. Might ‘appreciate my country more.’ Sometimes I just wish I had ’something 2 fight for.’
Sorta wish I lived in Iran, or possibly a ’shitty South American country’ where some sort of revolution/Civil War was happening. Feels like I would have ‘a real reason’ 2 use twitter, like to organize people for protests.
Feels weird that America is ‘in the shitter’ and China is better than us at everything now, and our ‘dollar’ doesn’t ‘mean’ as much as it used to, but I still feel ‘better than ever.’ Feel like I ‘take everything 4 granted. I just want to fight in a war, and kill a foreigner. I want to take control of my life, and prove to this land that I was born in that I deserve to be a part of it. I don’t want to stand around indie rock festivals for the rest of my life. I think my life could be more meaningful if I saw the world, and also fought for the lives’ of millions of people.
This 4th of July, I realized that I want America to go to war soon, so that I am not part of a generation defined by the internet + 9/11 + ’social networks.’ I want 2 die fighting in the Final_War_of_Mankind. This will be our legacy.
‘We can be heros…just 1 day…’
-Jakob Dylan, The Wallflowers
God has Blessed America.
‘I would die 4 u.’
-Prince
This is the last chance our generation has to ‘rebrand’ itself. We must goto war before 2011.
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stop talking about anco.
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//////////Reply by second
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
@first, yes def. more Jacob Dylan.
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//////////Reply by xcc
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 6:31 pm
@first, IT’S JUST SO EASY TO TALK ABOUT ANCO ALL THE TIME. they rule so hard, it’s ridiculous. i just can’t handle how good they are.
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//////////Reply by honestly
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
@xcc,
carles is all about lewln
i doubt he thinks srsly bout other peoples struggles unless he’s getting paid to do so
that being said
i enjoi what he has to say
and i think anco members aren’t happy
and carles is
prolly
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
@first,
song sounds like nerdy white duddes killing cats
surprised how constantly carles hates anco
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H8 war “so bad!”
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Tommorow When the War began
Australia+war will be hip soon..
world seriously needs to get fighting people are tired of ‘change’ esp any thing that clames to be positive.
We are all poor soon then we fight so that some one can be rich again!
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//////////Reply by alternalt
//////////Posted July 7th, 2009 at 12:15 am
@m, (y) for john marsbro reference
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//////////Reply by Mari
//////////Posted July 7th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
@alternalt, seconded. marsbro 4 life.
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srsly interested in Final_War_of_Mankind
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//////////Reply by Double Negative
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
@pfft, Agreed.
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perfectly good war going on right now in Afghanistan. you can get in on it real soon if you act now. they got remote control airplanes to blow people up and everything. all mod cons.
best Jakob Dylan quote ever, btw.
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//////////Reply by bryan
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
@5678, Wha? Bowie quote? btw. Am I in the wrong generation or are you?
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//////////Reply by digigeist
//////////Posted July 7th, 2009 at 12:13 am
@bryan, thank u glad someone gives credit where it is due and Joo dylan and the flowers on the wall suck
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my friend and i listened to “fireworks” on the 4th even before we saw your twitter post about it
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//////////Reply by tron
//////////Posted July 7th, 2009 at 12:20 am
@lulz, I listened to that song also on indie day and didn’t even notice the significance…
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Sometimes im like: “fuck this runoff bro”, Sometimes… But I read his shit cause its some provocitive shit sometimes, like 60/40. To this notsosteriotypical alt his 4th of july post was pretty fucking poignant. Not that your boy is like, dying to go to war/shoot forign ppl. no. but i think alOt of the bloggin’ community/ppl of our generation talks smack ’bout merica cause its like cool/retro/indie/non-conformist to do so. Nice to see char char posts from his heart. Couldnt ask for more really
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//////////Reply by bbbbb
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
@runoff-republifant, yea i am so happy crls loves america and thinks its so badass and has chosen to put forth this view in clear, explicit wording.
HRO posts = meant 2 be taken at face value ……….. rite guys?
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//////////Reply by brian
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
@runoff-republifant, “nonstereotypical alt”
ha ha: you are doing the “I’m the alternative to the alternative” thing
seems inauthentic
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//////////Reply by runoff-republifant
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
@brian, “nonstereotypical alt”
*simply refering to my stated observation that most alts seem to practice armchair politics, in turn drawing wack conclusions about life/gov’t/capitilaism.
I was citing char char’s most current post as a testament to his blogs blogworthyness. Most theses days get-off falsley lamenting about our countries “failures”
O and its 2009 nothing is authentic except AmAppy… Duh…
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//////////Reply by SweetKenny
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
@runoff-republifant,
Seems like you are trying to justify your own nationalist politics.
//////////Reply by runoff-republifant
//////////Posted July 7th, 2009 at 8:39 am
@runoff-republifant,
Whatever dood. I’d love to hear your politics, since you were to trite to share.
//////////Reply by rrrororoor
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
@runoff-republifant,
i like you
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//////////Reply by Funky Rutabaga
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
@runoff-republifant, It’s not alt to be Republican – more conservative alts are Liberitarian.
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//////////Reply by runoff-republifant
//////////Posted July 7th, 2009 at 8:30 am
@Funky Rutabaga,
1. Im not chasing altness.
2. If more alts are Liberitarian it would be alt to be Republican.
Besides, ppl slap the label Liberitarian onto any theoretical amalgam they come up w/.
Its not finite enough for ya boi. Prob why alot of conservitives don’t subscribe.
Just a thought…
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Yall do u remember the band called JUSTICE?
kinda miss/<3 them.
that’s all.
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//////////Reply by skyboxxx
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 3:48 pm
@Mat,
kinda got ‘insanely buzzed’ this 4th. and listened 2 JUSTICE:the live album in my walkman . then i was feelign pretty good/inspired because of the Uffie lyrivs 2 the song tthhee ppaarrttyy and so i called up my friends who just got off of work they are mexican and work at the 7-11. we went 2 this club and danced 2 a few girltalk/hypem tracks and i felt great but then the dj changed and he started putting on MJ tunes and i got a little teary eyed and so then i couldnt find my friends so went over to my ex girlfirends house and sat in the bushes while she and her boyfriend sat by the pool,giving each othr handjobs and climaxing 2 the sweet strains of the new passion pit EP/LP/stems and seeds mixtape.
p.s. i think this website is powred by Wordpress
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We got a endless “war on terror” going on… we stand here letting all happen watching it go by while our country chooses to take our money chooses what to do with it by applying it to “the war on terror” while “the people” get screwed over with nonsense to believe “we’re fighting “BAD” people”
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yeah!!! i come from a shitty south american country!
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Accessible Water Fountains: America is #1 and I couldn’t ask for more.
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south ammy bitches are hot
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That song by the Jacob Dylans is dope.
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I hear what you’re saying about not having had to stand for anything yet. Kind of funny that having had it so good for so long is actually an enemy in its own… but I think you’re going about it the wrong way by wanting to fight a war. Theres a war between us the rest of the world alright, but its over jobs.
I can guarantee to you the quality of life in this country will never be the same again. Other countries wages will go up, ours will go down. Think of yourself as fighting for this country by striving to be smarter and more productive than peeps in other nations. Its the only way we’ll keep livin the way we’re livin (once this phony “stimulus” money runs out) Majoring in art isn’t gonna help our nation pull through (or put money in your pocket)… we gotta start creating things other countries want and that means technology, engineering, etc.
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//////////Reply by Chrises
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
@tom,
usually countries with huge armies but declining economies/political influence don’t just sit around and take it. they do things which would normally be considered irrational or “batshit insane”
neway got to get back 2 my sociology final papes,
h8 U max Weber
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//////////Reply by Oswald Spengler
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 11:24 pm
@tom, ATTN professional artists -> your work is relegated to folks considered ’schizo/bipolar’ ‘drug addicts’ or ‘hobbyists’
your medium has been dug out like a quarry, but look beside you, fresh clay! so pick up a spade and build a fucking airplane engine factory you Americans.
<3
that gay who voted for hitler!
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//////////Reply by runoff-republifant
//////////Posted July 7th, 2009 at 8:50 am
@tom,
I feel you kinda.
xsept i doubt Merica will be stuck in shitville for ever.
Peep this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
we could fuck up for at least a few more years before were totally fucked…
as long as we stop throwing tons of money at stoopid shit like the green movement well be good. I love the earth as much as the next panda, but the fact is global warming is an unsubstantiated theory.
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hope you bros know that jakob dylan covered heroes… its a david bowie song!
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//////////Reply by SweetKenny
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
@Norka,
knowing about old music is not alt.
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//////////Reply by bamboomz
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
@SweetKenny, for fucksakes – bowie, bowie, bowie! bowie will never be old -always be alt.
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//////////Reply by David Bowie
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
@Norka, that was kinda the joke.
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//////////Reply by bryan
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
@David Bowie, you just don’t joke about duke’s lyrics. I thought that was accepted?
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p0st more ’sweet tween racks’ in bikinis
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//////////Reply by rutabaga
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
i can’t stop staring at her ears
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Is it alt to think America is “bad ass”?
Does this now mean it is alt to drive an American V8 like a Chrysler 300C?
Going to war is not authentic.
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//////////Reply by urmom
//////////Posted July 7th, 2009 at 12:16 am
@Funky Rutabaga, nothing you just said is alt, nothing.
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//////////Reply by Funky Rutabaga
//////////Posted July 7th, 2009 at 10:12 am
@urmom, What if it is so ironically alt to like things that are not alt? Like Hunter S. Thompson, the crazy alt writer that defined the early 70s alts – he loved huge, fast American V8s – he was definitely an altBro in the day.
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p4k rates america 5.9
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted July 6th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
@altBro, i lol’d
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//////////Reply by alternalt
//////////Posted July 7th, 2009 at 12:34 am
@anon, ditto
(beth)
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“I fought in a war and I left my friends behind me
To go looking for the enemy, and it wasnt very long…”
also, if you need an unpaid internship, this ‘Leadership Coach in Gen Y’ is looking for an intern http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/mar/1256110103.html
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yo, dude, that gril is really hot for a real girl. what’s her name? does she hang in nyc? she looks like she’s beggin for night of candles and control
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most authentic americana 4th july memory:
listening to “Glittering Blackness” by the Explosions in the Sky while watching explosions in the sky [via fireworks], then listening to “american pie” while watching poors yell at their children
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Seriously, you sound just like another american kid who’s bored to death… Just go to starbucks and get a grande creamy moccacino latte half half pistacchio with skim milk or something… You are pathetic.
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the bros in the protest pic with the armor look like they’re ready 2 dine in hell 2nite
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<3 war b/c it brings us closer together.
Wonder what the next ‘weapon of mass destruction’ will be.
Lazers? Ray guns?
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//////////Reply by runoff-republifant
//////////Posted July 7th, 2009 at 8:52 am
@Myth,
The Ting Tings
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//////////Reply by Funky Rutabaga
//////////Posted July 7th, 2009 at 10:21 am
@Myth, p4ks
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“The Great Global Warming Swindle”
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=288952680655100870films
Straight up nigah rebuplifant
Mean green gr$$$$$eed machines like that white nigah gore needz ta go down.
My vegan lunch was topsee turvee guud.
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//////////Reply by runoff-republifant
//////////Posted July 8th, 2009 at 9:26 am
@Sledcake,
im wit u cuz. nice U-toobin vid. Dat nig gore won a nobel prize for scheeming. what a ho. Still tryna figurure out what carbon and peace have to do wit eachother…
maybee someday i could win a nobel prize for the most culturally relevant HRO post someday.
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carles, yr right, we’re running out of time until we’re stuck with our brand and then we’re old and the next generation does/doesn’t do better. but one man, or a whole subculture of hipsters, don’t have the power, nay, the will, to improve the image of our entire generation… do we?
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know your email is public here after all.
I googl’d mine and found posts from HR at the top.
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Wow, now this post was some stupid shit. If you haven’t found something to fight for over the past decade you ain’t paying attention. Srsly. You want to do some stuff and have nothing to lose? Opportunities abound. Past that, uh, the stupid shit sort of began when you act like if only there was a war, when shitloads of countries are at war. I mean seriously are you daft man? This clueless-y sort of approach is not optimal for someone now trying to contemplate “more” to life. Suggesting waking the hell up as first option.
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