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zany, yall.
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//////////Reply by Hebro
//////////Posted September 6th, 2009 at 10:34 pm
@le CEECEE,
7 days, y’all…
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youtube poop = alt?
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//////////Reply by May
//////////Posted September 7th, 2009 at 2:31 am
@brian, Actually anything poop = alt
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//////////Reply by dooders
//////////Posted September 8th, 2009 at 11:40 am
ass and we all know it
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i dunno, i still think charlie bit my finger is way deeper.
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//////////Reply by spad thatcher
//////////Posted September 8th, 2009 at 2:48 am
@paycheck,
Yeah totally bro
It is like saying
“More boobs!”
those were the days
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a male person is going to get gunned yall
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that’s me with the hair.
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this is why no one needs art school
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//////////Reply by MEMEs
//////////Posted September 8th, 2009 at 9:23 am
@bbbbb, agreed :)
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Awful. Not alt. Just empty, wannabe avant-garde trash.
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//////////Reply by Spoon
//////////Posted September 6th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
@Will, Agreed.
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//////////Reply by french guy
//////////Posted September 7th, 2009 at 9:56 am
@Spoon, who cares about alt anyway?
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//////////Reply by testicular dancer
//////////Posted September 6th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
@Will, mediocrity is not only celebrated by the mainstream.
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watch it on mute while chillaxin to some chillwave. only then will u truly know what it ‘means’ or ’says’
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//////////Reply by remixes are better
//////////Posted September 8th, 2009 at 11:35 am
@car lace, ver true. i tried crimewave by those crystal castles. totally get the meaning of this year now. wonder if next year will be as deep.
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//////////Reply by damn
//////////Posted September 8th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
@remixes are better,
damn. not only are the chrissie cassels so 2007, but they were never ‘chillwave.’
damn.
also, this video is gay.
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‘drugs.’
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sick video crls
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hello martin arnold.
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Was this made this year? If so thats sad. This totally reminds me of Justice’s “Across the Universe” and the Soulwax documentary. Their still stuck in 2k7-2k8.5
They need a job
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted September 6th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Quite obviously sponsored by the Portland board of tourism.
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//////////Reply by dogboots
//////////Posted September 8th, 2009 at 10:00 am
@anony, lol’d
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Shouldn’t this be tagged YouTube douchebags?
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i think tha kittenz knows what’s happenin’.
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//////////Reply by mary
//////////Posted September 6th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
@margot, I agree the kitten was the hilte of an empty souless try at editing. Ask the kitten was the vid memes!
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wish i had a vidya camera
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//////////Reply by vdieselfor20
//////////Posted September 7th, 2009 at 2:29 am
@88, heard u can get 1 of those at best buy
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This really speaks to me. Its like a big metaphor for life how sumtimes u jus get stuck in repetition and you think about killin people but then the kittens represent birth and how our multiplication is the reason for happiness and existence. Soooo good you would have to be an idiot mnstrmr to not get it.
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//////////Reply by closetess
//////////Posted September 7th, 2009 at 1:39 am
@Al x, beautiful observation
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//////////Reply by french guy
//////////Posted September 7th, 2009 at 9:58 am
@closetess, yeah, beautifully teeny.
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good post, carles
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this is the breath of fresh air the cinema has been waiting for
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lol, this is so old
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the dude who makes an appearance in this video multiple times…i sat next to him in court! back then i figured he was pretty alt with the mullet and all, but now this.
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i had like 3.5 seizures watching that.
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glitch-vid
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this video doesn’t actually say ‘anything’
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//////////Reply by jjj
//////////Posted September 7th, 2009 at 1:18 am
@anon, it says i’m so drunk righ tnow.
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feel like i really wish that youtube censored videos posted.
feel like animal collective playing “summertime clothes” would be much better.
feel like am appy sponsoring this vid might have made me like it a lot more.
last but not least kinda feel like i want carles to bring me a tee shirt.
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//////////Reply by 88
//////////Posted September 6th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
@bANANAS, summertime clothes is no longer authentic
it’s fall bro
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//////////Reply by bANANAS
//////////Posted September 6th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
@88, heeeeeh, it could be a sweet “so long” 2 summer. luv doze <3333
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Ask the kitten what the vid memes!
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kittens, yall!
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wish i had sweet mac imovie skillz so i could make a youtube soundtrack to my life…
wish i could afford a digi cam so i could document my life… or a drum kit…
wish i was youtube famous, or HRO famous…
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ps. wish my lyfe was meaningful
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does n e 1 no which 1 is charles?
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//////////Reply by 88
//////////Posted September 6th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
@stephen, 1:37
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//////////Reply by annie
//////////Posted September 6th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
@stephen, charles is the ‘husky’ girl climaxxxing over a donut @ 0:35
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p. deep
sub’d
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utter garbage.
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this video ’speaks to me’
makes me feel ‘unworthy’
wish i had the ‘artistic talent’ 2 create ‘ meaningful zany videos’ gud enough 4 u HR :(
sigh
o wait
wut am i thinking
i can make sum ‘ meaningful authentic alt
porno’ 2 sell 2 am appy
who is in
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trash
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miss barbaro like i miss heath
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I LIEK IT
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carls, you are much better than this…
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miss heath like i miss barbaro
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//////////Reply by Thom
//////////Posted September 7th, 2009 at 10:00 am
@DISTINGUISHEDGNTLMN, miss scooby doo {via hannah barbara}
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//////////Reply by skinnyghey
//////////Posted September 7th, 2009 at 11:23 am
@Thom, h8 scooby doo and their beady flesh colored eyes. Casy Casum is ‘fucking faggot’ too.
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//////////Reply by Thom
//////////Posted September 7th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
@skinnyghey, w-evr, casy chasm is a boneyfied pimp
prolly 90% responsible for the ‘alt’ movement
Should’ve made it 1min50sec of the cats on repeat.
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//////////Reply by BlipsterCambridge
//////////Posted September 7th, 2009 at 5:59 am
@Rufus,
Should have made it 75.56 Years of cats on repeat.
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i now feel like ”i wanna cry’
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I wish my life was as authentic as theirs.
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any of y’all catch the new ‘hey arnold!’?
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//////////Reply by BlipsterCambridge
//////////Posted September 7th, 2009 at 6:01 am
@generik witty cmmnt,
Any of y’all catch th’ new rugrats?
They’re all growed up now y’all.
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//////////Reply by chorles
//////////Posted September 7th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
@BlipsterCambridge/generik,
lol
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i threw up grilled chz watching this bs yall
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thats the real shit yo
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This was bad. (not in the micheal jackson sense) Im being retro retro pre retro. It was just plain bad. I think the kittens was the most interesting thing. With media and music being able to be easily cut and pasted and looped (due to digital and now relatively software media recordings tools being cheap)..rather than cutting tape, this is the loop generation………
i miss the old days when a drummer was allowed to free flow, and those slight human errors added “feel”, not a robotic loop accurate to a milisecond….the loop generation….the loop generation…..its so sterile…….
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only thing missing in this bitch is the “windows system error” message
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I heard the Village Voice proclaimed this as the new mumblecore movement.
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//////////Reply by damn
//////////Posted September 8th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
@nerdAlt,
seems like you were just waiting for a hro post to give you the opportunity to use the word ‘mumblecore’ in the comments. because you’ve really stretched it here.
kinda pathetic.
geek.
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//////////Reply by quiet city
//////////Posted September 8th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
@damn, mumblcor4life!!!!
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//////////Reply by nerdAlt
//////////Posted September 8th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
@quiet city,
mxc
IT MEANS WAR
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fun!!!
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I’d really like to know what those kids really think about their video. I bet they think it’s incredibly hip and forward. Those poor kids. Those poor, poor kids.
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looks like a couple of alts ‘trying too hard’ and playing off the kitten meme
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This post is gay. The video is produced by psuedo-alts who think they are chill. The guy saying fuck was really annoying towards the end. That’s not alt, if thts what they are trying to be. They are mayo.
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laugh out loud!
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Carles, why are you wasting our time with this garbage?
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just bad. c’mon carles this shit is not worth posting
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THIS VID IS SO MAYO
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thought it was an AnCo song with the drums and sounds
think i should probs listen to AnCo at least once so i know when garbage noise is actually meaningful
feel ‘disconnected’ due to lack of appreciation of things my peers consider revolutionary
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what a waste of miracle whip bro
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i believe this film is a metaphor for bein’ blazed, satisfied with urself, kinda greasy, and pretty chill at ‘bunny hops’ on ur old bmx.
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//////////Reply by council-Frog
//////////Posted September 7th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
@chorles,
rewinding bunny hops = blazed
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WHEN DID ALT ACCEPT MAINSTREAM MEANS OF CORPORATE COMMUNICATION? I THINK THE INTERNET (ESPECIALLY MP3s, YOUTUBE, MYSPACE, BLOGS, PITCHFORK, and such) RUINED ALT AS ALT. NOW “ALT” IS JUST A WEAK DEAL FOR GUYS WHO AREN’T GOOD AT ANYTHING BUT AREN’T FAT AND GIRLS WHO THINK THAT THEY THINK. ARRGHGGHGHHGHGHGGHGHGHGH HEAD WILL EXPLODE. I WANT TO DRINK BEER WITH IAN MACKAYE!!!
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//////////Reply by yep
//////////Posted September 8th, 2009 at 9:07 am
@andrew, being on the internet ruins everything/evry1. move to washington or something, i hear it’s an amazing place.
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//////////Reply by generik witty cmmnt
//////////Posted September 8th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
@andrew,
‘WHEN DID ALT ACCEPT MAINSTREAM MEANS OF CORPORATE COMMUNICATION? I THINK THE INTERNET (ESPECIALLY MP3s, YOUTUBE, MYSPACE, BLOGS, PITCHFORK, and such) RUINED ALT AS ALT. NOW “ALT” IS JUST A WEAK DEAL FOR GUYS WHO AREN’T GOOD AT ANYTHING BUT AREN’T FAT AND GIRLS WHO THINK THAT THEY THINK. ARRGHGGHGHHGHGHGGHGHGHGH HEAD WILL EXPLODE.’
…said the noose 2 andrewbro’s neck.
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to me this video is an example of how time in it’s universal truth is of intervals and not instances
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to me this video is an example of how time in it’s universal truth is of intervals and not instances
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to me this video is an example of how time in it’s universal truth is made up of intervals and not instances
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//////////Reply by bill?
//////////Posted September 8th, 2009 at 1:08 am
@Demosthenes,
‘werd’
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couldnt finish the video cuz they are ugly. looked dumb though.
wish there were more post through out the day cuz as a vegan i take mad shits and this and bsnyc is what i read when in the b-room.
what is the most alt/authentic type of bm?
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They are bringing Dada back.
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hey yall just poastin here 2 say that ill b skipping skool 2day re: obama
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My soul is touched, I need to write a poem and masturbate to find meaning to all this.
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i haven’t been this moved since ‘my boys’
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Have yall heard of the Beatles Band? I hear there even better than the Animal Collectors.
This guy should do there video 4reelz.
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I just had a seizure. thanks…
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well, i guess this is growing up
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liked the video. can mean lots of things.
repetition is always deep… “automatic” art techniques are the gateway to the subconscious. read about the surealists in art and OULIPO in literature.
it is exsitentialistic too in many ways.
but forget all that shit, for the main question is:
WHAT FUCK IS ALT ANYWAY???
*the video can mean shit as well. it all depends upon the subject viewer. the intention of the artist is always questionable.
cheers
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//////////Reply by testicular dancer
//////////Posted September 9th, 2009 at 12:47 am
@Sugajewboy, ‘conceptual’ art is a dead end for the very reasons you stated.
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//////////Reply by Sugajewboy
//////////Posted September 9th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
@testicular dancer,
I disagree.
Conceptual art has endless possibilities. Every art form has numerous dimensions, possibly infinite.
Perec’s “Life: A User’s Manual” took this notion to the next level: Infinite novels in one book.
The conceptual dimension is indeed a dead end, for the artist’s concept might not be percepted as intended. but that’s the true beauty in my opinion. loops and loops of paradoxes.
but art is useless… as Wilde said
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this video doesn’t mean or say anything unless we interpret it into an unrecognizable state with our hermeneutic stylings (ie, claim it represents a counterculture of a nation in need of WhateverTheFuck) in which case we could do the same with scat on the front lawn.
this is ass and we all know it.
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can’t believe how many comments this has generated. can’t you see that this only gives validation to the ugly, talentless, out-of-touch-losers-that-are-probably-from-portland that made this?!
oh.. woops.
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ARE WE JJUST HUMA?N AFTER ALL?
carles has really taken ‘it ‘ ‘to the next level’.
feel like ‘bloghaus era’ can be re-invented with ‘blurb-free’ posts.
delivers the message in a ‘context-free environment’.
so deep yall. glad to feel alive 4 the 1st tyme.
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whatever happend to p.o.d ?
i, i feel so alive
for the very 1st time
i cant deny you
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feel like the toy hanging from the power line was a metaphor for the ‘emptiness’ of the continual alt struggle for ‘creative self expression’ against a mnstrm that is just going to ‘co-opt ur authenticity.’ made me feel like suicide is the only way out as a ‘meaningful act of protest’ against the ‘endless loop of consumerism.’
wish i could sleep 4ever.
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we have such better drugs out here, it made me feel “left out”
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Umm… I’m tripping my ass off whilst watching this and it’s. really triipppy. all I have to say. Um. Also I think I hear ‘Cops’ somewhere in the house (the show). Going to watch the ‘In My Nerves’ video now.
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This vid falls into the ‘post-shitty’ movement.
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am i supposed to understand this? the only thing i get is that its missing 3 key points- explosions, t&a, jason statham. right?
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waste of 1.50 mins of my life. fuck this abomination. except the cat of course. no wait, fuck him too.
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feel sorry for the green bro hanging from the power line… yall think electro shock killed him first or ass-fiction? and no i dont mean the literary movement that insprired this video
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I’ve been waiting for hardcore conceptual art (hard-con-art) to make a comeback.
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