Holiday traveler
I am one of you
I am one of many
I am the only ‘me’ in the world
Going home to see mom, dad, sister, brother
Reuniting around a turducken
Not sure how to tell my mom that I don’t eat meat
and that she will have to make me a tofurkey
Feeling anxious
about my extended family
‘commenting’ on my new personal brand
that that won’t understand
I have changed so much since school started
New personal Brand
Finding out about new bands
Genuinely connecting with fascinating humans
Who want the same life that I do.
I have learned what life is all about
I have learned why I needed 2 leave this house
and see the world
and l-i-v-e in the c-i-t-y
I just want to live inside of a living mishmash of humans/architecture/public transportation.
But now I am going home
Afraid to see my family now that it is 100% impossible for them to ‘get’ me
But maybe I need to ‘get’ them
to understand what I don’t want to be
To motivate me to pursue a meaningful alternative life
with no fears
I am older now
A self-sustaining human being
Honestly have broken free from the constraints of my childhood
and the metaphorical shackles of suburbia
But now I am ready to go back
and reunite with some old classmates at a bar/restaurant
and make it clear that I am on a level
that they will never even understand
Momentarily I will get ‘caught up’ in the moment
and start to reconnect with zany high school stories
but then will remember
‘That’s not who I am any more. That bro is dead.’
‘I don’t want. Your life.’
-James VanderBeek in Varsity Blues about how he is the local community’s only alt searching 4 meaning
This bro is me
This bro is thankful
This bro is coming home.
(big headphones blasting indie music)
///blogging from the airplane yall////gotta love internet in the air///worried the guy next to me is watching me watch porn/////
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44 Comments
so true…
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LYES!
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//////////Reply by ahh
//////////Posted November 23rd, 2009 at 3:37 pm
@ahh, YES for thanksgiving not for first. respect fink’s use of original words.
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//////////Reply by dk
//////////Posted November 23rd, 2009 at 5:56 pm
@ahh,
yep.
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wanna come home to this song. http://www.rochambeau.us.com/
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted November 23rd, 2009 at 5:52 pm
@godfuck, Daydream by The Beach Fossils everything I wanted Wavves 2 b
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air jordan
air (the band)
air blogging
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//////////Reply by liz
//////////Posted November 23rd, 2009 at 3:55 pm
@jc, hahaha
hahah so dumb but hilarious
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//////////Reply by jc
//////////Posted November 23rd, 2009 at 4:57 pm
@liz, wanna make babies?
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//////////Reply by hey anony anony
//////////Posted November 23rd, 2009 at 6:43 pm
@jc, P.E.O.P.L.E.C.I.T.Y.
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S0 UR NOT GONNA BLOG FOR A WEEK NOW?
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i love this site, but this post is terrible.
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//////////Reply by Dog man
//////////Posted November 24th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
@dude bro, hate this site, but this post is lovely
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I’m gonna ’say grace for the 1st time in my life’.
I think it’s gonna be ’so meaningful I might cry’.
Like a ‘Funeral’ or something.
Shit. I don’t think I’m ready.
I will be ’saved by my mother’s arms’ tho,
for, like, the 1st time in a decade.
So that’s chill.
many Misses.
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//////////Reply by lastnightsfartie
//////////Posted November 23rd, 2009 at 4:32 pm
@GravyTrain, like a funeral ??? or the popular album by thes arcade arsons???
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//////////Reply by GravyTrain
//////////Posted November 23rd, 2009 at 7:23 pm
@lastnightsfartie, like bein in an arcade arson, and wishin there was a ‘tunnel from my window to yours’, only to realize that ‘the power’s out in the heart of man’ or some shit.
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str8 turducken
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//////////Reply by :)
//////////Posted November 24th, 2009 at 1:25 am
@yvynyl,
:)
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more worried about xmas break. have to be away from the city for a whole month. anxiously counting down the days and comparing how quickly it seemed the past month flew by to anticipate how long it will feel that I have left. depressed because all the shows currently being ‘added’ on ohmyrockness will be during a time I won’t be here.
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//////////Reply by lolz
//////////Posted November 24th, 2009 at 6:26 am
@skybeard, hahaha sucks when you go to private school in NYC cause you have to live in the dorms.
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//////////Reply by Jurgis
//////////Posted November 24th, 2009 at 11:10 am
@lolz, i feel ur pain man, gotta move away from the campus and to back to ’small town life’ and drink with ‘irrelevant hicks.’ think i’m gonna just hide in my room and blast AnCo and smoke up…..
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//////////Reply by lolz
//////////Posted November 24th, 2009 at 11:19 am
@Jurgis, no way bro. going to a CUNY means I get to stay here year-round, son, hardly any of the CUNYs have dorms. but man I am so excited to videochat with all my friends who will be home because they’ll all be either stoned, robotripping, or will show me the kewt hillbilly knickknacks they bought for me!!!!!!
excited to see my nephews who I’ve watched grow up via videophone.
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KRULLs
o how u do inspire….
sturducky in
placid river view table sighs
marionettesque foil balloon parade
marches upside down handbag style
plated, ate it
http://omg.ly/41ab
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thx crls feel like you ‘get’ me
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first (to post the word first[so meta...{this comment is so meta it realizes it's meta}])
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//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted November 23rd, 2009 at 5:21 pm
@naw dude, ‘jesus’
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Think I may not celebrate Thanksgiving (via Thanksgiving originating as a celebration by genocidal colonists several centuries ago). Feel more excited for Black Friday, where I can stampede over shoppers to get what I need at AmAppy on discount.
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted November 23rd, 2009 at 5:57 pm
@funky_rutabaga, <3
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So embarrassed to have been that ginger jew in the headphones, blasting indie rock, going home on holiday in 1993.
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bro’s bro bro
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Thought you could have ‘tied in’ Tier 1 indie band ‘The Animated Collective’s’ new hit single ‘What Do I Want? The Sky’ into this post [via aeroplanes/'shots' of the sky]
Have been disappointed with the lack of AnCo coverage.
Maybe you could work it into a post about the ‘holiday season.’ As in, ‘What Would I Want For Christmas? Sky’
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//////////Reply by malt
//////////Posted November 23rd, 2009 at 6:31 pm
@brobro, feel sad that crls has missed his opportunity. s0 embarrassingly ‘unauth’
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//////////Reply by bubbles
//////////Posted November 24th, 2009 at 2:29 am
@brobro, feel like crls is bcoming mainstream… if he just read p4k he’d know about anco’s new song. and if he wasn’t “fucking stuck” in the electro era he’d be relevant enough to tweet about panda/avey/geologist. anco is the new ed banger records, crls.
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//////////Reply by chong
//////////Posted November 24th, 2009 at 3:30 am
@brobro, word
when OPP leaked he was all over it, with the best HRO post 4ever. now he doesnt care?
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my whole family is alt. we dress as indians and pillage other ppls fuckin turdkins.
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//////////Reply by funky_rutabaga
//////////Posted November 23rd, 2009 at 7:36 pm
@maxey, Feel Thanksgiving celebrates white supremacy. Feel it is the job of the descendants of colonists to “give back the land” and not celebrate Thanksgiving.
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//////////Reply by maxey
//////////Posted November 23rd, 2009 at 8:39 pm
@funky_rutabaga, gonna invite my natty amery friend little feat over for thnksgivn, we can watch last of the mohicans wen we were all tired from eating.
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dont disown your roots crls,
they made you who you are//
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Bro looks like he’s probubly listening to Dave Mathews band. That is not you Crls.
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I’m not really into thanking things.
or giving things.
I do like stuffing, though.
and cranberry sauce.
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more excited to catch up with old middle school friends (via acid) and wander around our old suburben sharckels pondering how restrained all of the mnstrms are inside of their ticky tacky houses(via weeds).
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//////////Reply by the fink
//////////Posted November 23rd, 2009 at 8:02 pm
@tripperbro, damn bro, shoulda taken acid with yall..
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“I don’t want- YOUR life!” has been ‘getting used’ by me/my bro’s for years ——–>Why I love the C-Man
still not as good as this ‘classic’ (meme?) tho..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGNW5ltWowA
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i am thankful for my lord + savior jesus christ, the ocean, my american freedom, and my cats
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//////////Reply by funky_rutabaga
//////////Posted November 23rd, 2009 at 11:12 pm
@brittany, Is it now alt to attend Church?
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//////////Reply by a_nonnie_muss
//////////Posted November 24th, 2009 at 1:02 am
@funky_rutabaga, as long as it’s Unitarian and slash or Universalist.
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dude write a stupid post about anco’s fall be kind already, oh too slow u missed the boat
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//////////Reply by DaveyTareApart
//////////Posted November 23rd, 2009 at 10:02 pm
@yeah, wtf dude, ‘write’ your ‘post’ already about how the new Fall Be Kind EP totally fucking kills.
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I comment on Hipster Runoff.
I am part of a community.
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//////////Reply by chong
//////////Posted November 24th, 2009 at 3:35 am
@” “” “, high five man
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needed more references to anco and veckymess to ‘authenticate’ the poem’s alt aesthetic
but the J VDB ref is a touch of class
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i’m taking a bus home…feel like its more authentically alt
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carles man u gay lately
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this tickled me
really good shit man
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thinking about ’squanto’
if he were a superhero, i think he would be like captain planet, but his hair wouldn’t be blue
would his multi-ethnic ‘crew/team’ be all pilgrims, all indians, or would he mix it up? maybe some trees? maybe some fish. maybe some corn.
can’t wait for squant2
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//////////Reply by zombiescan'tdance
//////////Posted November 25th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
@michhhael, if his multi-ethnic crew is multi-ethnic, it can’t be all pilgrims or all indians. he has to mix it up, bro. or its just a homoethnic group, and no one wants that.
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//////////Reply by michhhael
//////////Posted November 25th, 2009 at 9:33 pm
@zombiescan’tdance, good point, bro. sorry, didn’t have my ‘thinking cap’ on very tightly. might have been ’super fucking high’ when i wrote that/this.
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//////////Reply by zombiescan'tdance
//////////Posted November 26th, 2009 at 5:18 am
@michhhael, No worries, bro. Definitely been there. In fact, earlier today I was so ‘baked’ that I forgot how to form ’sentences’.
Squanto, would be a great superhero, tho… what would his power be? I think it would be to make squash and corn grow everywhere. and really fast.
turduckens are bomb as fuck.
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you forgot the part about your mom not letting you drive your car because ‘you aren’t insured anymore’. can’t call a cab when i get too drunk i call my mom. awesome
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Damn actually 50 cent had the album of 2009. I think it’s the best album this year.
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Carles, brief analysis of some of your newest Alt Report links:
Panda-Bear: didn’t read; who cares
The XX: Wow is that The Cure, and why isn’t the chick as hot as I imagined
Top 10 Internets Moments: Absolute Fail, ‘look we threw in political moments to seem relevant’
Tweets and $$$: Is this your response to all the ‘I hate Twitter’ comments on your last blog about Twitter?
Neon Indian ‘blowing up’: ‘Word bro’. ‘Chillwave Festival Melbourne’ (?!?!)
Tron Leggings: So does this mean Am Appy designers are gonna start using The Bedazzler?
Analysis of Carles’ Poem: ‘Word bro. Bro… word.’
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yall my brother’s hosting thxgvg 4 the 1st time this yr & my moms is all “what about our house?” and his wife is all “you can’t wear jeans you have to wear khakis!” omg
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is ‘hornitos’ the next jack black band?
someone help me out
I took a month off
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thxful 4 the new anCo not “sucking dick”
thxful it’s “so0 god”
and nothing else
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omg carles, that’s my bf tim on the plane!!! so fkng funny. he’s got the best hair & beard evs.
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Carles posts less often than he used to because he’s working on his memoirs. Working title: “Thanks for the Memeories”
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I wonder if Carles is going to make a conceptual fan comercial for chili’s:
http://www.facebook.com/Chilis?v=app_11007063052
???
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thxful 4 chillwavez
thxful 4 horneytoez addz
thxful 4 mexialtz @ ravez givin back rubz
thxful 4 entry level drunk alt girl givin tugz
thxful 4 ya’lls zany post giving me the lawlz
thxful 4 carlez
be safe ya’ll, have a good thanksgivin/thur(if ur canadian)
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peeps who be saying this post sucks… yall werent there at the beginning. before carles went mainstream.
those where the glory days.
most of the posting was poems.
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“yall” seen how “p4k” has co-opted the use of ” ‘chillwave’ ” and ” ‘alt’ “?
this blog “seems” ” ‘culturally relevant’ “.
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