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How many times in a day do you end your messages/emails with "Let me know?"
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Finally somebody shares the same shoes as I.
Taken from http://chir.ag
I have come to the sad realization that
I apparently have the worst choice in everything. Every single thing.
Ever. If I like it, then it sucks. It can be anything - music, movies,
actors, actresses, sports, books, or food. If I so much as mention it
to my friends that "Hey! This 'x' is good..." it is met with the
juggernaut punch of "Ewwwwww! 'X' SUCKS!"
The list of things
that I like and for some reason the people I know don't, is pretty damn
long. From Jon Stewart and Johnny Depp to Scarlett Johansson and Uma
Thurman, from Annie Hall and 007 series to Zoolander and Sin City, from
Aerosmith and Cake to Queen and Coldplay. It does not matter whether
Annie Hall is Woody Allen's greatest cinematic achievement till date,
the very fact that I casually mentioned it a friend online, means it
stinks. Who cares if Sin City is quite possibly the best rendition of a
comic to a movie that still maintains the comic-book aura, the mere
fact that Chirag Mehta in Florida, USA uttered the phrase "Wow! Sin
City is superb!" means people have to absolutely bring it down.
The
statistical odds of me unknowingly liking everything that is critically
"bad" are very very low. If indeed I can like the suckiest of the sucky
out there, I can make a lot of money by immediately betting on my
dislikes. No. I don't think I have a case of bad taste in all there is
to be. The problem is you. Yes, you. You pretend to hate every single
thing that's popular because it's so much easier to say "'X' is an
over-rated hack' and "'X' is too long and boring." It's ok though. Not
your fault completely. Here's what really happened.
As a
society, we've been trained well to listen to the view of the elite few
and shape our views and likings according to theirs. So when Roger
Ebert praises a film, we walk in expecting it to be good. Nothing wrong
so far. His film reviews are unbiased and quite accurate and his words
are in fact worth their weight in gold. The problem is not whether
Ebert does and does not like something. The problem is our innate
desire to be elite. After all, our society has been structured to
respect and revere the elite.
It so happens unfortunately, our
peers identify us by the choices we make, not why we make them.
Consequently, if we want our fellow beings to respect us and be in awe
of our choices, it is paramount that we pick everything that a commoner
wouldn't. It is cool to be different. Corollary, it is uncool to choose
like a plebeian. Instead of doing what the elite do to become an elite
ourselves, we start liking things that we think the real elites like.
We form a mirage of what the elites might like and start liking those
things. You know, that raw-sounding underground band that only you know
of? Oh and that foreign film with blue blood instead of red?
Now
that you have wedged yourself between the layers of unique-taste and
appreciating-the-underrated, it's time to start defending your high and
mighty position. A friend mentions Sin City is great and you have to
mention that Frank Miller doesn't know how to bring life to his
characters, "They're so two-dimensional." Well no sheetrock Sherlock,
it's a comic on paper! While I understand that everyone has the right
to critique everything that they know nothing about, that doesn't mean
you start hating anything that doesn't meet your precise definition of
what might be good.
Having read a million online profiles and
met tons of people, I've come to the conclusion that while everyone is
different and has different tastes, once they fit in a certain clique
or stereotype, they choose pretty much just like everyone else in the
group. In their view, the stereotype they're trying to fit into is the
coolest, the most elite. So they have to like what other people with
that stereotype like. Even the people that do not want to fit into a
stereotype have similar choices. Odds are, if you like Fight Club, you
also like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. If you like Futurama,
you also like Amelie. Odds, not certainly. Odds are fairly good that if
you hate They Might Be Giants, you also hate Monty Python.
I
don't need to hear your excuse for hating anything. I doubt Monty
Python will get any funnier because you have a different idea of how
they should have acted out their skits. Truth is, most people hate
things because it is cool to hate them. And what's cooler to hate than
the popular? If it's popular, it means the commoners like it. If the
stupid common people like it, you certainly don't want to do anything
with it.
Try mentioning to anyone with even a slight pride,
that you listen to the Billboard Top 40 songs and they'll frown upon
you. "Ewww! How can you listen to that crap?! I only listen to the
classic Beatles songs." Guess what? Beatles topped all those Top
charts. You may or may not have better taste than me, but you certainly
are trying hard to pretend that you do.
I doubt that I'm ever
going to get people to appreciate the genius of Peter Sellers or the
wonders of Tom Waits, so I'm going to do the only thing I can to avenge
the insults I bore. From now on, everything anyone says is good, I'm
gonna hate it. For absolutely no reason other than the fact that YOU
like it. Once I've made it clear I hate it, I'll make up
intelligent-sounding bourgeoisie-denigrating reasons to prove my point.
You may now walk away in awe of me and leave me plum full of my elitist
self.
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You're the best!
Shut the hell up. If anybody knows me, they know I hate unmeaningful phrases such as, "How are you?" used as a greeting and not a real question. This particular phrase is worse in my opinion because it's used after someone has done something nice for you and you want to fool them to believe you actually think they are the best and hence they are "special" to you... when in actuality you say it to everyone so everyone becomes "the best" for that 5 minutes until someone else does you another favor. Maybe you think I am over-analyzing it because everyone uses it casually. That is exactly why I hate it so much. Give me eprops, you're the best!
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Lesson #526
Girls (not women) are indecisive and say "yes" to everything by default. Don't take their word for it!
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decisions decisions decisions... maybe I'll get all of them?
Diesel - DZ4024
Seiko Spoon - Michi Tabi
Seiko - SNA615
Seiko Alarm Chronograph Watch #SNA061
Seiko Titanium Arctura Kinetic Chronograph Watch SNL007
Fossil Negative/Positive Display Digital Frank Gehry Watch
Fossil Negative Display - Steel - Philippe Starck Watch
Fossil L.E.D. Digital - Starck Digital Watch
Fossil - Atari: Asteroids - Limited Edition Atari Watch
Tissot Titanium Chrono Men's Swiss Watch, Rhodium T65758771
Tissot T-Race T90.4.446.51
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