>very very brave Hoover! because you know, the pissing contest over music
>is really just a way of oh-so-subtly demonstrating who they are in contrast
>to the [hidden] Other which, in this case, is *you* [symbolically speaking,
>that is]. if these guys weren't as bright as they are, one of 'em would
>have sniped back with "aaaa shaddap, you're just one of those straight
>arrow, nerdy, serious, hair shirt loving leftists. but we are cool. we are
>hip and we still are after all these years!!!! [hmmm i wonder how this'll
>work at the bi-chicks at the Kit Kat Klub?]"
Hoover must be one of the few guys -- the only guy? -- posting here who actually played in a punk band that caused a stampede of anarchist youths trampling over old fogeys in their rush to the mosh pit. Take that, you armchair musicologists!
Yoshie