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  1. my allergies are fucking kicking up these days, and i cannot describe how much i hate having a runny nose when i dont have any tissues, paper towels, or any other shit like that. goddamn it. fucking nose dripping and shit, cant blow my nose, ughhh.

  2. I can't afford to have unemployment swag... I wish I could! I just spent most of my money getting my comic printed, and now I don't have enough to buy a ticket for the convention that I was planning to sell it at.

    I'm also afraid I might have to drop out of superswap, because I can't afford to ship my package.

    you can borrow from family/friends maybe? if it's something important to you, dont let money stop you (within reason, of course). let me be your agent in 3 years, we will make a killing!

  3. This is the second time I've been fired, out of all the three jobs I've had. I have the good fortune to be shit-awful at nearly everything, so I really have no clue what I'm going to do. (although I'm awful at everything, I think too highly of myself to work in fast food...)

    Haploid, I am unsure about how one looks like a hostess, but that doesn't sound like a bad idea.

    you are still young so dont be too discouraged. IMO, at that age it's hard to know what you are really good at/interested in (at least for me it was), and im sure it's even harder to get a job at that age thats even remotely related to what your interests/skills are.

    most people dont have any kind of serious credentials at 18 to get "serious"/meaningful jobs, so i wouldnt worry too much about having to work in shit jobs.

    and plus, it's okay to have unemployment swag at 18.

  4. swag.

    everyone should get fired at least once in their lives.

    and everyone should get their ass kicked at least once in their lives.

    but neither things have happened to me personally.

    because 1) i quit my jobs at the most opportune moment, i.e., right before im about to get fired, 2) i win all my fucking fights. come at me bro. jk im a nice guy. please dont rape me bro.

    in all seriousness, sorry about that. but you will find better things.

  5. Manx, i think you are right though, if i understood you correctly. i suppose any profit-based industry will obviously cater to market demands, and the fact that the market happens to be comprised largely of white people is more incidental than anything else. instead, as you say, i think a more appropriate metric in determining the point at which "organic" music becomes shit "pop" might be cultural intelligence.

    but i dont know, i personally struggled with questions like this on my own reflection. because once you make the case that there is some "cultural IQ," then you also have to acknowledge that there is some "objective" standard on which one can be measured up to, i.e., that you can quantify one's taste in music, literature, films, fashion and so on. david lynch 85 cultural points, todd phillips 40. kanye west 80, waka flocka 50. ccp 90, jcrew 25, so on and so forth.

    and you obviously see the problem here. maybe it doesnt have to be so numerical or specific, but my point here is only that once you create some hierarchic standard to determine someone's "cultural IQ," you are objectifying what is basically a subjective experience for everyone. but believe me, even when i know that, im just as guilty as the next guy, in judging someone for his or her taste in cultural product X.

    as much as i want to say that everyone has different tastes and preferences, i.e., that everything is subjective, i cant help but think that there has to be at least some minimal level of objectiveness in all values, whether its cultural, moral, etc.

    i mean, now im taking this to a direction where i dont want to go, since it will just take us too far off the path, but consider this example: if values were all subjective, then would you say that someone who, for a living, counts the number of grass in his backyard to be leading a "meaningful" life? if you truly believed that values are subjective, then, yes, you have to acknowledge that this person whose sole purpose in life is to count grass is living a meaningful life. but obviously, this just seems wrong on an intuitive level. but if i find it to be wrong intuitively, then that means that there are in fact objective values out in the world.

    fuck, im getting off-track. better just PM me if you want to talk more.

  6. in light of what haploid pointed out, i guess what im wondering is if there is a certain point at which "black" music becomes "pop-music," and if this transition is at all related to how many white people listen to it. well, i guess that kind of makes sense in some way: in order to maintain your largely white audience, i guess black artists need to "repackage" their music into more palatable forms, thereby changing or negating whatever "black" quality it previously had.

    so in other words, i guess i just answered my own question. SWAG.

  7. okay fuck so i was wrong

    you could fuck my bitch

    but genuine question: dont you guys think thats true for somethings at least? like specifically in rap music and shit? maybe there are exceptions like wu-tang or whatever but idk it seems to me like most big time rap artists reach a saturation point of white people and then it just kind of falls apart.

  8. yo why the fuck are people hyping odd future and not death grips???

    shit is fucking HARD

    probably because not enough white people listen to it.

    more white people = more hype

    but then after a certain point

    too many white people = not "cool" anymore (lil wayne is a recent example among many others)

    diminishing returns of white people.

    IMO.

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