- Ditto on Nic Harcourt. Am I missing something here? Why does every "intelligent" person i know (outside of WFMU listening circles, of course) think that this guy is the second coming of John Peel? My co-worker listens to "Morning Becomes Eclectic" every damn day (without headphones, of course), and he plays the most generic, safe, self-consciously "hip" upper-middle-class pablum 90% of the time. Anything that purports itself as being "eclectic" is almost invariably NOT eclectic, and certainly highly uninteresting. So what's the appeal of this dork?
- KCRW. See above. And besides, how can a station claim to be "listener supported" when I always hear bumpers for beer and car companies in between breaks?
- Coffee...and hot drinks in general. If I want hot liquids in my mouth, I'd rather have soup.
- Text-messaging. How do people have actual conversations using that annoying "T9" keypad crap?
- "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius". I like McSweeney's. And I like the idea of Dave Eggers. But I don't like this book. I might be tainted because at 7 years old, I had to experience the suffering and prolonged death of my mother from lung cancer, but still, I fail to see the appeal of this book even from a technical standpoint.
- Messenger bags.
- Square-toed shoes.
- Frank Kozik. I collect gigposters, and i like comic-style art, but I've never found Kozik's work to be anything but amateurish and contrived. His bad typography especially (and not "good" bad, like Art Chantry or something), just kills me.
- People who talk on cellphones like it's a conch-shell. Maybe it's a regional thing, but in my town, lots of people hold the earpiece up to thier ear, like normal, when they're listening to the caller, but when they talk back to them, they pull the earpiece OFF thier ear, and hold the phone in front of thier face and mouth. What the fuck is that all about? It looks completely stupid. Does this trend have origins from some hiphop video or something?
