Friday, September 5, 2008

quote of the day (September 5, 2008)

There is a topic in journalism called "burying the lede", whereby a writer begins an article with items of lesser importance while delaying the more interesting pieces of information to later. Since we have the greatest video of all time at the end of today's quote, we could be accused of burying the lede. We prefer to think of it as building to a crescendo.

So let's get the lesser stuff out of the way. From hipster music critic/author Chuck Klosterman, he has a comment on other hipsters that should make alert reader Jane Searson very happy:

"The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music "except country." People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time. All it means is that they've managed to figure out the most rudimentary rule of pop sociology; they know that hipsters gauge the coolness of others by their espoused taste in sound, and they know that hipsters hate modern country music. And they hate it because it speaks to normal people in a tangible, rational manner. Hipsters hate it because they hate Midwesterners, and they hate Southerners, and they hate people with real jobs."

New York gossip blog Gawker.com came up with the ultimate Chuck Klosterman Opinion Generator. Certainly worth looking at if you've ever read his books or essays (click on it to see it more clearly):



Alright. Now onto the headliner. This movie we're linking to is so good, you probably need to sell your car and rent out a movie theater to experience it properly (ahem, propa-ly). It was suggested by infrequent visitor and official mortgage broker of QOTD, Ed Glanz, but we were totally unprepared for its power. Just make sure when you click on it, you give yourself a good 11 minutes to watch. Look for all of the fun athlete cameos during the film (a fun sidenote: how many of them have been accused of or admitted to taking steroids?) and the appearance of Gordon Shumway in the bizarre/unrelated ending to the clip.

The only downside is that the person who posted this clip declined to make it available for embedding - so this will open in a new window. Just be prepared when you click: The greatest 11 minutes of your life

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That's awesome ... that's exactly how I described my taste in music the other day.