Best Friends Day 2010

[Alex]

Best Friends Day 9 will take place August 19th-22nd at various locations around Richmond, Virginia. According to organizers, "Best Friends Day is known for its Saturday at Hadads Lake in which attendees spend the day swimming, grillin, and chillin with their Best Buds and favorite bands."

Groups confirmed for the event thus far (more will be announced) include:

Propaghandi
Negative Approach
Municipal Waste
Banner Pilot
Off With Their Heads
Black Army Jacket
Lemuria
Brainworms
The Measure
Algernon Cadawallader
Amateur Party
The Dopamines
Mouthbreather
Sun Dials
Cloak/Dagger

anyone into going to this? im pretty positive i'll be there considing last year was fucking awesome and the line up this year is way better.

[alexia]

richmond is basically close to where i live... will probably end up going. slumber parties at my place, yer invited.

[wolf]

I'm goingggg

[xxx]

oh man, this looks like a blast--i wish i could make it! sike.

[wolf]

LOLOLOLOLOLOL GOTTEM~!!!!!~~~

[scum]

May 7, 2010 15:26:27 GMT -5 xxx said:

oh man, this looks like a blast--i wish i could make it! sike.

your sarcastic assault on hipster/punk aesthetics, irony, and commodity fetishism gets me going. can i circle your A to a reading of stirner or french (post-)feminist tracts or perhaps some of that sexy communist stuff cumming out of europe these days? negation makes me wet.

i wanna get all up in yr zone of opacity.

[Alex]

May 7, 2010 15:26:27 GMT -5 xxx said:

oh man, this looks like a blast--i wish i could make it! sike.

funny thing about this is that if you just sucked it up and went with a few friends you didn't mind being around, you would actually enjoy it. sure, there's lots of stupid fucks getting drunk and acting like its some college party, and people are annoyingly obsessed with bands playing and being a part of punk culture, but come on.

swimming, seeing propagandhi, hangin with some sweet kids, or i can stay home and sit in my room in afton. what should i do?

[arjay]

Umm, its the second one right? I'm horrible at multiple choice tests...
Anyway, i'm totally in. Sounds sweet!

[xxx]

May 7, 2010 18:35:38 GMT -5 Alex said:

May 7, 2010 15:26:27 GMT -5 xxx said:

oh man, this looks like a blast--i wish i could make it! sike.

funny thing about this is that if you just sucked it up and went with a few friends you didn't mind being around, you would actually enjoy it. sure, there's lots of stupid fucks getting drunk and acting like its some college party, and people are annoyingly obsessed with bands playing and being a part of punk culture, but come on.

swimming, seeing propagandhi, hangin with some sweet kids, or i can stay home and sit in my room in afton. what should i do?

nah, that's okay. i can swim here and hang out with two of my best friends whenever i want and listen to propagandhi as perfectly as they'd ever be able to play on a CD. not to mention, i can not have to see all the drunk pieces of shit or the annoying super fans around me the entire time. then again, i do have to deal with all the other pieces of shit that i see everyday--but i've been avoiding people like that for a long time and now i'm pretty good at it.

[tOM]

everyday is best friends day here.

best friends, beeeessssst FRIENDS!

i'm pretty into how "scum" is into sarcastic jokes about irony and actually likes/finds some enjoyment in/partakes in/etc most of the things they consistently bash.

[scum]

May 8, 2010 14:31:09 GMT -5   said:

i'm pretty into how "scum" is into sarcastic jokes about irony and actually likes/finds some enjoyment in/partakes in/etc most of the things they consistently bash.

1. logical fallacy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

2. if you take critique of a music scene personally, then perhaps some reevaluation of self is in order.

3. xxx is the only person here saying anything that is in any way critical of the punk scene, and i find that interesting compared to most of the other things being posted (i don't care what people talk about online, hence why i don't post in threads i find inane). i don't think critical engagement (which includes self-criticism) of the subcultures we are a part of or on the periphery of is a negative thing, but perhaps you disagree? it's pretty amazing how anything remotely critical gets slandered and abused here while the most mundane topics are discussed freely.

4. is there anything about my arguments in particular you plan on refuting or arguing against? i have no problem with critical discussion and i don't take disagreements personally. however, i have no interest in one sentence arguments against personality or interests, trying to point out some supposed hypocrisy on my part as if that in some way makes my critique invalid. please do respond to my posts (besides the previous one, which was obviously a joke). i am not opposed to changing what i think about something if something is said that makes me feel differently about it.

5. i shouldn't respond to an ad hominem attack, but anyway. i do not like, enjoy, or partake in commodity fetishism, punk or hipster obsessions, or fashionable irony. i don't play music; i rarely go to shows; i listen to music maybe once each week; i don't keep up with punk subcultures; i don't collect or produce commodities or other dead items; i don't care in the slightest about fashion or anything of that sort; i have no interest in the aesthetics, little interest in the music, and next to no interest in the alleged community of punk.

[Alex]

i feel like the contest of who cares less about punk is almost as fucking boring as who's more punk than who. jesus fucking christ.

[Mikey]

if rvivr aint playing, i aint going.

[Alex]

May 8, 2010 22:45:26 GMT -5 Mikey said:

if i cant suck on matt canino's wang, i aint going.

fixed.