Comments on: Twee as… http://sararyan.com/2005/10/twee-as/ Novelist, comics writer, and librarian based in Portland, Oregon. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:23:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Kaylan http://sararyan.com/2005/10/twee-as/#comment-1746 Kaylan Tue, 01 May 2007 22:34:59 +0000 http://oscorp.net/twee-as/#comment-1746 You make your own tee, thats the fun of it. You make your own tee, thats the fun of it.

]]> By: anonymous http://sararyan.com/2005/10/twee-as/#comment-45 anonymous Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:15:43 +0000 http://oscorp.net/twee-as/#comment-45 It's weird...I am a huge fan of "twee-pop". I know most of the bands mentioned in the article and own many CD's and (JOY!) vinyl offerings. The weird part is that I'm also very into Black Metal. What's wrong with me when in my CD changer I have Ladybug Transistor, Belle & Sebastian, Enslaved, Immortal and Finishing School (perhaps my fav twee band)? I also need a "Twee As Fuck" shirt. Anyone know where to get one? -Brian www.myspace.com/gwts It’s weird…I am a huge fan of “twee-pop”. I know most of the bands mentioned in the article and own many CD’s and (JOY!) vinyl offerings. The weird part is that I’m also very into Black Metal. What’s wrong with me when in my CD changer I have Ladybug Transistor, Belle & Sebastian, Enslaved, Immortal and Finishing School (perhaps my fav twee band)? I also need a “Twee As Fuck” shirt. Anyone know where to get one?
-Brian
http://www.myspace.com/gwts

]]> By: capn_jil http://sararyan.com/2005/10/twee-as/#comment-44 capn_jil Mon, 31 Oct 2005 16:25:07 +0000 http://oscorp.net/twee-as/#comment-44 Yeah, that kind of dynamic in the indie music scene makes me righteously uncomfortable. Oh well. Yeah, that kind of dynamic in the indie music scene makes me righteously uncomfortable. Oh well.

]]> By: anonymous http://sararyan.com/2005/10/twee-as/#comment-43 anonymous Sun, 30 Oct 2005 23:31:06 +0000 http://oscorp.net/twee-as/#comment-43 Speaking of the youth worship, when I was in college I went to a Beat Happening show in Olympia in the late stages of their career and it was kind of spooky. It was an all-ages show, and most of the audience were high school students. Calvin, a 30-something dude, was gyrating in this strange, sexualized way singing these off-key childish crush ballads in front of all of these minors. Afterwards Calvin was mobbed by these underage girls. It kind of dimmed my desire to see them live ever again, though I still enjoy the music. Speaking of the youth worship, when I was in college I went to a Beat Happening show in Olympia in the late stages of their career and it was kind of spooky. It was an all-ages show, and most of the audience were high school students. Calvin, a 30-something dude, was gyrating in this strange, sexualized way singing these off-key childish crush ballads in front of all of these minors. Afterwards Calvin was mobbed by these underage girls. It kind of dimmed my desire to see them live ever again, though I still enjoy the music.

]]> By: capn_jil http://sararyan.com/2005/10/twee-as/#comment-42 capn_jil Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:30:32 +0000 http://oscorp.net/twee-as/#comment-42 this is really interesting. i know very little about the zine/indie/sweater aesthetic except how it's presented now, and reading something like this is cracking my head usefully also reminds me of Bett William's glorious article on some indierock happening or other that happened in Oly. why does all this shit worship youth so feverishly? this is really interesting. i know very little about the zine/indie/sweater aesthetic except how it’s presented now, and reading something like this is cracking my head usefully

also reminds me of Bett William’s glorious article on some indierock happening or other that happened in Oly.

why does all this shit worship youth so feverishly?

]]> By: the_misha http://sararyan.com/2005/10/twee-as/#comment-41 the_misha Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:37:57 +0000 http://oscorp.net/twee-as/#comment-41 I completely get your fascination with the article. Or, rather, I get <i>my</i> fascination with it, which has a lot to do with my fascination with glenn mcdonald's series of essays-disguised-as-music-reviews relating to a number of the bands mentioned herein. I haven't heard most of these bands, either... not even Tiger Trap, who I <i>should've</i> heard. And yes, the gender issues mentioned are still very much at play. (...he said, biting his metaphorical tongue to keep from going on an extended rant about gender roles and expectations and the hidden reactionary-conservative nature of most "pop" music and musicians, "indie" or otherwise...) There's more, but I'm going to have to go away, think about it and get back to you later. In the meantime, I now desperately want a tee-shirt bearing the words "twee as fuck." I blame you for this. :) I completely get your fascination with the article. Or, rather, I get my fascination with it, which has a lot to do with my fascination with glenn mcdonald’s series of essays-disguised-as-music-reviews relating to a number of the bands mentioned herein. I haven’t heard most of these bands, either… not even Tiger Trap, who I should’ve heard.

And yes, the gender issues mentioned are still very much at play. (…he said, biting his metaphorical tongue to keep from going on an extended rant about gender roles and expectations and the hidden reactionary-conservative nature of most “pop” music and musicians, “indie” or otherwise…)

There’s more, but I’m going to have to go away, think about it and get back to you later. In the meantime, I now desperately want a tee-shirt bearing the words “twee as fuck.”

I blame you for this.

:)

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