Vestigial limbs of a memory forgotten itch like bicycle shoestrings tapping every spoke. One day my brother asked me to visit someone with him he said the guy was my age and feeling down because his cat ran away I said sure, that sounds like a nice thing to do. After 20 minutes I realized why the cat ran I was planning my escape route as well this guy was miserable completely negative βit was annoying and then he said it: "System of a Down sold out with Toxicity, which was a garbage album." the layers of stupidity sent me into a k-hole. Millions of fans would **** Serj Tankien's **** if only SOAD would make one more album but yeah, their sellouts, and your cool. Clearly, screaming, "banana, banana, terracotta pie" repeatedly is just telling people what they want to hear. I tried to change the subject to politics but he made it clear he had absolutely no interest, well no **** he doesn't understand SOAD, it's pretty political, but because art is subjective he thinks his opinion has value and it doesβit lets me know to stay away from his negative idiocy.
Kind of like a car ride I shared with an older right wing friend of my father. He scanned the radio like a crackhead searching for a song in the shallow pool he enjoyed his lexicon limited, our selection scarce like a lost cat trapped in a garage unaware of what is and isn't food. We came across I Got A Name by Jim Croce and he said, "Nope. No Jim Croce in this car." Really? ******* Jim Croce? I guess I wouldn't like his music either if I voted for Leroy Brown.
It'd be naive of me to think these people don't work for The New Yorker calling Ford V Ferrari "empty and hollow". **** dude, I hate to break it to you but if you can't find emotion in that movie that's a flaw in you and the hordes of imbeciles approaching art with a "this better ******* impress me" attitude tearing apart any movie that aims for anything elevated to be just generally miserable or to show how "smart" they are. Meanwhile, sniping at an actually empty and hollow movie is seen as punching down and a waste of time so a subculture of cynics is developed infecting others with toxicity to see art as a challenge to one's intelligence rather than honest emotional expression then people miss out on the full capability of art and consume it improperly and regurgitate it in front of me like a feeble feral cat.