From: bmacdona@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Brian K!z!K MacDonald)
Subject: Re: help with readnews
Newsgroups: rec.music.industrial
Reply-To: bmacdona@ics.uci.edu (Brian K!z!K MacDonald)
Organization: Univ. of Calif., Irvine, Info. & Computer Sci. Dept.
Date: 22 Aug 92 20:47:12 GMT

In article <41999@skye.dcs.ed.ac.uk> awrc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Al Crawford) writes:
>In article <1992Aug20.095250.14658@ists.ists.ca> sizone!justin@ee.ryerson.ca (Justin Wells) writes:
>>
>> I'm trying to figure out what the regular expression is that matches
>> idiots who think they know something about industrial music, even though
>> they just discovered it 2 years ago.
>
>Ah, so there's an official learning curve now, is there? Hmmm. Well, since
>I didn't buy an album that could even be *remotely* considered industrial
>(Cabaret Voltaire's _The Covenant, The Sword And The Arm Of The Lord_)
>until approximately the December of 1989 i.e. a mere two years and eight
>months ago, I guess I'd better refrain from posting any more lest I commit
>the sacrilege of posting without the official Justin @ Really Cliched "Oh
>what A K00l Cyberpunk D00D I Am" Organisation seal of approval. After all,
>if someone who's only been aware of the genre for two years is an idiot, I
>must still be at the drooling imbecile stage, yes?
>
>So how much longer do I have to wait until I get this much sought-after
>accolade, the Booker Prize of rec.music.industrial, huh, huh? Do I get the
>official "I Know Something About Industrial Music" metal pin and magic
>decoder ring too? Or maybe it's the case that, simply because I've not been
>listening to the music as long as he has, I may never aspire to the heights
>of Justin's industrial godliness, let alone his gargantuan intellect and
>rapier-like wit.
>
>So how do we define having listened to the music long enough to post with
>any authority? Well, presumably for starters we have to rule out anybody
>who hasn't been around as long as the music has. So, if we take Year Zero
>as being 1977 or thereabouts, if you're under 15 you can just forget it. Of
>course, I personally wasn't particularly into the likes of Throbbing
>Gristle at age 9, and neither I'd imagine were many people so even if we
>allow for precocious individuals who were humming along to _Second Annual
>Report_ at age 10, no-one under 25 is permitted from saying *anything*
>about industrial music, in any shape or form, on pain of pain.
>
>Perhaps we should extend the ethnic cleansing of rec.music.industrial
>rather further, to clear out the riff-raff? Anyone who doesn't fit the
>correct visual image perhaps? Not got a suitably K00L haircut and multiple
>body piercings? Up against the wall. Glasses? Well, I'm afraid that unless
>they're multi-faceted mirrorshades or part of a VR headset then you'll have
>to go too. Yes, I know Mr Earle, you *are* over the age limit, but it has
>to be said that those glasses of yours are *not* officially sanctioned by
>The Department Of Industrial Cleansing. Just stand over there next to Mr
>Crawford, who not only is too young and inexperienced in matters industrial
>to know what he's talking about and must thus be removed for his own good,
>but is also about as far from the Psycho-Techno-Killer-Cyberdweeb From Hell
>image as it's possible to get. I mean, that guy once even mistakenly
>cross-posted a *Thompson Twins* review to rec.music.industrial. He's not
>just going to get shot, no sirree, we're gonna make him *suffer* a bit
>first.
>
>Right, anyone who doesn't mosh properly? Join the queue. Ever posted about
>NIN? Well, I'm afraid that you're to be flayed alive before being shot, so
>if you'll just stand aside for the moment. Hmmm, crossposting to alt.rave,
>mis-spelling Einstuerzende Neubaten, join the queue. Right, that seems to
>be everybody for the moment.
>
><BANG>
>
>--
>			Al Crawford - awrc@dcs.ed.ac.uk
>	  Department Of Computer Science, The University of Edinburgh
>   Rm 1410, JCMB, Kings Buildings, Mayfield Rd, EDINBURGH, EH9 3JZ, Scotland
>	     Tel: +44 (0) 31 650 5165  Fax: +44 (0) 31 667 7209


    Hands down. The winner of the R.M.I. FLAME OF THE SUMMER award.

     (and a well deserved flame as well)                       K!z!K


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