Arcade Fire 2: Arcade Harder

[corianderstem]

double post

 

[bono_212]

I've only bought the digital version, so mayhaps this will be worth my while?

 

[nirniva]

Already bought the vinyl, so I'm not particularly interested. Cool way to get the interest of people who've just heard of them after the Grammys, though.

 

[corianderstem]

True.

 

[bono_212]

Oh, it's definitely a cash grab off the Grammy win, but if people are getting into them as a result, I'm not going to complain too much.

 

[u2popmofo]

As long as I can buy the extra songs by themselves digitally, I'll be good. Hate when they make these types of things "album only" purchases.

 

[joyfulgirl]

Yeah, so, Arcade Fire are in my little town tonight. I'm trying to convince people in their 40s that we should get there early because it's really stupid to not get a good spot in a tiny town in a tiny venue. It's like an opportunity and stuff. The four hipsters in town are already in line. I saw them. They're probably getting autographs RIGHT NOW.

 

[u2popmofo]

Haha.

Hope you get some different songs!

 

[joyfulgirl]

They don't have bad songs so any of them will do.

 

[martha]

I would like to be in your town, seeing Arcade Fire with you.

 

[lazarus]

Ar¢ade £ire, The $uburb$

Spoiler

Since my copy was stolen out of my car months ago, I may have to get this.

 

[Dalton]

Ar¢ade £ire, The $uburb$

Spoiler

Since my copy was stolen out of my car months ago, I may have to get this.

It's like my wallet has a teet and the Arcade Fire's lips have a good latch.

 

[lazarus]

That still won't be enough to defend against the slippery fingers of you know who.

 

[No spoken words]

It's not easy to be a Jew growing up in a non-Jewish neighborhood when your first name is Mike. Kids like rhymes.

 

[Dalton]

It's not easy to be a Jew growing up in a non-Jewish neighborhood when your first name is Mike. Kids like rhymes.

Maybe I'm rusty, but I don't get it.

 

[LemonMelon]

Laz is a kid at heart.

 

[No spoken words]

Maybe I'm rusty, but I don't get it.

Mike.

Kike.

 

[Dalton]

I'm not familiar.

 

[No spoken words]

10:28pm ET.

 

[Dalton]

So, according to Wikipedia, "kike" was originally used to describe Jews from Eastern Europe because their last names began with "ki". Isn't that the same way we identify and mock the Poles? Must you steal everything?

 

[No spoken words]

Wikikepedia.

Leave my people alone.

 

[Dalton]

Wikikepedia.

Leave my people alone.

It's funny that I can/have to look up racial slurs on wikipedia, but like I've told you before, west michigan has a very small jewish population so anti-semitism, though I'm sure it exists, doesn't get voiced very often.

 

[PhilsFan]

I had never heard the word kike until Laz used it in some Shuttlecock songs.

 

[Dalton]

I had never heard the word kike until Laz used it in some Shuttlecock songs.

You read Laz's shuttlecock songs? So young, so impressionable.

 

[PhilsFan]

I enjoyed it at the time, certainly. I have not referenced U2 as Shuttlecock in about two years, though.

 

[Imperor]

It's funny that I can/have to look up racial slurs on wikipedia, but like I've told you before, west michigan has a very small jewish population so anti-semitism, though I'm sure it exists, doesn't get voiced very often.

The list of racial slurs on Wikipedia is a bastion of hilarity. I had no idea the vast majority even existed. But I'm also the guy who famously thought he coined the term "jewbag," as NSW can attest. So maybe I'm just naive.

 

[PhilsFan]

The list of Asian racial slurs brought about an entire film (Gran Torino). The power of Wikipedia cannot be underestimated.

 

[lazarus]

So, according to Wikipedia, "kike" was originally used to describe Jews from Eastern Europe because their last names began with "ki".

Looks like Lykke Li barely dodged a bullet.

 

[No spoken words]

This page is funny.

 

[joyfulgirl]

I would like to be in your town, seeing Arcade Fire with you.

I wish you'd been there! There were lots of people there older than us! Like, with white hair and singing all the words. In the front row.

So they call it a "convention center" but it was more like the Mayberry American Legion Hall. It's 11PM and I'm home.

We got second row center against the stage effortlessly. It was just a blast. I'm so happy they played here and that when they looked out at the front row they saw a ton of Native Americans of all ages, and grandparents, and preteens and what I'm sure was a completely different kind of audience than they're used to seeing. Completely awesome experience. We didn't get videos or fancy lights or balloons or a disco ball. But we got intimacy and a crazy ass show.