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Britt ([info]musette) wrote in [info]fandom_wank,
@ 2003-08-28 15:41:00
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Current mood:*sporfle!*

It's the circle of wank, now a hit Broadway musical!
This has been on LJdrama.org but god it's amusing and I can't let the fine folks here not enjoy it.

Meet fallinfromastar, who has the gall to not prostrate himself at the feet of the cult of RENT and sees it for what it is, a fairly decent but totally overhyped rock musical with an unfortunate proportion of psychotic fen.

Meet foreversad, who has the gall to call a cast album a soundtrack (a point of contention for theatre afficionados that is NEVER ENDING, just as a point of reference for the uninitiated), and whose grammar continually slips into oblivion. Our dear wanker foreversad also happens to be older than me, which makes me sob.

Meet gruyere, whose grasp of terminology and not-craptastic theatre is only rivaled by his sarcasm and his his apparent ability to withstand repeated kicks to the scrotal area via internet.

I do love it when my little geeky fandom gets wanky. Brings a tear to mamma's eye.

Edited to add: I almost forgot the final gem of this wankfest. foreversad's drama fit exit post. I love it when people think anyone else cares if they huff off from a community. *titter*


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[info]onetrickpony
2003-08-29 02:08 am UTC (link)
Speaking of unnecesary nitpicking, shouldn't that be 'gall' instead of 'gaul'? As in 'insolence or effrontery' as opposed to 'Asterix and Obelix'?

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[info]musette
2003-08-29 02:25 am UTC (link)
::laughs:: That it would be. There's a reason I'm not an English major anymore. ;-)

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(no subject) - [info]onetrickpony, 2003-08-29 02:34 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]musette, 2003-08-29 02:40 am UTC
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Re: - [info]musette, 2003-08-29 02:50 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]onetrickpony, 2003-08-29 03:08 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]musette, 2003-08-29 03:14 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]miss_lizzie, 2003-08-30 05:04 am UTC
Re: - [info]musette, 2003-08-30 06:02 am UTC

[info]phosfate
2003-08-29 06:24 pm UTC (link)
::aside::

These wankers are crazy!

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Dude!
[info]jerry_ds_girl
2003-08-29 02:13 am UTC (link)
That whole album/soundtrack wankfest!! And hello--when's the last time anyone actually saw a record album? They're an extinct species. (Around here at least.)

And of course gruyere would turn out to be a theatre student-dropout.

I'm still chuckling over this. It's the perfect bit of 'wank sorbet', if you will--something light to enjoy after stuffing on way too much carbohydrate!!

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Re: Dude!
[info]musette
2003-08-29 02:34 am UTC (link)
The soundtrack/cast album debate is the wank that never ends in Broadway fandom. There's always a newbie who calls something a soundtrack (and unfortunately usually has a tenuous grasp of grammar and the English language), and there's always a handful of the afficionados who jump down their throats. Oftentimes it doesn't escalate into fullscale wank, but this time, woo. Not surprising that the big wanker involved was a RENThead, there are some scary minions in that fandom. It's too bad, because I know plenty of people who love the show who are great, but as always, it's the insane ones who get the attention.

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Re: Dude!
[info]parlance
2003-08-29 03:03 am UTC (link)
Your icon's loverly.

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Re: Dude! - [info]jerry_ds_girl, 2003-08-29 04:44 am UTC
Re: Dude!
[info]eljuno
2003-08-29 10:08 pm UTC (link)
And hello--when's the last time anyone actually saw a record album? They're an extinct species.

Hm, well, nothing JUST on records, but I own a good deal of recent vinyl...a lot of the more indie bands I listen to are a little obsessed with keepin' teh spirit ALIVE! Pearl Jam used to put their albums out on vinyl about a week before they were released in any other format, I own a couple White Stripes records, a Flaming Lips single on vinyl...some Sisters of Mercy...

Er...yeah. There's SOME record albums still coming out. But they're mostly only owned by the devotees.

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Re: Dude! - darthhellokitty, 2003-08-29 11:51 pm UTC

[info]parlance
2003-08-29 03:05 am UTC (link)
an unfortunate proportion of psychotic fen

Yeah, we got a taste of that when Joey was in the production.

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[info]musette
2003-08-29 03:10 am UTC (link)
I was really thinking the world was going to explode from the wank power of RENTheads and N*Syncers being combined. I still think boy band members should be banned from musical theatre with a teeny bopper fanbase, it's just frightening.

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(no subject) - [info]parlance, 2003-08-29 03:26 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]diamonde, 2003-08-29 04:06 am UTC
Re: - [info]musette, 2003-08-29 05:24 am UTC

[info]alden
2003-08-29 03:06 am UTC (link)
I'd comment, but for once DL from LJ Drama seems to have said it all for me. ~g~

Oh, and the comment thread is really good too.

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[info]musette
2003-08-29 03:15 am UTC (link)
I was a little irked by the "theatre is only for gay men and straight women who can't get laid" bit on LJdrama, since we all know actors are complete whores and most theatre fans are actors, but I found it highly entertaining nonetheless. My little fandom's all grown up.

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(no subject) - [info]alden, 2003-08-29 03:39 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]alden, 2003-08-29 04:12 am UTC
Re: - [info]musette, 2003-08-29 05:25 am UTC

[info]kerikeri
2003-08-29 03:21 am UTC (link)
This "soundtrack vs. cast recording" bit is just reminding me of the spectacular wank that will occur if you call anime "cartoons" around a certain brand of extremely pretentious anime fan. They'll go on and on about cultural integrity and quality and etc. etc., completely ignoring the fact that "anime" is just a word derived from the French word for "animation", which, last I checked, included "cartoons".

I love how people get all worked up over semantics.

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[info]musette
2003-08-29 03:29 am UTC (link)
But it's not semantics, it's terminology! *snerk*

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(no subject) - [info]parlance, 2003-08-29 03:33 am UTC
Re: - [info]musette, 2003-08-29 03:51 am UTC

[info]virago
2003-08-29 04:07 am UTC (link)
That's EXACTLY what I thought of when I read that.

See, wank is universal; it just pastes different names on the same asshattery.

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[info]shoiryu
2003-08-29 05:34 am UTC (link)
DUDE from the departure post:

DON'T LET THE DOORKNOB FUCK YOU IN THE ASSHOLE ON THE WAY OUT BITCH, NOBODY CARES.

.....Wow.

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[info]rikoshi
2003-08-29 05:40 am UTC (link)
That goes so far beyond 'intense' in so many ways...

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[info]jerry_ds_girl
2003-08-29 06:43 am UTC (link)
That fuckkk_everyone person seems to show up regularly, wanking all over lj. Every time I see the name, I always wonder if s/he/it is friends with cobain_x_mortis, what with the 'kkk' in the name and all.

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(no subject) - [info]eljuno, 2003-08-31 04:04 am UTC
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[info]rikoshi
2003-08-29 05:46 am UTC (link)
I love it when people think anyone else cares if they huff off from a community. *titter*

Gee, well, when you take someone with an angstastic handle like [info]foreversad, it's kind of to be expected. If you don't come to the Pity Party, you're just an asshole like everyone else.

People storming away from communities indignantly is just so embarrassingly amusing, though. Do people fail to see the logic behind what they're doing? "None of you like me! So I'll LEAVE! That oughtta show you!"

To quote the great Vizzini... "Morons!"

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[info]onetrickpony
2003-08-29 07:29 pm UTC (link)
"None of you like me! So I'll LEAVE! That oughtta show you!"

*cackles* That just cracked me up. And the Vizzini quote was the icing on the cake.

Dammit, now I want an 'inconcievable' icon!

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[info]musette
2003-08-29 07:43 am UTC (link)
Oh BEYOND messed up. Love the show for the most part, avoid the fandom like the plaaaaaague.

I know a few of our suspects here as well, though luckily, the ones with the better grasp of the English language.

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[info]fearthainn
2003-08-29 06:57 am UTC (link)
Am I the only one who sees the irony of her saying "Peace out. Fuck you all!" Way to mix your messages, lady.

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Re: - [info]musette, 2003-08-29 07:43 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]mpoetess, 2003-08-29 08:39 am UTC
non-sequitur
[info]sagralisse
2003-08-29 10:23 pm UTC (link)
Dude! Someone in that last thread spelled ridiculous properly. I've seen it spelled with an "e" so many times in the last couple of months I was afraid they'd changed it in the dictionary.

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Re: non-sequitur - [info]musette, 2003-08-30 02:33 am UTC

[info]elfy
2003-08-30 01:55 am UTC (link)
well, you guys just seem like a bunch of elitists.

I think this is one of those things that if it's not careful it'll evolve into something much like Snacky's Law - except instead of comparing the opposite side of the argument to high-school bitches, there is an accusation of elitism - which almost always ends up in said accuser stomping off in a huff, (allegedly) never to return, and is almost always because said accuser is wrong and can't accept it/hasn't been accepted into a group of friends...

Take this for example. Riuttafuck ryttu3k accuses a group of board members of being elitist pricks, simply because she's not one of their friends (and it's me she's attacking btw). This elitist wank caused all those she accused of elitism to make mocky elitist avatars (which, unfortunately, are no longer in existence). If anyone's interested, wank starts here...

Hrm. I probably could have made a new post in otf_wank and posted this there, couldn't I? :/ Oh well, it's probably too old...

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Re: - [info]musette, 2003-08-30 02:41 am UTC

(Anonymous)
2003-08-30 09:50 pm UTC (link)
When is someone going to realize that I am a female!!!!



hehehe.


Well, I can laugh at this whole thing because it is amusing and pathetic . . .


Whateva

~Fallinfromastar

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