Pretentious bollocksPossibly the worst event I ever went to was an evening of turntablists in London. The lights went down, the first guy put a cymbal onto a turntable, dropped the needle on it and left it making screeching noises for ten minutes.
When the lights came up, half the audience had snuck out.
What's the most pretentious rubbish you've ever been to see in the name of art?
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chthonic, Wed 28 Sep 2005, 14:19)
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Kazza: re Barley:I think the problem stemmed from the involvement of the usually reliable Chris Morris in the adaptation for the screen and the miscasting of the Barley character. The bloke from series two of Absolute Power looked nothing like the written Barley nor the photograph which once appeared in an early episode of Cunt in TVGoHome.
Anyway, my cousin (former trainee poet, currently "writing a children's book") went to Pembroke at Cambridge and thus had a bunch of loud-ass betoothed yahs at his wedding a couple of years ago. One of them read out some poetry in a special poetry-oration voice using special poetry-enhancing facial expressions whilst holding the book she was reading from in that strange manner employed by people when reading aloud from books in public (as if they're holding a soggy paper bag full of bruised testicles). The only thing she forgot to do was to appear theatrically drained by the sheer emotion of the reading when she finished.
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wingpig wish I'd known about liquify eighteen years ago, Wed 5 Oct 2005, 6:14,
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