i am a person who loves generalizations... i love making them, and even better, i love it when other people make them too... so i'll readily admit (for the millionth time) that i am a hypocrite, just like everyone else. but i do like the assumption that modest mouse listeners, and more specifically those on the list, should be more intelligent than they have demonstrated. first off, i would like to believe that i am a pretty intelligent person... there aren't too many people on this list that i actually keep in contact with, but i think that they would honestly say that i am a bright young woman... however my posts are laden with swearing and duragatory statements... because my emails read as such, does that actually make me a person that knows nothing but how to swear and fast forward a good lesbian porn flick to the good parts? i'd like to think not... there are times that the content in the posts makes me want to start beating little children because it sucks so bad... maybe it's the people writing it, maybe it's just the topic, maybe it's both... but because people don't write something that others think is profound and laden with meaning (both implicit and explicit), that they are retards that jerk off in public... secondly, just because someone likes a band, doesn't mean that what the band is or seems to represent is what the person is like or stands for... i have witnessed the drinking habits of the mouse however, i myself am someone who does not drink... yet, i can interpret the music the way that i like, just like others interpret the meanings of the individual songs themselves... i bet there are about 3 people who are mouse listeners that are real cowboys and drink and go to reservations, but we can all enjoy cowboy dan on some other level... something tells me that issac brock, jeremy green, and eric judy don't talk on the phone saying that they must make sure that their next grouping of songs appeals to those that are intelligent, are famililar with alocohol and desperation and indie as fuck... i believe that, like most artists, that they hope their music (or other artlike product) appeals to everyone... i think that everyone on this list will admit that it is 98% drivel, and i would say that less than 25% of the people on the list are responsible for it... so lets make a couple of assumptions from that... the stupid ones are the bravest and they are the ones that will give their views more readily than the others... or perhaps, this is as good as it gets... maybe the rest of the list is a bunch of hicks that accidently signed up to this, but really meant to sign on to a list where people traded beaver shots of their first cousins... i am sure that there are people who listen to the mouse that are total cock rock shitheads. it is wrong to assume that everyone on this list, or everyone that listens to modest mouse at that, is so indie that they even buy their underwear at thrift stores. the truth of the matter is i like to swear, i like to shower, i like not drinking, i like buying nice new underwear, i like mindless activities such as watching mtv and soap operas (on occasion), i like finding new clothes that make my ass look good, i like laughing at and making horrible jokes... perhaps issac or eric or jeremy likes the same thnigs i do... because i would like to know that my bizarre indie rock hero(es) go to the army navy store and tries on carhartts on one leg at a time... and then slowly turns around to look and see just how awesome his ass looks in those crisp new pantalones... don't break my hearts you pretty ones! love and david bowie postcards with pictures of the bookmobile on my wall, leigh ps... i'm watching the olympics and they are allowed to say snatch on tv... when can i get this job? i've been practicing at saying that word for fucking years... for reals
