The Faint's show at Liberty Hall tonight is also doubling as a "coming-out" party for the new version of the Lawrence.com website, so a large contingent of hipsters is expected, if only to voice their continuing displeasure with the site.
Here's the scoop from that very website: "Synth-core hipsters The Faint may be the best reminder in recent years that the '80s never really died. The Omaha band's most recent full-length "Fasciinatiion" is full of the same robotic jerkiness and Orwellian techno that characterized past efforts like "Danse Macabre."
If you go and find yourself dancing with a new lady or gentleman, try this line: "This Orwellian techno is hot!"... at which point they might recognize you as a fellow reader of Lawrence.com and you can bond over the shittiness of the new site before going home and making out to Coner Oberst and Cursive.
Chip: "The band has misspelled 'fascination,' in their album title, adding two extra 'i's.' I believe that this is deliberate, and probably artsy."
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...artsy. And therefore automatically worthy of being represented in performative dance at whatever shithouse [ahem] arthouse Nog witnessed the coming of the apocalypse at last week or whatever.
We did not expect the apocalypse to come in the form of a 40-minute staged reading about abuse by a local playwright, but in retrospect I suppose this should not have surprised us.
"Orwellian techno"...that's meant as a joke, right? Surely, the writers over at larry.com aren't believing their own bullshit now and using nonsense phrases like "Orwellian techno" sincerely!
This smacks of gnostic turpitude.
I believe that everything on Lawrence.com is meant in serious hipster fashion.
As for myself, I'm only into Faulknerian barndancing!
I tried Faulknerian barndancing, but the latent racial tension involved turned me off. That, and people named after holidays.
Perhaps I'll give Nabokovian two-stepping a try. It's a strange blend of Russian and Oklahoman cultures. Yee-haw, comrade!
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