we'll always have reptilia

this week, i had a lot of work. i had two important papers to write, and a lot of reading regarding subgame perfect nash equilibria. by yesterday afternoon, however, i had finished all of it. instead of doing anything remotely useful, i bullshat with matt and bryce for a few hours, and read 'the onion' while listening to the strokes.

for those of you that don't know, i hate the strokes. i have always found them arrogant and poseurs of the highest order. julian casablancas, lead singer and modelling agency scion, went to some ridiculous swiss boarding school that dodi al-fayed and the prince of norway went to. another of his bandmates went to the same school, and they met again in the new york prep school, the dwight school. knowing this, is it wrong to to point out that the strokes dress, in fact their entire construction, is artfully created to make them seem like starving artists, when they are no such things? along with all this absurd affectation, they have a habit of playing their arrogance as one of their strengths, and people who don't like the strokes are charged, by band and fans alike, as not 'getting' the strokes, when there is not a whole lot to get.

so why was i listening to them, i imagine you'd ask. the reason is simple. despite my protests, and probably veiled hate, of the strokes, they make some of the best songs i've heard. i know, it tears me up, but when i hear 'reptilia,' it gets my right down in my dualistic heart.

hypocrite, meet the world.