art fag

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(person) by stain (8.5 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Thu Jan 13 2000 at 9:13:59

This is a label established sometime in the 1980's by the Dead Milkmen. The song that gives us this great description is "You'll Dance to Anything". Basically, anyone who is: 1. either pretending they have a complete understanding of the art world,(and who the heck would that be?), or 2. someone whom we might say is creative. 3. The direct opposite and right-brained version of techie. Note: This is not a title indicating a person's sexual orientation.

(person) by Stride (3.2 wk) (print) ? (I like it!) Wed Apr 19 2000 at 0:43:53

a fashionably gothic, heterosexual, dateless, caffeine-poisoned, posing, scrawny, black turtleneck wearing, slim cigarette smoking, spoony bard that thinks everything he has yet to touch is droll. many over 45 years old are seen wearing berets, these are called beatniks.

(always a work in progress)

(person) by wharfinger (6.3 y) (print) ? (I like it!) 1 C! Wed Apr 19 2000 at 5:20:24

When I Was In College (tm) in the mid-eighties, we used the term "art fag" to signify a sort of beta version of what people now call a "goth": They dressed funny, they wrote execrable poetry, they listened to the Cure, the Smiths, Joy Division (the more clued-in ones, anyway) and Bauhaus. I once played Eno's "Third Uncle" for one of them and he told me that he "liked the original better". They always monopolized the college radio station. There was a thrift shop thing going on there which I don't think the goths are into, but otherwise it was a real similar schtick. I didn't project a coherent fashion statement so they thought I was beneath contempt. They may have been right. Most of us found them sort of annoying.

All hail the Dead Milkmen; they're from (or three of them are from) Lancaster County -- an even more barren and desolate armpit of Pennsylvania than I'm from. By the way, Joe Genaro (a.k.a. Joe Jack Talcum, a.k.a. etc. etc.) has a band now called Butterfly Joe, who I haven't heard.

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!seineew era sreenigne epacsteN	you spoony bard!	Give the Anarchist a Cigarette	The one thing I cannot write
droll	beatnik	A poem I wrote when I was 5	Gimp is not superior to Photoshop
I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?	lipstick on my cigarette	The Dead Milkmen	Anal Cunt
Fag hag	Robert Smith	The best comeback ever	Joy Division
Kid A in Alphabet Land	Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict	The Cure	execrable
thrift shop	power chord	techie	Killing of a Flashboy

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