Sinister: mulling it over

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in Philly we called the mullet a "guido," and it meant less that you listened
to country music and more that yer doorbell would chime "Eye of the Tiger"
when rung and that you wanted to date a girl named Adrian, but it was sort of
a faggy name, and you think John Turturro is the real hero of all of Spike
Lee's flicks. 

To other matters:
 > And yet, when you dare to assert that
something reveals bad taste, you get a whole host of people calling you a
snob and suddenly you don't feel so liberal anymore.

What is "taste" exactly? Is good taste based on technique and an obvious
display of craft. Which doesn't give a wide berth to your more compulsive or
idiot savant types. And it's seems that there are plenty of people dying to be
labeled as in bad taste-and they might have all the craft in the world but
have chosen to turn their back on it. There are so many "tastes" in the world
now, with so many theories and whims and fans gunning behind  each of them
that never again will history be in complete agreement over what is good or
bad. Belle and Sebastian seem to be in sort of good taste, in that they're
mild of manner and well-behaved, but consider how someone a bit more fuddy
would consider "Seeing Other People" or their use of strings as ham-fisted and
unsophisticated. Are they snobs? And "high" and "low" culture is so impossible
to fret over, are you talking about the product produced or who produced it?
The person behind the product tends to mean as much as, if not more, than what
is actually produced these days. Because you know when Versace introduced his
line of pre-stained panties that all notions went straight to mindfuck. Again
it seems to go back to how much thought went into something beforehand. As I
fretted once in front of a boyfriend over the Spice Girls, i.e. excellent pop
but at what cost feminism?, he said: "If it makes your tits wobble then it's
good." Oh, and that's squarely in the realm of bad taste, natch.
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