Pretentious bollocksPossibly the worst event I ever went to was an evening of turntablists in London. The lights went down, the first guy put a cymbal onto a turntable, dropped the needle on it and left it making screeching noises for ten minutes.
When the lights came up, half the audience had snuck out.
What's the most pretentious rubbish you've ever been to see in the name of art?
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chthonic, Wed 28 Sep 2005, 14:19)
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University - home of pretentious bolloxIf you want pretentious bollox, go to Uni. There's lots of it about. I went to Oxford and on the whole I met some v nice people but I didn't half see a lot of pretentious wankers: 1) girl who used to dance in the quadrangle semi-naked in the rain, because she said it was the Muse caressing her skin encouraging her to paint.
2) I was tutored by a certain well-known Irish poet cum critic who regularly appears on the Late Review / Newsnight Review and he wrote/writes the most appalling poetry. Never understood any of his lectures or tutorials. Everything had to be related to Ireland in some tenuous way. But to be fair to him he wrote me a nice letter after my Finals.
3) Lots of "normal" paupers pretending to be friends with rich people who own half of Cornwall and pretending they like them and braying loudly cus they think it's ironic.
Sigh....I loved being a student. Not.
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