American Culture in a Nutshell

This is it. This is the end. Obviously the Apocalypse is at end. And what’s become of White people anyway? Why are they all turning into Black people now? I thought they were separate races.

New Blog Name

As you may have noticed, the blog has changed its name. It’s no longer called Robert Lindsay. Instead, the new name is Beyond Highbrow. Highbrow, middlebrow and lowbrow are intellectual designations for the mindsets of individuals in terms of their relationship to popular culture.

Lowbrow is popular culture, low culture as it is called. Reality TV, pop music, escapist fiction, kitsch, slapstick, camp, toilet humor, yellow journalism, pornography and B movies are examples of low culture. It’s also referred to as trash culture. Low culture food is McDonalds. Low culture sports are football and basketball and especially NASCAR.

The Kardashians, rock and roll, The Valley of the Dolls, pink flamingos on the lawn, the Marx Brothers, Bette Midler, shit and fart jokes, the National Inquirer, spaghetti Westerns, Super Fly, Shaft, Reefer Madness, Easy Rider, Cannibal Holocaust, Death Race 2000, Mondo Cane, Faces of Death, Godzilla, Them!, Jaws, Ilsa – She-Wolf of the SS, I Spit on Your Grave, The Last House on the Left, Faster, Pussycat, Kill, Kill!, The Supervixens, Blood Sucking Freaks, Snuff, Pink Flamingos, Hostel, Psycho, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Blood Feast, 2000 Maniacs!, Reform School Girls, Caged Heat, Eyes Wide Shut, Riot on Sunset Strip, Bruce Lee movies, Cheech and Chong, Harold and Kumar, River’s Edge, Death Wish, Coffy, Billy Jack, Mad Max, Straw Dogs and The Outlaw Josey Wales.

Enough already. You get the picture.

Highbrow is poetry, literary fiction, opera, art movies, classical music, high comedy, that sort of thing.

No one knows what middlebrow even is or if it even exists. The term was invented by Virginia Woolf and a few others around 1920. Apparently they were referring to someone who trying to act or sound intelligent or intellectual but is utterly failing at that task. I suppose here we enter into the realm of the pseudo-intellectual.

I got the term from a former girlfriend. She was looking at me one night at her eyes got big as moons.

She was shaking her heard over and over incredulously. “You’re not even highbrow,” she said. “You’re beyond highbrow.”

It was a Christening, and now it’ll be enshrined for all time on Al Gore’s baby.

Beyond Highbrow is really a joke term. There’s no such thing. Highbrow is perceived as a natural ceiling. What’s beyond the ceiling? Well, the only the sky, and no one even lives up there. So logically, a “beyond highbrow” person would be intellectually out there that they might as well be from outer space. And once again, another fine rationale for the new name of this site.

The Increasing Narcissism, Shallowness and Lowbrow Mindset of the Modern American Man

Ishmael writes:

And didn’t you make a post about how gays were more cultured? A healthy love for literature and art is great, but it seems gays now are more concerned with fashion (why fashion?), female pop singers and beauty products. Feminine products designed to attract a mate. Men shouldn’t be overly concerned with this crap and focus on more important things.

I agree that gay men have basically abandoned literature and art anymore in favor of more base pursuits. This is sad. If straight men are avoiding art and lit because it’s too faggoty, at least we might have the gays to pick up the slack and redeem themselves and us men in general by being the cultural vanguard of the male sex. But sadly, gay men seem to be as narcissistic, petty and pedestrian as straight men anymore.

Fashion, pop singers and beauty products.

These are the obsessions of narcissistic and shallow females. Men of any orientation should not degrade themselves with such a feminine, solipsistic, vain, gossipy and bitchy lifestyle. There’s plenty enough females around as it is. No use creating fake females with Y chromosomes.

Fashion? Lame. I knew two guys who were really into fashion. They both worked at clothing stores in the mall. They were both very good friends of mine, but after the friendships ended (rather abruptly almost like a lover’s quarrel!?) I heard that both of those guys got into homosexuality, or bisexuality I guess, since they were both into women pretty seriously when I knew them.

They were both exclusively straight when I knew them, but they always talked about queers and homosexuality because the retail fashion industry was absolutely swarming with queers, both as workers and consumers.

So the score is

2 guys really into fashion = 2 bisexual guys.

That’s 2 for 2 as I see it.

Screw fashion. I change my clothes a lot (lately I have been wearing an expensive silk shirt that I got for very cheap), but I am pretty much a dog about fashion.

Female pop singers. LOL wut? Nuf said!

On to the next topic!

Fashion products? Huh? I have 2 shavers, soap, shampoo, conditioner and two brushes. I make sure my hair is nice and neat when I go out, but I often don’t even shave. When I do shave, I now shave my ears and even nose. I am told that women like men “clean” this way nowadays.

I tuck in my shirts well or leave them out if it’s appropriate. I tie or belt my pants. I usually wear sandals. I get my hair cut regularly and often even cut my own hair a bit here and there. And I trim my eyelashes sometimes too. I used to have aftershave, but I ran out and have not restocked.

I do not wear stained, ripped, dirty, or smelly clothes. Those go right in the wash or trash. Around my neighborhood, if you avoid stained, ripped, dirty or smelly clothes as a male, you’re basically a fashion maven.

Pulp Fiction Soundtrack – Opening Theme (Dick Dale and His Del Tones – Miserlou)

A good overview here:

Pulp Fiction is a 1994 crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino, who cowrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich, eclectic dialogue, ironic mix of humor and violence, nonlinear storyline, and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references.

The film was nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture; Tarantino and Avary won for Best Original Screenplay. It was also awarded the Palme d’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. A major critical and commercial success, it revitalized the career of its leading man, John Travolta, who received an Academy Award nomination, as did costars Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman.

Directed in a highly stylized manner, Pulp Fiction joins the intersecting storylines of Los Angeles mobsters, fringe players, small-time criminals, and a mysterious briefcase. Considerable screen time is devoted to conversations and monologues that reveal the characters’ senses of humor and perspectives on life.

The film’s title refers to the pulp magazines and hardboiled crime novels popular during the mid-20th century, known for their graphic violence and punchy dialogue. Pulp Fiction is self-referential from its opening moments, beginning with a title card that gives two dictionary definitions of “pulp”. The plot, in keeping with most of Tarantino’s other works, is presented out of chronological sequence.

The picture’s self-reflexivity, unconventional structure, and extensive use of homage and pastiche have led critics to describe it as a prime example of postmodern film. Considered by some critics a black comedy, the film is also frequently labeled a “neo-noir”.

Critic Geoffrey O’Brien argues otherwise: “The old-time noir passions, the brooding melancholy and operatic death scenes, would be altogether out of place in the crisp and brightly lit wonderland that Tarantino conjures up. [It is] neither neo-noir nor a parody of noir”.

Similarly, Nicholas Christopher calls it “more gangland camp than neo-noir”, and Foster Hirsch suggests that its “trippy fantasy landscape” characterizes it more definitively than any genre label. Pulp Fiction is viewed as the inspiration for many later movies that adopted various elements of its style.

The nature of its development, marketing, and distribution and its consequent profitability had a sweeping effect on the field of independent cinema. A cultural watershed, Pulp Fiction’s influence has been felt in several other popular media.

This is really a fantastic movie. It’s violent as Hell, and I don’t necessarily like movies like that, but it’s still excellent. Personally I think it is one of the finest movies ever made, and Tarantino is a genius. Travolta plays his best role ever, Samuel Jackson is incredible, the little known Uma Thurman was amazing.

I could watch it again and again. Like all great movies, it operates on all sorts of different levels, from quite lowbrow to the highest of highbrows.

I also love Dick Dale. I am not sure if he is still alive. He was arrested in his 50′s for screwing a 15 year old girl, but I don’t think he did much time. He was always a real surfer, I believe, and I think he was a pretty good one. I spent many years of my life in Huntington Beach, and I think Dale may have lived here. He was a legend, and his is music is as great as Pulp Fiction is in film.

There is a punk rock version of Miserlou out in the mid 1980′s by one of those antisocial beach punk bands that is totally kick-ass! I used to have it on tape. I was sort of into the Orange County beach punk scene, but it was awfully violent and antisocial.

I got jumped at a Black Flag concert by some maniacs wearing Nazi swastikas, but I didn’t get very hurt. The Alleycats were also at that show. If you can find any pictures of that hot Chinese chick and her husband from Redondo Beach who were the leaders of that band, check them out. I know that Oriental lead singer. She was nuts. She would slam dance at that Hong Kong cafe, and the bitch would actually break tables when she did it.

She completely came onto me at that Black Flag show even though her husband was there, but she gave me only seconds to make a move. I didn’t, and she moved right along. Class femme fatale. Later in the show, she saw me get jumped and she lost all respect for me after that. She would have been an interesting fuck, too bad I didn’t go for it!

That was one badass scene! It was really dangerous, but it was also one of the most exciting scenes I have ever been involved in. Danger and exhilaration = rush! Great fun for adrenaline addicts.

Strangeness on the Beach in Jamaica

Video here.

I don’t understand this video. Is she enjoying it, or is she getting mad? Are those guys having fun, or is this a form or hostility? The link I clicked to take me to this video said, “White woman humiliated on beach in Jamaica.” There is supposedly a name for this sort “dancing,” and it’s normal to dance like this in hip-hop dance halls in the UK, where the dancers are probably mostly Jamaicans.

This is called “daggering” or “muh-dicking,” and is popular in dance-hall culture in Jamaica. However, people are trying to replicate the extreme sexual moves of daggering in the bedroom and there have been many cases of damaged penises over the past year. Some of the injuries have been permanent. Yes, you can break your dick, and it’s not funny at all. Injury usually happens during sex, and you need to get to an emergency room right away. Woman on top is the usual position.

Even White Girls Are Turning Black Now

Here is V-Nasty, part of a group called the girl mob out of Oakland. They all claim to be lesbians or at least part-time lesbians, but they also talk about men. V-Nasty has a little kid by a cock that snuck in there at some point, so she’s not all gay for sure. People say she is not that smart, as in quite learning disabled. She does appear somewhat awkward and gawky in this video.

She recently was arrested for armed robbery, of all things. After she got out, she made a video about it.

So this is what’s becoming of White girls these days?

Good God, this is terrible.

This country is doomed, I swear. Here’s the evidence, right here in this video.

Black People Now Come in White

Black Man Posts on Juggalos

A Black man stopped by and left this excellent critique of White Juggalos, followers of the Insane Clown Posse band. I don’t really mind when Blacks slam Whites, but most of the time, their slams are lame. My problem is more with the lameness of their slams than with the fact that they criticize us.

We criticize and make fun of Blacks a lot (witness Chimpout, Niggermania*, etc.) but Blacks don’t get us back much in return. I always hoped that Blacks would make an anti-White version of Niggermania making fun of Whites in order to get us back, since racist humor will never go away.

This is some excellent racist humor from Black man pounding the heck out of White juggalos. I salute you, brother! Good show!

The male Juggalo (Juggalus retardus) is the most common breed of ICP fan. Clown makeup, as well as displaying how awesome a Juggalo is, also works to mask the major acne issues that they tend to have. However, it is likely that wearing makeup all day is the main cause of their acne in the first place, which explains why Juggalos are still dressed like clowns when well into their twenties: To cover up their pus-filled sores.

In their youth, Juggalos often rebel against “The Man” in unique forms of protest (By saying “fuck” to their parents and teachers, and even going so far as to dress like clowns in school, assuming their peers do not administer frequent beatings for such behavior).

Due to their accelerated education through the teachings of Insane Clown Posse, many feel fit to leave school early, opting instead for a life of cheap drugs, picking fights with other musical cliques, and trying to father a child in vain.

In the non-Juggalo, or “Hater” world, this places their entire subculture on the same intellectual level as children, which perhaps explains the appeal of becoming a Juggalo to those beyond teenage years who suffer from serious mental retardation.

Juggalos form the crusty flakes of shit around the asshole of society. Their lack of formal education or goals in life (Outside the compulsive accrual of every stitch of official ICP merchandise they can get their hands on) means that their employment prospects are on par with illegal immigrants, ex-convicts, the mentally retarded, and sex offenders.

To be fair, many Juggalos happen to fall into at least two of those aforementioned groups, with the exception of illegal immigrants due to the Juggalos’ rich Aryan heritage. Despite these stigmas, Juggalos have a broad range of employment opportunity in many fields.

It is true, though hard to believe, that there is a female version of Juggalo known as a Juggalette (Juggala syphila). Their appearance is remarkably similar to that of the males, which is why many don’t believe Juggalettes actually exist. Identifying a Juggalette from a Juggalo is like determining a penguin’s gender; the only way to find out is to administer a blood test or a genitalia examination, both of which represent a significant bio-hazard to nearby countries.

The precise mental gymnastics that allow Juggalettes to reconcile both the instruction to hate “haters” and being the obvious object of hate in all Insane Clown Posse songs are unknown.

The largest form of Juggalo, Jugalettes are invariably morbidly obese, and as breeding programs have shown, this problem in addition to their cheap drug addictions means that they are unable to successfully produce live offspring. Their natural habitat is the Gathering Of The Juggalos event where they run around topless or naked.

*Chimpout and Niggermania are pretty damned hilarious if you don’t mind racist humor with a vicious side. You have to put aside your morals a bit to enjoy that stuff. I would go there more often just for the laffs, but I feel guilty about visiting the sites. Also there’s an underlying tone of viciousness, meanness and sheer racist hate that makes it hard to tolerate that stuff. You keep pulling your body back in revulsion from the site when you are not rolling on the floor laughing. An interesting experience.

Facebook Group Against Wiggers

Interesting stuff.

Wiggers are ridiculous, but are they dangerous? Or are they just pitiful? Why do wiggers even exist in the first place?

Hat tip: Jewamongyou.

What’s That Clown Doing With That Hot Chick?

What a couple of clowns.

What to get laid, guys? Just turn into a Juggalo, and get yourself one of these hot little Jugalettes.