my hometown sux-a cry for help - Page 2

atari 2600 · 12.05.2006, 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by ploesj

my town is full of rich people or people pretending to be rich.. all they care about is looking good and having everything the magazines tell them to buy...

That sounds like how it is here in Charlottesville, Va. Rich people from all up and down the east coast (many from NYC) are now moving here (we were ranked the #1 city in America a couple of years ago and have placed well since) and we have a large retirement community developing as people are optiing not to retire in hot, humid, hurricane-prone Florida as much anymore.

We have two independent stores; both are the same company and they have two different locations.

As some may remember, one of the locations is a short jaunt from me over a stream, up a hill and through some woods behind my house.

Danny Himself · 12.05.2006, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Canton, OH has been Rob Instigated. It no longer sucks.

EMMAh · 12.05.2006, 05:18 PM

The grass is always greener on the other side. Sucks doesn't it?

gmku · 12.05.2006, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by evollove

Canton, OH. Home of the Football Hall of Fame. Not ONE indie record store. I can entertain myself fairly well, but sometimes being here is a fucking drag. Is there anyone here who lives in Canton? That would be great. Holy shit, I feel alienated, and not in some hip way, either. Just KNOWING another SY fan lives here would make me sleep a lot sounder.

Pathetic post, you say? No fucking shit. See what I've been reduced to?

Ugh. I feel for you. I thank my lucky stars I live in a town with two independent record stores. That's why I try to support them as much as possible and buy my music only there.

But don't feel alone. There are many places like your town, unfortunately. Maybe you could check out where there are still good record stores nearby in Ohio and take some day trips to visit them?

nature scene · 12.05.2006, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by evollove

actually i feel better. you'd be miserable anywhere at anytime. now I can say to myself, "well, at least I'm not him." Thanx!

On the contrary. I am far from miserable. Unlike you, I don't sit around and think about how badly my town or city sucks. I used to, I think everyone does at some point in their life. Maybe my tone wasn't the best, but the point I was trying to make is that if you let insignificant things -- like how many sonic youth fans are nearby or how many indie record stores are close by -- bother you, you completely miss out on all the great things in life that are happening. You'll learn one day that the things that make life great have nothing to do with where you are, but whom you are with.

TheDom · 12.05.2006, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by evollove

Canton, OH. Home of the Football Hall of Fame. Not ONE indie record store. I can entertain myself fairly well, but sometimes being here is a fucking drag. Is there anyone here who lives in Canton? That would be great. Holy shit, I feel alienated, and not in some hip way, either. Just KNOWING another SY fan lives here would make me sleep a lot sounder.

Pathetic post, you say? No fucking shit. See what I've been reduced to?

Hey hey hey

I used to live there (I moved 2 years ago)

Isn't Checkered Records still around?

It is not that bad of a town, really. I would gladly move back up there.

jon boy · 12.06.2006, 04:56 AM

as lou reed said ' when your growing up in a small town the only good thing about it is that you hate it and you know you get to leave'.

_slavo_ · 12.06.2006, 05:44 AM

My hometown is a shithole, too:

The town centre is quite ok and historical, but the suburbs (in the top corner of the picture) are baaaaad.

screamingskull · 12.06.2006, 07:03 AM

Best things in my town are - two indipendant record stores called Tempest Records and Swordfish, The B'ham academy, the bull ring and in the suburb i live in there is this.

atari 2600 · 12.06.2006, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by jon boy

as lou reed said ' when your growing up in a small town the only good thing about it is that you hate it and you know you get to leave'.

Lou is paraphrasing Andy Warhol/Pat Hackett in "Small Town," of course.

Many of Songs for 'Drella's lyrics are ingeniously taken from The Philosphy of Andy Warhol: A to B and Back Again. The authorship is credited to Warhol himself, but everyone knows that Pat Hackett (who knew him well) really wrote the book from tape recordings and dictations Andy made.

porkmarras · 12.06.2006, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by _slavo_

My hometown is a shithole, too:

The town centre is quite ok and historical, but the suburbs (in the top corner of the picture) are baaaaad.

Awesome ,_slavo_.I'll be in Florence for christmas,probably one my favourite places to look at in the whole world.

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