On Slacking, A Meandering Rant from TSF4
Posted on January 1, 2010 | By Patty Pino | No Comments
I am honored that you are even listening to me, listening to us, at this moment. Alright – maybe “honored” is a little thick. I’m more like surprised and impressed – in a good way. Hey – I know what it took for you to get here. Booting up things, clicking around places, having to pay attention, downloading stuff, maybe. All of that is work. Really, and I know you have better choices than anything that even resembles work. You could be half-passed-out on the living room couch right now, test-tasting the snacky things that your kid dropped between the cushions, drooling a little. That would be easier; but instead, you’re here. Well, maybe you’re both. Anyway, if you are here, then you, my friend, qualify as a slacker. THAT is why I am honored. Thank you, fellow Slacker, for listening.
Slackers, like me and Chris(tian) and Rob and you, are not incapable of doing stuff. We are actually really capable, and we actually do stuff. It is just that, when given the choice, most times we’d rather not. Well, that isn’t totally true – we like to do the stuff we like to do, just not the stuff we’re supposed to do, or stuff we have to do, or stuff that sucks.
I find myself in total, almost constant, conflict. Do I do the laundry, or surf the web for strange pets-in-costume photos? It is important that I visit my parents and help them take out the their garbage, but just one more episode of Anthony Bourdain’s snarky world-travel show can’t hurt, and then, I’m out the door – I promise. Believe me, besides you, I am the least-disciplined person you know.
The place where my slacker-factor has the most negative impact is in the area of EXERCISE. Can you relate, you couch-loving snack-forager? Even the word sucks – ex-er-size. It sounds like an awkward and uncomfortable way to cancel out the beautiful size of me. I suppose that that is the point, but does it have to sound so dorky? “I’m going to exercise.” Sure…some people call it “working out”, but that involves WORK, and I’m not into that.
I suppose if you could exercise an actually look cool, which you can’t, or maybe if you could hang out with Henry Rollins or Iggy Pop at the gym, which you can’t, maybe it would be appealing. But Rollins and Iggy are like the anti-slackers, and that would bring up so much additional guilt…forget it.
So, how does a slacker survive in this responsibility-filled, money-oriented, you-gotta-work society? Often, in a bitter, and begrudging way. Really, we seek out other slackers who can bring things to the table to assist our lazy-asses. Who wants to reinvent the wheel, when some other guy is into sharing his wheels with his friends? The network of slackers is huge, and we’ll bring it to you, when we’re motivated. We wanna help you, friend, enjoy the moments of your life, with minimal effort. Let’s use this networking and technology crap to ease the pains of your intended efforts and relieve you from the toils of your existence.
~pp
<Hear this amazing rant, as well as other nonsense, on the podcast TSF4: Mary’s Gone Slackers, is NOW ONLINE!>
TSF4: Mary’s Gone Slackers, is NOW ONLINE!
Posted on December 29, 2009 | By Robert LaFrance | 1 Comment
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The Slacker Factor Podcast, Episode 4: Mary’s Gone Slackers
We’re mysteriously hungry for crackers, thirsty for new music, high on caffeine but not motivated enough to get this podcast done in a more timely manner. Subscribe with iTunes
Links:
Meandering Rant on Slacking by Patty Pino
Cool Products Book Report featuring:
Music Segment on Ghostly International and the iPhone application, Ghostly Discovery
Eleven Ways NOT to Suck (loosely based on my own experiences)
Posted on December 18, 2009 | By Robert LaFrance | No Comments
Wear black
Listen to bands that don’t exist
Swear off all friends and/or family
Develop an addiction (sex, drugs… anything will work – just ask Tiger)
Marry Up
TSF3: Frustrated Pleasures
Posted on December 5, 2009 | By Robert LaFrance | No Comments
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Episode 3: Always looking for something else or something other to the somethings we experience every day, we focus on the changed experience of finding new music and the challenges to the way we eat. We wrap with the Jolly Green Giant’s favorite musician, Scout Niblett.
<Check out Rob’s Why All New Music Sucks, a Meandering Rant from TSF3>
TSF2: Well, At Least We Arent Napping
Posted on November 11, 2009 | By Robert LaFrance | No Comments
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Episode 2: The Slacker Factor team ponders the Power of Tape, the advent of Social Networking with all of its love and annoyances, as well as the music of School of Seven Bells who are aptly named after a mythical South American pickpocket training academy (or so says the all knowing Wikipedia).
<Read pp’s The Power of Tape, a Meandering Rant from TSF2.>
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