Who loves Ghost World?
 

If Ghost World was a woman, I'd marry her; and Enid & Rebecca would be my children. Seymour could be like their tutor; kinda like Walter Hartright in Wilkie Collins' The Woman In White.

Haha. I saw the movie first because I was 16 and uneducated as to the genius of Daniel Clowes. But I really like his comics now that I've started reading them.

It's classic is it? I've never read his comics(blasphemy):o
I saw the movie alone, on campus, in the air-conditioned library, on my laptop, surrounded by studying uni students... And the movie's loneliness and desperation reached out and clawed at my heart, enveloping me in its warmth. Daniel Clowes' comics aren't very accessible where I live... But I guess I should make an effort...

You HAVE to read the comic....there is a Sonic Youth reference.

wonderful, thanks for the clue... ;)

What was the Sonic Youth reference? I can't remember and I don't want to go to my room to look it up.

Like OMGZ! Let us purchase things and read them SOLELY for the name-drop of Sonic Youth@!! It must be good, etc. All hail the almighty Gordon's!

I thought it was the Moore's

Is that as far as it goes? A family that shares an SY last name? No wonder I forgot it.

Kim Gordon is a concerned teacher in Silent Hill 3

No, they make some comment about stupid people thinking they're indie just because they know who sonic youth is...i don't remember the exact quote

What the fuck is indie anyway? I mean, I guess I'm indie, coz i play music in a band and don't conform to standard notions of rock music and distribute and play music through non-mainstream venues and methods...

But, honestly; for an /indie-chick-needy-desperate-wanting it/ wanting to get in the pants of an emo boy, that hardcore punk mishap is pure indie for her... Or; maybe; indie are people who read Daniel Clowes comics... Like the venerable Micheal Stipe once said; labels are for cans; not people...

Oh yeah!!!! I remember that now!

Was that the same one where they were talking about Animal Collective and BSS?

the ghost world soundtrack is cool

Indy doesn't mean anything. It's just short for independant. Like emo, it doesn't mean anything. It's just short for whiney. I mean emotion. Damn genres.

I read somewhere, emo is hardcore punk. :P

Well, here is what happened.
There was a hardcore punk band called Rites of Spring that had sensitive lyrics. A lot of bands copied off of them and also incorporated pop-punk- stuff like NOFX and other lame shitty punk. That started emo. When it became popular, emo was pretty much pop-punk with emotional girlfriend related lyrics.

Then there was a group of emo kids that didn't want to be made fun of anymore, so then they started screaming their lyrics and playing more heavy. So it became screamo. Then it turned into hardcore again.

Emo has come full circle, and it has still failed to produce one band that compares to the band that unintentionally spawned it.

That's a very nice story.

When I was in high school (mid 80s), my imaginary dream girl would have been pretty much identical to Enid (Thora Birch in the movie).