As an owner of several Danelectro guitars, they’re fucking IKEA furniture. Literally hollow and made of pressboard. NOBODY put hard work into that guitar.

I read a story about Jimi a while back and what really struck me was that it didn’t fucking matter what guitar he had in his hands. He sounded like Jimi Hendrix and a god.

These are two of my favorites.

Who wastes a perfectly good guitar?!

It always bothered me more when punk acts did it, because it felt like a petulant, decadent dad rock thing. Like, if you don’t want it, chuck it to the ground, someone will give it a good home.

It’s one of those things that’s contextual: it depends on who is doing it, where they’re doing it and why for me.

If kids these days wanna rebel, they outa smash their iPhones.

Do we need an actual reason to smash stuff? It’s just fun to do

It’s a friggin’ guitar. It’s not like she’s smashing baby seals or covid vaccines.

I think those complainers have always been like that, but nowadays they’re just not getting the same amount of narcissistic supply that they used to “back in the day”. If you don’t think the world revolves around you now, chances are you’ll do alright when you’re older. At least that’s what I hope for, being in my…

Honestly, the discourse turned me from thinking that smashing guitars was passé to believing that Bridgers should’ve smashed more. Maybe flattened them with a big ol’ truck.  

The backlash to this says more about SNL’s viewership than anything else.

People getting the vapors over guitar smashing is truly baffling, considering how common it was when these old people were younger. What happens to old people that makes them like that? Is it some societal thing, or do their brains change? Help me, I’m over thirty and I want to know before it happens to me.

I genuinely thought people were joking when they said they were upset about this. Smashing a guitar at the end of the performance is such an long-running and cliché act of rock “rebellion” that it almost loops back around to being tame.

I am American, and I think I finally got a more complete picture of Lincoln in a collegiate history class specifically on the Civil War and Reconstruction. But up until that point, my entire education about Lincoln was basically boiled down into these bullet points:

That was a long way to say “all lives matter”.

And, in the unlikely event that he had “no malice or ill intent”, or someone is actually trying to educate themselves, it should be explained that black people have everything they need to move forward. They have been moving forward for over a century and a half.

History here is the genealogy of a current situation. A situation that has its roots in culture, in memory, in representations.

Who ungreyed this? I’m embarrassed to be the same species as the person who posted that.

As they say, the first step is acknowledging that you have a problem. And despite the disingenuous “honest question”, you aren’t yet interested in doing that.

I love her.