the guy who knew very little and assumed he knew best...

last week, i went to the dep at around 22h50. and last week, on saturday night, was the night of the saboteur ball. for those who don't know saboteur is the very imaginative label who's brought us dj champion (sigh)...
i'll admit that, as much as this label used to suck terrible balls, mostly because of the major douchebag who started it (i won't name him by his name because i've already gotten in trouble with this sort of stuff in another blog...). well, the guy's a pretentious moron who likes shitty music. so, as much as it used to suck huge balls, nowadays, with the recent addition of numéro# and omnikrom, i guess we can say that suck smaller balls.
but anyway, this is enough for me to absolutely know that i'd never want to go near a saboteur event (oops, i'm going to omnikrom's album launch tonight...) in my life, simply because this label, having been propelled by champion's success (sigh), attracts the very kind of people who listen to champion... duke, these are the people who wear matching baseball caps, buy matching lycrs suits and strollers, go to edgar and baldwin's...
so i was at the dep that's just by the sala rossa on st-laurent, at 22h50, the night of the saboteur ball, and, of course, there was a huge line up. so there i was, standing in line with my 12-pack, surrounded by a bunch of people who were obviously going to this thing. i could tell because of the numerous von dutch baseball caps, among other things.
right behind me stand a 40 year old gay bachelor (there was no way that any guy would ever want him for a partner) and his secretary, or something, who was a dumb 35-40 year old st-jérôme expat... at the beginning, i wasn't listening to their conversation, but then i overheard what was being said behind me and noticed that the guy was giving a music history 101 lesson to the girl... he seemed particularily fond of what he called "techno music"... at one point, he admited that techno music certainly hadn't reinvented the wheel, but almost had, and that it was a product of the late 1980's. then he started to talk about his roomate who listens to "indie music", which, the guy said, was absolutely unimaginative and nothing but a copy-paste of R.E.M. and U2 who, as everyone know, were the true talents in music since the beatles (yes, he said that) and who strived to innovate and find new ways to play interesting music. nowadays, he said, musicians can only copy what had been done before. then the girl said something i couldn't quite understand, at which point the guy said "no, you're referring to electronic music... they also use guitars... and you know who invented that? CHAMPION, a montrealer..." and the girl to add "oh yeah??? that's great!!!"
so there you have it, before champion, no one ever used guitars or real instruments in electro music.
and that, my friends, is why i tell you that people like stuff that they either don't know, or even worse, that they can't even tell you why they like it.