i think there was a lot of stuff over the past decade or so which was every bit as grotesque and ridiculous as anything the 90s secreted, it just mostly isnt anything we would think of as actually valuable at all. thinking about it tho most of the uh bizarre stuff / launchpoiints for the ragnars of tomorrow happened in film. shakycams and incomprehensible editing. smurfs 3d. alvin & the chipmunks 3d. marmaduke film. yogi bear 3d. zooey deschanel films or equivalent. orange & teal editing. maybe even YOUTUBE if that counts / sudden and unrestricted access to the 'mecca' of pipesmoking videos. also tim&eric and maybe some other cool peripheral stuff.
pop music and videogames (title of my new memoir about Growing Up A Pop Culture Junkie In A Dank Pit @___~ coming 2015, you'll laugh, you'll learn, it is "heartfelt" and sincere...) seem less interesting actually idk. I guess pop had vocoders and dubsteps or whatever as well as
millionairesssss but other than that idk. a lot of the subculture stuff seemed p staid apart from like goofy blackmetal stuff or whatever. maybe people will retroactively obsess over chicago juke music or something and there will be a peaceful reign of "im a dog" music played in mcdonalds...
bigbudget videogames ie the stuff people will probably get exposed to first seem kind of boring too and the "smarter" ones more than ever (MORALITY CHOICES barf barf). i guess there is a weird obsession with contemporary urban interstices though like game magazines are just this endless flow of alleyways and fireescapes and sewers and warehouses mixed with iraq equivalent suddenly and you wonder if this is secretly the ""psychogeography"" of the last 10 years. abandoned urban wastelands devoid of life, industry, creativity and being stomped through by musclesoldiers. i guess that condemned game series had you beating feral homeless people to death with pipes too which is idk at least very obviously awful. marauding black zombies etc. unlockables. DLC. creeping through wasted ruins of the future as seen in bioshock fallouts portal etc.
also internet things bleeding into real life, we may never know the true significance or eventual scope of this.. there may yet come a time when people greet me in real life by my e-handle of "ZweihanderSonicX002"...
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