It's performative. But then, being a modern adult is performative too: almost every body in a job that has some responsibility has some version of impostor syndrome, acting out an authoritative role in order to convince others that they know what they are doing, while knowing deep down they have no idea what they are doing really and they are making it up as they go along. You aspire to control.
Sophistication
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Simon silverdollarcircle
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Is Drake sophisticated? He goes on about his wine cellar a fair bit doesn't he?
And Im pretty sure, although not 100%, that I've seen him wearing a poloneck
And Im pretty sure, although not 100%, that I've seen him wearing a poloneck
More than Mills, i would say, who was more in the interplanetary sun ra vision.
Leo
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but that's not "true" sophistication, though. sophistication doesn't work up a sweat or have to shout over loud music.
Leo
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yeah, me neither. although I can't imagine those comps are less sweaty that Sade!
Simon silverdollarcircle
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When we all (individually) sit on hard wooden chairs and pretend to like wheezing sounds made by a legendary improv musician at cafe oto for 2 hours, and don't talk except to quietly order a 7 pound beer with a name that invites a very ambiguous and tentative pronounciation...
We're being sophisticated, right?
We're being sophisticated, right?
I don't go cafe oto i like to splice those wheezing sounds into distorted post-acopalyptic techno mixes to offend clubbers, the most boring people on earth next to golf fans.
Leo
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I think of "sophisticated" as more old-school: chamber ensembles, piano recitals, early or classical music in general, opera.
Simon silverdollarcircle
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Oh fuck, cafe oto is as sophisticated as I get. Am doomed to be a perpetual teenager
Simon silverdollarcircle
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Some of my old raving mates have started pretending to like opera
It's baffling, when Sade is right there
It's baffling, when Sade is right there
Leo
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you're right. but oto attendees probably run the gamut, not all upperclass bluebloods surely.
Simon silverdollarcircle
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No they let all sorts in.
But I think as long as you're not really having fun, but pretending you're enjoying it, and seeing what you're doing as some how "self improving " then it's pretty sophisticated, regardless of your class position . Certainly as sophisticated as I get
But I think as long as you're not really having fun, but pretending you're enjoying it, and seeing what you're doing as some how "self improving " then it's pretty sophisticated, regardless of your class position . Certainly as sophisticated as I get
Leo
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that describes half of my nights out seeing friends' bands.
Those chairs are the most uncomfortable I've ever suffered in London, gave me a dead arse minutes in. The beer glasses are small too.