Dang… Globalization is Heavy

Sometimes when I’m in charge of the music among friends, I put on music that is sort of uncomfortable or annoying. This basically includes music I was in love with as a young person: Placebo, Marilyn Manson, L7 and a little later in life, The Postal Service. While listening to the Postal Service the other weekend a story was prompted that reminded me of this blog…

An email correspondence of this story from H:

i just got back to nagoya。 hungover and want curry. at the party last night genki put the postal service on and some guy started skipping the tracks、stops it and then just plugged in his ipod and declared himself dj。genki looked at me and said it made him remember xxxxx 。i think he did that at a party with u。 i miss that guy

I guess the moral of the story is that hipsters in Japan, much like hipsters in New York are for some reason or another still playing the postal service at parties and are having it shut off by people they don’t know so well.

The weight of this global uncoolness is duly noted.