The Dayton Dirt Collective, a small, crappy venue located at 144 E. 3rd St in downtown Dayton, has been throwing boring shows that nobody goes to for over a year now. With the summer show season winding down, we at the VD thought it would be the perfect time to pay tribute to some of the members who spend so much time in this wet dog-smelling shithole. So we bring you a new poll: Who is King of the Self-Righteous Artfag Whiners? We would like to thank the thoughtful reader from whom we stole the idea! And the nominees are:Aaron Smith - artfag to the max! Aaron was the bass player of seminal Dayton "post-rock" noise act Romance of Young Tigers, a band whose lack of talent could only be surpassed by the dumbness of their name.
"Punk Rock" Nick Anderson - A whiny crybaby who hasn't taken a shower since Headbanger's Ball went off the air, prNick is the founder and treasurer of the DDC. Perhaps the most self-righteous member, prNick can often be found moping around the dirtspace sweeping up cigarette butts, presumably to smoke later in the gutter with the other members of Rad Company.
Jim Tarjeft - Drunken fool Jim is the facility coordinator of the DDC. Though we couldn't figure out what that title actually means, our guess is that it's just a ploy to make him sound impressive to women. Sorry Jim! Never gonna happen!
Jeremy Price - Price has been spotted taking money at the door during many events. Because of this, we at the VD think of him as the "ambassador" of the Collective. With his puffy brown hair, and his dreamy dark complexion, we just really really wanna fuck him.
Ravi Star - Pledge frontman Ravi brings a straight edge presence to the DDC. That's right, just in case the lack of seating, air conditioning, or booze wasn't enough to keep you from coming to shows at the DDC, they made sure to throw some violent, karate-kicking neanderthals into the mix.
Please, take a moment to vote for your choice of King of the Self-Righteous Artfag Whiners. These men have given so much to make E. 3rd Street just that much more disgusting.
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ReplyDeleteThey do it better and are funnier than this "wah wah the cool kids dont include me" site.
Yeah why is VD allowed to call people fags in one article and make fun of other people saying that's gay in other articles, well blogs.
ReplyDeleteSounds like these writers don't have enough going on in their own lives. They're mad because they haven't been as productive or successful. The DDC kids should keep doing what they're doing letting youngsters cultivate their art. Nothing's "faggy" about that, just like any other hobby like whatever the hell this blog is called. I can't believe these guys are that jealous of Kyle Melton's blog. Way to stick it to 'em! Making him more relevant! Hail Kyle!
We're not jealous of Kyle's blog, and we're not making fun of it. Also, this poll was suggested by one of our readers, and the title of the poll was taken word-for-word. So, even though we are using the word "artfag," which incidentally is its own independent word, completely unassociated with the word "faggot," we would like to make it clear that the homophobe was the one who brought up the idea, not VD for publishing it. VD loves gay people!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, shut up about that and start talking trash about the DDC.
artfag is completely unassociated with the word faggot?
ReplyDeleteI JUST SAID shut up about that. That's great that you want to completely ignore the actual content of the post and argue about etymology. I am not literally talking about gay people. As a rule, I do not use homophobic or hateful language. Feel free to blame the person who initially used the term while bashing the DDC in the comments of the State School post. That is where the idea came from, and once again the title of the poll was taken word-for-word from that comment.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like a longshot, but if I manage to take the crown for Self-Righteous Artfag Whiner, what spoils can I expect? Can I at least get a number to use as a reference on my resume? Someone that can verify my experience in "artfaggortry"?
ReplyDeleteHmm... I've never considered the difficulties of quoting the anonymous until now. Interesting...
ReplyDeleteNicholas II (Nikolay Alexandrovich Romanov; Russian: Никола́й II, Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Рома́нов) (18 May [O.S. 6 May] 1868 – 17 July 1918) was the last Emperor of Russia, Grand Duke of Finland, and claimed the title of King of Poland.[1] His official title was Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias[2] and he is currently regarded as Saint Nicholas the Passion Bearer by the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church.
ReplyDeleteNicholas II ruled from 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. His reign saw Imperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to an economic and military disaster. Critics nicknamed him Bloody Nicholas because of the Khodynka Tragedy, Bloody Sunday, and the anti-Semitic pogroms that occurred during his reign. As head of state, he approved the Russian mobilization of August 1914 which marked the first fatal step into World War I and thus into the demise of the Romanov dynasty.
Nicholas II abdicated following the February Revolution of 1917 during which he and his family were imprisoned first in the Alexander Palace at Tsarskoe Selo, then later in the Governor's Mansion in Tobolsk, and finally at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg. Nicholas II, his wife, his son, his four daughters, the family's medical doctor, the Tsar's Valet, the Empress' Lady in Waiting and the family's cook were all killed in the same room by the Bolsheviks on the night of 17 July 1918. This led to the canonization of Nicholas II, his wife the Empress and their children as martyrs by various groups tied to the Russian Orthodox Church within Russia and, prominently, by the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia.
Nicholas was the son of Emperor Alexander III and Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, the latter was born "Princess Dagmar of Denmark". His paternal grandparents were Emperor Alexander II and Empress Maria Alexandrovna of Russia, the latter was born "Princess Marie of Hesse". His maternal grandparents were King Christian IX of Denmark and Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel.
ReplyDeleteNicholas often referred to his father nostalgically in letters after Alexander's death in 1894, although as a child, he was jealous of his physical strength. He was also very close to his mother, revealed in their published letters to and from one another[citation needed]. Nicholas had three younger brothers: Alexander (1869-1870), George (1871-1899) and Michael (1878-1918) and two younger sisters: Xenia (1875-1960) and Olga (1882-1960).
Since his father's cousin, Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich, shared the same first name, the Grand Duke was often known within the Imperial Family as "Nicholasha" to distinguish him from the future Tsar. Maternally, Nicholas was the nephew of several monarchs, including King George I of Greece, King Frederick VIII of Denmark, Alexandra, Queen consort of the United Kingdom, and The Crown Princess of Hanover.
Nicholas, Nicholas's wife, and Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany were all first cousins of George V, king of Great Britain. Nicholas and Wilhelm were not each other's first cousins, but they were third cousin once removed since they were both descended from Frederick William III, King of Prussia.
Aaron Douglas Smith (born April 9, 1976 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is a professional American football player with the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League. He plays left defensive end in a 3-4 defensive alignment. He is married to his wife, Jaimie, and has four children.[1]
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Smith graduated from Sierra High School in 1994. He was inducted into the Sierra High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2004. Smith played college football at the University of Northern Colorado.[2] While there he was the team captain for two straight years and set a university career record with 44 sacks.[1] He majored in political science.[1]
Ravi
ReplyDeleteA Planeswalker who ended the war between the Tolgath and the Elder Ones by sounding the Apocalypse Chime and by that almost destroyed Ulgrotha. She locked herself unwillingly away in a Vault. Centuries later, old and raving mad, she was freed by Baron Sengir. He adopted her as a part of his unconventional family, dubbing Ravi "Grandmother Sengir". Baron Sengir's adoption of her is ironic, for it was he who had taught her the very first spell she knew, with which she slew his father in vengeance for her plague slain village.
It is revealed in Time Spiral that her choice to ring the Apocalypse Chime ruptured the Madaran rift on Dominaria and caused it to fracture into Kamigawa, which allowed the events of Kamigawa to transpire.
James Patrick "Jim" Cannon (1890—1974) was an American Trotskyist and a leader of the Socialist Workers Party.
ReplyDeleteBorn on February 11, 1890 in Rosedale, Kansas, he joined the Socialist Party of America (SPA) in 1908 and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1911. He was personally trained by "Big Bill" Haywood, a top IWW leader, and was an IWW organizer throughout the Midwest from 1912 through 1914. [1]
Following his expulsion from the Communist Party USA in 1928, Cannon was national secretary of the Communist League of America, Workers Party of the United States and Socialist Workers Party until his retirement and move to California in 1953. He was national chairman emeritus of the SWP when he died in Los Angeles on August 21, 1974.
Jeremy Price is a sound designer and sound editor who has been prolific in television show production and also the film industry for over three decades. Recently Price has been the supervising sound editor on such films as 10,000 B.C., AVP: Alien vs. Predator, and Free Jimmy.
ReplyDeleteIn the film Free Jimmy, a Norwegian animated feature film with an ensemble international voice cast, Price himself provided the voice (or grunts) of the central character, an elephant named "Jimmy", as well as the character "The Moose".
The last several comments are not funny, and I don't mean in a "that was so mean it's not funny" kind of way. I mean it in a "you're trying too hard to be funny" kind of way
ReplyDeleteI guffawed at the Ravi comment myself, the other comments however were very dry and uninspired. I require a little bit of vitriol with my obtuseness to find it humorous. Good day.
ReplyDeleteIt's not supposed to be funny. It's supposed to be annoying. Like you guys. Not funny and annoying.
ReplyDeleteall these people are great guys, and friends of mine. but this is still hilarious. i voted for the PRN. but i do love that guy anyway.
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"It's not supposed to be funny. It's supposed to be annoying. Like you guys. Not funny and annoying." Like your mom... ZING!
ReplyDelete"It's not supposed to be funny. It's supposed to be annoying. Like you guys. Not funny and annoying." Like your face... OH SHIT SON!
ReplyDeletehahaha hahahahaha
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ReplyDeleteha. wow.
ReplyDeletejesus is crying
ReplyDeleteThats not jesus, thats punk rock nick
ReplyDeleteDirt Collective is a dank stanky cave not unlike a whores vag. It was started with the best of intentions: to provide a place for lil' kids to listen to music and chug monster energy drinks and not hear about christ like at the attic or the basement or Diamonds. But it went horribly horribly wrong. Were you aware these so called "all ages venues" dont even serve liquor?! WHATSUPWITHDAT?
ReplyDeleteI voted for Ravi sheerly off of the strength of her Wikipedia credentials
ReplyDeleteyou all are mere puppets. ed lacy is the puppet master!
ReplyDeleteDude, I wish I could ring an apocalypse chime.
ReplyDeleteDon't we all.
ReplyDeletecheese and rice, you all needs new hobbies. has all the tokin and smokin just gotten to be too much of a bore for this crazy creation to have taken place?
ReplyDeleteits like channel surfing and you get stuck on this goddamned sorry excuse of a tv show, but somehow you just cant look away or flip the channel so you get sucked in then you zombie out and cant remember why you were channel pausing but then you recall that something momentarily caught your interest but you cant remember what, so you keep watching to try to remember, then you get annoyed so you continue channel surfing but you cant find anything else interesting and its still bugging you what it was about that shitty show that caught your interest, so you return to that channel and commence a renewed mind-numbing interest in...nothing, til you pass out, then you wake up.
next thing you know, fuck. you're doing the same goddamned thing all over again.
I know for a fact every anonymous person on here has skimmed through every blog on here for their own names. Bad press is better than no press.
ReplyDeleteIf telling yourself that makes you feel better about being a narsisistic jerk face.....
ReplyDeleteafter all that hot sex i just want to go to bed, it's time to get moving people...........
ReplyDeletethat neanderthal comment is racist!
ReplyDeleteMan, sex really gives ya a stink, doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteEver had a stinks donut?
STINKS, DON'T IT?
You guys are a bunch o' pimple butts!
ReplyDeleteI got a right mind to shut you up. Don't you know I am a lesbian? And the Mayor of this great City? I bet you denizens of dipshits didn't know that, did you?! And another thing, I'ma close me some charter schools and some magnet schools so I learns ya myself!
I wonder how Josher went about choosing the candidates for this.
ReplyDeleteThe whites don't own Michael Jackson and this blog doesn't own the gays. Quit franchising on our cachet! It's time for us gays to take back bitchy blogging!
ReplyDeleteLet's just round up Andy Rowe, Josher, Aaron Phillips and whoever regularly talks to them and you know, run a Hitler train on 'em! Golf clubs have work efficiently in the past. Smile for the camera douchebags!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was just a pup, my father taught me how to chop wood with an axe. After that, if'n I did a good job and stacked the wood he would let me come indoors, drink a cup of hot water and suck his pee pee. Then after that, if'n I did good he'd let me draw on the floor with chalk. Does that make me an artfag? Then I found this blog and I'm confused about my artistic endeavors and the safety of others as I still have the axe.
ReplyDeleteWow. The last few comments have really gone downhill. It looks like the ignorant inbreds from the craigslist rant and rave section have found this website.
ReplyDeleteanjd exjosherex you should die.
i'm pretty sure this is blog is supposed to be humorous and informative simultaneously. it pains me to see that some people have no sense of humor. if you don't like it, don't read it. it really is that simple. you're doing nothing but agitating yourself when you ignorantly comment on things you hate. maybe the people who make this here place work don't want you to read it. go read perez hilton and fuck off.
ReplyDeleteps: i think artfag doesn't come across as homophobic. it's an artful depiction of artist types. these bloggers are funny and if you can't see that than i feel sorry for you. now go read an oprah book and drink some more lattes.
pps: I voted for Aaron because I think he plays the bass rather well. And he drinks good alcohol from what I've observed. Kudos to that guy.
let the bodies hit the floor
ReplyDeleteIf you don't like the comments don't read them. VD is dumb. It's gotta be called out. It brings out the worst in people. They want everyone to argue and talk shit about each other. They get off on it.
ReplyDeleteEverything about this particular post is hilarious, including and especially the comments. "Grandmother Sengir"? How can anyone even be remotely pissed by that?
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I'm honored to be in the art-f running, at least I'm getting recognized for something :) I legitimately was on this blog reading all the other people being made fun of and was pretty surprised to see myself on here.
Have a sense of humor people, they're just having fun. Speaking of DDC folks, I notice that Andy Stamm isn't present in this poll...
*Ravi
PS: Shame on VD and BD both for not having anything to do in actuality with the avatars they're named after
Hey VD,
ReplyDeleteWhat's next the jews?
THE JEWS
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ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you know a lot about everything you hate. Why is that? Although I agree with your stance I find it a wise thing to know just as much about what you love.
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