I liked this mountain before it was popular.

Mountains are so mainstream. I’m into valleys.

Several critics have problematized the aesthetics of the Mountain: historically, the Claimed Mountain is a token of colonial possession; the distinctly masculine personality type known as the ‘Mountain Man’, the Mountain’s quasi-phallic shape, and the preponderance of masculine montane namesakes reifies the Mountain’s role as a symbol in normative gender dialectics in which the masculine dominates that which lends it support. When we look at the Mountain, do we really see a mountain, or ourselves? We may have to become postmountain before we can disentangle the Mountain itself from the cultural associations that form our present perceptions of it.

made me remember this :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU2ftCitvyQ
lol

Oh dear Lord, Ellipsis. That was astounding.

Yeah, great discussion Ellipsis.

Grrrl should have retorted, “But do you have a flag?”

pt!

best. sound effect. ever.

8.7/10, Best New Mountain

Is this a justification for hipsters desperate to like something obscure listening to shitty bands?

Obscurity is the new black.

@Ben F more like a commentary on the hipster attitude towards music – if someone knows of it, then it is automatically shit.

Which is why I sit at the fringe of hipster circles with a notebook and pen while they name-drop bands. It’s a good way to find new music, if nothing else.

I was into being Ben way before Ben F there. But now it seems like everyone’s a Ben. I think I even saw a Ben on MTV. I swear, everyone’s a follower.

hmm.. so the moral of the comic is that there is no room for obscurity in the world?

Have you ever really tried to obscure a mountain?

So. Much. Fabric.

Mountains are way too big-picture. It’s cairns that really let you in on what’s what.

I’ve been reading Lovecraft, and this seems to be the same metaphor he used in “The Other Gods”, albeit steeped heavily in optimistic mysticism.

whats all this crazy mountain talk is about? from here looks like all plains to me

And he named the rock-pile “Wavves.”

You’re missing the point we like the mountain Ironically. Actually the hill is my favourite thing right now- so much more twee!

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No- wait-! what-? There is no next button! I have reached the present!

Perhaps I should climb the current mainstream mountain in celebration.

Or in sorrow.

Hills are just the mainstream antecedents of mountains. I’m much more into post-mountains at the moment.

Are crumbs all that’s left?

I understand it’s about music, I just feel like it’s making a statement about the decision to listen to bad music just because it’s obscure for the fact that in the last panel Grrl gives up and plants the flag in a shabby pile of rocks. Meh, interpretation.

I favor peppering the Earth with asteroids, thus creating all new rifts, valleys, and of course, mountains.

I know, asteroids have been done. But it’s been awhile, and it’s time they came around again.

Caves are where it’s at.

@Nathan It works if you hide them in a bunch of other mountains.

@Ben F – I have to wonder if Animal Collective is an “Emperor’s New Clothes”-type joke that NPR is playing on us all. I’ve listened to their latest album and a few songs from their prior albums, and I just don’t see the appeal, yet the critics gush about everything the band does.

It works the opposite way as well, declaring anything mainstream to automatically be mind-dissolving pabulum. Lady Gaga became enormously popular overnight, therefore she must be another brainless industry product, never mind that she’s an experienced songwriter who has plenty of back material to show her artistic pedigree.

I was uncool before uncool was cool.

I claim this small pile of rocks in the name of obscurity!

I prefer horizons.

Welcome to Shitty Mountains.