Word: angst
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Written on the pieces of red paper are students' responses to the question: "Do you strongly identify with being Asian American, or is it just another label?" The responses are plagued by pathos-laden drivel, minority activist jargon and ethnic angst of the Amy Tan variety. They are exactly what one would expect from self-serious Asian college students looking to add excitement to their petty bourgeois existences...
...roses or dinner at the Ritz; I'm pretty low-maintenance when it comes to that sort of thing. My aspirations were simpler: I wanted to wake up, work out, go to class, put in a few hours at my job, do some reading and go to bed. No angst, no stress, and no Godiva hangover the next morning. I actually thought I could survive the 24 hours separating February 13 from February 15 without experiencing major emotional crisis...
...generation has to rebel against the previous one, but all the good things to rebel against--the establishment of the 50s, the wide-eyed leftist political awareness of the 60s, the polyester disco-life of the 70s, the materialistic success drive of the 80s--have already been taken. Grunge-angst, having dispensed with "Greed is good" in the early 90s, now leaves the cutting edge nothing to rebel against but flannel, and what kind of a statement would that be? Nothing is left but to rebel against order itself, to embrace chaos as the ulitimate "fuck you" to the less...
...nostalgically longing for the cultural value system of a safer time. It longs for a time when America was more unified, before cynicism overpowered politics, and when the most disturbing image to be found in popular culture was Edvard Munch's "The Scream," a painting of introspection and angst, not razor blades and agony...
...take on music he makes with Steamship of Beef: It's punk, but not with the angst that punk has. We're kind of slaphappy punk, I guess. It's just maybe making fun of that angst. We do a little bit of skaa as well, so well, so skaa and punk...