Make a Coachella Lineup In Retrospective - COMPETITION!

[Monklish]

Lulz.

[TerminallyCHILL]

oh god you're a writer? what good can come of you sharing any sort of information with anybody?

Despite all the bullshit, he is very well spoken. I could see him writing.


And had he not insulted nearly everyone in this board (including myself), I think most of you would probably enjoy reading his work if you didn't know any better.

[shotglass75]

I'd say it really ought to fall more to the organizers to prevent these kind of occurrences, but yeah in general I think that being a semi-professional graphic artist and entering a contest 12 or 14 or however many times just because you can is kinda lame. If the board was conducting a writing contest, I wouldn't enter 14 times.

you are being retarded. it's a contest. may the best person win. he increased his chances of winning by doing what every other person out there could have done if they took the time. anyone could have done what he did if they chose to. If I were C Dub I'd see if he could just get one pass for the next 7 years. fuck the VIP upgrade.

[C DUB YA]

I'll take what I can get.

[BlueDevil50]

Congrats CDUB...your posters were amazing.

[C DUB YA]

Congrats CDUB...your posters were amazing.

Thanks Blue Devil.

[betao]

C Dub, I'm just glad you left 1995 alone. I knew that when you and Ivy made your 96's, my 1995 was my fighter.

Haha I was ready to go off on you had you done 1995. "Fuck off man! Leave me alone!"

[TomServo]

There's no use blaming C Dub for one simple, undeniable reason:

NOBODY thought they would award him six times. Nobody. No matter how good his posters were, every single person in this thread thought the judges would share the wealth. By submitting a bunch of entries, C Dub had fun researching different years, and increased his chance of winning once or twice. As it turns out, almost every aspect we relied on as entrants went sideways, so he won a bunch of times for a bunch of good posters. Lesson learned - hastily created contests on internet message boards sometimes get screwy before it's all over.

There are other posts that discuss all the issues that surprised people. Folks flaunted the rules, from simple stuff like the font and poster size, to "set it stone" rules like the year being in the right corner. Folks won for pretty terrible designs, atrocious misuse of photoshop, misspelled headliners, headliners that seem incredibly unlikely in that year (due to not existing or barely existing), and finally, one dude won a bunch of times.

GV threw a cool contest out on a whim, lots of people played and had fun, and a fair number of people won and feel good about it. There will always be disappointed losers. In this case, there is some justified frustration. It doesn't make you a whining baby if you lost to someone who clearly spent no time researching or designing, or someone who didn't bother to follow the rules.

We'll all get over it. Maybe the next time they do something like this they can keep the voting on the board or something, so clear winners in all of our eyes don't lose due to unknown arbitrary reasons - we'll openly discuss why we voted for what. There are a rash of posters that just seem incredibly dull or horrible, so average they never entered the collective consciousness... we'll never know why they won, but they did.

One last reason not to blame C Dub - he could have limited his entries to a couple years, but that is no fun whatsoever. You lose the enjoyment of researching all the bands and coming up with a theme that fits the year in question. He had fun with it and was duly rewarded for great work. It's not his fault they rewarded him far more than anyone could have expected.

[fatbastard]

Congratulations to all the losers. This is all you’re going to get apparently

[cassett]

Despite all the bullshit, he is very well spoken. I could see him writing.


And had he not insulted nearly everyone in this board (including myself), I think most of you would probably enjoy reading his work if you didn't know any better.

?? if you call cursing like a sailor and throwing insults around like they are nothing "well spoken" then you must live in a trailer park!

wtf...

[TomServo]

Monklish has a quick wit and can turn a phrase, he just wastes an inordinate amount of time on fake rivalries with Coachella fans who frankly could care less. I don't think any of Monklish's targets are actively planning their defense from the next Monkicide.

If he channeled the energy into penning a novel based on his pissing, fedora-wearing alter ego, we'd probably all read it. Hell, maybe he's already doing it, logging all his flame wars for eventually publication in the tell-all "Under the Fedora: The Bright Whites and Cold Nights of Coachella".

[chairmenmeow47]

C Dub, I'm just glad you left 1995 alone. I knew that when you and Ivy made your 96's, my 1995 was my fighter.

Haha I was ready to go off on you had you done 1995. "Fuck off man! Leave me alone!"

i admit i was mad when randy warned him i was working on a 1996 poster and he made one anyways, but it is a contest. we didn't know how the judging would be done so i can understand wanting to make one for every year if that's something you already do for a living. i know it was a lot more difficult for me to put something like this together since i don't use photoshop, have a job that doesn't use photoshop and go to school, so there was no way i could do a bunch of entries. gotta take advantage of the skills you got i suppose!

[cassett]

Monklish has a quick wit and can turn a phrase, he just wastes an inordinate amount of time on fake rivalries with Coachella fans who frankly could care less. I don't think any of Monklish's targets are actively planning their defense from the next Monkicide.

If he channeled the energy into penning a novel based on his pissing, fedora-wearing alter ego, we'd probably all read it. Hell, maybe he's already doing it, logging all his flame wars for eventually publication in the tell-all "Under the Fedora: The Bright Whites and Cold Nights of Coachella".

hah thats funny... and im not saying i wouldn't read it but i would not call him "well spoken" from what i've gathered from his trolling... thats absurd. He might be "well spoken" but he has never showed it.

[TomServo]

Heh. Now I'm glad I had to study for the Bar. I wasted a lot less time losing this contest than I might have otherwise.

Of course, if I failed that too, February is my "Epic Fail" of 2010. <cue Monklish sarcasm>

[TomServo]

hah thats funny... and im not saying i wouldn't read it but i would not call him "well spoken" from what i've gathered from his trolling... thats absurd. He might be "well spoken" but he has never showed it.

Well, if you bounce around the board and read some of the older posts, you'll find he knows a fair amount of stuff about music (or at least researches it prior to posting).

He has a long history on this board that's impossible to sum up in a few a-hole responses out of thousands.

[TerminallyCHILL]

?? if you call cursing like a sailor and throwing insults around like they are nothing "well spoken" then you must live in a trailer park!

wtf...

Do sailors live in trailer parks? Do all comedians who insult others live in trailer parks? Keep your half-assed stereotypes to yourself. And for your information, no. I'm a 23 year old college student who lives in an apartment close to campus haha. Although the area is pretty "ghetto."

[TomServo]

I'm a 23 year old college student who lives in an apartment close to campus haha. Although the area is pretty "ghetto."

Sounds sexy. Tell us more. Mrowr!

(I come from trailer trash. It's in my blood!)

[beavington]

I think its obvious the boy is pretty good at writing and has a strong vocab, evidenced by the lengthening of words correlating with his feeling threatened

Maybe they should post peoples reviews

[TerminallyCHILL]

Sounds sexy. Tell us more. Mrowr!

(I come from trailer trash. It's in my blood!)

I didn't say I don't come from trailer trash. I just don't live in a trailer park haha.

[Aphexual]

Wow. A writer! Ooooohhh!!!

[JustSteve]

now that they are all done it is way obvious it was a art contest not a lineup contest. So that sucks, otherwise i would not have entered. Too bad it was advertised inaccurately.

what happened to this:

(ok i am really done)

stfu.

[JustSteve]

i already said, i expected that once CW won, it would put him out of the running for other years in order to spread the wealth, but it didnt go down like that

my guess is they went based on the year and had no idea who actually created the poster. and based on the fact this was supposed to be a fun little contest, i assume they did not spend days locked in a room judging. maybe they put them up on a wall, put a fish bowl underneath each one and gave all the employees 1 bean for each year, the bowl with the most won. who knows? who cares?

[beavington]

what happened to this:


stfu.

It turned into i dont give a fuck steve so you stfu.

[cassett]

Do sailors live in trailer parks? Do all comedians who insult others live in trailer parks? Keep your half-assed stereotypes to yourself. And for your information, no. I'm a 23 year old college student who lives in an apartment close to campus haha. Although the area is pretty "ghetto."

sorry wasn't trying to insult you.... was directing it towards monklish.

And to that other comment, just because monklish has google on his side doesn't mean he is well versed in music. I have based my judgement on a little under 2 years of watching the coachella boards and he doesnt have anything positive or constructive to give this community.. I've always been a lurker and didn't register until this contest. why is everyone on his side all of a sudden? dont get it.

[Monklish]

you are being retarded. it's a contest. may the best person win. he increased his chances of winning by doing what every other person out there could have done if they took the time. anyone could have done what he did if they chose to. If I were C Dub I'd see if he could just get one pass for the next 7 years. fuck the VIP upgrade.

Except that I really doubt they're going to do that. May the best person win and whatever, I just think it's gauche. And it is.

[zimmy1222]

congrats to the winners... no discredit to cdub, he's posters were proper, but if he won once, what's the use in giving him 5 or whatever more? at any rate, i guess it's cheaper for them to not award as many people.. carry on.

[abbeyroad 04]

Here's an idea: For all those who feel so slighted (and many of you were really screwed) give one more chance (say 24hrs) to do a 1994 and then everyone can use all of their shoulda/woulda/coulda's and get one more go. No entries from winners though, so no C-Dub #7...

Just don't forget to use Smash Mouth (j/k about that last part but not about the rest).

[C DUB YA]

Here's an idea: For all those who feel so slighted (and many of you were really screwed) give one more chance (say 24hrs) to do a 1994 and then everyone can use all of their shoulda/woulda/coulda's and get one more go. No entries from winners though, so no C-Dub #7...

Just don't forget to use Smash Mouth (j/k about that last part but not about the rest).

I wouldn't do a 94... although I did write out a nice line-up for it. I had thought about it - but seeing as my wheelhouse is more anglo/britpop stuff, 96 suited me just as much if not more. So I abandoned 94 for 96.

[C DUB YA]

congrats to the winners... no discredit to cdub, he's posters were proper, but if he won once, what's the use in giving him 5 or whatever more? at any rate, i guess it's cheaper for them to not award as many people.. carry on.

I do have friends....

[C DUB YA]

my guess is they went based on the year and had no idea who actually created the poster. i assume they did not spend days locked in a room judging. maybe they put them up on a wall, put a fish bowl underneath each one and gave all the employees 1 bean for each year, the bowl with the most won. who knows?

You're probably right.