@Stop It Stop hating on Reni Laine–she works hard, has a decently devoted following (20,000 views of the Frontiers of Science video) and does what she does well. But even if none of that were true, you would all still share a school with her. Josh’s column this week was ridiculous in terms of super-sweet sentimentality (and pretty bad writing), but he had it right that Columbia needs a civility check.
@Yeah sorry... but that thing about Lit Hum was so unfunny it was painful, and I’m surprised at that because I generally think J.D. Porter to be a pretty witty writer.
i actually was in the seminar when she played the video, i dont know what lecture youre talking about. then of course, i never went to them. but in seminar, everyone laughed.
she’s fucking hot and she’s doing business. the hipsters of the world (read, bwog) are obv gonna be jealous, shes doing what you cant. theres no denying what hipsters actually are: wannabes. theyre dying to be famous, to be artists, writers – and known for it. good for reni laine and it really sucks to be the person who wrote #4. i suspect who you are and you really need a life.
@sounds like someone has got some issues. a girl gets out there and makes it happen on her own, kicks ass, and you want to beat her down. frontiers was obviously a joke…what was your extra credit project??? whether you like her or not at least she plays music she believes in and follows her vision.
@.... You make a light in this world, and just hope that somebody can see it before some Columbia kid kicks dirt all over it to make themselves feel better about what they haven’t achieved.
@Reni Laine sucks. She really does. Her “music” is painful to listen to, and her official artist biography claims she cured autism. She is the opposite of cute, and the entire frontiers of science lecture groaned last spring [audibly!] when the professor played her lame, senseless video.Enjoy your three seconds of fame, Reni – the world doesn’t need a skinnier, lamer Fiona Apple.
2) Tom DeMott nostalgically recalls an evicted autoshop as a “real public space.” Too bad they were 100k behind in rent.
3) Who are you? Do you know Reni? Why do you think it’s your prerogative to judge her? It’s pretentious assholes like you who make this school an insufferable pit of onanistic misnathropes.
@pretentious aspiring asshole critics who take it on themselves to judge others and vocally express their scorn (and believe that this somehow makes them a better person) are out of hand on this campus.
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@eww bad teeth?
@mmm reni lame
@T-Pain I’ma buy u a buuuuurgrrrrr…
@Anonymous you guys are haters. let’s goto burger shack. i actually like her album, i bought it. maybe my ears are broken.
@its funny that all the reni laine posts are probably done by one person.
@Quckie I miss EyePoke. QuickEye lacks originality.
I don’t know who Reni Laine is, and I don’t care. If she’s the girl in the picture, tell her to eat a burger.
@Reni Laine I love burgers. If you buy me one I will eat it. Email me.
@Stop It Stop hating on Reni Laine–she works hard, has a decently devoted following (20,000 views of the Frontiers of Science video) and does what she does well. But even if none of that were true, you would all still share a school with her. Josh’s column this week was ridiculous in terms of super-sweet sentimentality (and pretty bad writing), but he had it right that Columbia needs a civility check.
@Yeah sorry... but that thing about Lit Hum was so unfunny it was painful, and I’m surprised at that because I generally think J.D. Porter to be a pretty witty writer.
@senior the best lit hum synopsis was “bullshit hum” in the blue and white freshman year.
@seriously takes one to know one.
i actually was in the seminar when she played the video, i dont know what lecture youre talking about. then of course, i never went to them. but in seminar, everyone laughed.
she’s fucking hot and she’s doing business. the hipsters of the world (read, bwog) are obv gonna be jealous, shes doing what you cant. theres no denying what hipsters actually are: wannabes. theyre dying to be famous, to be artists, writers – and known for it. good for reni laine and it really sucks to be the person who wrote #4. i suspect who you are and you really need a life.
@reni Um, wasn’t this a Quickeye post and not a Reni Laine post? What’s the big deal guys – it’s just a picture.
@Not a Reni fan: To all defending Reni…do you actually believe this is true? Or maybe, just maybe, is she a bullshit artist?
“While helping raise and cure her sister of autism and struggling through her parents’ divorce at the age of 13, Reni found solace in her piano.”
http://www.renilaine.com/blog/?page_id=18
@everytime someone posts a pro-Reni comment, a little part of me dies
@sounds like someone has got some issues. a girl gets out there and makes it happen on her own, kicks ass, and you want to beat her down. frontiers was obviously a joke…what was your extra credit project??? whether you like her or not at least she plays music she believes in and follows her vision.
@oh my god... are you serious? what is this? a disney movie?
@.... You make a light in this world, and just hope that somebody can see it before some Columbia kid kicks dirt all over it to make themselves feel better about what they haven’t achieved.
@bwog is overrun by hipsters. get real people to do reporting.
@mclovin because you really need a columbia education to know how to perfect that vacant, malnourished runway walk.
@asdf fat girls hating.
@thank jeebus for #4
@#4, thank you You have spoken the truest of words.
@Reni Laine sucks. She really does. Her “music” is painful to listen to, and her official artist biography claims she cured autism. She is the opposite of cute, and the entire frontiers of science lecture groaned last spring [audibly!] when the professor played her lame, senseless video.Enjoy your three seconds of fame, Reni – the world doesn’t need a skinnier, lamer Fiona Apple.
@lulz 1) WikiCU’s one sentence summaries are better http://wikicu.com/Literature_Humanities
2) Tom DeMott nostalgically recalls an evicted autoshop as a “real public space.” Too bad they were 100k behind in rent.
3) Who are you? Do you know Reni? Why do you think it’s your prerogative to judge her? It’s pretentious assholes like you who make this school an insufferable pit of onanistic misnathropes.
@Hmm Onanistic misanthropes? Who is the pretentious asshole again?
@pretentious aspiring asshole critics who take it on themselves to judge others and vocally express their scorn (and believe that this somehow makes them a better person) are out of hand on this campus.
@because... she was a model for Vena Cava’s 2008 spring collection yesterday. It was fabulous.
@and that joey kid is hot.
@why is reni laine in that picture?