How much a painting sold for
― suicide is painful (Matt #2), Saturday, 18 May 2024 17:48 (one month ago) link
if a house was designed by a particular architect or not
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 18 May 2024 19:29 (one month ago) link
Related: If a celebrity tears down or otherwise remodels the house they have purchased
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 18 May 2024 19:40 (one month ago) link
SUV's in GTA
― calstars, Saturday, 18 May 2024 19:51 (one month ago) link
an intriguing footnote to Jean-Luc Godard’s extraordinary career - a docu-textual movie collage lasting just under an hour in two parts, or maybe two layers
fuck all that
― suicide is painful (Matt #2), Saturday, 18 May 2024 20:57 (one month ago) link
The Sphere
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 18 May 2024 21:12 (one month ago) link
What? Sphere looks cool!
― calstars, Saturday, 18 May 2024 21:22 (one month ago) link
miranda july. francis ford coppola.
it turns out i didn't really care about steve albini. who knew? i mean i don't want anyone to die. it just didn't make me sad. seems like he had a good time. good life. lots of friends. poker. i liked big black. back in the old days. but the last shellac album i bought came out 24 years ago. and other then some nina nastasia albums that i liked and that he put through his echo chamber i never thought about him much unless people were complaining about him online. i think the internet has numbed me to famous people death. they die so often. there are so many of them! how many times can i be gutted? it would be a full-time job. rest in power, dabney coleman.
― scott seward, Saturday, 18 May 2024 23:32 (one month ago) link
sad realization
― calstars, Saturday, 18 May 2024 23:49 (one month ago) link
I guess I was interested enough in Miranda July (?) to read the NYer profile and then I read the bowl story and byeee
― calstars, Saturday, 18 May 2024 23:58 (one month ago) link
julian assange
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 20 May 2024 17:28 (one month ago) link
That New Yorker flap.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 20 May 2024 17:40 (one month ago) link
it turns out i didn't really care about steve albini. who knew? i mean i don't want anyone to die. it just didn't make me sad. seems like he had a good time. good life.
This thread is a paradox, because posting to it requires that we care enough to come to this thread and make posts - worded carefully enough to sufficiently express our lack of care (Pro-tip: Be sure to lower-case his name!)
The only time I ever care about a celebrity dying is when I feel like they were someone with a lot more to offer the world. Maybe that's insensitive of me, but I guess I don't really care all that much about people I don't know dying (of natural causes) to begin with. Plus, with celebrities, most of their personae are so carefully managed - we can't even believe what we know about them is true. When a creative person I care about dies, I celebrate their life by digging deep into the art they left behind, and I've enjoyed doing this with Steve Albini. He made some good music, produced engineered some really good music, and the story arc of his life is interesting and inspiring to me, as I like stories of redemption and in my eyes he successfully redeemed himself. It's nice to see the scenario of "Famous person starts out nice; gets rich and becomes a reactionary asshole" play out in reverse sometimes.
― beard papa, Monday, 20 May 2024 17:58 (one month ago) link
he did cool stuff. i have enjoyed his music. especially when i was a teen. i just thought i would feel something. it surprised me. death on the internet has definitely done something to me though. maybe its just overload and my brain is shutting down a little now. i have my own problems with depression and sadness and i think it would be best for me to steer clear of memorials and tribute threads and facebook reminiscences for everyone cool who dies. i still miss jonathan demme. (i do most things lower-case online cuz its faster.)
― scott seward, Monday, 20 May 2024 18:07 (one month ago) link
i must cosine the not digging overly excessive grief when someone rly old dies (or in the same vein any kind of celebration when an awful person dies old and unpunished)
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 20 May 2024 19:57 (one month ago) link
i pretty much draw a blank when it comes to feeling anything about any semi-famous culture person dying at this point. i did like reading about albini after his death, in the way that it's nice to read remembrances from people who admired the deceased. i get that he meant a lot to .. don't mean to sound glib here but .. "band dudes". i have a few friends rip-ing someone every week or so and i don't understand it tbh. i just feel like i need to save my mourning energy for the time when someone i'm close to passes. i've got to be careful about how i spend my emotional energy, it isn't an unlimited resource.
― he/him hoo-hah (map), Monday, 20 May 2024 20:29 (one month ago) link
i've got to be careful about how i spend my emotional energy, it isn't an unlimited resource.
wise words
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, 20 May 2024 20:50 (one month ago) link
otm map
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 20 May 2024 21:17 (one month ago) link
definitely
― budo jeru, Monday, 20 May 2024 21:25 (one month ago) link
yes, well said
― beard papa, Monday, 20 May 2024 21:55 (one month ago) link
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, May 20, 2024 1:40 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
late 2000s civil libertarian alfred rolls in his grave!
― brony james (k3vin k.), Monday, 20 May 2024 21:58 (one month ago) link
the FUCKING FOUR HOUR YOUTUBE VIDEO detailing the failure of the Star Wars Galactic Empire resort at Disney World.
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 May 2024 20:02 (one month ago) link
If it was done by the Red Letter guy, I might watch it.
― pplains, Friday, 24 May 2024 00:10 (one month ago) link
― brony james (k3vin k.)
she was railroaded
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 May 2024 00:25 (one month ago) link
"novelty" covers
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 15:59 (four weeks ago) link
a polka version of a GnR song? fuck offfffff
I'm only a fan of that stuff if the cover is like an enthusiastic rendition of the song that just happens to infuse a different genre into the mix, and not the average Youtube attempt, aka "OH LOOK AT US, how WACKY, we did SLAYER's RAINING BLOOD as a Chicago blues song - pls smash the like button for other weird experiments from me and my zany bandmates, look at me I'm picking my nose aren't I crazzzzzzzzzy".
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 16:17 (four weeks ago) link
for whatever reason "Poker Face" had an inordinate enough of those goofball covers when that song first dropped
to be fair, i don't think anyone really "cares" about wacky covers. any more than they care about post-donnie darko slowcore new wave/grunge covers. they are just part of the landscape.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 16:17 (four weeks ago) link
I do remember ILX (and me) clowning on that ridiculous Lorde cover of Everybody Wants to Rule the World
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 16:18 (four weeks ago) link
i mean the dickies probably perfected the wacky cover in 1979. or the flying lizards did. i was a big fan of golden shower of hits by circle jerks. and "i'm not lisa" by killdozer. but by the time you get to that carpenters covers album you have reached gen x overload and its all downhill from there.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 16:20 (four weeks ago) link
i feel like jeffrey gaines earnest "in your eyes" was the beginning and the end of the sadsack cover. but i shouldn't talk i have considered getting a this mortal coil tattoo and covers don't get any more sadsack than that.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 16:22 (four weeks ago) link
I got into Fallout Boy through the Billy Joel cover, it’s way better than the original
― brimstead, Tuesday, 28 May 2024 17:59 (four weeks ago) link
b b b but what about the psychedelic/noise record of “Paint it Black” covers? https://www.discogs.com/release/732470-Various-Painted-Black
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 11:02 (four weeks ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVL780cObvw
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 11:03 (four weeks ago) link
those are good imho
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Wednesday, 29 May 2024 14:18 (four weeks ago) link
Rare Wu-Tang Clan Album to Be Played at Exhibit in Tasmania
― scott seward, Thursday, 30 May 2024 18:50 (four weeks ago) link
they're misleading, it's not the formerly Shrekeli owned disc, it's just one hour of an extension of the "keep feeding you" sketch over a RZA piano beat
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Thursday, 30 May 2024 19:07 (four weeks ago) link
Rishi Sunak leaving D-Day celebrations early to record a TV interview.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Friday, 7 June 2024 07:12 (two weeks ago) link
Tory voters probably do care though
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 7 June 2024 07:15 (two weeks ago) link
Prompted by just watching some tit from the SNP being all faux outraged when he should just have said, "Meh, whatever, can we talk about something important?"
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Friday, 7 June 2024 07:20 (two weeks ago) link
... some tit who had to mention his how his great uncle was in the catering corps in WW2 or whatever.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Friday, 7 June 2024 07:22 (two weeks ago) link
Trump was correct, a bunch of losers!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 7 June 2024 07:35 (two weeks ago) link
it's going to be sickmaking to see Starmer trying to capitalise on this when the cunt doesn't even know the difference between D-Day and VE Day.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 7 June 2024 08:04 (two weeks ago) link
The foul on Caitlin Clark
― Josefa, Sunday, 9 June 2024 20:20 (two weeks ago) link
same here, I’ll leave it at that
― brimstead, Sunday, 9 June 2024 20:51 (two weeks ago) link
Michael Mosley
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 10 June 2024 00:06 (two weeks ago) link
Chappell Roan
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 10 June 2024 02:41 (two weeks ago) link
The Trooping of the Colour - this shite's been on for like three hours now, stupid fucking country.
― ILX: a violent left-wing mob who hate our country (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 June 2024 11:35 (one week ago) link
... the good news is it's absolutely pissing it down out there.
― ILX: a violent left-wing mob who hate our country (Tom D.), Saturday, 15 June 2024 11:50 (one week ago) link