aristotle is surely the smartest person to have been wrong about everything
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:35 (four years ago) link
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor)
excuse me the ghost of athanasius kircher would like to have a few words with you
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:39 (four years ago) link
Syd Barrett
― the grateful dead can dance (anagram), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
Tbf the same could be said of Plato.xp
― pomenitul, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
Syd Barrett’s eyes are underrated
― brimstead, Friday, 1 May 2020 18:53 (four years ago) link
anagram outed as Roger Waters
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, 1 May 2020 18:54 (four years ago) link
if you have any awareness that your opinion might be at all subjective, you have to leave that shit at the door, it harshes everyone else's rage buzz.
That describes like 90% of ilx tho
― Rodent of usual size (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 1 May 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
Ban all opinions imo.
― pomenitul, Friday, 1 May 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
xp nah, about 5% of ILM, max
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 1 May 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
The Shaggs
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Monday, 4 May 2020 03:17 (four years ago) link
they taught me who parents are!
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 4 May 2020 05:02 (four years ago) link
and gave me my philosophy of the world!
― My Chess Hustler (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 May 2020 05:04 (four years ago) link
eileen myles
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
yes
― adam, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 18:57 (three years ago) link
Wikipedia: Novelist Dennis Cooper has described Myles as "one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature."
If this is the highest praise from the most prominent proponent that the Wikipedia contributor could scrounge up, then I find it hard to believe the subject is "frighteningly overrated" by anyone outside of some incestuous little coterie of mutually admiring artistes.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
how about: i suspect she's overrated by the people i know who care about poetry?
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 19:05 (three years ago) link
which i know more than a few
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
dennis cooper rocks though so now i'm thinking about interrogating this suspicion
recently read Chelsea Girls and it's great. can't speak for her poetry.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 19:11 (three years ago) link
It's funny to police this thread over the lack of an objective standard for "overrated" rather than the embarrassing smugness of the premise. The micro-scale of Brad's example is slightly more interesting, I think, than those posters above the skip bravely naming Marx, Freud, "All of Krautrock," etc
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
Neil Gaiman. But not Amanda Palmer because, afaict, nobody rates her.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 19:36 (three years ago) link
Amanda Palmer has 15,674 patrons on Patreon, so apparently some people rate her.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 20:50 (three years ago) link
This thread title describes my feelings on The Frogs. Brought this up on their thread, but seeing this reminded me again...
― Evan, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 21:03 (three years ago) link
(xp) She might be a genius, all I know is that everyone ILX seems to hate her.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 21:46 (three years ago) link
Some people's talents lie in making transcendent music for a niche audience. Some people bring art to the masses. Amanda's talent is in shameless grifting. Who are we to judge which is better?
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 21:50 (three years ago) link
I just listened to 45 seconds of 'Drowning in the Sound' and it immediately silenced the part of me that wants to give every musician a fair shake. The album it's culled from reportedly last 78 minutes.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
"Amanda Palmer has 15,674 patrons on Patreon"
I calculate that I had probably had that at least that many dumps by the age of 36 if I had a dump average of 1.2 a day.
― calzino, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 21:56 (three years ago) link
her lowest tier is $1 and her highest is $250, if her average supporter is giving $5 then that's $78,370 per month, for Patreon alone, no I am not obsessed by this
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 19 May 2020 22:10 (three years ago) link
imagine getting paid $250 a dump, but only once every 6400 dumpsshow your math
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 00:17 (three years ago) link
If I get backpaid calzino’s $3.2milli now, I bet I can make it last until the next big dump drop. Even if I lash out with that bounty and eat meat twice a week, it shouldn’t bring my average down to 1.2/day.
― Bleeqwot (sic), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 00:42 (three years ago) link
it's the .2 that really gets ya
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 01:12 (three years ago) link
Eileen Myles is awesome
Every time I've housesit for a homo friend I always see some Dennis Cooper novel on the shelf called Scum or Tripe or Bum or something and I crack it open thinking "ok maybe this is the one that everybody says I simply must read" and I suffer for twenty-odd pages of utter illegible nonsense before giving up and thinking that maybe JT Leroy wasn't so bad after all
― it’s been one week since you pissed on me (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 02:42 (three years ago) link
I did pause when one of the members of my book club asked whether or not I would want to know Dennis Cooper personally
― Dan S, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link