Things You Just Don't Care About

also, tumblr, and what people thought about it, and whatever cultural impact it might have had some some people at some time.

and fan fiction, and apparently, "archive of our own". I encounter a lot of people on bluesky (and previously, twitter), and when they start going on about this stuff I immediately think "LAME"

oh speaking of things written in crayon: rap beefs. I thought this stuff was interesting when I was a teenager too — but come on

add to that: drake, and whatever issues he has with anyone else

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/20/entertainment/video/drake-rap-beef-hip-hop-artists-france-digvid

The latest comic book character crossover movie.

Andre 3000, Big Boi

fake designer handbags. fake watches. fake anything.

Taylor Swift

wordle

i suck at all games like that though. my brain doesn't do them right. i refuse to play scrabble. i have some sort of letter and number thing. a spatial thing. i can't see...the patterns. i am hopeless at anagrams. i would do the word search when i was a kid. that was fun. those and mazes. i could handle that kind of tedium. my brain loves maze tedium. i don't ever actually have to get to the end of the maze. i'm happy in there.

I make my entire living with words and word-based puzzle games are a complete blind spot for me. Can't do 'em, don't want to. I play solitaire and Tetris on my phone to drop my brain into a low enough gear that I can fall asleep.

kendrick, drake dis tracks

I'm bad at games in general, but word games kill me. My Brain is not wire in a way that will allow me to do a crossword puzzle.

Dis tracks are also beyond me. I'll read that Kendrick is killing Drake in some song and I get excited and when I listen to it... "Is that all there is?" Sounds like teenagers bickering, who gives a shit.

fucking met fucking gala fuck off with your fucking slavering 0.00001% worship

The theme is based on a Ballard story? Do they know Ballard at all?

The theme is based on a Ballard story? Do they know Ballard at all?

This way when they all get completely coked out and a sex worker winds up murdered they can just claim it was all in keeping with the theme of the night...

It’s not rap beefs that I don’t care about, but rather the whole residue of media release strategy optimization of this one in particular

i think i own at least 10 different Roxanne answer records - still looking for Roxanne's podiatrist and Roxanne's CPA - and that might be my one and only interest in rap beefs. i've been a rap fan since 1979 - or 1973 if you count "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" - and i guess i just never paid attention to who hated who. i mean unless it was really blatant in a song. then i noticed. but i didn't care.

So many here I concur with:

Taylor Swift
Andre 3000 / Big Boi post-Outkast
Nu Rap Beefs

add to that:
Blur and/or Blur vs Coachella
Seinfeld post-Seinfeld

Whether or not The Garrick Club accepts women.

it is a bit like campaigning for women to be allowed to operate the orphan mincing machine.

a bit like when Helen Lewis was getting bothered about the sexist inequities of the UK aristocracy

Rebel Wilson

I was born in 1954. I meet the definition of a 'baby boomer' as completely as possible. At this point in my life I couldn't give two shits about whatever it is that's supposed to mean. Same goes for GenX, Millenials, GenZ or any of the sub-sub-headings for various USA generations that have been cooked up entirely by marketing geniuses looking for a way to sell more stuff.

I wish all that nonsense would just dry up and blow away through disinterest. But people like to be labeled I guess. It feels important to them for reasons I find hard to fathom.

ok boomer

So, I guess I do care that anyone swallows this garbage as meaningful. I don't care about the particular content of the garbage that they so eagerly consent to swallow.

SUV's in GTA

Maya Rudolph

SNL

John Mulaney

Caitlin Clark

How much a painting sold for

if a house was designed by a particular architect or not

Related: If a celebrity tears down or otherwise remodels the house they have purchased

SUV's in GTA

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

The Sphere

What? Sphere looks cool!

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.

sad realization

I guess I was interested enough in Miranda July (?) to read the NYer profile and then I read the bowl story and byeee

julian assange

That New Yorker flap.

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.

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.)

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)

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.

i've got to be careful about how i spend my emotional energy, it isn't an unlimited resource.

wise words

otm map

definitely