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zaphod

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  1. this sounds exactly like the last bon iver record. i guess since it's opn it's about "late stage capitalism" and there's some brilliant concept behind it but even the art is like the bon iver record.
  2. ugh “weirdly resonant in a late capitalist america”
  3. a quiet place but the family are scavenging around the countryside and the son finds a black panther bluray on the ground and starts telling the dad how mediocre it is and everyone is shushing him and crying and this giant cultural marxist lesbian sjw comes galloping out of the woods and grabs him.
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUAxA98Oh0M
  5. i dunno, reading that article it sounds like a genuine mistake.
  6. one thing I’ve always wrestled with in my life is my enjoyment of the art of Michael Richards
  7. barry was good but i kind of don't want it to come back for another season
  8. i've been burnt out on politics for a while- the problem is that something happens almost on a daily basis that swings the conversation either right or left. like trump cancelling the meeting with kim jung un. just 19 days ago, his most loyal fanbase was claiming this meeting was going to usher in "world peace" and most couldn't believe how "amazing they felt about my president, ever". today they remain mum about the cancelation of the meetings. i'm sort of wondering if they even take politics seriously or whether we've been reduced to an orgy of competing over who's argument is correct while trying to ruin the other person's credibility if their beliefs. it gets tiring pretty quick but we (the country) remain stubbornly involved today we got an announcement of a vague anti-imported auto tariff, banking regulations were rolled back, and Jack Johnson being pardoned (something McCain worked on back in 2008) apparently Sylvester Stallone was key to getting Trump to pardon Jack Johnson...that gives me an idea, feed Stallone sensible legislative proposals and convince Trump to pass them forget the NK mess, this is truly unconscionable. there's no excuse for that man's music. by god, if trump pardons dave matthews and his band...
  9. yeh.. feel like this focus on “safe” & “fair” content by fair and agreeable people will ruin a lot of things.. if the production of creative stuffs is going to be cleansed off difficult / troubled / misanthrope or whatever people - and I think this is happening.. the odd weirdo might think twice before coming forward with some outrageous, personal artwork, might get run over by the SJW train, it’s bad ROI or they might even get hurt.. right? like you don’t need to have skeletons in your basement to be scared that someone might just point at you being a “potential” bad boo boo because you have some conflicting inner world.. I mean at this point it’s still largely mainstream culture that’s affected, couldn’t care less, but this overall Disneyfication of stuff, mostly caused by social media web services seems to bubble into subcultures as well.. better hop on the safe & clean wagon before the guillotine comes for you... like not even anything about PC vs. non-PC but like, without going into paranoia I'm a big-time headphone user, to me like the speaker effect is like hearing your own voice, when you play back a recording of your voice and you're like "boy my voice sounds weird", lol, if that makes sense. With headphones I feel like you subvert that but yeah I would explain as 'own voice sounds weird' instead of going into some philosophical shit like everyone feels their music/their creation is being judged by a nonexistent God or some shit what the hell
  10. it's like he's talking about bob dylan
  11. lol yeah the world of watchmen was just so compelling. that setting man! also this guy's dad didn't hand him watchmen at twelve and say "you're not ready for this." that is some harry knowles level lying.
  12. he made up a lot of shit in the non fiction. i still like some of the essays but they need to be read as fiction because that's what they are. when i say a fraud i mean he was originally a philosophy student and i think he brought that to his writing in a way that reflects negatively on his work now, to me. i believe, and this is supported in the bios on him, that he got into writing fiction because it would get him laid and because he wanted adulation from strangers and was deeply insecure and wanted to be praised as a genius, all of which happened. he also idolized people like gaddis and pynchon and delillo and looked down on eighties minimalists like bret easton ellis, who funnily enough was exploring the same themes in an equally facile and surface way, just in a different style. i think he was a narcissist and a lot of his pining on with jonathan franzen about how the point of literature is to make you feel less alone was fraudulent. he was a competitive guy and he brought that to literature and i think the pale king was a dead end for him because he realized he couldn't really write fiction anymore. if he had somehow broken through that and ditched it and became an essayist i think that would have been the best outcome for him, but whatever. it was a major loss that he's gone but i don't think a lot of people who set out to read him really understand the context of his work or his character and honestly i have been to so many apartments with an unread copy of infinite jest sitting on a shelf next to gravity's rainbow that i can't really take any of it seriously anymore.
  13. he also thought about having mary karr's husband murdered and threw her out of a moving vehicle. from all the biography i've read of him dfw was a giant piece of shit for a period in the nineties (maybe always) and i'll admit this brought his work down in my eyes. also the elevation of him to this sainthood status in the literary community and especially by young men when he was a pretty noted misogynist was difficult to reconcile. his work is so entwined with his narcissism and his deconstruction of himself that it becomes hard to read anything of his once you realize he was actually a bit of a fraud who was probably writing books for all the wrong reasons. but, saying all that, he was still a hugely influential figure to me when i was a teenager so i'm not going to erase that part of my life. and i still enjoy some of his work.
  14. was driving home from the grocery store and decided to take a short cut through a quiet suburban road near some tennis courts. i see a cop car very slowly moving up the road in front of me, and as soon as he sees my headlights he slows down to a crawl, eventually letting me catch up to him at which point he stops completely and turns on his lights. he then proceeds to get out and ask me why i'm using this road. i can't really comprehend why i'm being asked this so i ask if the road is closed. he does the usual volley of questions: where i'm headed tonight, what i'm doing, where i'm coming from. i tell him i was buying groceries and use this road to get home and again ask why i'm being stopped. he proceeds to lecture me about my attitude and then runs my license. at this point i'm fuming but trying to control myself because i want to go off on this asshole who is obviously on some kind of power trip and fishing for a drug stop or something. he comes back and tells me that the road has illicit activity on it (this is literally a small road in a suburb, like a leafy lane near a tennis court and a lake) and i looked suspicious. again, i was driving, at the speed limit, in a newish car. i guess driving is suspicious. anyway he lets me go having wasted about twenty minutes of my time. luckily i'm not black. i hate cops in this country. every interaction i've ever had with them has been terrible.
  15. the problem with the louie thing is corporate liability. no company wants to work with him because if they do and he repeats his offense they're now on the line for a lawsuit. this is a separate issue from what lopez is talking about, i think. but louie is at an intersection since a lot of people are now trying to say "he was never funny" or "i have grown out of his comedy" which is so fucking disingenuous.
  16. also to have issues with someone buying r kelly records but then sell rolling stones, david bowie, the beatles, zeppelin etc is just a very biased and kind of racist attitude i see in a lot of music listeners of a certain age, the types who dismiss rap as degenerate and misogynist but then listen to something like "under my thumb" like it's a given. these are all things to consider and talk about when taking in art but the banning of any art is not a reaction we should have in a free society.
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