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    fashion thread

    in General Banter

    Posted

    i generally wear only solid colors... t shirts, shirts. no stripes. hoodies can have embellishments

     

    i used to own around 7 identical black t shirts / shirts

     

    and like a/d i broke out and bought colored stuff

     

    now that i'm trying to "fit in" and "be one of the happy, groovy people" who lives in chicago and goes out and "lives life to the fullest" "like we're young" with sneakers and lana del rey, etc... i've been wearing stuff veering dangerously on V-neck territory

     

    i've heard that fashion is inescapable... "we all have it." even my black t-shirts were a conscious choice, "communicating something."

     

    part of me thinks i should just start wearing sweatpants and comfortable shit all the time. like, modifying my appearance to suit comfort at its most deep levels. practicality. because in comfort and practicality there is no fashion. no "statement" that i'm trying to make. it's just the best clothes, logically. and all those fashion apologist motherfuckers can finally leave me alone.

    Vaporwave

    in Music Discussion

    Posted · Edited by vamos scorcho

    yes it is, and it's lazy as fuck (the way the Vware people do it)

     

    but i like their creations

     

    i'm thikng aloud in this thread not trying to say anything conclusive/ serious

     

    i'd love to delete all my posts in here but i still feel the urge to say something about this or learn about it

    Vaporwave

    in Music Discussion

    Posted · Edited by vamos scorcho

    the Macintosh Plus album is pretty good

     

    "pretty good"

     

    I vow never to say anything about Vaporware again. It comes from nowhere and leads me nowhere

    stupid first world problems you're dealing with

    in General Banter

    Posted

    i HATE professors who take attendence. it's the BIGGEST CROCK OF FUCKING SHIT

     

    after all the fucking work I put in. just test me, motherfucker. I'll get passing stripes on the actual material. but noooo. I didn't come to fucking class enough for you. because I'M THE ONE PAYING... I guess this is some kind of fucking JOB where I get FIRED for not showing up to the shit I'M PAYING FOR

     

    fuck professors and fuck the school system. just test me on the material and FUCK OFF

     

    ironically it's a german class, and one thing we learned about this "foreign culture" is that in their colleges attendence is 0% required and it all comes down to the tests at the end of the year

     

    what a fucking load of completely illogical irrational bullshit. fuck you, professor, and fuck the department.

     

    (I know it was all explained up front, but this is a travesty... just a few more points and my grade would have been fine. I blame this on the irrationality of the department. You can shake your head at me and call me a whining baby but frankly, all I've learned is that the people who run this thing are incompetent pricks and their lives must be quite miserable never thinking outside the box)

    Films Recently Watched

    in General Banter

    Posted

    I always want to watch Tarkovsky and then I'm just like "some other time." It's a rare mood I have to be in to watch a movie that slow. At least Fellini and Kubrick have relatively rapid changes that happen throughout their movies. Tarkovsky is just flat out snails pace.

     

     

     

    Bernie - 8.5/10. Very much enjoyed. Pure Texas hilarity mixed into a good character study, mixed into a 48-hours-style murder story.

    Yeah!

     

    It seems WATMM is neglecting to watch this one. :trashbear:

     

     

    I really liked Bernie. I thought it had a technical edge which most movies lack. Also, come to think of it, Jack Black was great in that one.

    Films Recently Watched

    in General Banter

    Posted

    can't wait to see Amour.

     

     

     

    as for Anti-Nolanism, I think I've gone the other way. A lot of it just seems like hating on the present for the glory of the past. I say fuck Die Hard. IT's not even that good. All the old bond movies are shit too.

     

    It's all shit, but Inception and Dark Knight are pretty dang good when it comes to post-Transformers hyperdigital absolute fucking commercial watered down nihilistic capitalist garbage.

    Films Recently Watched

    in General Banter

    Posted

    The last shot of the film was

     

     

     

    an action figure lying on the ground, there's a TV flickering on the carpet that you don't see... it's an action figure of one of the "Semionauts" or whatever... those tall things with the masks, with the baby faces inside of them. The baby face could be imagined to be like a doll or something, now that I think about it.

     

    this is pretty good:

     

    http://cinemabeans.blogspot.com/2012/05/beyond-black-rainbow-or-hypnotizing.html

     

     

    Films Recently Watched

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by vamos scorcho

    I'm upgrading my score of Black Rainbow to 9.5 out of 10, and separating myself from people who were disappointed in it. On reflection, it's a legitimately great film with some minor flaws.

    edit: maybe not. who knows. i have no strong opinion

     

    Did everyone see the last shot that played after the end credits?

    Films Recently Watched

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by vamos scorcho

    i had such crazy high expectations on beyond the black rainbow, but it turned out to be all flash. the awesome cinematography and music deserved a much better script imo, and the cheesy ending pretty much ruined it for me. might've felt different about it if i hadn't known about the film long before i got to see it though, dunno.

     

    Agreed, basically. If I went into it expecting Kubrick level cinema, I would have been disappointed. I went into it expecting Enter the Void level cinema, and I think it exceeded that slightly, or at least was in the same ballpark. Within the context of the past 5 years or so, I think it's an outstanding film. I'd take it over Drive. Within the context of the past 50 years, it's just another example of this generation of film basically, for whatever reason, failing to reach the levels of artistry seen with Kubrick. I really don't understand why more movies like 2001 aren't made. Cold (as in, clinical... which is a good thing in movies...), analytical, and free. I'm not "hollywood" buff, but you'd think more artists would want to flex their muscles and surpass the giants, instead of just paying homage to them. I did get the sense that Drive+ETBR are a new kind of filmmaking that goes beyond "homage." Still, I desire something stronger than even these films.

     

    I suspect that this director has very great things ahead of him. For a debut, this is on the level of something like Pi. (although that's one of my favorite movies of all time... people hating on Clint Mansell got it all somewhat wrong)

    Films Recently Watched

    in General Banter

    Posted

    Beyond the black rainbow 9/10

     

    One of the best movies I've seen in a long while.

     

     

    As a science fiction film, it would have been absolutely incredible. It changed a lot by the end though... and my rating went up and down a few times. The concepts were really far out for a lot of it, which makes me happy. It was truly approaching 2001 levels of greatness for a few stretches, in the way it handled the serious subject matter. I wish there were more movies like this.

     

    It dropped off considerably during a few portions... not sure why directors these days need to make everything some sort of pastiche. This would have worked better as a serious film. It's still a great movie... but some of the murder scenes were tiresome. I think it's actually about a delusional/schizophrenic cult leader, judging by the shot after the credits, if you watch till there. Which is sad, considering how fascinating some of the "alien technology" scenes were. I still doubt that it's that simple.

     

    Vaporwave

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    I definitely like vaporware when it's done artfully. but a lot of it is inherently hateful of art in a capitalist environment. i've said thsi but nobody fucking understands because they'er not smart. but i said it DIRECTLY referring to this movement, which I also have bee nwatchnig as a thoughtful musician, HOOOOOOOOOOO oh yeah.. oh yeah..

     

    it's expressionism vs pop art

     

    and expressionism is better. in every way.

    posh beers and ales and stuff thread

    in General Banter

    Posted

    I'm starting to genuinely like winter ales...

     

    Bell's Christmas Ale is awesome, and gets a huge thumbs up from me.

     

     

    Harpoon Winter Warmer is underrated... it's not a "great beer" but it's very drinkable and pleasant. I like Heineken too, I think they're both delicious beers. I say that knowing that I look like a noob.

    Vaporwave

    in Music Discussion

    Posted

    http://dummymag.com/features/2012/07/12/adam-harper-vaporwave/

     

    Is it a critique of capitalism or a capitulation to it? Both and neither. These musicians can be read as sarcastic anti-capitalists revealing the lies and slippages of modern techno-culture and its representations, or as its willing facilitators, shivering with delight upon each new wave of delicious sound. We could apply to their music a term used to describe a certain sentiment and praxis that has recently gained currency among philosophers of capitalism: accelerationism. Accelerationism is the notion that the dissolution of civilisation wrought by capitalism should not and cannot be resisted, but rather must be pushed faster and farther towards the insanity and anarchically fluid violence that is its ultimate conclusion, either because this is liberating, because it causes a revolution, or because destruction is the only logical answer.

     

    A bit too political in that article, but it gets at the gist of things I think.

     

     

    yeah, it's a good article. I think my main problem with vaporware is that I disagree with the premises. obviously it's worthy of great attention, either way.

     

     

    I just don't really like the "accelerationist" idea. I think capitalism is at least kind of good. and a lot of these theorists tend to fail in convincing me other wise. obviously it has problems, i just don't see a great alternative. people gotta acknowledge that a little bit

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