Sleepytime Gorilla MuseumNabakovDFWMcSweeneysJonathan LethemFoetus
― Barackman Hussein Overdrive (John Justen), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 17:41 (fifteen years ago) link
Ernest HemingwayJay-ZRaymond ChandlerBuddhaJonathan LethemAlain Badiou
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
ha xp!
you have good taste in stanning obv
― Barackman Hussein Overdrive (John Justen), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess for me it would be Prince:
* I own 13 albums by him (and a couple by his side projects), and I'm planning to get all of them eventually.
* I've searched and downloaded all of the B-sides and all of the 12" versions of his singles as 320kbps or FLAC files, plus a 300+ remixes, unreleased tunes and songs he wrote for other artists.
* I've read three different biographies of him.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
jim woodring (hi-5 oilyrags)ray caesarbilly corganraymond carverdouglas couplandbret easton ellisblaine fontanafaith no more
― just1n3, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link
oh yeah also matthew barney for me
― Barackman Hussein Overdrive (John Justen), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
damn hoos.
alain badiou is a pseudo-xtian creep, the last barrel-scraping from 1968TM.
― special guest stars mark bronson, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:01 (fifteen years ago) link
oh yeah,
Gilbert Hernandez
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
post your list, fool
: )
― cozwn, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:04 (fifteen years ago) link
were any of those biographies worth reading, tuomas?
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:14 (fifteen years ago) link
israel ><salingergreg dulli
― bnw, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
and am i a prince stan if i think his last album sucked, but i'm still interested in what he does and think he still has the potential for greatness?
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, i think so. i don't like anything woody allen's done in years. i think i'm defining this as "someone who when other people criticize them, you freak out and defend annoyingly and at great length."
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
andrew wk
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
I keep mis-reading this thread title as "what are you a stain of?"
― snoball, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ hahaha, nice
Courtney LoveThe WireIsabel MarantHillary Clintonthe New England Patriots <3 <3 <3
kind of a ridiculous list, I know. Oh hey wait, I'm not the only one for Court.. :) I love Gilles Deleuze so maybe I know some embarrassingly minute trivia, but it doesn't seem to make up for the fact that it's incredibly hard for me to understand what he's saying about 75% of the time.
― NFL RUNOFF miss u plaxico (daria-g), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:26 (fifteen years ago) link
I just realized that I am a Wicker Man stan too.
― shiitake maki (La Lechera), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
(xpost) It was a question that I was often asked in my youth...
Serious answer (since the thread is moving beyond bands into other areas): early 80's home computers. Yes, what was once the future is now ancient history. I kind of wish this knowledge had some everyday use in the current IT industry, but it doesn't. Does anyone else find that the amount of knowledge they have on their "stan" subject is inversely proportional to the amount of practical use that knowledge is?
― snoball, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
can't think of ""someone who when other people criticize them, you freak out and defend annoyingly and at great length"" : /
― cozwn, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
:-(
― StainM (StanM), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm thinking this kinda fades with age maybe, stanism is a young person's game
― velko, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
― cozwn, Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:30 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^ otm. im not a anyone stan.
oh, maybe judd apatow.
― special guest stars mark bronson, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
― shiitake maki (La Lechera), Wednesday, January 21, 2009 6:30 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
wicker stan!!
― s1ocki, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
can you stan for yourself?
― cozwn, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:34 (fifteen years ago) link
wd that make you lj?
Justin TimberlakeAnton YelchinCassieRichard KellyDavid LynchMichael CeraWeedsAmerican Idol90210
― Someone Still Loves You Evan and Jaron (Tape Store), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I tried to be a stan for Sting, but he said "don't stan so close to me"...
― snoball, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
oh also Sega Dreamcast!
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
The best one I've read is Prince by Dave Hill, which takes a rather critical look on Prince's career, though still written by someone who appreciates his music, so it's not slander or anything. There's also a lot of information on the Minneapolis music scene Prince came from, and some interesting analysis of the racial politics in American popular music. The book came out in 1989 though, so it's not useful if you want to read about his full career.
Slave to the Rhythm by Liz Jones is also a good read if you're more interested in Prince's private life, though the music analysis isn't as good as in Hill's book. I think it is one of the few Prince books where Prince himself (among others) is actually interviewed, though it's not uncritical of him either. Dancemusicsexromance by Per Nilsen is about the first 10 years of Prince's career, and it's almost exclusively about his music only. There's a lot of trivia about recording dates and stuff, and individual analysis of almost everything he recorded between 1978 and 1988, but otherwise it's a bland read. More like a collection of record reviews than a good overall look on his music and career.
Oh, and I just noticed the local library carries a pretty recent book about him written in 2004, so I guess I'm gonna read my fourth Prince biography.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:44 (fifteen years ago) link
my last real crushy fandom was probably robyn
before that, friedrich kittler
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
All my pedestals have crumbled. Oh, hell, except maybe Muhammad Ali.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
ha, is it matos' book? because that is excellent.
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
Unfortunately the Helsinki public library doesn't have Matos' book. It's a pity, I'd love to read it. Isn't it about Sign O' the Times only?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Tove Jansson― thunda lightning (clotpoll), Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:55 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
― thunda lightning (clotpoll), Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:55 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
it boggles my mind that tove jansson would ever need defending from anything, but if so put me down for stan-hood.
― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 19:01 (fifteen years ago) link
it's about sign o' the times but it brings in a lot of prince history and previous work.
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah. A pity it isn't available at the library, and I don't really have the cash to order it from overseas.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link
The Black Panthers
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 19:27 (fifteen years ago) link
also
alain badiou is a pseudo-xtian creep, the last barrel-scraping from 1968TM.― special guest stars mark bronson, Wednesday, January 21, 2009 6:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
― special guest stars mark bronson, Wednesday, January 21, 2009 6:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
u rite :)
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link
ocd, aspie-style=serial stanning, no?
― M.V., Wednesday, 21 January 2009 19:31 (fifteen years ago) link
Yoko OnoModest MouseLOST
...can you be a TV show's stan? 'Cause I think I am. See also: the Big Lebowski. I defend it constantly (aka I hang around the wrong people)
― skeletal lexing (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Richard Linklater up to and including Before SunsetTim O'Brien
― sad man in him room (milo z), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 20:57 (fifteen years ago) link
dan selzer reminds me that I am a Xaime Hernandez stan (or at least more than a Beto stan)
― Barack History Month (Oilyrags), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 21:02 (fifteen years ago) link
nasmo yantimothy brook
― dylannn, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
it boggles my mind that tove jansson would ever need defending from anything, but if so put me down for stan-hood.― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:01 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:01 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
yeah, i don't end up defending her, more acquiring everything available and trying to foist her on everyone I know.
Also the Mekons.
― thunda lightning (clotpoll), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
john watersbonnie huntjoe walsh
― now is the time to winterize your manscape (will), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
hey dylannn, can u recommend me some mo yan? where shld i start
― t_g, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:02 (fifteen years ago) link
Ray LewisBlack SabbathThe red-haired lunchtime anchor on CNN
― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
See also: the Big Lebowski. I defend it constantly (aka I hang around the wrong people)
that's odd to me, as i've always seen that movie as quite the unifier. do you hang with old people
― Socktor Duperman (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Grateful DeadPier Paolo PasoliniTom DiCillo, maybe?
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 22:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I suppose I assumed fgti was talking more about when people gang up to do it but I misread.
― Evan, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 13:34 (three years ago) link