who are you a stan of?

Mingus
Threadgill

re: jlb the collected fictions book is not a very good translation imo. i got more out of the di giovanni translations which are pretty easy to find in smaller collections like labyrinths, fictions/ficciones, etc.

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^^ im a stan of this sentiment

i like the translation in the collected fictions

sentimental stan

o yeah i would say mingus and miles davis, also funkadelic, fleetwood mac - i have spent a good deal of time defending these to a number of people i know whose tastes dont move past 1969.

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Big Stan is a comedy film directed by and starring Rob Schneider. Although released in some overseas markets during the fall of 2008, it is slated for U.S. release in early 2009. On the radio show Loveline, Schneider stated that this film will be an "anti-man raping" film — referring to prison rape.

So it's not about raping anti-men? Because I was confused.

woody allen very much seconded. Also Orson Welles, but I don't feel like there's anything unreasonable about being endlessly fascinated by him.

Also, Brian Eno.

Probably Nick Cave.

I am a stan of myself - I mean I try to defend myself about little grievances that would normally make me depressed. I apologized out of the blue to some girl I found on the internet (on accident though) for crashing her party (etc..) a few years back. she replied that I was an asshole. I wrote back that I am sorry for my past self and 'good luck on your career'. after she called me an asshole I felt pretty bad. but defending myself made me feel better. and hearing a story about a friend who would fake make out with chicks as part of his stage antics made me feel better to.

Jack Kerouac

and Off-kilter music.

jim woodring (hi-5 oilyrags)
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― just1n3, Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:57 PM (Yesterday)

I want to join in this hi-5

House M.D.
The Mighty Boosh
Eddie Izzard

black licorice
vegetarianism

Pulp
Morrissey
Luna

Bret Easton Ellis
Nabakov

Before Sunrise and Before Sunset
Ethan Hawke in general

Alice in Wonderland
The Little Prince

p-funk
adam smith
jeremy bentham

Oh! I know my real, ultimate answer: David Byrne. (It's hard to think of things at first.) Fits the definition as I understand it perfectly -- he's very good, but not as great as I often think he it, and not as clever as he often thinks he is. But god help me, I love everything he does.

Man, I love me most all the TH there is, but some of those solo albums are tough going. Like the one with Snoopy on the cover sitting on a celestial throne.

Mariah Carey, Kate Bush, the Deal sisters, Kristin Hersh

Like the one with Snoopy on the cover sitting on a celestial throne

That's "Uh-Oh." You know, like, uh-oh, god turns out to be a puppy. See, not as clever as he thinks. I don't mind the album at all, though.

yeah, I got the god/dog thing. It's been years since I heard it - maybe I'd like it better now.

It's very late-Heads, actually.

I'm not sure I'm like this with anyone! I'm a little surprised to realize this.

- Doctor Who
- Nintendo
- Prince

do i even need to mention what i'm a stan about?

Humor us.

what a great thread. i'd say i'm a stan of punch-drunk love, of montreal, and pizza

ctrl+f pizza

!?!?

charles schulz
orson welles
walter karp
j.d. salinger
hannah arendt

Of Montreal, or of Of Montreal?

You know what? Forget I asked.

hahaha

aliens
cats
rock and/or roll

lol xxp

TACOS

I don't think it counts if it's not someone you could send an insane obsessive letter to. (Whether or not they are alive to read it.) Rock doesn't really work, nor roll. Certainly not tacos. I mean, I'd stalk Chess records if I could, but not even I have that much imaginative psychosis.

Otherwise it's just a list of "things I like," amirite?

i write letters to cats all the time

k

Well, there's my new display name.

xD

lolz.

Tacos are not here, and I have not seen them in a while. I worry that tacos are lonely. They're so old-school, though -- no IM, no email. I should write. It's the same way with my grandmother.

I totally want to post a letter with just "Tacos" as a destination address now.

there are things i am hyper defensive of that i don't necessarily lurv

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/donald_fagen_defends_steely_dan_to

lol!

correspondence

that is to say i am a stan of handwritten communication

Dear letter,

AAAAAAAAA!

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like i said, i like this thread, and i think i understand why "stan" is being used to describe the answers - it's a kind of sheepish acknowledgement of one's own total SUNKNESS re: the ish at hand; HOWEVER i'm not keen on the concomitant acceptance this word makes inevitable that any kind of overweening admiration is somehow lame, pathetic, almost pathological (it's a little like saying "what shit do you really LOVE - no homo"). maybe you can't have one without the other

No I'm sure that you can have slavish, slathering dedication to an artist with no self-awareness at all.

Dave Matthews Band : Name Your Reasons Why They Are So Bad & Hated.

But I do know what you mean. That's why I revised my answer... Orson Welles is too good for disclaimers, but David Byrne? Yeah, ok, my level of enthusiasm might be out of sync with reality sometimes.