who are you a stan of?

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!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2179/1719373904_2110f86758.jpg?v=0

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.

nonsentient stans:
- gatorade
- ipods
- thai food
- newspaper strip comics prior to 1960
- pearl button snap cowboy shirts

Smartfood cheddar popcorn
Buster Keaton

i watched a show last nite on slapstick movies and someone called buster keaton mystical

Ok so it's just a list of things we like.

Sweaters, then. I like sweaters.

And fucking.

Dear fucking,

...

totally loling at this shit. you guys are great

I thought it wasn't things we like, it's things we like irrationally and defend beyond a reasonable point?

i think its more things you love and know abt too much - the defending flows naturally out of that

being a stan is a hard thing to describe, i suppose its possible to be a french fries stan or whatever but its unfair to be like "omg i love french fries" and call yourself a stan--a true french fry stan goes to belgium every couple years and keeps up w/ advancing french fry technology and knows what flavors are in the oil at mcdonalds and stuff

also a big thing about being a stan imo is maintaining a high and unusual level of interest in periods when the rest of the public has lost interest. hamburgers have always been a staple of american cuisine and have never really fallen out of favor, therefore im not sure that you can really "stan" for hamburgers

i was kind of ignoring the "knows a lot about x" part of the definition. by that definition, i am less of a stan of anything, really.

i think for me, being a stan of something is like, when someone says or implies something negative about that thing, it just makes you unreasonably irritated and you cant really talk in complete sentences.

throw derek jeter in there

are we all stans of jaymc's xls?