who are you a stan of?

I left off a lot of things, but my love of Girlfriends probably doesn't extend to full-on standom, I don't think?

This is hard for me to answer, because I think of a stan as being the type of person who'd overhear a conversation about a favorite topic and be gritting his/her teeth and wanting to jump in and go "you don't UNDERSTAND" and unleash a detailed hour-long lecture on the fine points of the topic and how wonderful it is . . .

. . . and as you may have guessed one of the less appealing things about my personality is that I feel that way about LOTS of stuff, including things I don't even really care about

i was gonna say

yeah, i mean that's a much more honest description of me than stan for 2 million things.

^^^natalie merchant stan (xps)

I think you're just much more contrary than you give yourself credit for, nabisco.

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ok fuck you guys jeter is a saint! and he's not knoblauch ffs

http://uk.geocities.com/laurel_hardy_tribute/Stan_Laurel.jpg

whoa double jeter herpes thats rough jt sry bro

alice munro
stacey dash
john goodman
pulp
team america
fellini
newfoundland
the song runaround sue
a burrito shop
geography
america's funniest home videos
derrida
fancy lobbies
cod tongues
nabokov

^^will stan for to varying degrees

i'm probably gonna wind up being a nabokov stan but i've only read two books so i don't feel qualified yet

I don't think I'm that contrary, but yes, I am totally a 10,000 Maniacs stan.

The Simpsons
Futurama
Sylvia Plath
Cocteau Twins
Bablyon 5
They Might be Giants

ugh I'm such an indienerd :/

I'm not aspie about any of these though, tho Futurama comes close if only by osmosis.

Someone needs to stan on someone named Stan, for some next level metastanning.

I guess seeing a band 30-40x puts you on the bandstan, so Yo La Tengo

I'm sure the world has plenty of Stan Lee stans, but I'll take Stan Zbornak from Golden Girls, if that helps.

Oh, I would like to add Reason software to my list.

xp - that's what I was thinking, N!

Actually, since I'm already stanning on Jack Kirby, I seem like a logical candidate.

Although not a Stan per se as I don't defend her but I do know way too much about Kate Moss. I confess: I've read two bios on her. Sad huh? I think in a sense it shows my stanishness when it comes to pop culture. I defend pop culture to an insane degree. :-(

I also am a stan of dEUS. But less so than in the past. I know every story behind their songs. Up to the last record which I think stinks.

if you can recognize that you're stanning for something you no longer are a stan for them?

Only if you can help yourself from stanning them / it in the future, I'd say; if you recognise it, but can't help yourself anyway, you're still a stan.

I think the only thing I could be considered to be a stan of is Embrace, I guess. I don't think I care / know enough about anything else to stan it. I'm too faddish.

xpost until someone points it out, i guess?

The Beatles
The Simpsons
Stephen King
the 1997 Cleveland Indians

oh I forgot one - Beavis and Butt-head.

Oh god, I know another one: Madonna. *sadface* But not so much these days.

Oh, and Star Wars, prequels, expanded universe and all.

yeah, totally Madonna.

omg i thought of one
neil young

Yes
Jacques Lacan/Sigmund Freud/Slavoj Zizek
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Boredoms
H.P. Lovecraft

Put me down for JL Borges as well.

jesus how can you be a stan of shit that makes you sound smarter than you actually are?!

i mean how often do you get in a conversation with some girl at a store or hell even on campus where you're like 'omg i know you hate jacques lacan but i swear i love him!!!'

'i know freud is like wtf but let me tell you something'

it's called "graduate school" dude

yeah so people aren't so into foucault but i feel him you know? of his time

how often in "graduate school" do you meet people who seriously challenge you about lacan/freud/zizek (a hillaaarious stretch of everything btw) so you have to stan lacan/freud/zizek (again LOL).

lacan/zizek/foucault is a tool, but tbh a lot of ign'ant humanities postgrads still rep for him; im surprised you'd need to leap to his defence.

Actually, I would say Lacan would be the epitome of academic stanservice -- loveable in a lot of ways but quite easily attackable, hence need for overdefensiveness.

they might say: 'the notion of the episteme doesn't stand up to scrutiny' or 'this guy is a creepy totalitarian' or 'lol no-one takes lacan seriously in his field so why is this even a thing with you crazy english grads?'

i mean jodorowski i can understand, because i hate him.

but the boredoms, that's critical acclaim in the places that matter to you the most. how do you 'stan' the boredoms when no one else cares as much as you do? by 'you' i mean 'i.'

x-post ok fair enough i've never had a conversation about jacques lacan with a person and from the sound of it that would drive me crazy.

i would hit freud/lacan/zizek

i've never had a conversation about jacques lacan with a person and from the sound of it that would drive me crazy

there is literally no point in having this conversation. you may as well debate a scientologist because it is a completely closed system. the answer will always come out the same when the lacan script is run.

10 PRINT "I AM JACQUES LACAN I LIKE FARTING AND ACTING CRAZY"
20 GOTO 10

but seriously these people are awesome to read and think about but not take literally and debate and stan???

Lacan def. has less fans/more critics in the humanities than, say, Derrida or Deleuze. There's definitely a weird cult-like thing that goes on with a lot of his followers and that can tend to make a stan of anyone who thinks he's worthwhile reading.

As for Boredoms, "critical acclaim" means nothing if you grew up in the suburbs and given a hard time for liking weirdo screamy drum music.

wow, then where is lacan liked? i thought it was mainly humanities departments.

i hear you on the boredoms, i'm from the same suburbs, but i guess it's not something that i feel like i have to defend. like they're one of my favorite bands ever, they're amazing, but i do not feel the need to educate unless others are interested. i'm reading a low-to-high thing into 'stan' that probably shouldn't be there.

drag city trio of:
will oldham
david berman
bill callahan

fuck, add royal trux to that

ingmar bergman
brian de palma
gus van sant

baltimore sports teams

oh yah that reminds me:
jim o'rourke

lol @ matt p going "ive never heard anyone criticize lacan or zizek" and enrique popping in with "lacan zizek are tools"

Well yeah, he's liked by some in humanities departments, but not universally by a long shot, due to the whole supposed sexist occult crypto-totalitarianism thing. But a lot of that has more to do with the way he's treated (creepily cult-like authority figure/possessor of some sort of psychoanlaytic gnosis) than anything else.

BTW, it's not like I shove Boredoms down people's throats or anything, but if I'm in the car with a friend and I'm playing Super AE r something, I def. have to defend it. Actually, even some of my more open-minded indie/alt-liking friends get weirded out by Boredoms.

ok so i got all up in arms on a 'stan' thread ffs

nah homie i didnt mean u were stanning for them, tho good on you for doing son, i meant it was a 'speak of the devil situation'