who are you a stan of?

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'

I don't get the whole "stan" thing....isn't everyone fair game? I'd defend the defenseless, but that's about it.

will oldham
bicycles and how we ought to take them more seriously
doing stuff outside
the wire

also farting, being crazy

internet

well yeah, xp

paul muldoon

i think i'm becoming a stan of the knife

i have discovered that i am a david fincher stan.

but even then im not crazy about alien3 and seven.

http://blog.pennlive.com/tonyrhodin/2007/11/billyjoal1127.jpg

that's gotta be a tough job

just have to keep keepin' the faith.

that's like being a james michener or martin brest stan

im a brest stan

sorry--breast

law & order

im a brest stan

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sorry--breast

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stan stan

http://www.thelin.net/laurent/cinema/films/tt0073486/56410.jpg is a stan of http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/j/Stan%20Laurel.jpg

movie directors im a stan of:

depalma
miike
cronenberg

& many others...

writers mentioned on 'worst writers ever' thread i am holding back from defending:

pk dick
coetzee ("sorry but its true" launching this one from contrary to CHALLOPS territory)
king
henry james
lovecraft
eggers
rushdie
pynchon
DERRIDA <-- really had to hold myself back for this one
both amises
jk rowling (cant believe i actually was about to wade in to defend her, but--the heart, not the mind, is the organ of standom)
SAUNDERS ("shocking"? what? also describing the most recent nyer story as "smug"--did you READ it?)
foster wallace

lol did not read that thread - people are just listing whoever

haha i contributed "a baby" and then noodle vague called me out for keepin it negative

haha max! <3 <3 <3

glad i am not reading that thread

hopefully next year this time cpsc 223

to keep my list updated here r some other people i am stans of:

• donald barthelme
• italo calvino
• umberto eco

I'll need to give this some deep thought. There's a few but I'm not sure which are passing fancies and which are genuine standoms.

Good taste Max. I'm with you on the first two and RS loves Eco.

r.i.p.

I'm gonna echo the Stanning of Woody Allen, but older stuff only. I think he's lost his ear for dialogue to such an extent that his newer stuff is painful to watch (Vicky Christina's sole saving grace is Penélope Cruz) but if someone gets caught up in the Soon-Yi creepiness or actually thinks he's just not funny I have to defend the Woodster. Like, I'm annoyed with that line in Mos Def's Mr. Nigga (off Black on Both Sides which, ironically, I'm a stan for) where Mos accuses him of MOLESTING and marrying his stepdaughter and compares it with Michael Jackson's treatment in the media. The whole issue IS quite problematic, but if you don't like Annie Hall I'm not sure you have a soul.
I'll also stan for:
*The Beatles (although I kind of think everyone who says they weren't great is just being contrarian/reacting to Greatest Band Ever title), but especially the White Album. Should have been one disc?! Fightin words.
*The Office (US version)
*Nas - Illmatic
*Arrested Development
*Juvenile comedies like Dumb and Dumber, Half Baked and the work of Judd Apatow
*Daft Punk
*Don Quijote
*Pedro Almodóvar films

a few things

Fugazi
Douglas Adams
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan

I'm having a hard time coming up with people (other than, uh, Herge) that I've felt this way about over a long period of time. It seems like when I stay obsessed with a particular artist, I either drift toward magnifying their flaws or argument about them altogether.

Wait, there are people who don't like Don Quixote and Illmatic?

max, maybe this was mentioned up thread, but don't you think true stan-dom requires standing up for someone/thing partially discredited or passe? like i know calvino and eco and the like have some detractors but generally they are recognized lit heroes. i feel that being a stan should require a risk of looking foolish or being in bad taste. like norman rockwell or leon uris or stanley kramer somebody like that.

Charles S. Peirce
Terrence Malick
Seinfeld

Wait, there are people who don't like Don Quixote and Illmatic?

Yeah as I was writing my list I realized that much of it was things that nobody really disparages. But I take being a stan to mean that I consider them the greatest thing ever, like those 2 specifically I think are like better writing than Shakespeare

Wait, there are people who don't like Don Quixote and Illmatic?

― i fuck mathematics, Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:17 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i thought the famous thing about don quixote was that it is terribly written.

martin amis: "While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw – that of outright unreadability."

I finally discovered something I'd stan for, SFIV : ///////////////////

I think other people would have to tell me because they're always bored by hearing it from me.

In which case it would have to be the current British government.

Also Leicester.

i like how some of you guys are saying you're a stan of something which is totally classic stuff

oh hello i am a stan of velvet underground.