Things You Just Don't Care About

Except fuck food. Quit talking about food too.

coffee is for closers

celebrity anything. grammys, beyonce, kanye, etc. all of it. and any "controversy" these things fire up. i just don't get why people fall for this stuff over and over again. and why people react when rich people want them too. probably best to not get riled up in february. i get these REALLY detailed facebook posts about everything wrong with western culture via the grammys and i'm like jesus christmas can't you just make fun of people's clothes like people did in olden times. that show was invented to be over the top and dumb.

maybe i should have just said: outrage on the internet. that covers all the bases.

cosign

I don't get outraged about the music celebrities themselves - what drives me nuts is reading articles about Kanye, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, etc., etc., by writers I know and thinking, "I know you! We've met, we've had conversations! You're an intelligent person! How can you write this bullshit and not want to jump under a passing train?"

didn't the occupy movement teach us anything?

People sure do get het up about Kanye.

for some reason i don't mind when greg tate does it on facebook. making a narrative out of events is what people do, right?

"Note to self: After putting big wide eyes on Team Bey at The Superbowl, Kanye West's appearances on SNL and Madison Squaree Garden and Kendrick Lamar at the Grammies its clear our most ambition pop musicians are responding to this cycle of tribal uprising and mass mobilized resistance with well orchestrated, epic and indelible invocations of chaos, rebeliousnuss, hoodoo ritual and the carnivalesque. That this re-engagement with operatic spectacle and big-tent showmanship as a forum for musician's ideas about cultural politics and the zeitgeist is occurring as we mark the passing of radical avant-pop avatars and staging visionaries David Bowie and Maurice White serves up a thrilling timely,public and apropo seizing of the baton."

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michael jackson really did ruin everything, didn't he? operatic spectacle, big-tent showmanship, cultural politics, the zeitgeist, avant-pop avatars, hoodoo ritual. pretty sure he destroyed it all.

he at least ruined albums not called thriller or off the wall

innovation

i think he ruined spectacle. used to be all p.t. barnum busby berkeley razamataz hokum let's put on a show and you could STILL make pointed yet veiled statements about FDR's new deal farm programs but then it was all oh my god is he/she insane wtf? i mean i kinda figure all these people are insane. that's a given.

i am all for beyonce starting a revolution though...i mean who isn't?

what are you even talking about

lol

i'd need to see beyonce's platform before supporting anything

her platform supports everything

there's no sagging in Beyoncé's platform

i just didn't feel like doing ebay today.

How in the fuck do you even find more than idk these architects to 'think about'

*Three

things I take solace in other ppl not caring about

I used to listen to a lot of rap music in the 90s, but I don't really get rappers like Kanye. Like, to me talking about your woes and worries as a world-famous millionaire is the most boring song subject ever! I don't really care about what some rich celebrity thinks about another rich celebrity, who the fuck can relate to that? (And yeah, I know beef tracks and such have existed since way back, but they used to be a smaller thing, like maybe you had one beef song per album, but it wasn't all about you as a celebrity.) I'm a white Northern European pacifist, but I think even gangsta rap was more relatable to me than this sort of stuff, there were still a lot of lyrics about everyday life and everyday problems instead of millionaire problems.

Just to be clear, I think it's great black Americans can make it big despite systemic racism, that's something to applaud. But that doesn't mean the millionaire lives of those who did make it big are a particularly interesting lyrical subject, at least if it isn't put in larger context, and to me "they mad they ain't famous, they mad they're still nameless" doesn't feel like such a context.

Stop stop I'm already dead

celebrity buttholes

Satanism, theism

This is a big one for me, and just as boring and challopy as the rest, but I don't care about marijuana! and dabs! and edibles and dispensaries and 420 and wake 'n' bake and smoke weed erry day etc.

I guess I do care, the weed culture is just SO pervasive and I don't partake and it's a little alienating I guess. Weed culture is like dog culture, weed is cool and dogs are cool but I secretly kinda hate 'enthusiasts' of both.

where are you that you're so inundated w/ pro-weed messaging???

And where is contenderizer that he's so inundated w/ celebrity buttholes???

I remember thinking/hoping, in college, that the mj scene would kind of dissolve into the margins and it is like 10x what it was then.

um the united states and planet earth xp

yea but which state

trust me there is 0 pro-weed messaging going on in PA. just a v tiny activist group trying to get a vote on medical let alone anything else

i mean like tons of pro-weed messaging going on in my house but i don't think you're too exposed to that

same, my community of friends in MA is made of fairly progressive new england hippie-ish families and i only just learned a couple of months ago that some of them actually smoke weed, and i was the one to bring it up

I just mean the presence of it in mainstream culture. Every. One. Smokes.

it makes music sound better, food taste better, and [maybe] cures a bunch of illnesses. what's not to like!

i have lots of western mass friends who are my age or older who do acid! i don't think i can go back down that highway. i mean, they seem fine. they all tell me its really good and "clean" not like that speed-laced stuff i lived on as a teen in the 80's.

i like a little pot every now and again but i can't smoke it all the time and be a person. i have absolutely no interest in pot culture other than listening to old stoner rock bands.

there is literally no more omnipresent thing than marijuana except, maybe like, Jingle Bells and Happy Birthday and shit

― Elektro Guzzi Mane (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, June 28, 2010 5:44 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I can go in the redneckiest bar in Florida or the hippest coffee shop in Williamsburg and hear about weed

― Elektro Guzzi Mane (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, June 28, 2010 5:46 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I have no idea where you live that you don't just see ganja everywhere. I mean restaurants, the grocery store, taxicabs, the bodega, the pharmacy. Weed.

― Elektro Guzzi Mane (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, June 28, 2010 5:57 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

post here every time you hear a marijuana song playing in the supermarket

Yeah, I don't doubt it's omnipresent for many people, but weed and weed culture is pretty much absent from my life. Wish there was a bit more of it, tbh.

legalize marijuana, outlaw pot culture

go on periscope (or not) and just start watching live streams, it's ridiculous

yeah weed culture is p ubiquitous come on.

The X-Files

is a thing I don't care about, I mean, not a thing full of weed culture. though it could be, I guess.

yeah weed culture is p ubiquitous come on.

iirc you're in vanc, so i guess that's fair