King owes springsteen
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link
what kind of music do detectives listen to
― Mordy, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 01:14 (seven years ago) link
Whatever George Pelacanos does
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 01:17 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfAv8yAaHps
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 01:24 (seven years ago) link
https ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfAv8yAaHps
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 01:25 (seven years ago) link
i like these john sandford books and these guys in the middle of nowhere in minnesota sit around talking about guy clark and townes van zandt and i find it a little hard to believe. i mean, these crime novels are often idealized tough guy alter-ego projection fantasies for people who look like they hang out with my dad. and also my dad. and now me. but its cool. i like guy clark.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 01:34 (seven years ago) link
you know i get why people are latching on to the character of barb from this but also i don't get it? she's in like two scenes and then she dies.
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
i'm here to say ... barb is overrated (deal with it sunglasses on the demogorgon)
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
i'm the true iconoclast of mild stranger things fandom
https://www.buzzfeed.com/matwhitehead/barbyonce
fuck this
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link
I think people are primarily into Barb's look
― Number None, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
i hated barb
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
according to buzzfeed she's quotable and a queen of reactions
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:58 (seven years ago) link
their quote for her is "i'm chill"
i don't hate her, i'm just not into the typical performative hyperbolic internet reaction to the character
― Immediate Follower (NA), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:59 (seven years ago) link
People I know who are into Barb used to look like Barb
― joygoat, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link
^ this
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link
I think people are primarily into Barb'sMartha Plimpton's look
fixed
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link
i sympathize with barb
it's cool that other people love her
people shouldn't shun nance tho
there's room in this world for both of them
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
Eh, I didn't even see Goonies until 5 or 6 years ago, but I definitely knew and was friends with girls who were Barbs growing up.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 21:33 (seven years ago) link
i think i knew one or two barbs
definitely felt a little bummed when that monster ate her because you know she is just a sweet girl trying to be a good daughter
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 21:37 (seven years ago) link
if only she had gotten laid/drunk, she might've survived
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 21:38 (seven years ago) link
she wasn't ready for that, dude
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 21:54 (seven years ago) link
barb is almost as overrated as hamilton
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 22:49 (seven years ago) link
Barb! The Musical
― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
Monster is Burr xpost
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 23:42 (seven years ago) link
I was a dude Barb. It sucked.
― Crazy Eddie & Jesus the Kid (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 23:48 (seven years ago) link
me too.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 23:51 (seven years ago) link
and by that i mean the alien thing happened too
whatever Barb
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Thursday, 18 August 2016 00:35 (seven years ago) link
3 episodes in, this is really taking a thompson submachine gun to nostalgic references isn't it
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 18 August 2016 02:09 (seven years ago) link
The DJ Yoda mixtape about this is loadsa fun.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dj-behind-hit-stranger-things-916853
https://soundcloud.com/dj-yoda-uk/the-stranger-things-mixtape
I'm digging the mix of inspirations for including Dolly Parton and Toto amongst the more obvious ones.
― Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Friday, 19 August 2016 07:30 (seven years ago) link
was there any black music at all? LL Cool J was massive at my rural Tennessee middle school
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 August 2016 13:28 (seven years ago) link
"LL... This is your cousin Barry. Barry Cool J. You know that sound you been looking for?"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 19 August 2016 13:31 (seven years ago) link
Your rural Tennessee middle school was apparently a couple of years ahead of the curve on LL!
Black artists were just starting to crack MTV around '83. I was in Indiana when this took place and I don't remember hearing much beyond Michael Jackson. But I was like 6, so, y'know.
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 August 2016 13:38 (seven years ago) link
maybe not by '83 but i thought we had established that this show takes place in a kind of impressionistic mid-80s popcult era. in which BREAKDANCING and RAP were like a pretty big deal (but actually i guess NOT in the movies it's referencing!)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 August 2016 14:25 (seven years ago) link
They're mostly on-point with the references and diagetic musical choices. Breakdancing and rap definitely became a big deal a year or two later but definitely feel a little out of place in cloistered suburban '83.
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 August 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
I def remember breakdancing circa '84, not sure about '83. As far as black music that WAS a part of white suburban culture circa this show's era, it's probably more a case of "we couldn't get the rights to Michael Jackson or Prince"
― Dominique, Friday, 19 August 2016 14:58 (seven years ago) link
The only character with any visible interest in music is Jonathan who, let's face it, is going to be more of a Smiths and Joy Division kind of guy.
― Matt DC, Friday, 19 August 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
Loved this anyway, real kicker right at the end which sets things up nicely for S2. At the start it really did feel like a pile-up of cute reference points but sometime around episode three it just became its own thing and I stopped noticing them.
― Matt DC, Friday, 19 August 2016 15:07 (seven years ago) link
I kept calling Eleven ET and it drove my gf nuts. But I appreciated it for the affectionate homage it was clearly meant to be.
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 August 2016 15:11 (seven years ago) link
maybe not by '83 but i thought we had established that this show takes place in a kind of impressionistic mid-80s popcult era.
it takes place in 80s movies.
― goole, Friday, 19 August 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
And 70s/80s Stephen King books
― Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Friday, 19 August 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
Tho I don't remember if King was leaned quite as heavy into specific popcult refs or explicitly naming things in his early work.
― Sentient animated cat gif (kingfish), Friday, 19 August 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
pop culture was a huge part of his writingmusic, politics, brands, tv shows, ad jingles
dead zone is wall to wall vietnam & election news, all kinda shit specific to the time/place
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 19 August 2016 18:04 (seven years ago) link
goole read my next sentence where i realize this :)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 August 2016 22:19 (seven years ago) link
I found this an enjoyable kind of gentle viewing experience, like nothing was really THAT shocking or unexpected and there were no crazy twists or modern-feeling edginess, but managed to be absorbing in its own 'authentic' way. Once you get over the reference points and realise it's nothing but, I didn't find it jarring or distracting - except for the 'this music will change your life' nonsense, and the Under the Skin rip offs (btw I have been saving UTS to re-screen on my TV box thing for months and then the bloody thing wiped it grr).The plot was a bit simplistic, everyone just assumed there was only one monster in this whole other dimension? I thought for sure the AV science teacher guy was a goner so glad he was ok but sad he didn't get to see the upside down.
Jean Ralphio was also really distracting actually, but I had literally just finished watching a season of P&R before starting this. Jonathan kept reminding me of Simon Quinlank too.Disappointed none of the bullies ended up in a dumpster, try harder next time guys. The kids were really impressive, loved them.
Anyone body policing can gtfo, thanks
― kinder, Saturday, 20 August 2016 13:14 (seven years ago) link
Really enjoyed the show's loving devotion to its reference points. Felt like a couple of images transcended the referentiality (to me anyway, quite probably I am simply oblivious to the sources): Winona talking to the Xmas tree lights in the alcove. As lovely and uncanny as the car radio communion in Orphée. And then Nancy crawling through the tree - in a kind of magical Cronenberg meets Blyton moment - into the Upside Down, which, with its drifting snowflake spores, feels like a kind of ruined Narnia.
― Stevie T, Saturday, 20 August 2016 21:54 (seven years ago) link
the floating stuff looked so cool
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 20 August 2016 22:28 (seven years ago) link
Been fighting an ear infection and cold team-up so I went straight through the series. Unsetting at just how efficient the reference machine gun works now, but I suppose that's a natural side-effect of getting into film when every movie ever can be dialed up on demand. I was 10-20 years old from 1975-1985 and have every right to be reactionary about what Stranger Things did/didn't get right - but the show did feel like something I would have seen on Z Channel in 1982 or at the $2 Academy Six. By 1988, some vendor at SDCC is selling bootleg Hawkins Sheriff Dept. caps, though I was really hoping that the overwrought Sheriff (did anyone stop to think how dumb and time-wasting his lines are?) would have been consumed in the Upside-Down.
Amazingly good simulacrum. I kept thinking of Life On Mars' simulacrum of 70s UK crime shows. Unsure if I liked it enough to sign on for season 2 - worried that it might go past the event horizon like Welcome To Night Vale did.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 20 August 2016 23:27 (seven years ago) link