Things You Just Don't Care About

Who's that?

idk, I don't care about them

Not an evening, a weekend.

I like a lot of his choices but I caught 2 minutes of the rambling autobiographical thing and just thought of the mumbling bloke from the Fast Show.

craft beer

bob dylan and the nobel prize

oh there is an archivist i follow(ed) on twitter who started a tweet thread yesterday about what to do with empty file folders / directories when processing born-digital stuff, leave or delete. i replied with "literally no one but the archivist gives a shit, make a decision and move on" and he was like "how thoughtful" but i mean come on, it's a really good thing to actively not give a shit about some things imo, even in your special snowflake professional identity, it can make you so much more connected and productive, i mean just my pov.

I can't stand the fucker tbh. So it seems appropriate him getting a discredited honour that usually goes to bullshit merchants or f/t genociders.

The continued funniness/non-funniness of Saturday Night Live. "SNL isn't funny anymore" is among the most clichéd things to say.

Almost everyone agrees that it isn't funny anymore; I know this people have been saying this my entire adult life. And yet it remains on the air somehow. 50somethings often think it was better in the 70s. 40somethings often think it was better in the 80s. 30somethings often think it was better in the 90s.

I'll bet if you were to ask a 2-year-old, she'd say it was funnier last season. Heck, at this point a 2-week-old baby would probably say "last week was so much better. Time to retire this lame unfunny show, which has so clearly jumped the shark."

It's rare to hear the viewpoint that as a live show with an ensemble cast, it is uneven by its nature. Some things will work and some things won't. Like other shows, it has good bits and bad bits; no need to get all pastopian about it.

The best way to avoid that whole tedious debate is to just concede that SCTV was and remains funnier than SNL ever was.

I've always considered that stance to be challopian I could be wrong

it's spelled "canadian"

self-driving cars

Artistic statements about what it means to be human or what it means to be British (or wherever you're from).

uranus

Things sold as "an exploration of what it means to be human" unless they really are prepared to think about human life in any possible way it could exist.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 18 June 2016 12:38

Artistic statements about what it means to be human or what it means to be British (or wherever you're from).

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 20 October 2016 19:23

I thought I might be repeating myself. I actually don't know if anyone describes their work this way anymore. I must have heard it so many times in BBC arts coverage and anything approaching middlebrow arts coverage. Maybe it was critics more than creators.
There's nothing inherently wrong with explorations of these things, but I think most people just want to be seen making an important statement. Also when a terrible major event happens and loads of artists are scrambling to make some definitive statement about it.

Can any of you guys think of brilliant explorations of what it means to be human? Could you make a list? I can't think of anything.

Sometimes someone will say every artwork is about the human condition. But why would you describe your work that way if that's what everyone does automatically?

Similar thing: writers saying "my fantasies are metaphors for really fucking relevant stuff that goes on in the real world" but then saying fantasy is always a metaphor for the real world.

Noodle Vague made me feel insecure so I wanted to clarify. Hoho.

I shd stop being mean. it's a weird peev tho? ignoring a certain kind of art-speak I get but the field is too vast to single out tabloid banalities imo.

I mean, I don't take the notion of what any piece of art is "about" very seriously, but that kind of meta-commentary is just part and parcel of a business game that isn't really played out for the public's benefit. both that and the "everything is a metaphor" line are intentional fallacies. everything is a metaphor because metaphorical jouissance doesn't reside in the author

Can any of you guys think of brilliant explorations of what it means to be human?

My list would start with Pasolini's Saló, but I'm not too high on humanity these days.

Artistic statements about what it means to be human or what it means to be British

You should probably avoid the Kinks.

there's thousands, millions, of good explorations of what it's like to be a human

fat ronaldo one on one

The job titles of people who write music reviews

sometimes i detest artspeak. i understand the need for an artist to be able to speak in the culture of the art world and present themselves in that context, and especially in the context of art history, but artist statements on the whole tend to be vague platitudes and empty/trend-hoppy branding. like if you got an MBA you would be going on about Leadership and Entrepreneurship in much the same way as What It Means to Be Human. in the end you are just selling yourself as an authority on these topics.

Some of them say it like they really mean it though.

"What it means to be human" just sounds so all-encompassing to me, so most things described that way end up seeming underwhelming and too narrow a slice of human experience and possibility.

My next installation will explore what it means to be marmoset.

i already know what it means to be a human. boring. more art about what it means to be a cat, a rock, a cloud, etc.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0c/I_Am_A_Rock_45.jpg/220px-I_Am_A_Rock_45.jpg

http://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-what-is-it-like-to-be-a-bat-what-is-it-like-for-a-bat-to-be-a-bat-thomas-nagel-77-89-83.jpg

http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/d/dd/WHCNRPLCMN0000.jpg

I was thinking about Nagel. Impressed so many people have a firm grip on their own experience of humanity

Stranger Things

Nostalgia for style

Heathrow expansion, or not.

How people behave when they're stoned

Westworld, Luke Cage, Black Mirror, new Star Wars movie

Cosines all round

steve bartman
any of this cubs lore bullshit

baseball

the fact that Stig Abell used to edit the Sun but now posts liberal bromides on twitter, and the extent to which this makes him a hypocrite

seriously, sometimes it feels like half of my twitter feed is screenshots of Stig Abell tweets counterpointed by pictures of old Sun front pages

England v Scotland

two bald men fighting over a comb

One considerably balder than the other.

just checking listings there and on the basic cable package i have san marino v germany is being shown, with england v scotland on a channel you have to pay extra for lol. so now i really, really don't care.

When someone cannot believe you haven't seen a movie. How much media can one consume?

pears

otm

I can't remember the last time I had a good apple but good pears are easier to find.

Isn't there an Eddie Izzard bit about that?

When someone cannot believe you haven't seen a movie. How much media can one consume?

pears > bananas