Things You Just Don't Care About

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

good pear vs good apple isn't rly even close tbh but it is hard to get good pears

pears are bullshit

even a "good " pear makes me think "baby food"

don't really care for raw bananas either

im not gonna talk down to anyone here because i love u all and bathe in your grace etc but cmere how can we be sure and i mean really sure that you know what a 'good' pear is if you dont like pears im only just askin now

pears > bananas

anything > bananas

Bananas are great, pears are great, eat some fruit!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDVKtWddvBw