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"The grackles know your real name!" - most confusing line in Stephen King's IT. brb, googling grackle.

dont show your grouse til may is aus

I fucking hate birds.

^
Disappointed this isn't one of the Boards under ilxor.com

> parakeets

stood at the zebra crossing on south africa road the other day, at dusk, waiting for the lights, i must've seen 200 parakeets fly past. flying from hyde park direction towards wormwood scrubs. low, too, flying around the houses rather than over them. was quite a sight.

generally adults should not wear halloween costumes

Oh great, now you tell me.

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/gav0xbglpd8e8k4/20171027_203710.jpg?dl=0

I used to work with a guy who dressed like zorro every year and he was the ONLY guy in the office who dressed for Halloween. It was kinda funny, though.. Zorro sitting in front of a computer, typing something, sipping coffee

There's always juan

Da Capo >>>>>> Forever Changes

This place severely overrates New Order/Depeche/Cure/Pet Shop Boys

I'm sorry I wasn't born in 1970

Try harder

The 1990s were a much better decade for music than the 1980s.

Not that controversial if you don't count 80-82 which was sort of the hangover of the 70s anyway.

Well, I tried.

Controversial on ilx or generally speaking?

On ILX I suppose. No doubt for generational reasons.

80s music is generally happier, sunnier- more easily licensed and synced and used in marketing than the dour bands that defined early and late 90s rock.

There is a much bigger US/UK divide on the 90s than with other decades

IMO!

stating that any decade from the 60s onwards was the "best for music" will have enough cosignees to render it uncontroversial

80s music is generally happier, sunnier- more easily licensed and synced and used in marketing than the dour bands that defined early and late 90s rock.

Da Capo >>>>>> Forever Changes

― flappy bird, Saturday, October 28, 2017 11:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not controversial imo.

80s music is generally happier, sunnier- more easily licensed and synced and used in marketing

"Generally" doing a lot of work there. 80s music isn't just "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" x 1,000 btw. Lots of other contemporaneous strains, with plenty of weird and normy and dark and sunny and completely predictable and just plain odd stuff (I say this as someone with deep and abiding fondness for "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun").

there's plenty of 80s tunes on Songs Of Discomposure: Quietus Writers Pick Their Most Disturbing Pieces Of Music

yeah that is a huge oversimplification and generalization, but w/r/t to Rock exclusively, 90s were much darker/heavier, yeah?

This place severely overrates New Order/Depeche/Cure/Pet Shop Boys

― Master of Treacle, Sunday, October 29, 2017 1:19 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Go away.

van gogh sucks

eesh, really?

haha not really, probably just overexposed

that makes me so sad :(

love kirk douglas in lust for life

feel like historically that's not wildly controversial but yeah the mythology and the popularity are more grating than the pictures themselves

don mclean speaks for us all

anyone see that movie Loving Vincent out right now? playing at the art house here, I heard it's animated, kinda curious but ehhh, willing to be swayed by positive notices

both the Pialat + Altman Van Gogh movies from the 90's were quite memorable imo.

did a museum tour with someone recently who tried to say how much of a joke and a bad artist Rousseau and i was very much gtfo with that trash

good British music 1964-1984 R.I.P. #tombstone

although it did pick up a bit with grindcore and goth metal. #napalmdeath #godflesh #mydyingbride

van gogh sucks

the van gogh adulation industry sucks, but he had no part in creating it. he only ever sold one of his paintings during his lifetime. but stand for a while in front of one of his original paintings and you'll get a clearer idea of why he didn't suck as an artist.

van gogh is awesome sauce.

i want to make an art movie that is just close-ups of people around the world saying his name. that would be the best art movie. 4 hour running time.

I just go with Van Go. Better to say it totally wrong than only partially right.

Van Gogh sucked until I was in front of one tbh and I'd be reasonably quick to handwave that type of cliche away most of the time.

there's something about being in front of a great work of art that is truly moving

https://media.giphy.com/media/MS8UECLiPreNi/giphy.gif

I like Van Gogh enough but I get a lot more out of idk Monet or even Grant Wood.

most paintings look a lot better in person and seeing a pretty good local artist's show is more compelling than looking at pictures of paintings in books

Cleveland Museum of Art has a gallery with Grant Wood's January hanging on a wall adjacent to John Rogers Cox's Gray and Gold and I could spend all day in there.

http://www.thegroundmag.com/wp-content/uploads/January-Grant-Wood-1940-The-GROUND.jpg

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/09/77/e7/77/cleveland-museum-of-art.jpg

I never considered Van Gogh to be a visceral artist until I saw his work in person. The texture involved in his work does not come across in photographs and was something I wasn't prepared for; it made me re-evaluate almost every preconceived notion I had about paintings and altered how I view them, regardless of the artist.

His letters to his brother are also good.