Things You Just Don't Care About

the uniquely irrational anger of receiving a "where's george" dollar bill is a beautiful, cosmic thing

I always thought the point of this thread is "This is something I simply am not devoting mental energy to, without implicit judgement" and less "fuck this stupid stuff that people love and the people that love it"?

Fwiw I moderately enjoyed ST but agree with man alive. I'm just going to not think about it.

"New music"

i think i just forget about new music! because old. i would have to hear it to care about it. every once in a while i will become interested in "new". like that cool Orange Milk tape label or something like that. or i will put on a new rap playlist on Spotify while i am playing my PS4 game and i will go OMG I LOVE NEW RAP I LOVE KODAK BLACK! but that lasts for like a day. i don't keep up with it. i'm not really into time these days. which i guess is one of the pleasures of getting older. anything that has come out in the 21st century is new to me.

The National fucking blow though. that much i know. yuck. some serious fiddling while rome burns divorced dad rock snooze. pretty much every record i ever play is better than that band. i listen to a lot of music by the feelies and carcass and red krayola and xmal deutschland though. so my standards are pretty high. most square people don't have very high standards. the gino vanelli record i just played has SO much more life in it than anything i've heard by The National. the Thomas Dolby record i'm listening to right now is a friggin' masterpiece in comparison.

the national are a blight on western civilization

so much old music to listen to. i'm going to listen to miles davis' big fun for the first time when i get home tonight.

(also, the original u.k. issue of the golden age of wireless is different than the original u.s. issue and the original u.s. issue is different than the later u.s. issue when they changed everything completely and added she blinded me with science and one of our submarines. you kinda need all three versions. i would call that album a masterpiece of sorts. in any version. so cool!)

It was mostly through metal that I was actively keeping up with new music the last few years, and I got bored with that this year. These days I'm most interested in exploring the massive amounts of classical music that I don't know anything about. I still occasionally find irresistible new stuff like the Partner album through ILM.

(for instance the original u.s. issue has the song "Leipzig" on it which is NOT on the original u.k. album but it doesn't have "The Wreck Of The Fairchild" on it which the original album did. who makes these kinds of decisions?)

haha thx I was gonna ask what the differences were!

yeah, i am out of the metal loop too. i read decibel every month just to keep up a little bit. i'll get around to everything sooner or later. it will be there unless i die.

I'm much more interested in what everybody is having at the restaurant than Stranger Things 2. But I'm stuck around the house for a couple days coming up and will watch it because it's there and probably not terrible.

I'm as interested in new music as I've ever been which tbh is something I treasure. I think it's probably closely tied with my desire to make music.

it's kinda cool with the Dolby album though. listening to the u.k. version and original u.s. version would be two different experiences. the song orders are different. different songs. kinda like my fave colourfield album. the u.k. version of that is very gloomy and pastoral and the u.s. version is a total rock action thing! it's a completely different album. i prefer the u.s. one.

i'm watching stranger things with the kids. maybe a sunday marathon. not really excited but curious. we loved the first season.

Re. new music, I think 'new' indie guitar music is Done. Capital D. Like, empirically worse to yesteryear compared to the equivalents in metal, pop, hip-hop, dance, country, whatever.

so much old music to listen to. i'm going to listen to miles davis' big fun for the first time when i get home tonight.

― brimstead, Friday, October 27, 2017 12:00 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes. Just started going deeper into '70s jazz in the last couple of years and it's like my ears finally found the music they were created to hear.

you guys are in for some good shit

i'm totally stuck in the 70's. i'm happy there. and it is endlessly inspiring. i'm listening to The Three Degrees right now. so much better than The National.

i just prefer when new music sounds like the future. that's my preference. being a teen all through the 80's EVERYTHING sounded like the future. and 70's music will often still sound like the future to me. a better future than now anyway. but there is always great new stuff! i look for the stuff that sends me to Mars. i don't want my future to sound like the 90's. i should actually listen to more Future. i like him. ALSO, i recently found out that he has the best real name in the music industry: Nayvadius DeMun Wilburn

for real, someone just came in the store two seconds ago and handed me a 7-inch picture disc of heaven 17's Temptation/We Live So Fast! they were so totally the future when i saw them perform on Solid Gold. The National could never write a song as cool as We Live So Fast in a million years. best present anyone has given me in a long time.

scott I agree w/you regarding those T Dolby records, Milton Parker broke all those track variations down on the Dolby thread once. I think if you have the US Wireless and that Blinded By Science EP then you get the UK tracks? but I would totally buy three different versions.

so much new music sounds like the fucking 80s these days, regardless of genre - just 80s synth patches all over everything - which really puts me off.

plus, you need the first u.s. press for the cover variation. i dig this cover:

https://www.discogs.com/Thomas-Dolby-The-Golden-Age-Of-Wireless/release/399165

i bought that blinded by science EP in 1983. at Caldor. blew my mind! the future!

love how scott's enthusiasm for stuff he does care about overtakes the things you don't care about thread

sorry, i should really think about something i don't care about. there is a lot, actually.

i don't care about network news at all. that's one thing. i never think about it. i haven't had cable for years. i look at the new york times headlines and i watch pbs newshour on youtube. and that's about it. and i lurkread ilx rolling grump thread.

when i think of all the hours i wasted over the years hating cnn. getting rid of cable was such a lifesaver.

i do miss sports though sometimes....

ya getting rid of cable was great. my internet provider tries to lure me back to it by offering a package that includes cable for just $15 more than I pay for internet alone but still not gonna get sucked into that.
for sports I either pull up a pirated feed or go to a bar. watching big games in public space is so much better.

i'm totally stuck in the 70's. i'm happy there. and it is endlessly inspiring.

agree

I find it hard to care about music from before about '94 myself

Stranger things is fine, it's just not worth the intend adulation it gets. There's zero original content in that show, it's just good entertainment. About as deep as a kiddie pool but lots of fun

*intense

anything that happens in the art world

the art world is a dead zone. burn it all to the ground. so empty. rich people fussing over their hair. make every museum a Target.

nah we don't need any more Targets

I always thought the point of this thread is "This is something I simply am not devoting mental energy to, without implicit judgement" and less "fuck this stupid stuff that people love and the people that love it"?

yeah this is exactly where i was coming from, e.g. i watched series 1 of stranger things, it was fine, people lost their shit, they want everyone to really really love it, i just don't care.

i didn't care about twin peaks at all. didn't watch. didn't read about it. despite being a fan of the original show and lynch. i am just not a reunion fan.

every Lynch fan should watch it

Re art world, don't want it to burn, not angry—I just don't care. Yes it's corrupt, that's not what bothers me. In fact, I'm much more concerned with corruption in banking, where I care a lot.

I think I just realized a couple years ago, while going through the motions at a friend's opening, that I've never felt any emotion toward a painting at all, not even technical admiration.

Guess I've just lost the energy to fake it.

I care a lot up to about Monet. After that it gets rough. I have no idea where to find good contemporary painting. It feels like paintings are hardly needed nowadays.

hey rich assholes need to spend their money on *something*

yeah scott the new season of twin peaks is anything but a 'reunion' (at least as that term is most commonly used i.e. more of the same). you'd probably dig it if you really dislike reunion/nostalgia wankfests, and especially if you're a fan of later Lynch.

also yeah i liked Stranger Things last year & will probably watch the new one but the over the top adulation was depressing... how long are we going to have to live thru 80s nostalgia? I Love the 80s aired 15 years ago ffs

xxp the thing is that usually I care a lot about what rich assholes spend their money on

i will no doubt watch twin peaks. if its on hulu or netflix. i just didn't care about it before, during, and after like all the peakheads.

i do think david lynch is the coolest. after all these years. i can't think of many american filmmakers i even care about any more. which fits on this thread too!

if its on hulu or netflix

kinda doubt this will happen tbh

the old twin peaks is on netflix.

Unless you still get Netflix dvds. ;)

Things you just don't care about: Halloween cover bands

It feels like paintings are hardly needed nowadays.

― jmm, Friday, 27 October 2017 22:24

Needed?

Art world = the big money big gallery art world?

There's so much great art today, it's just scattered all over the place and can be challenging to find. I rarely go to art galleries because I just don't trust them to have anyone interesting. But I find a lot of new artists who are really refreshing, perhaps partly because they're not part of some bigger scene.
I haven't been keeping up very well but it always makes me feel good when I do. As a fantasy fan, it's always more exciting than anything in film or comics.

Don't really understand the hate for The National but I haven't heard them in years.

"going through the motions at a friend's opening"