Things You Just Don't Care About

March 4th, most progressive day of the year > May the 4th, some Star Wars bullshit

which album poll has the most even distribution of votes

No-one's said Elon Musk for well over a year, so here's an Elon/Grimes update for 2020: I don't care.

Ha, I was literally about to type "the doings of Elon Musk and/or Grimes".

Cosign 4th of May, distribution of votes & Elon Musk/Grimes.

84. USA politics. i followed this for 12 years and now i just don't care.

US politics. Or rather, I wish I didn't care, but I'm afraid it would make me less Canadian.

US politics. I mean that is the dumbest shit going

Co-sign

At least, I'm letting myself not pay attention to US politics for the time being.

new poll: which do you care about least?

*Elon
*Grimes
*Their baby
*This poll
*The distribution of votes in this poll

US Politics ftw

*Elon
*Grimes
*Their baby
*This poll
*The distribution of votes in this poll

can we please get at least 20 votes in this poll, preferably 30?

the intricacies of covid-19, such as those discussed in the "outbreak" thread

Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer (no idea who she is btw).

I actually played an Amanda Palmer track the other day, as I realised I hated her without having heard a note of her music. It was the sort of witchy-poo Tori Amos-lite goth-rock nonsense I was expecting, shall not be returning.

Lana Del Rey

i will try the album sooner or later but i gotta say: fiona apple

also: Jason DeRulo

the Other Music documentary (sorry)

100% agreement. I spent a fair amount of money there once upon a time (it was my third or fourth favorite record store in that part of NYC in the early 2000s, after Tower on 4th & Broadway and Mondo Kim's and possibly Downtown Music Gallery), but what kind of person would want to watch a documentary about a goddamn record store?

― but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, April 20, 2020 8:57 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

Idk 'The Kim's Video & Music Story' has the makings of a pretty colorful documentary. I really wanna know what happened with that crazy shrine to Mr. Kim in Sicily. Now he was a colorful character.
OM was the better record store imo, but hardly documentary fodder.

https://www.villagevoice.com/2012/09/12/the-strange-fate-of-kims-video/

What college people driving cars near me graduated from, per their license plates

How many recent oscar winners had happy endings

Maybe the weirdest flex in a thread that is entirely weird flex but ok but ok

the birthday of any person with whom I am not personally acquainted

holy shit that Kim's story, I don't remember reading about this before

a cursory search turns up nothing more recent abt the collection, I wonder what 's going on now?

Don’t know but am afraid to ask. Just reread that article, brought back a lot of um, something, memories, feelings, etc.

Huh!

The 1975.

(Sorry.)

Serie A

My co-workers’ pets.

cats in general.

sorry.

cosign

I wonder what's going on now?

Sounds like Josh Neves, professor of film studies at Concordia U is the man to ask:
https://www.concordia.ca/cunews/main/stories/2017/06/20/mondo-kim-rejuvenating-a-legendary-new-york-video-archive-in-sicily.html

TL;DR: not much, predictably enough

And here is an art installation based on Salemi Centro Kim:
https://ps.persona.co/PLEASE-REWIND

idc if your team had to literally bake the 90-year-old film and substitute missing frames from an inferior second-generation copy and painstakingly retouch the damaged frames one-by-one over a 15-year period to restore it to watchable condition. I appreciate your efforts, but it's been done before and I've gotten the gist of it by now, so I really don't need to see a mini documentary about the process. sorry

The actual collection may not jive with the town’s idea of what an independent film centre should be

i wonder what percentage of the Kim collection include works that aren't readily available? And what percentage includes works that are genuinely elusive?

dominic cummings

+1 on Other Music doc. A great record store with knowledgeable staff, and I even have fuzzy memories of shopping there, but...what story is there to tell? What "behind the scenes" info would enrich my memories? Did the owner trek through the Amazon rainforest to find rare ESP Disk releases or something?

Through the Amazon warehouse more like.

i wonder what percentage of the Kim collection include works that aren't readily available? And what percentage includes works that are genuinely elusive?

Is anything elusive nowadays? Seems like pretty much every mega-rarity is up on youtube in its entirety, other than the ones tied up in ownership wrangles. Probably easier to see them there than trek out to Sicily.

Co-sign Mordy on Cummings. Also: Amy Cooper

I'll give you Dominic Cummings and raise you Joe Biden.

I'm grateful for the luxury of being able to tell myself Joe Biden, or even the entity of US politics, is not relevant to my life, even if that's almost certainly not true.

Is anything elusive nowadays?

WAY off topic now but swing by this year's Orphan Film Festival for some examples: https://wp.nyu.edu/orphanfilm/

tom i appreciate your commitment to being the one ukilxor who doesn't obsess over US politics

You've said that before but it patently isn't true.

Canadians might still have the Queen on their coins but they don't count.

Is anything elusive nowadays?

It's true that a lot of those 'single of the week' bands fell through the cracks.

Karagarga, not Youtube, is probably the online resource most comparbale to Kim's Video. It's a different kind of collection and I think the ratio requirements of KG probably discourages people from leeching stuff like Shrek that's freely available on less exclusive trackers. I don't think there's much porn on KG etc.

I think most of you are being unfair to Other Music. Agreed that the documentary is quite unnecessary (to put it charitably). Most of the money I spent there (which wasn't all that much) was on staff recommendations i'd never heard of. In the early years they often recommend stuff they didn't stock and direct me to even more niche stores I didn't know about to pick it up. The cleaner interior probably took after Shibuya style as was the fashion at the time, and it suited their MO which was more cosmopolitan or international maybe, I suppose what this board calls "Wire-y".
By the way, the owner licensed and reissued the first 3 Mutantes LP's on their Omplatten label before David Byrne (or Polydor) got around to it. Anyone setting foot in the store in 1998 would have heard A Divina Comedia playing, on repeat if you hung around long enough. Those albums were completely unavailable on CD outside Japan at the time.

Should OM/Kim's crosstalk be moved to NYC record stores thread?

Can I just say sending the Kim's collection to Sicily was a really stupid thing to do tho. And is digitizing it even a good idea? My thinking is a lot of this stuff has since been released in higher quality formats, plus nobody really knows the lifespan of a hard drive etc.

It should be preserved in the format that it's in IMO.

xxp Shibuya style interiors? What's that? I've been to a lot of shops over there but never to Outside. I watched the documentary as soon as it was available. I think it works as a general look at the decline of music retail and semi resurgence with vinyl. Aaaand now what? Interesting release model where half the money goes to an existing shop of your choice.

I don't know. Everything in 1996 seemed to have that Pan Am look, like a 70's airport. By 1999 it had evolved p something more like Disneyland meets Bladerunner. This is a style I associate with Shibuya.