My co-workers’ pets.
― Sam Weller, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
cats in general.
sorry.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 25 May 2020 19:52 (four years ago) link
cosign
― pomenitul, Monday, 25 May 2020 19:54 (four years ago) link
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
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 25 May 2020 20:10 (four years ago) link
And here is an art installation based on Salemi Centro Kim:https://ps.persona.co/PLEASE-REWIND
― Deflatormouse, Monday, 25 May 2020 20:17 (four years ago) link
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
― stop trying to make fetch the bolt cutters happen (unregistered), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
The actual collection may not jive with the town’s idea of what an independent film centre should be
― Trouble Is My Métier (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 May 2020 20:53 (four years ago) link
i wonder what percentage of the Kim collection include works that aren't readily available? And what percentage includes works that are genuinely elusive?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 25 May 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link
dominic cummings
― Mordy, Monday, 25 May 2020 21:19 (four years ago) link
+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?
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 14:57 (four years ago) link
Through the Amazon warehouse more like.
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.
― some infected evening (Matt #2), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
Co-sign Mordy on Cummings. Also: Amy Cooper
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 15:31 (four years ago) link
I'll give you Dominic Cummings and raise you Joe Biden.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
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.
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
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/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 16:11 (four years ago) link
tom i appreciate your commitment to being the one ukilxor who doesn't obsess over US politics
― Mordy, Tuesday, 26 May 2020 16:26 (four years ago) link
You've said that before but it patently isn't true.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 16:49 (four years ago) link
Canadians might still have the Queen on their coins but they don't count.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 16:59 (four years ago) link
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 26 May 2020 17:01 (four years ago) link
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?
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 02:52 (four years ago) link
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.
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 02:58 (four years ago) link
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.
― maffew12, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 03:02 (four years ago) link
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.
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 03:51 (four years ago) link
I'll give you Dominic Cummings and raise you Joe Biden.― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Tuesday, May 26, 2020 3:46 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
raise you US politics in its entirety
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 05:29 (four years ago) link
otfm
― form of mouth device (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 27 May 2020 06:16 (four years ago) link
lol of course dominic cummings was a prized protege of armenian genocide-denier and obituary-battler norman stone
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 12:38 (four years ago) link
Raise you intra- and intergalactic politics in their entirety.
xps
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 12:40 (four years ago) link
SpaceX
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 May 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
pizza
― Shampoo for my real friends (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 30 May 2020 23:31 (four years ago) link
Liar.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 30 May 2020 23:32 (four years ago) link
Pizza.
― Is Lou Reed a Good Singer? (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 May 2020 23:34 (four years ago) link
Fucking space ships seconded!
― Dan I., Sunday, 31 May 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
Thirded. Our public broadcaster had a fucking live stream up to show Musk's hobby. Gtfo.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Sunday, 31 May 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link
Came here to post "the space program." Like, do these rocket scientists have any actual goals in mind? We're decades past the proud "because we can!" stage and well into the "well, what happens if we ... bring Play-Doh into space?" stage.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 31 May 2020 14:53 (four years ago) link
lol me too. NYT says: "Launch Opens a New Space Age and Rekindles Past Glory." Huh?!
― dip to dup (rob), Sunday, 31 May 2020 14:55 (four years ago) link
It's basically a religion.
― fo' schnitzel (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 31 May 2020 16:21 (four years ago) link
shit like the tv wasn’t invented because they were “trying to invent the tv” or something... they were just fucking around with weird shit
― brimstead, Sunday, 31 May 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
but yeah I support redirecting that $ towards poverty etc obv
― brimstead, Sunday, 31 May 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
the sensibilities of american ilxors
― groovemaaan, Sunday, 31 May 2020 17:57 (four years ago) link
"sensibilities"
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 31 May 2020 17:58 (four years ago) link
answer to OP
ILX in 2020
Cosplay.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 2 June 2020 19:33 (four years ago) link
the inner life of Melania Trump
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link
Cosplay
This is the right answer. Every time I see a photo of those twats I think, "why don't you take a look at the world around you, and just grow the fuck up?"
― Soz (Not Soz) (Vast Halo), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 22:01 (four years ago) link
sounds like you care
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 22:06 (four years ago) link
One of my dear friends is a cosplayer who suffers from terrible depression and literally cosplaying is one of the few things that brings them joy, and they're plenty involved in the world around them, so idk, maybe don't be a dick?
Nobody says you have to care about it, as this is the threads for that, but going on a rant akin to Matt Walsh's "takedown" of Miley Cyrus to call them stunted growth people simply cos you don't like it is nagl
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 22:16 (four years ago) link
(to Halo, obv not to pomenitul)
Cosplayers seem totally harmless to me, unless they're white military cosplayers and armed
― dominance and transmission (Matt #2), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 22:21 (four years ago) link
Cosplaytriots are the worst
― I am a free. I am not man. A number. (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 2 June 2020 22:23 (four years ago) link