Things You Just Don't Care About

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.

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

otfm

lol of course dominic cummings was a prized protege of armenian genocide-denier and obituary-battler norman stone

Raise you intra- and intergalactic politics in their entirety.

xps

SpaceX

pizza

Liar.

Pizza.

Fucking space ships seconded!

Thirded. Our public broadcaster had a fucking live stream up to show Musk's hobby. Gtfo.

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.

lol me too. NYT says: "Launch Opens a New Space Age and Rekindles Past Glory." Huh?!

It's basically a religion.

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

but yeah I support redirecting that $ towards poverty etc obv

the sensibilities of american ilxors

"sensibilities"

answer to OP

ILX in 2020

Cosplay.

the inner life of Melania Trump

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?"

sounds like you care

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

(to Halo, obv not to pomenitul)

Cosplayers seem totally harmless to me, unless they're white military cosplayers and armed

Cosplaytriots are the worst

For sure, Neanderthal, my statement of indifference stands for actual indifference and maybe a bit of bafflement (unlike when I said I didn't care about US politics, which simply isn't an option).

it's literally like any other pointless hobby

tend to hear about it more than most pointless hobbies tho

I'm definitely not someone who has much of an interest in it at all, and don't tend to read much outside this friend's posts. just thought it weird that in incited such furor w/ Halo.

tend to hear about it more than most pointless hobbies tho

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, June 2, 2020 3:28 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

... from whom? this is one of those things i feel is solved by unfollowing people

serious lol at "Cosplaytriots"

I unfollow so many people that I forget I'm friends with them. noticed an old friend defriended me today on FB Purity, tried to find out why, realized I'd unfollowed him years ago, and found post after post of creepy pro-cop rhetoric.

btw, if you've seen the meme of the kid who runs a mile for every fallen first responder, it's his dad. I won't drag the kid - he's sweet and just doing what his dad is making him do.

https://www.wesh.com/article/seminole-county-boy-running-a-mile-for-every-fallen-hero/29786158

just thought it weird that it incited such furor w/ Halo

Maybe it is weird, and yes, I don't want to be a dick about it. BradNelson makes a good point. There was a not-bad pop-culture blog that I used to follow, but the guy started posting endless photos from cosplay meetups and I had to stop reading it because I was gonna end up grinding all the enamel off my teeth. Now I'm free to not care about cosplay for months on end.

From the general cultural ether? Idk, the fact that we all know exactly what cosplay is now but didn't 20 yrs ago speaks to the fact. Same thing with ComicCon. I'm not on social media so unfollowing wouldn't do much good (not that it's much of a problem for me)

Coincided with popularity of superhero movies

A lot of sites I read seem to have a lot of cosplay and drag queen reality show coverage. I don't care about either thing, but whatever.

you had to learn about the existence of 2 things over the course of 20 years that sucks

I work in a nerdy industry and I barely ever witness a cosplay happening

did recently visit NYC and saw a bunch of costumed teens walking around, had to make sure there was a con... thought to myself "maybe this is just how kids dress these days"