Things You Just Don't Care About

i pretty much draw a blank when it comes to feeling anything about any semi-famous culture person dying at this point. i did like reading about albini after his death, in the way that it's nice to read remembrances from people who admired the deceased. i get that he meant a lot to .. don't mean to sound glib here but .. "band dudes". i have a few friends rip-ing someone every week or so and i don't understand it tbh. i just feel like i need to save my mourning energy for the time when someone i'm close to passes. i've got to be careful about how i spend my emotional energy, it isn't an unlimited resource.

i've got to be careful about how i spend my emotional energy, it isn't an unlimited resource.

wise words

otm map

definitely

yes, well said

That New Yorker flap.

― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, May 20, 2024 1:40 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

late 2000s civil libertarian alfred rolls in his grave!

the FUCKING FOUR HOUR YOUTUBE VIDEO detailing the failure of the Star Wars Galactic Empire resort at Disney World.

If it was done by the Red Letter guy, I might watch it.

late 2000s civil libertarian alfred rolls in his grave!

― brony james (k3vin k.)

she was railroaded

"novelty" covers

a polka version of a GnR song? fuck offfffff

I'm only a fan of that stuff if the cover is like an enthusiastic rendition of the song that just happens to infuse a different genre into the mix, and not the average Youtube attempt, aka "OH LOOK AT US, how WACKY, we did SLAYER's RAINING BLOOD as a Chicago blues song - pls smash the like button for other weird experiments from me and my zany bandmates, look at me I'm picking my nose aren't I crazzzzzzzzzy".

for whatever reason "Poker Face" had an inordinate enough of those goofball covers when that song first dropped

to be fair, i don't think anyone really "cares" about wacky covers. any more than they care about post-donnie darko slowcore new wave/grunge covers. they are just part of the landscape.

I do remember ILX (and me) clowning on that ridiculous Lorde cover of Everybody Wants to Rule the World

i mean the dickies probably perfected the wacky cover in 1979. or the flying lizards did. i was a big fan of golden shower of hits by circle jerks. and "i'm not lisa" by killdozer. but by the time you get to that carpenters covers album you have reached gen x overload and its all downhill from there.

i feel like jeffrey gaines earnest "in your eyes" was the beginning and the end of the sadsack cover. but i shouldn't talk i have considered getting a this mortal coil tattoo and covers don't get any more sadsack than that.

I got into Fallout Boy through the Billy Joel cover, it’s way better than the original

b b b but what about the psychedelic/noise record of “Paint it Black” covers? https://www.discogs.com/release/732470-Various-Painted-Black

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVL780cObvw

those are good imho

Rare Wu-Tang Clan Album to Be Played at Exhibit in Tasmania

they're misleading, it's not the formerly Shrekeli owned disc, it's just one hour of an extension of the "keep feeding you" sketch over a RZA piano beat

Rishi Sunak leaving D-Day celebrations early to record a TV interview.

Tory voters probably do care though

Prompted by just watching some tit from the SNP being all faux outraged when he should just have said, "Meh, whatever, can we talk about something important?"

... some tit who had to mention his how his great uncle was in the catering corps in WW2 or whatever.

Trump was correct, a bunch of losers!

it's going to be sickmaking to see Starmer trying to capitalise on this when the cunt doesn't even know the difference between D-Day and VE Day.

The foul on Caitlin Clark

same here, I’ll leave it at that

Michael Mosley

Chappell Roan

The Trooping of the Colour - this shite's been on for like three hours now, stupid fucking country.

... the good news is it's absolutely pissing it down out there.

As someone once described the Edinburgh Tattoo, imagine your most boring and interminable nightmare, enacted by a cast of thousands.

What Nigel Farage said about the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

or anything

i read a maureen dowd profile on sean penn omg what has become of my life he is so boring and i just don't care about him. but i read it anyway. i kinda want a cigarette now though. can you imagine being trapped in a room with sean penn when he's drunk and chain-smoking and reciting bukowski to you? you just shivered after reading that didn't you?

also kinda can't believe he's not one of those diminutive world-saving scientologists the way he rushes to trouble spots in row boats and all that. that's a scientology thing.

I have hated Sean Penn for probably close to 35 years at this point. It's incredible that a guy with exactly one good performance in one movie ever (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) has been able to hang around annoying so many people for so long. A real testament to...something.

he looks insane now. like one of popeye's testicles.

fast times, bad boys, carlito's way. that's it for me. wait, at close range. and that's it. wait, no, racing with the moon is sweet. okay, i do have a nostalgic fondness for the falcon and the snowman. but that's really it. basically he didn't suck in the 80s.

he should have been put in prison for I Am Sam. and the horrible movies he directed.

wait, he was in U Turn? i loved that movie. forgot he was in it.

I thought he was good in Sweet and Lowdown also, but I can't be bothered with anything Woody Allen-related anymore.

Apple vs Epic Games

string quartets & chamber orchestras doing versions of Pixies or Nirvana songs

Yeah, Bluegrass all the way!

I think I speak for everyone who isnt a friend or relative of the man here:

Bronny

Banksy animal "art"

Banksy

I would have agreed until I learned he personally funds a boat that rescues refugees in the Mediterranean in the face of threats from various governments and their tame fascist shitheads.