Things You Just Don't Care About

i'm guessing that sun ra and yo la tengo together is some sort of wet dream for some indie nerds? or maybe they play together all the time what do i know?

They did this at Maxwell's in Hoboken back in the 90s, I believe.

Sun Ra hologram ftw

maria went and saw the ark. last month. she had fun. i didn't go. because i don't go.

oh duh, why didn't i just say:

Live Music.

(i mean it is the thread for that.)

2025 though. that's going to be my year. i'm gonna go to everything.

ya gotta see Marshall Allen while he's still on this planet!

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"super deluxe editions" of classic LPs

Agree, esp. when remixed in 5.1 by Steven Wilson

2025 though. that's going to be my year. i'm gonna go to everything.

David Grohl

saw the Arkestra back in 2017 playing all of “Space is the Place” and it was insanely good, well worth the ticket price

The Australian break-dancer called "Raygun"

geriatric rockers' onstage punch-ups

okay now i want to see a raygun/jane's addiction meme.

arghh no thank you

Been caught hopping

The Budget. I probably say that very year though.

Political rallies. I probably say that every 4 years though.

Rallies aren't really a British thing are they? Other than Korbz at Glasto or whatever, or protest marches that politicians kind of sidle into to give a sneaky stump speech. Did even Farage bother with them?

He had a big Hitler Trump style rally towards the end of the election campaign.

I mean obviously modelled on Trump's rallies.

Enoch Powell had some snazzy rallies. I'm kind of surprised that Trump hasn't appropriated the "rivers of blood" yet.

What, quoting from Virgil's Aeneid? What are the chances?

Anyway we don't have rallies we have hustings.

childhood of a cheater

sex pistols - or maybe just putting in the effort to actually listening to them.

i too am willing to ignore a shit band that put out one album 47 years ago

it dawned on me that i've listened to PiL a deal but never the sex pistols outside of what clips i saw on VH1 decades back at this point!

There was this notorious one of course, though blaming it for Labour’s loss is dubious. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_Rally

Funko Pops - Beanie Babies for nerds

There was a triumphalist Brexit rally about a week before the referendum, that was populated by toffs and the like, all marvellously happy and confident of the win.

That one clearly had no effect - or did it? Did they win by a smaller margin, or did people go "I wanna be like them?" and change their vote accordingly?

We have no way of knowing....

xp I was browsing a toy shop website and 50% of the items were those or some other 'collectibles' or trading cards

local hmv also

Funko Pops belong here - Things You DO Care About, But Only Because You Find The Entire Idea Of Them Infuriating And Wish Dearly That You Could Never Hear About Them Again

Would love for Beanie Babies to take back their cultural dominance from funko pops at this point tbh, funkos are so fucking UGLY for one.

i am currently loving not knowing what a funko pop is and fuck me of ima find out

Those things with the big heads.

In my world they are used to display/signal fandom especially geek-adjacent fandom a la anime, sci-fi....

Many, perhaps most, are gifts. If you don't know what to give someone except that they like Sandman or Ghost World or Stephen Universe or Jujitsu Kaizen, you can give them a Funko Pop; they smile and put it on their bookshelf, life moves on.

I'm not sure what makes me hate them quite so much but I think it may be the way every single cultural artefact is reduced to the same fucking identikit ugly dolls, like none of it matters, it's all the same shit, nothing is countercultural, all just different flavours of Fanta from the same soda fountain.

Yes it's mainly that

i almost bought a One Piece one at Walgreens once.

If someone gave me a funko pop for any of the many geeky interests I love and that they've made funkos for, I would smile and discreetly throw it in the bin once gift-giver is gone. Life would still move on tho, that's otm.

Yeah, Funko Pops enrage me, this endless parade of unimaginative dumbfuck future landfill.

one christmas, my sister gave me a dancing coors light can, wearing sunglasses and headphones.. he would sway to the music

kinda the saddest thing I've ever received, and emblematic of our relationship

They're still going on about the Budget.

The 'Historic Budget' no less! Then again aren't they all?

I was briefly, for literally seconds, had an excitable rush of blood over the budget when I misread something about Carer's Allowance going up by £45 per week. But no, it was the earning threshold going by that amount. CA is actually going up £1.39 per week. Right ok. Back to stick yer fucking budget briefcase up yr arsehole!

bloody hell

The guitar sound on Holiday in the Sun is really monstrous and great, otherwise agreed about the Sex Pistols.

Of course, they made Sex Pistols Funko Pops.

The US election

The article about Cormac McCarthy's girlfriend, Cormac McCarthy's girlfriend in general

Bob Dylan's inane tweets about Nick cave, restaurants, or anything else