lol @ anyone who relates to Ben Folds too
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
well yeah, ppl generally lol at losers, which was the entry point into Ben Folds' relatability (that first album played pretty heavily on the amiable sad sack card)
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
their level of arranging 'talent' is ime at the level of millions or tens of millions of people worldwide - at what point does talent become workmanlike average
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
tens of millions out of 6 billion is not actually average...?
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, if you're going to go to THAT scale, you have to go all the way and not just pick out the bits that make you look good
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
how many people attempt to arrange music ask yrself that smart guy
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i kind of like the car they drive
― cherry blossom, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
another way to look at it: how many people do you know personally who could 'arrange some shit' as good as this
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
"A lot of people can do this" is not and never has been equivalent to "Anyone can do this"
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
I know a ton of people who could have done what they did, which does not actually have any bearing on whether it takes talent or skill to do it.
You basically are being an idiot.
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
ill give you skill but yr definition of talent is either v generous or you know idiotic
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
man there's no such thing as talent
― goole, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
see how you have devalued the concept djperry
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I WIN
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
you are very talented
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I do cop to using "talent" and "skill" kind of interchangeably; "talent" in and of itself is semi-meaningless because all it really is is an indication of how quickly you can pick something up
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel like their 'talent' level is not noteworthy even if it may be statistically better than average, this is especially true in the context of ilx where they are notably below average in terms of the generally more pro music we usually talk abt
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
to me talent is something that jumps out and engages, some level of brilliance, never just o hey p good you mustve worked at that for a while - although obvs that definition has a lot to do w/putting in hard work too
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Talent is abundant and dispensable - other factors count for I'd say at least precisely 95.8% of everything good in any artistic endeavour.
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Friday, 7 January 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
buncha gladwells the lot of u
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
just what i needed
her real talent is planting churches in godless europe, this music thing is the devil's work
― buzza, Friday, 7 January 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
yall set a low bar for privilege and envy - i mean u know there are people who own islands and jets right - show some ambition
i'm more of a renter. if i could rent an island for a week and get that out of my system, i'd be fine. and jets are terrible for the environment; just gimme a jetpack.
so many lols. i know that when i think of europe, i think of a GREAT LACK OF CHURCHES.
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Friday, 7 January 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
So who IS that insufferable indie couple in the new Hyundai TV ads?
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Friday, 7 January 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
what - the new ones?
― won't be on this church plan ting (kkvgz), Friday, 7 January 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
oh wait, nevermind...
they is a couple
― kind of chill and very rapegaze (rip van wanko), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
this thread is amazing but too long- just stopping by to ask: are they evangelical Xtians or not?
just curious . . .
― the tune is space, Friday, 7 January 2011 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
they are not really husband and wife, they are brother and sister.
― end aggro business now (Hunt3r), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
she's my daughter AND my sister
― the tune is space, Friday, 7 January 2011 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
pamplemoose dude is a time-traveler?
― ⊚ ⓪ ㉧ ☉ ๏ ʘ ◉ ◎ ⓞ Ⓞ (Lamp), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
girl is a pokemon
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
hyundai's trangenics lab fully operational
― ⊚ ⓪ ㉧ ☉ ๏ ʘ ◉ ◎ ⓞ Ⓞ (Lamp), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
she's a church going girl who probably takes it up the butt.
― Moonlight Graham (chrisv2010), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
still not gettin any?
― plax (ico), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
"and then he asked me how many fingers i could fit up there"
http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID6988/images/0%282%29.jpg
― Moonlight Graham (chrisv2010), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
haha plax, nope.
I <3 this thread
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 7 January 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Me too, it's like the all bedlam or parnassus is let loose of ilm.
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 January 2011 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link
twee ukelele cover songs should all sound like this. god i love these guys. i would marry all these alessi brothers. my heroes.
http://thebeatlescompleteonukulele.com/2010/11/098-two-of-us-alessi-brothers/
― scott seward, Friday, 7 January 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Embarrassing confession: I kind of choke up when I see the Blue Valentine trailer because of that Ukulele song. It's really purty.
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 January 2011 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
― kind of chill and very rapegaze (rip van wanko), Friday, January 7, 2011 1:02 PM
http://thegrammarexchange.infopop.cc/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/340600179/m/6291054634
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Friday, 7 January 2011 19:31 (thirteen years ago) link
At 1,200 posts or whatever ILM's contrarianism will usually have come full circle in a thread, and we're almost to the point of re-evaluating Pomplamoose into one of the top acts of 2010. By Monday anything less than a top 15 placing in Pazz and Jop will be TOO LOW
― Cunga, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
liked the "Beat It" cover
― brownie, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:00 (thirteen years ago) link
do you also like the screams of flayed children, because that is what their "Beat It" cover sounds like to me
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
so it's a literal interpretation?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
was this thread as good as or better than the Pitchfork Reviews Reviews thread? i missed that one.
― gr8080, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
oh this is so much better
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
So much better. We need some kind of King of Threads nominating system. Though the DMB thread was kind of all-time amazing.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 7 January 2011 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
I think the best thread ILM ever had was either DMB or Janet Jackson vs Madonna
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link