who are you a stan of?

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
Nabakov
DFW
McSweeneys
Jonathan Lethem
Foetus

Ernest Hemingway
Jay-Z
Raymond Chandler
Buddha
Jonathan Lethem
Alain Badiou

ha xp!

you have good taste in stanning obv

I guess for me it would be Prince:

* I own 13 albums by him (and a couple by his side projects), and I'm planning to get all of them eventually.

* I've searched and downloaded all of the B-sides and all of the 12" versions of his singles as 320kbps or FLAC files, plus a 300+ remixes, unreleased tunes and songs he wrote for other artists.

* I've read three different biographies of him.

jim woodring (hi-5 oilyrags)
ray caesar
billy corgan
raymond carver
douglas coupland
bret easton ellis
blaine fontana
faith no more

oh yeah also matthew barney for me

damn hoos.

alain badiou is a pseudo-xtian creep, the last barrel-scraping from 1968TM.

oh yeah,

Gilbert Hernandez

post your list, fool

: )

were any of those biographies worth reading, tuomas?

israel ><
salinger
greg dulli

and am i a prince stan if i think his last album sucked, but i'm still interested in what he does and think he still has the potential for greatness?

yeah, i think so. i don't like anything woody allen's done in years. i think i'm defining this as "someone who when other people criticize them, you freak out and defend annoyingly and at great length."

andrew wk

I keep mis-reading this thread title as "what are you a stain of?"

^^^ hahaha, nice

Courtney Love
The Wire
Isabel Marant
Hillary Clinton
the New England Patriots <3 <3 <3

kind of a ridiculous list, I know. Oh hey wait, I'm not the only one for Court.. :) I love Gilles Deleuze so maybe I know some embarrassingly minute trivia, but it doesn't seem to make up for the fact that it's incredibly hard for me to understand what he's saying about 75% of the time.

I just realized that I am a Wicker Man stan too.

(xpost) It was a question that I was often asked in my youth...

Serious answer (since the thread is moving beyond bands into other areas): early 80's home computers. Yes, what was once the future is now ancient history. I kind of wish this knowledge had some everyday use in the current IT industry, but it doesn't. Does anyone else find that the amount of knowledge they have on their "stan" subject is inversely proportional to the amount of practical use that knowledge is?

can't think of ""someone who when other people criticize them, you freak out and defend annoyingly and at great length"" : /

:-(

i'm thinking this kinda fades with age maybe, stanism is a young person's game

can't think of ""someone who when other people criticize them, you freak out and defend annoyingly and at great length"" : /

― cozwn, Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:30 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ otm. im not a anyone stan.

oh, maybe judd apatow.

I just realized that I am a Wicker Man stan too.

― shiitake maki (La Lechera), Wednesday, January 21, 2009 6:30 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wicker stan!!

can you stan for yourself?

wd that make you lj?

Justin Timberlake
Anton Yelchin
Cassie
Richard Kelly
David Lynch
Michael Cera
Weeds
American Idol
90210

I tried to be a stan for Sting, but he said "don't stan so close to me"...

oh also Sega Dreamcast!

were any of those biographies worth reading, tuomas?

The best one I've read is Prince by Dave Hill, which takes a rather critical look on Prince's career, though still written by someone who appreciates his music, so it's not slander or anything. There's also a lot of information on the Minneapolis music scene Prince came from, and some interesting analysis of the racial politics in American popular music. The book came out in 1989 though, so it's not useful if you want to read about his full career.

Slave to the Rhythm by Liz Jones is also a good read if you're more interested in Prince's private life, though the music analysis isn't as good as in Hill's book. I think it is one of the few Prince books where Prince himself (among others) is actually interviewed, though it's not uncritical of him either. Dancemusicsexromance by Per Nilsen is about the first 10 years of Prince's career, and it's almost exclusively about his music only. There's a lot of trivia about recording dates and stuff, and individual analysis of almost everything he recorded between 1978 and 1988, but otherwise it's a bland read. More like a collection of record reviews than a good overall look on his music and career.

Oh, and I just noticed the local library carries a pretty recent book about him written in 2004, so I guess I'm gonna read my fourth Prince biography.

my last real crushy fandom was probably robyn

before that, friedrich kittler

All my pedestals have crumbled. Oh, hell, except maybe Muhammad Ali.

Oh, and I just noticed the local library carries a pretty recent book about him written in 2004, so I guess I'm gonna read my fourth Prince biography.

ha, is it matos' book? because that is excellent.

Unfortunately the Helsinki public library doesn't have Matos' book. It's a pity, I'd love to read it. Isn't it about Sign O' the Times only?

Tove Jansson

― thunda lightning (clotpoll), Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:55 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

it boggles my mind that tove jansson would ever need defending from anything, but if so put me down for stan-hood.

it's about sign o' the times but it brings in a lot of prince history and previous work.

Ah. A pity it isn't available at the library, and I don't really have the cash to order it from overseas.

The Black Panthers

also

alain badiou is a pseudo-xtian creep, the last barrel-scraping from 1968TM.

― special guest stars mark bronson, Wednesday, January 21, 2009 6:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

u rite :)

ocd, aspie-style=serial stanning, no?

Yoko Ono
Modest Mouse
LOST

...can you be a TV show's stan? 'Cause I think I am. See also: the Big Lebowski. I defend it constantly (aka I hang around the wrong people)

Richard Linklater up to and including Before Sunset
Tim O'Brien

dan selzer reminds me that I am a Xaime Hernandez stan (or at least more than a Beto stan)

nas
mo yan
timothy brook

it boggles my mind that tove jansson would ever need defending from anything, but if so put me down for stan-hood.

― tipsy mothra, Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:01 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah, i don't end up defending her, more acquiring everything available and trying to foist her on everyone I know.

Also the Mekons.

john waters
bonnie hunt
joe walsh

hey dylannn, can u recommend me some mo yan? where shld i start

Ray Lewis
Black Sabbath
The red-haired lunchtime anchor on CNN

See also: the Big Lebowski. I defend it constantly (aka I hang around the wrong people)

that's odd to me, as i've always seen that movie as quite the unifier. do you hang with old people

Grateful Dead
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Tom DiCillo, maybe?

I suppose I assumed fgti was talking more about when people gang up to do it but I misread.