who are you a stan of?

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?

cozwn and nrq, standom is one of the things that makes life worth living fyi

LOST

Yeah I defend this all the time when my wife gets started about how they killed the best characters.

Buffy

^^^

cozwn and nrq, standom is one of the things that makes life worth living fyi

― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Thursday, January 22, 2009 12:01 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i have been a stan, but now im not.

i guess im a stan for raymond durgnat, but y'all would have to google that so it's not like i have to defend him ever.

horseshoe i want u to know that this thread was also partially inspired by that "high schoolers favorite books" thread or whatever where u came in swinging ready to defend your favorite books to the death--i admire that very much

Durgnat's socio-political approach - strongly supportive of the working classes and, almost as a direct result of this, American popular culture, and dismissive of Left-wing intellectuals who he accused of actually being petit-bourgeois conservatives in disguise, and dismissive of overt politicisation of film criticism, refusing to bring his own Left-wing views overtly into his writings on film - can best be described as "radical populist".

ha ha this doesnt remind me of anyone on ilx at all.......

haha googled raymond durgnat, considering becoming a raymond durngnat stan

xpost aw! i maybe do this a little too much, but whatevs

nah theres something i like about loving writers/artists/actors so much that theyre like family, and you feel like youre the only one allowed to criticize them

i srsly think one of the things that influenced me being this way about things/people i like is that scene in manhattan where diane keaton and that awful dude are making fun of, like, f scott fitzgerald and other awesome people and woody allen's character is like, "yeah and how about mozart and shakespeare? all of those people you just named are great." it's so true!

I guess I'm an f scott fitzgerald stan if I'm a stan at all

I'll rep before I'll stan, if someone doesn't like something I love then total whatevs

im a stan for like half the things in the world