who are you a stan of?

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

right?

haha i think i mostly agreed with diane keaton's list in that movie

then you are my sworn enemy

sporting a commemorative username here ppl

i like this thread but i don't like the idea that attaching myself to something as family implies that i'm going to lock my girlfriend in my trunk

i dont know that i would really kill my girlfriend over my borges standom but im not going to make any promises at this point

me not being able to fathom why anyone would be put in a situation where they have to defend borges probably means I am a huge borg stan

a key sign of standom is complete and total shock that anyone could dislike the object of your standom

hmmmm...better throw Jack Kirby on the pile, then.

i like all these shits... i mean im totally with you on borges max, i even tracked down his house in BsAs when i was there... but for some reason i cant commit myself to any real stanistans. maybe i'm too fickle, tastes change too much or something?

lol im watching a pbs show right now made by charlie chaplin stans

everyone on this thread is an ilx stan

max since you are the Borges stan, I have only read Historia universal de a infamia and thought it was a'ight, what should I read that is awesome?

lol, dont ask stans what to read, because we will say, "all of it"

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c0/c2823.jpg

lol xp

rakim

damn you, stans.

mikhail bulgakov
saint etienne
royal trux
jean-pierre melville
wong kar-wai
oblivians-related stuff

tbf the first part of the collected fictions is not his best stuff

> jean-pierre melville

Nice one, and this means you are the person I was probably thinking about when posting on the greatness of "Big Deal on Madonna Street" this morning. Or last night. Or whatever.

i like the early stuff and his evolution is pretty amazing to behold too xp

agree on the evolution part but the gangs of new york and chinese pirate kite flying princess saving the day shit is pretty zzzzzzzz

big royal trux and steely dan stan 2

i actually was an eminem stan. but it faded. (still will stan for the first 3 records, but i guess conditional stanning isn't stanning at all.)

monteverdi, mahler, mozart, donne, dryden, pope, joyce, steely dan

oh, i know: charles burchfield

re: jlb the collected fictions book is not a very good translation imo. i got more out of the di giovanni translations which are pretty easy to find in smaller collections like labyrinths, fictions/ficciones, etc.

oh shit Miles Davis obviously

like when i was 18 i did a miles davis week on my blog where i covered dude's entire career

Mingus
Threadgill

re: jlb the collected fictions book is not a very good translation imo. i got more out of the di giovanni translations which are pretty easy to find in smaller collections like labyrinths, fictions/ficciones, etc.

― 8====D ------ ㋡ (max), Thursday, January 22, 2009 1:34 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^ im a stan of this sentiment

i like the translation in the collected fictions

sentimental stan

o yeah i would say mingus and miles davis, also funkadelic, fleetwood mac - i have spent a good deal of time defending these to a number of people i know whose tastes dont move past 1969.

http://tf.org/images/covers/tf.org-Big-Stan-free-2008-tf.org-Big-Stan-free-2008.jpg

Big Stan is a comedy film directed by and starring Rob Schneider. Although released in some overseas markets during the fall of 2008, it is slated for U.S. release in early 2009. On the radio show Loveline, Schneider stated that this film will be an "anti-man raping" film — referring to prison rape.

So it's not about raping anti-men? Because I was confused.

woody allen very much seconded. Also Orson Welles, but I don't feel like there's anything unreasonable about being endlessly fascinated by him.

Also, Brian Eno.

Probably Nick Cave.

I am a stan of myself - I mean I try to defend myself about little grievances that would normally make me depressed. I apologized out of the blue to some girl I found on the internet (on accident though) for crashing her party (etc..) a few years back. she replied that I was an asshole. I wrote back that I am sorry for my past self and 'good luck on your career'. after she called me an asshole I felt pretty bad. but defending myself made me feel better. and hearing a story about a friend who would fake make out with chicks as part of his stage antics made me feel better to.

Jack Kerouac

and Off-kilter music.

jim woodring (hi-5 oilyrags)
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― just1n3, Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:57 PM (Yesterday)

I want to join in this hi-5