I listen to lots of podcasts and still find time for music - it's a brave new world! i realise this doesn't give me the jouissance of being able to say 'I'm on the wrong side of history' but it's a brave new world all the same. (Double winky face emoticon.)
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Sunday, 24 March 2019 13:15 (five years ago) link
maffew otm, some popular veins of podcasting are beginning to stale already
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 24 March 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
my braindead job does help me keep up with the subscriptions I have. This has probably helped me get back to new music on my own time.
There's a controversial opinion brewing here. I'll find it yet.
― maffew12, Sunday, 24 March 2019 19:08 (five years ago) link
I mean if you don't have a good "radio voice" or whatever, you should probably write instead of podcast, or just yak with your friends, idk
― brimstead, Sunday, 24 March 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
fire emoticon
― maffew12, Sunday, 24 March 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link
all the alan partridge stuff written by those two brothers is badtwin peaks the return is badautumn is not a good season
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 23:28 (five years ago) link
catch in the rye is a good book which can be read and enjoyed in adulthood
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
the eagles are good. hating the eagles is played out. don't care if you legitimately really dislike them, you sound like a dang sheep
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 23:30 (five years ago) link
i dont think its enough
for purposes of thread like
to just be wrong
― fremme nette his simplicitte (darraghmac), Wednesday, 27 March 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
some of these opinions are just like, can't you just bullshit with your irl friends? it doesn't really translate online
― brimstead, Thursday, 28 March 2019 03:14 (five years ago) link
― brimstead, Thursday, 28 March 2019 03:17 (five years ago) link
new borad description
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Thursday, 28 March 2019 03:18 (five years ago) link
xp
the eagles are good. hating the eagles is played out.
the eagles were and are somewhat listenable hook-laden pop, except they got overexposed, or to put the same idea differently "played out", so that now the people who like the eagles are those who have not been endlessly subjected to their hits and can still find some freshness in it.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 28 March 2019 03:40 (five years ago) link
"i can't tell you why" is a good song
this is not a controversial opinion
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Thursday, 28 March 2019 04:03 (five years ago) link
Gary Leeds has the best songs on Nite Flights
― ⅋ (crüt), Thursday, 28 March 2019 04:07 (five years ago) link
Fully agree about catcher in the rye
― just1n3, Thursday, 28 March 2019 06:06 (five years ago) link
― brimstead, Wednesday, March 27, 2019 8:14 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
As if your posts itt are really scintillating
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 28 March 2019 06:50 (five years ago) link
Or strikeout itt
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 28 March 2019 06:51 (five years ago) link
i haven't read catcher in the rye since i was in high school but i feel like it would hold up as well as any of the other books i read in 10th grade english, like gatsby, maggie girl of the streets, things they carried.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 28 March 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
i'm bored and i want to start a fight, but i don't follow politics closely so i can only start a meta-fight
the american presidential primary campaign is just a damn reality show, this is a bad thing, and anybody who actually cares about the primaries at this point is actively making the world a worse place by doing so
that's not a very good argument starter i admit, i will probably just get a halfhearted snide dismissal
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Friday, 5 April 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, March 27, 2019 4:29 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm!!!
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 5 April 2019 13:27 (five years ago) link
how did i miss that one
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 5 April 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
otfm!
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 5 April 2019 13:43 (five years ago) link
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Friday, April 5, 2019 8:26 AM (twenty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I mean there's certainly some meat on your assertion but then there's like the alternate of eg letting the party nominate Hubert Humphrey with no popular mandate and effectively handing the election to Nixon.
― Hangover Ape (Old Lunch), Friday, 5 April 2019 14:02 (five years ago) link
the worst part of caring about something like the dem primaries is its thorough and complete unsexiness
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Friday, 5 April 2019 14:07 (five years ago) link
damn i hated catcher, "what a posing fuckin spoiled a-hole" was my angle, even though my personality type sorta typically tracks his. i should probably re-read it, but he truly pissed me off in junior high so ughh.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 5 April 2019 20:31 (five years ago) link
Agreed that Holden is an asshole, but not sure why that makes it a bad book, rather that's the whole point of it - he's arrogant and spoiled and horrible to everyone, but ultimately he's just a fucked up lonely kid who doesn't know how to be any different. Think a lot of hate for the book might be people seeing a bit too much of their teenage selves in him.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 5 April 2019 20:39 (five years ago) link
feel like literature teachers in general do a pretty poor job of putting stuff in context, ie here's why this was important/groundbreaking/etc
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 5 April 2019 20:45 (five years ago) link
I haven't read Catcher in the Rye since high school, but it seems like maybe the appeal was that he was an asshole but also that he was an asshole you could relate to
― silverfish, Friday, 5 April 2019 20:46 (five years ago) link
yup, definitely and that's what tempts me back a little. part of me wonders if some of salinger's styles were incorporated into all post-catcher fiction that i was dealing with and i couldn't see it as a remarkable novel in itself. i just got wrapped up in the implications of some of characters. or maybe it was that i was 14 and immature not really well-read.
― Hunt3r, Friday, 5 April 2019 20:49 (five years ago) link
I should've related to him but didn't. Raskolnikov on the other hand...
― pomenitul, Friday, 5 April 2019 20:49 (five years ago) link
and sorry that definitely was xpost to CAL xpost again
― Hunt3r, Friday, 5 April 2019 20:50 (five years ago) link
I mean "posing fuckin spoiled a-hole" is a somewhat accurate description of probably myself as a teenager and a lot of other teenagers I knew at the time. It's just part of growing up.
― silverfish, Friday, 5 April 2019 20:53 (five years ago) link
damn i hated catcher, "what a posing fuckin spoiled a-hole" was my angle
the point of the book
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 5 April 2019 21:00 (five years ago) link
or in other words camaraderie otm
as usual i replied before reading the whole conversation it's a great method of posting i recommend it
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 5 April 2019 21:01 (five years ago) link
I've always thought Don Quixote sucks because i'm not an imaginary 16th century Castilian petit bourgeois having a psychotic breakdown for comic effect
― Boles to the Wolds (Noodle Vague), Friday, 5 April 2019 21:03 (five years ago) link
― j., Friday, 5 April 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
Windmills. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. They really can.
― Yerac, Friday, 5 April 2019 21:16 (five years ago) link
judging a book based on whether you relate to the main character or whatever.. not classic
― brimstead, Friday, 5 April 2019 21:25 (five years ago) link
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51SQCPCYXJL._AC_UL320_SR206,320_.jpg
― calzino, Friday, 5 April 2019 21:28 (five years ago) link
not trying to diminish your controp brimstead. Just inanely cackling at my own shitposting paedo humour before i go to bed.
― calzino, Friday, 5 April 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
hmm i really dont wanna read this to defend my 14 y/o crit skills and furthermore will not, what’s remarkable about it again?
― Hunt3r, Friday, 5 April 2019 21:58 (five years ago) link
dunno, maybe the bit where rolf tells you about the time he played the wobble board for the queen?
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 5 April 2019 22:05 (five years ago) link
i'm so fucking proud of my thread revive
my controversial opinion is that saying "catcher in the rye" is a good adult book isn't actual a controversial opinion, it just contradicts one of those bits of "received wisdom" that people believe only because it's so obviously wrong. like "whatever does not kill me only makes me stronger", everybody loves to quote that even though it's patently fucking obvious that very frequently whatever doesn't kill you will make you weaker. (i will derail this fucking thread away from "catcher in the rye" if it kills me.)
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Friday, 5 April 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
(i will derail this fucking thread away from "catcher in the rye" if it kills me.)
read that in Kathleen Hanna's voice (sorry anticipation for 120 second song poll)
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 5 April 2019 23:43 (five years ago) link
Just inanely cackling at my own shitposting paedo humour before i go to bed
be fair now, he assaulted women of sexual maturity all the way into their 50s
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Friday, 5 April 2019 23:55 (five years ago) link
Oh man I forgot 'new radio' that song slays
― rip van wanko, Friday, 5 April 2019 23:56 (five years ago) link
controversial opinion: "lol paedo" jokes about people who assault teens and adults are erasure and part of the problem
― blokes you can't rust (sic), Friday, 5 April 2019 23:58 (five years ago) link