I lol’d + googled “richard mumby”
― El Tomboto, Friday, 13 December 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link
There are a ton of reasons to hate on my town but I do luxuriate in the remarkable distance it puts between my family and whatever that article is about. Like, we have some free museums open to the public, and you can catch an opera at the Kennedy Center. AFAIK there’s no dinners for everyone who spent $50,000 at Balmain, or big ideas about exhibits devoted to Britney. Just nerds and trained killers and spies, for miles around. Lesson: Beaches give people the worst ideas
― El Tomboto, Friday, 13 December 2019 18:43 (four years ago) link
So then, I guess you must you live in Alexandria, or right near it.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 13 December 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
Xpost Don't shit on Bette Midler yo
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 December 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link
El Tomboto can and prolly will answer this but no, El Tomboto emphatically does not live in Alexandria
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 13 December 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
I was mistaken. That's what I get for playing at Where's Waldo with an ilxor.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 13 December 2019 20:22 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/t-magazine/romantic-relationships.html
Q: Can you help with art suggestions for my severe fear of engulfment when it comes to being involved with someone romantically? This leads me to miss out on opportunities to be with really great guys with whom I connect initially. — Elizabeth, New York CityA: In some ways I am the wrong person to answer this question, as all my life I have willingly gone headlong in search of engulfment. Of course there’s fear. If nothing is at stake — if there’s no risk of grief and desolation when you come out the other side — how can you ever really feel anything? To be wholly dissolved and lost, whether in another person or in the presence of a work of art, in a spiritual encounter or in a greater cause: This can be dangerous, but also freeing — an escape from the prison of the self. You should not be able to walk away unscathed, which is to say, unchanged.
A: In some ways I am the wrong person to answer this question, as all my life I have willingly gone headlong in search of engulfment. Of course there’s fear. If nothing is at stake — if there’s no risk of grief and desolation when you come out the other side — how can you ever really feel anything? To be wholly dissolved and lost, whether in another person or in the presence of a work of art, in a spiritual encounter or in a greater cause: This can be dangerous, but also freeing — an escape from the prison of the self. You should not be able to walk away unscathed, which is to say, unchanged.
― j., Friday, 7 February 2020 00:29 (four years ago) link
Nothing to do with the thread subject, but you can put a hell of a lot of skin in the game and risk plenty of grief when you come out the other side without seeking "engulfment". That sounds rather unhealthy to me. The words to describe what I seek are more on the order of "complete engagement with and commitment to" my relationship.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 7 February 2020 01:22 (four years ago) link
i think a primary objective of much art, and a silver lining of darker art, is reduction of suffering by reminding us we're not alone, or simarly, "the only one"
― otm into winter (rip van wanko), Friday, 7 February 2020 01:26 (four years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/18/opinion/sonny-rollins-art.html
When I go to the museum and I look at a piece of art, I’m transported. I don’t know how, or where, but I know that it’s not a part of the material world. It’s beyond modern culture’s political, technological soul. We’re not here to live forever. Humans and materialism die. But there’s no dying in art.
― j., Monday, 18 May 2020 15:14 (three years ago) link
wow
― jmm, Monday, 18 May 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
eating breakfast is a waste of time; reducing coronavirus infections is all that mattera
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 18 May 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
tom morello, 1992 pic.twitter.com/jBHKMJKVZ1— chelsea (@cheIseahaynes) June 6, 2020
― j., Saturday, 6 June 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
is sex important or is reducing suffering all that mattersis ilxor.com importantare hot dogs important
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Saturday, 6 June 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
has hip hop helped reduce suffering of those who feel suppressed, powerless, trapped, unheard
the cure helps me especially when I was younger
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Saturday, 6 June 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link
i like that tom morello quote tho it does little to explain audioslave
― methinks dababy doth bop shit too much (m bison), Saturday, 6 June 2020 23:40 (three years ago) link
well, in 1996, there was no indication they were going to happen.
― maffew12, Sunday, 7 June 2020 00:28 (three years ago) link
I know ilx likes to ride for this dude and ratm is alright but his singer-songwriter material is some of the most execrable music I have ever heard
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 7 June 2020 00:31 (three years ago) link
why are you always such a wet blanket, paul ponzi
― j., Sunday, 7 June 2020 00:34 (three years ago) link
perhaps he is suffering
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 7 June 2020 00:35 (three years ago) link
does that mean that we have to
― j., Sunday, 7 June 2020 00:36 (three years ago) link
yes, if are we sentient
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 7 June 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
One man's suffering is another man's reverse schadenfreude.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 7 June 2020 00:41 (three years ago) link
his singer-songwriter material is some of the most execrable music I have ever heard
Singer-songwriter music is a pestilence.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 7 June 2020 13:02 (three years ago) link
except when it's the best stuff ever
― i will FP you and your entire family (rip van wanko), Sunday, 7 June 2020 13:15 (three years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/08/magazine/what-do-we-mean-when-we-call-art-necessary.html
The prospect of “necessary” art allows members of the audience to free themselves from having to make choices while offering the critic a nifty shorthand to convey the significance of her task, which may itself be one day condemned as dispensable. The effect is something like an absurd and endless syllabus, constantly updating to remind you of ways you might flunk as a moral being. It’s a slightly subtler version of the 2016 marketing tagline for the first late-night satirical news show with a female host, “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee”: “Watch or you’re sexist.”
― j., Monday, 15 June 2020 16:11 (three years ago) link
I LOVE music. I’ve essentially dedicated my life to it.. but no song has ever changed the world, not even “We Are The World”— mrk (@MerkSays) June 17, 2020
false
― j., Wednesday, 17 June 2020 20:51 (three years ago) link
What the hell is “changing the world” anyway
― all cats are beautiful (silby), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
true
― j., Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:02 (three years ago) link
You must ain’t never heard “OLD TOWN ROAD” 🙄— OG $ILKY PSALM ONE 👩🏾🔬 (@PsalmOne) June 17, 2020
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
I have heard tell of a guitar that kills fascists.
Are you suggesting that this is not so?
― Okay, Boomerang (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 18 June 2020 00:46 (three years ago) link
lol this thread is an ilx first mention for “Effective Altruism”. The original article has disappeared, so THANK GOD for the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140322045146/http://aeon.co/magazine/living-together/art-is-a-selfish-waste-of-time-says-effective-altruism/
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 2 December 2022 23:52 (one year ago) link