Things You Just Don't Care About

also all that A Serbian Film/Irreversible/Come and See/Human Centipede "is a christmas movie" type hilarity wasn't really that funny the first time.

tbf memes are only funny* once they begin to enrage innocent bystanders

*good not bad

I didn't see the Die Hard meme much this year on twitter.

Maybe it's been overtaken by covid news so it's impossible to know whether etc.

Life of Crime 1984-2020 is a christmas movie

I didn't see the Die Hard meme much this year on twitter.

Though actually that may be skewed by Christmas 2021 not being over yet.

Reacting narkily to die hard is a christmas movie is in fact a christmas movie

Xpost glad the exponential growth has stopped

I know this is heresy around here, but I just don't care about Joan Didion.

we mercifully also got to miss the 'baby it's cold outside' consent discourse this year as well

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heh! well I presume at least you've tried reading her, Table. I summarily dismissed her as a melt after watching 10 mins of the netflix doc on her!

If the early essays and fiction formed your impressions, I can imagine recoiling from her, hence why I tirelessly advocate for her essays after 1980, which I read way before STB.

I tried "Miami" yesterday and just couldn't do it. She's just Not For Me.

I've tried. The writing is okay, not my cuppa. Her politics are abhorrent, and continued to be abhorrent long after her supposed left turn.

it makes me feel glad someone else feels the same way tbh.

it made me so irate to see some young author on twitter lump her in with bell hooks in a "you should feel no shame about discovering these people after their deaths" tweet. i can't imagine two more polar opposites in spirit. didion on a quest to empty everything out, hooks on a quest for abundance.

an argument against ever tweeting such a weird shitty flattening and smug sentiment for sure

I had never heard of either person until they died.

same tbh, but I'm curious about Bell Hooks and couldn't gaf about t'other one!

it made me so irate to see some young author on twitter lump her in with bell hooks in a "you should feel no shame about discovering these people after their deaths" tweet. i can't imagine two more polar opposites in spirit. didion on a quest to empty everything out, hooks on a quest for abundance.

― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Saturday

Dialectics, baby. I can hang with those binaries.

However, Didion at her best doesn't empty anything out; she fills in detail after detail.

Weird how these bite/tweet size quotes from both of them ended up as a way to celebrate their passing. Both as guides on living/paying attention to the world around you.

The Didion did indeed end up feeding a more nihilistic side of the person making the tweet, whereas books fed something more politically hopeful.

Not a way to encounter them though it's always interesting to see how collectives processing death. Thanks to the internet.

(I am afraid of Google the way I am afraid of my parents, but no doubt this is incredibly naive.)

STEVE ALBINI

Joke O'Vitch and whatever his problems are

maybe too soon but since people are piling on Didion here lemme just say I have never quite understood the fascination with Betty White

M&M branding

fuck yes

I've always wondered how they brand those things without breaking them.

trade secret but this is the closest thing I've seen to explaining it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMojC4-xilA

Was that the Double Dare guy?

marc summers is everywhere

Spotify. Log onto slsk and steal music properly or pay for music properly, losers.

Ilx loving the binary props

Spotify. Log onto slsk and steal music properly or pay for music properly, losers.

― xyzzzz__, Sunday, January 30, 2022 8:40 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol otmfm

running youth outreach programmes that teach the young people principles of piracy so I don't have to hear more Spotify news

— Stefan Bielik (@prstskrzkrk) January 29, 2022

I'm in the log onto soulseek AND spend lots of dough on Bandcamp crowd myself.

Will never pay for streams of music.

I pity those who cannot recognise the thrill of getting into the double figures in followers of your playlists now and then. Double. Figures.

I feel like I need to own my music. It’s hard for me to treat streaming as anything but the act of “checking something out”. It’s either in my collection or not.

That's kind of how I am too.

I was a big "my collection" type person until fairly recently. Now I'm a big "my playlsits" type person. Streaming is just so much better imo. I'll happily pay some evil mega corp $10/mo til I die to have unlimited access.

I feel like I need to own my music. It’s hard for me to treat streaming as anything but the act of “checking something out”. It’s either in my collection or not.

Agree with this 100%.

Streaming is just so much better imo. I'll happily pay some evil mega corp $10/mo til I die to have unlimited access.

There are so many albums sitting on my shelf (or in my 2TB external hard drive) that I love that are not streaming. It's always gonna be an option of convenience for me; it can never be the primary thing.

Dumbass celebrity NFT ape shit

Joe Rogan

inevitable post

i mean honestly i don't give a fuck about that guy one way or the other myself, feels like the bulkier second coming of don imus

Euphoria, Ted Lasso, television in general

Heh, I threw in the towel recently and started watching a few shows but yeah.

I love television, I just find the sheer volume of streaming content available overwhelming to the point of being a non-starter.

Like I can't decide what to watch, and half the things I choose I abandon midway through.

I also don't like to watch for more than a few hours per day, so bingeing is out of the question.