Medium-Sized and Completely Reasonable
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 6 April 2023 00:08 (one year ago) link
Sadly I got no traction in Hollywood for my script of Nothing Nowhere All at Different Times.
― she loves me like a rock lobster (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 6 April 2023 00:14 (one year ago) link
Extremely Tiny, Shockingly Big, and Things
― Vinnie, Thursday, 6 April 2023 00:50 (one year ago) link
Sounds like a good movie, unfortunately I will probably be unable to hear or see the title without thinking about this https://t.co/TCGT63Oicp pic.twitter.com/BVN5WDXBrD— Jonathan (@jonathanmb32) February 15, 2024
― Alba, Friday, 16 February 2024 16:20 (two months ago) link
The End We Start From is a 2023 British survival film directed by Mahalia Belo and starring Jodie Comer, with Benedict Cumberbatch, Katherine Waterston and Mark Strong.
― visiting, Monday, 19 February 2024 04:19 (two months ago) link
Meant to find and bump this thread for Wicked Little Letters.
― emil.y, Monday, 19 February 2024 14:39 (two months ago) link
All Things Are Too Small by Becca Rothfeld review – bracing and brilliant essay collection https://t.co/JYIGT00JCW— Observer New Review (@ObsNewReview) March 25, 2024
All Things Are Too Small serves as comment on the whole phenomenon
― Alba, Monday, 25 March 2024 09:33 (one month ago) link
Sounds like an answer song to Blink 182
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 09:40 (one month ago) link
I thought the harpy was ok but I would never have picked it up if I knew the author had previously written something with a title as shit as “the end we start from”
― cozen itt (wins), Monday, 25 March 2024 10:24 (one month ago) link
"All the Light We Cannot See" is another egregious example of this. What about it????
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 25 March 2024 10:58 (one month ago) link
Becca Rothfeld: ‘a philosopher, polemicist and wit’ - and author of an essay on Talking Heads , which cries out to be considered in "OK, is this the worst piece of music writing ever"?
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Monday, 25 March 2024 11:49 (one month ago) link
Talking Heads connection is making me wonder if you could trace a line between this old David Byrne quote and the bad title phenomenon:
I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.
― soref, Monday, 25 March 2024 11:58 (one month ago) link
to all the lights ive loved before
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 25 March 2024 12:05 (one month ago) link
All the Bruno we don't talk about
― nashwan, Monday, 25 March 2024 12:46 (one month ago) link
Little Creatures
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 13:36 (one month ago) link
he did an album with Eno in 2008 called 'Everything That Happens Will Happen Today' which feels in the same ballpark
― soref, Monday, 25 March 2024 13:43 (one month ago) link
A bold attempt to dethrone Blink-182 and Arundhati Roy in one book.
― jmm, Monday, 25 March 2024 13:52 (one month ago) link
i run a queer book club in my neighborhood and last month we read the acclaimed 2022 novel all this could be different. book was even worse than its title
― ivy., Monday, 25 March 2024 15:46 (one month ago) link
review- "pity it wasnt"
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 25 March 2024 15:53 (one month ago) link
Current Indie Bookstore Bestsellers:
Incredibly Bright CreaturesThe Heaven and Earth Grocery Store
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 16:01 (one month ago) link
On the whole, is this phenomenon worse than the 'Salmon Fishing in the Yemen' 'Shitting Lemons in Sicily' nonsense from the 00s?
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Monday, 25 March 2024 19:11 (one month ago) link
House of Blank and Blank is another format I hate
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 19:15 (one month ago) link
House of Earth and BloodHouse of Sky and BreathHouse of Sand and FogHouse of Flame and ShadowHouse of Salt and SorrowsHouse of Ash and ShadowsHouse of Roots and RuinHouse of Lies and SorrowHouse of Bane and BloodHouse of Velvet and GlassHouse of War and BoneHouse of Ivy and Sorrow
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 19:26 (one month ago) link
there's a new show called Apple Never Falls
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 25 March 2024 19:29 (one month ago) link
is it on Apple TV?
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 19:30 (one month ago) link
I thought half of those "House Of" titles were made up! But they all seem genuine.
House of Words and RiversHouse of Mist and MemoriesHouse of Clocks and EaglesHouse of Ice and Conjury
Could do this all day really.
― I saw three hippies saving a whale (Matt #2), Monday, 25 March 2024 19:54 (one month ago) link
I hate the name Everything Everywhere All At Once, fwiw, which also makes me think of the two JSF novel titles I also hate: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and Everything Is Illuminated.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 19:55 (one month ago) link
Oh I guess two of those were addressed above
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 19:56 (one month ago) link
it makes me think of Everything, All At Once, Forever, because I am a Indie
― imago, Monday, 25 March 2024 19:57 (one month ago) link
I can go to the amnesty bookshop at any given time & find like 5 random novels that do the flaubert’s parrot/wittgenstein’s mistress thing: Adorno’s dildo, Hitler’s cufflinks, Proust’s GameBoy &c
― cozen itt (wins), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:20 (one month ago) link
Remarkably Bright Creatures
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:32 (one month ago) link
haha just realized someone posted that one upthread but got the title was wrong, hence I didn't find it in ctrl f
https://images-us.bookshop.org/ingram/9780143127550.jpg?height=500&v=v2-a7d1aa0651c054931f75e188866634b8
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:33 (one month ago) link
and yet, and yet
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 25 March 2024 20:35 (one month ago) link
Now playing at IFC Center:
Do Not Expect Much From The End Of The WorldThe Taste Of Things
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:37 (one month ago) link
Everywhere is a big one too
Little Altars EverywhereEverywhere You Don't BelongThe Girl From EverywhereEverywhere and Every WayEverywhere I Look
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 20:38 (one month ago) link
I'm trying to put my finger on what it is that's so bad about these titles, it's like they have this profound genericness and forced ambiguity. The Thing of Objects. Everyone Watches When Nothing Happens. Sort of Raymond Carverish but with no emotion.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:44 (one month ago) link
Everyone Worth KnowingEveryone Brave is ForgivenEveryone Who Can Forgive Me Is DeadThe Opposite of EveryoneEveryone I Kissed Since You Got FamousEveryone Dies Famous in a Small TownEveryone But MyselfEveryone Knows You Go Home
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 20:44 (one month ago) link
SMALL WORDS IN BIG LETTERS
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:46 (one month ago) link
The tone is slightly childlike, full of wonderment and openness, could be about literally anything (or "Everything")
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:48 (one month ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4a/Everything_Must_Go_Poster.jpg (apparently based on a Raymond Carver story of a different name, Why Don't You Dance?)
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:49 (one month ago) link
Goodnight NobodyNobody is Ever MissingIf Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable ThingsNobody, Somebody, AnybodyNobody's MagicNobody Knows But YouThe Nobodies AlbumThe Nobody People
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 20:51 (one month ago) link
All the Light We Cannot SeeAll the Bright PlacesAll the Dangerous ThingsAll the Stars and TeethAll the Birds in the SkyAll the Lovers in the NightAll the Little RaindropsAll the Broken PlacesAll the Breaking WavesAll the Pretty Horses, Young Dudes, President's Men, King's Men etc.
― President Keyes, Monday, 25 March 2024 20:56 (one month ago) link
If Wayne Coyne ever wrote a novel (assuming he hasn't) it would most likely have Everything in the title, also some reference to wildlife - possibly, if not probably, birds.
― I saw three hippies saving a whale (Matt #2), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:04 (one month ago) link
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 20:44 (nineteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I think it's annoying because it's attempting to make a connection between the small/specific/everyday and the infinite/cosmic/transcendent in a way that supposed to be profound, but it just ends up sounding banal most of the time? A bit like the 'dancing plastic bag' stuff from American Beauty
― soref, Monday, 25 March 2024 21:08 (one month ago) link
otm
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:28 (one month ago) link
they are exactly the opposite of a title as great as the ipcress file, they do nothing and intrigue the least interesting ppl
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:30 (one month ago) link
It’s an instant no from me, when I think about someone presumably labouring for a long time to produce a work of art & then having to come up with a title for it that will make anyone ever at all in the big little world want to read it, & then what they come up with is essential “idk little everywheres all around or whatever”, I just think whoever makes that choice simply cannot have possibly written a good book
― cozen itt (wins), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:42 (one month ago) link
agreed
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:57 (one month ago) link
Nothing About It Is Interesting
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 25 March 2024 21:59 (one month ago) link