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Clever stuff for stupid people

Started by Blue Jam, July 18, 2019, 06:06:38 PM

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greenman

Quote from: Johnny Yesno on August 06, 2019, 10:53:53 PM
Amen. The film is one of the dullest experiences I've ever endured and I was completely baked at the time. God knows what it's like if you have to sit through it straight.

Always been a Floyd fan but I'v still never bothered to watch it, mid 70's Waters actually had a nack for boiling down issues into quite simple statements but he became annoying self obsessed by the end of the decade and ever since.

Twit 2

Einaudi:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/01/ludovico-einaudi-review-italian-composer-barbican-london

That reviewer goes a little overboard, but I'm still on his side overall. As with people like Kate Tempest, the problem us snobs have is not it being what it is, but it pretending to be something it isn't, rubbing shoulders with stuff that comes from a completely different tradition, one of craft and technique, and siphoning off unearned credit and respectability. To use a fairly obvious analogy, it's like if the Michelin guide starting putting McDonald's in their listings. There's a time and a place for McDonald's but I think even its biggest fans know it's still just junk food. They don't seriously think it's high class cuisine on a par with top restaurants. Well Einaudi is musical junk food. I know it seems like hysterical segregation but I don't think Picador should be publishing awful spoken word poetry or the Barbican hosting Einaudi. Sure, have a big Einaudi concert, but bung him in Wembley Arena or wherever the fuck with yer Ed Sheerans. I just just find it dishonest and unhelpful to have all this stuff lumped in together, in a big relativistic grey gruel. No, not everything is the same, just allow some gradations for fuck's sake:

QuoteIn fact, leaving out of account the majority of men, whose coarse retinas perceive neither the cadences peculiar to different colours nor the mysterious charms of their gradation.


zomgmouse

Quote from: greenman on August 07, 2019, 07:13:43 AM
Always been a Floyd fan but I'v still never bothered to watch it, mid 70's Waters actually had a nack for boiling down issues into quite simple statements but he became annoying self obsessed by the end of the decade and ever since.

It's pretty impressive. The visuals are great if nothing else.

Johnny Yesno

Quote from: Twit 2 on August 07, 2019, 11:37:49 AM
Einaudi:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/01/ludovico-einaudi-review-italian-composer-barbican-london

That reviewer goes a little overboard, but I'm still on his side overall. As with people like Kate Tempest, the problem us snobs have is not it being what it is, but it pretending to be something it isn't, rubbing shoulders with stuff that comes from a completely different tradition, one of craft and technique, and siphoning off unearned credit and respectability. To use a fairly obvious analogy, it's like if the Michelin guide starting putting McDonald's in their listings. There's a time and a place for McDonald's but I think even its biggest fans know it's still just junk food. They don't seriously think it's high class cuisine on a par with top restaurants. Well Einaudi is musical junk food. I know it seems like hysterical segregation but I don't think Picador should be publishing awful spoken word poetry or the Barbican hosting Einaudi. Sure, have a big Einaudi concert, but bung him in Wembley Arena or wherever the fuck with yer Ed Sheerans. I just just find it dishonest and unhelpful to have all this stuff lumped in together, in a big relativistic grey gruel. No, not everything is the same, just allow some gradations for fuck's sake:

Meh. This commenter nails it, I think:

Quote from: Apomorph rexyrooster
6d ago
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I agree, this is a ridiculously pompous review, with phrases like "The intention seems to be to recreate the antiseptic environment of a recording studio" that look dismal in post-Barthesian criticism, suggesting the author is speaking with as cannily pureed an inventory and in as much "fluent cliche" as he suggests of Einaudi. Conflating populism with popularity damages the narrative the Guardian is continually pushing, giving the impression of a slippery defender of elite privileges rather than a guardian of truth.

The other characteristically centrist failing is the omission of what drove Einaudi's popularity and the commodification of classical music: Classic FM. If you allow market forces to run free in your society, don't be surprised when your favourite cultural pursuits become increasingly efficient, easily digestible, inoffensive, forgettable; a stop gap between advertisements.

This one, on the other hand...

Quote from: symphony1010 rexyrooster
6d ago
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I think of Orwell's 1984 where the proles are fed alcohol and porn to keep them happy. Mindlessness instead of mindfulness, perhaps. Populism is, as someone else here suggests, an awareness of people's feelings and desires. Now the proles have the upper hand and I wonder what Orwell would have made of all this.
Einaudi's music is facile and just what proles would take for profundity. Nothing to trouble the intellect. Why not, in the age when all reason has been lost!

'Now the proles have the upper hand'. lol.

1984: Clever but flawed stuff which stupid people pretend to have read.

touchingcloth

Einaudi: German for "an Audi". MYT.

Johnny Yesno



touchingcloth

Quote from: Johnny Yesno on August 07, 2019, 08:40:34 PM
YMMV

That's the thing, though: with an Audi, it doesn't. They're such great cars they're all built to get the same mileage. I went to the showroom and I said "how's the mileage on the Audi Krautrock?" and he said it was tremendous. I asked about the Audi Luftballoon, and it was also tremendous. I went with an Audi Traudl in the end, and under real world conditions I got exactly tremendous mileage. I mean exactly, not even a 1/1000 difference. I've spoken with friends who drive Audis since, and they all get the same.

Sebastian Cobb

It's less the design of the vehicle, milage is mostly dependent on how aggressively you drive, and that's something every audi cunt has nailed.

touchingcloth

With Audis you can drive them literally any way and they will get tremendous mileage, even if you drive them upside down or like a crab.

H-O-W-L

Quote from: thecuriousorange on August 06, 2019, 10:29:30 PM
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Quote from: Johnny Yesno on August 06, 2019, 10:53:53 PM
Amen. The film is one of the dullest experiences I've ever endured and I was completely baked at the time. God knows what it's like if you have to sit through it straight.

High noon outside the ole' saloon. Be there armed.

Twit 2

Quote from: Johnny Yesno on August 07, 2019, 07:33:32 PM
Meh. This commenter nails it, I think:

QuoteThe other characteristically centrist failing is the omission of what drove Einaudi's popularity and the commodification of classical music: Classic FM. If you allow market forces to run free in your society, don't be surprised when your favourite cultural pursuits become increasingly efficient, easily digestible, inoffensive, forgettable; a stop gap between advertisements.

Well I totally agree with that part.

Sebastian Cobb



I'm a bit ambivalent about this as it's a bit 'I fucking love science!!!!1', but I also quite like the design.


Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: DistressedArea on August 11, 2019, 02:07:17 PM
Radio 4.

Did you see there was a big hoo-haa on twitter because The Spectator skewered Lauren Laverne doing Desert Island Discs. It also got the arse over John Cooper Clarke being a guest on there, which really tells you all you need to know about the wanker writing it.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/08/desert-island-discs-has-completely-lost-the-plot/


See, that's exactly what I'm talking about.  God, I hope those radio 4 people fight themselves to extinction over this.  Should all be dead by now anyway, at their age.

Johnny Yesno

Quote from: H-O-W-L on August 07, 2019, 11:18:22 PM
High noon outside the ole' saloon. Be there armed.

I'm guessing you're upset because I forgot to mention how incredibly corny it is. Sir Bob unable to convincingly pull off looking vacant while his fag ash gets longer and longer did make me laugh, I'll grant you.

touchingcloth

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on August 11, 2019, 01:13:41 PM


I'm a bit ambivalent about this as it's a bit 'I fucking love science!!!!1', but I also quite like the design.

It's more "I fucking need to get in core".



Autopsy Turvey

Quote from: Sebastian Cobb on August 11, 2019, 02:16:11 PM
Did you see there was a big hoo-haa on twitter because The Spectator skewered Lauren Laverne doing Desert Island Discs. It also got the arse over John Cooper Clarke being a guest on there, which really tells you all you need to know about the wanker writing it.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/08/desert-island-discs-has-completely-lost-the-plot/

I don't understand how the reference to JCC in this article amounts to 'getting the arse' over him being a guest? Radio 4 is shit though, of course. I twiddled past it earlier and heard a presenter on Woman's Hour announce that "bonkbusters tend to be heteronormative".

Cuellar


Pseudopath

Quote from: Cuellar on August 13, 2019, 04:21:33 PM
What the fuck is bonkbusters

Blockbuster movies featuring female-oriented sex scenes; e.g., 50 Shades of Grey.

Cuellar