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audrey...
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getfiscal posted:

that song rules



i heard it again recently and it annoyed me so bad, the relationship he's describing sounds so dull, fleeting and not worthy of a song.

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The song is about how you can find common ground with anyone, so you shouldn't claim otherwise as an excuse for not caring about someone.
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kinch posted:

Impper posted:

dfw? i would prefer not to. gibs me some beckett

what if gbs loved beckett

well they dont and i dont know that they love dfw either

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bf loves dfw and is gbs
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gbs, much like me, doesn't give a shit about "literature" that isn't easily encapsulated in the bounds of a fantastic genre
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altho infinite jest sounds SF as fuck according to the wiki summary. also: a rip off of a monty python joke. so, yeah, pretty gbs
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drivel of drunken hags
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I'm pretty sure just about nobody here reads any of the things they have very strong opinions on, one way or the other
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drivel of drunken hags
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The DFW hate is the other edge to the comical Zizek worship
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i just hold everything in disdain according to it's cultural context and sometimes change my opinion if i actually read it
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"books are for pooftas" - Insane War Clown, Sept 6th 2012
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who still knows how to read, these days,
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Groulxsmith posted:

The DFW hate is the other edge to the comical Zizek worship



what is weird about hating shitty authors and liking good authors?

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theres maybe 150 to 200 really good possibly genius pages in infinite jest but the rest of it probably shouldve just been burned
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babyfinland posted:

elliott smith was also really good? lol why do people feel so compelled to hate everything about the 90s



jungle is good, and the fresh prince of bel air, and i'm fuckin awesome

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bea and dfw are both bad. and i know this despite having read one (1) and none (0) of their books (respectively)
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i follow bea on twitter but only because a friend of mine in america told me he was good at twitter, which he isnt, not really
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how the hell is bea arthur tweeting from the grave?
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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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discipline posted:

the defining event of the 90s was the O.P.P.

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Not Your S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Ironicwarcriminal posted:

also DFW, like ayn rand, is definitely An American Thing, in that most people in the more civilized parts of the West have never heard of it and don't relate to it's myopic concerns



most peple in America have never heard of it either

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the most important band of the 90s was limp bizkit, no joke

it was them who paved the way for the crass and selfish nihilism that has become the defining feature of our culture
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David foster Wallace SUCKS SO BAD but so does Bret Easton Ellis, so it's like, stay in your lane man. The only good line you ever wrote was the thing about going onto the beach and scooping up sand fleas then eating them raw with sand in american psycho
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bad author slams different bad author cool
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in other news creed and puddle of mudd don't really get along so much
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Goldgelbes Löwenäffchen
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i dont like to read either dfw or beckett
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i want to know how mark z danielewski feels about dfw before i formulate my opinion
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Groulxsmith posted:

The DFW hate is the other edge to the comical Zizek worship


do people actually worship zizek. i thought most of the LF talk about him was just mocking him for daring to speak english with an accent

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i worship zizek bc he's self-evidently an omnipotent deity, p fucked up of him to construct the universe such that all things will turn to dust and die tho
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reggaelolita posted:

in other news creed and puddle of mudd don't really get along so much

what iz ur problem with creed or puddle of mudd

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GoldenLionTamarin posted:

i dont like to read either dfw or beckett



people have been telling me to read Beckett but i hated waiting for godot so much in school i don't know if i can get past that

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GoldenLionTamarin posted:

Groulxsmith posted:

The DFW hate is the other edge to the comical Zizek worship

do people actually worship zizek. i thought most of the LF talk about him was just mocking him for daring to speak english with an accent



lol of course they do. zizek represents the sublimated gbs-ideal of having a hot girlfriend and people caring about your stupid pop culture theories even though youre ugl,y gross, and clearly mentally ill

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beckett is good at what he does but his work is very depressing
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GoldenLionTamarin posted:

beckett is good at what he does but his work is very depressing



....yeah ?

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Ironicwarcriminal posted:

GoldenLionTamarin posted:

i dont like to read either dfw or beckett

people have been telling me to read Beckett but i hated waiting for godot so much in school i don't know if i can get past that



see endgame

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Ironicwarcriminal posted:

GoldenLionTamarin posted:

i dont like to read either dfw or beckett

people have been telling me to read Beckett but i hated waiting for godot so much in school i don't know if i can get past that

molloy might be the best novel ive read in my life. pretty clearly surpasses celine in its brilliant moments, and is on average probably better than... anything

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GoldenLionTamarin posted:

beckett is good at what he does but his work is very depressing

itz not depresing what are you talkin about

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dave eggers made a pirate store

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beckett is a writer of the body, and of existence, and persistence. he is also a pure genius and funny beyond imagination, i.e. funny in a way i don't think anybody else really is or ever has been.
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Superabound posted:

GoldenLionTamarin posted:

Groulxsmith posted:

The DFW hate is the other edge to the comical Zizek worship

do people actually worship zizek. i thought most of the LF talk about him was just mocking him for daring to speak english with an accent

lol of course they do. zizek represents the sublimated gbs-ideal of having a hot girlfriend and people caring about your stupid pop culture theories even though youre ugl,y gross, and clearly mentally ill

this is dumb as hell

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I enjoy the works of David foster Wallace, John Christy and Slavok Zizek what now