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[AvocadoGenesis]

lol grimes is still as just ok as she ever was



i still like music, i just dont like indie rock

 

[tropicanapurepremium]

lol Grimes, Elon, and New Yorker hitting me with more evidence like clockwork. I mentioned Grimes in first place because shes emblematic of this post-internet musical aesthetic which draws from pop/hip hop/r&b as much as it does from experimental/underground stuff.

"Largely thanks to social media, we have lately been experiencing the world as an enormous, fast-moving combinator, from which events are plucked willy-nilly and sometimes simultaneously: a push notification about Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s nuptials chased by another about the gutting of the Iran nuclear deal; Kanye West tweeting about his love of naps tugging at our attention alongside his claim to TMZ that slavery was a “choice”; the helpless laughter that often erupts while reading Trump’s morning tweets almost always checked by concurrent horror. In this context, the weirdness of a union-busting billionaire with neo-colonial leanings suddenly dating a quirky Canadian musician who, until recently, had “anti-imperialist” in her Twitter bio makes a certain kind of sense. According to Page Six, the couple met when Musk recently tweeted the words “Rococo Basilisk,” a near-nonsensical pun riffing on the A.I. thought experiment Roko’s Basilisk, which hypothesizes about the likelihood of a future artificial superintelligence killing those who didn’t help to bring it into being; he discovered that Boucher made the same joke three years ago, and reached out to her. The possible connection here could be neatly characterized as Burning Man-esque. One can imagine the pair sharing insights about space travel, psychedelics, polyamory—mining the kind of self-exploration that has begun to split the difference between Silicon Valley libertarian nerd-core and millennial Tumblr-bred experimentalism.

It’s often said that the line between mass and indie culture has completely collapsed in the past couple of decades, gone the way of flannel shirts, baby-doll dresses, and “corporate rock still sucks” T-shirts. Now we can drop acid to discover our inner child while becoming tech billionaires, or, more modestly, listen to obscure music while watching the Kardashians. Boucher’s music isn’t especially obscure, nor is her aesthetic; compared to Musk, though, she is the reincarnation of Klaus Nomi. Of course, Grimes is no innocent held against her will, and the artist can choose whom she wants to date. But, despite all the joking, there was ultimately a sense of deep disappointment in many people’s responses to the new couple, which revealed a nostalgia for a time when political differences translated more securely into differences of taste, and vice versa. What if ideological distinctions still mattered and were not so easily swept away by a levelling torrent of information and capital? What if anything still meant something?"

 

[TabathaFiat]

ive been wanting to mention this. i learned, through some light e-stalking, that the IGN music boards user vordhosbn may have passed away at some point in the last couple years.

he posted on neogaf under a different name, the name he used on last.fm i'm pretty sure, which is how i tracked him down. looked him up on neogaf a couple times out of curiosity because he was my favorite poster here and someone who's music taste and silly forum posts influenced me a lot. he had a gentle passion about him, and a unique sort of open mindedness that i admired.

i looked him up again a couple months ago and noticed his last posts all revolved around his finding out that he had a rare health problem that was almost certainly going to end in the worst way. this was a little over two years ago.

i don't want to get into too much detail, and this is fucking brutal, but if you want to read one of the last things he wrote to see what he was going through:

Spoiler

Well, here I am 5 days removed from being told I probably have a rare liver cancer, which is probably inoperable. Biopsy and scope results are pending and needed to confirm, it's a miniscule chance that it's benign and/or maybe operable. But it's very grim, they're not even pretending the test and sending my results to other specialists is anything more than a last resort. If it's inoperable I apparently might have as little as 6-12 months left. Spending 8 hours a night in hospital researching the best places to go for assisted suicide, and the best techniques to pull it off unassisted, pathetic sobbing out of nowhere, acting pretty jovial around my family but that's getting twice as hard every day... can't enjoy movies or games or books or anything anymore. I've been depressed before but at least that escapism always worked to stimulate me... not anymore.

vord was the greatest. i don't know what else to say.

 

[garbarator]

i recognize that icon, not really the name. but i imagine he was a little before my time here.

RIP if that's true. It sounds pretty likely.

 

[the_carmelo_fellow23]

sky ferrari says new music is coming very soon! exciting!

 

[dom_osx]

yayyyy I was really glad I got to see her at meadows last year. loved night time my time.

 

[dom_osx]

hey Melo, you think punk has any shot at winning on Saturday?

 

[the_carmelo_fellow23]

hey Melo, you think punk has any shot at winning on Saturday?

much better shot than he did against mickey gall. its really hard to make any prediction because mike jackson and cm punk have both had one fight, each against gall and each of them got destroyed in the first round. punk trains at the much better gym but i think jackson has trained longer. i guess i'd pick punk just because of his gym.

 

[the_carmelo_fellow23]

ive been watching roh, njpw, evolve, pwg, and some of the british promotions lately. i think if punk comes back he will actually have an uphill battle. he was a very good worker but by today's standards he's probably middle of the pack. like compare him to omega or even someone like marty scurll and his character work looks really poor. and he has never worked a japanese style. i guess you could do a good program with him and cody but punk working face is the worst. he will probably be at the all in show though, right? omega vs punk is the money match?

 

[GoUT120]

Omega vs. Punk would be pretty excellent. I just started getting into NJPW in the last year and I feel like I've wasted so much time on other stuff compared to it.

 

[the_carmelo_fellow23]

Omega vs. Punk would be pretty excellent. I just started getting into NJPW in the last year and I feel like I've wasted so much time on other stuff compared to it.

It really is incredible. The Omega / Okada trilogy was some of the best shit i watched in 2017 and now we have the golden lovers back!

 

[the_carmelo_fellow23]

Golden Lovers vs Punk and Cody would be great.

 

[dom_osx]

I'm really interested in the idea of punk working again given he's been training with an mma camp for four years, I feel like that would significantly change then way he moves his body and shit. but he can't make his gimmick the mma guy because he got knocked the fuck out. I don't know if he would deliver something like omega okada if they worked, but jericho is old as fuck and managed to have what I considered to be match of the night with omega at wk. I kinda wanna see him and cabana have a fun low-stakes tag against the bucks at all in.

I'm very excited for dominion this weekend. I haven't been watching njpw the last couple of months but I tend to watch the bigger shows and go through phases where I watch more regularly. wwe has been pretty bad recently, but I love heel nakamura so much. mitb should be fun.

 

[dom_osx]

 

[the_carmelo_fellow23]

I'm really interested in the idea of punk working again given he's been training with an mma camp for four years, I feel like that would significantly change then way he moves his body and shit. but he can't make his gimmick the mma guy because he got knocked the fuck out. I don't know if he would deliver something like omega okada if they worked, but jericho is old as fuck and managed to have what I considered to be match of the night with omega at wk. I kinda wanna see him and cabana have a fun low-stakes tag against the bucks at all in.

I'm very excited for dominion this weekend. I haven't been watching njpw the last couple of months but I tend to watch the bigger shows and go through phases where I watch more regularly. wwe has been pretty bad recently, but I love heel nakamura so much. mitb should be fun.

Omega vs Jericho was good but I think Omega was the A side there and Jericho is a better worker than Punk imo.

Did you ever see the gif of Ben Askren hitting Punk with a stunner while training? He had to sell it or else Askren would kill him.

 

[dom_osx]

lol I love that

I just want him back in wrestling I don’t care how good he is now I just know that I miss him.

 

[ducktape]

that feel when you check [URL='http://www.ign.com/boards/members/the_carmelo_fellow23.1558269/']@the_carmelo_fellow23[/URL]'s last.fm profile and see he listened to the new gang gang dance's album that's supposed to be released on june 22 but it's not on soulseek and can't find it anywhere else

 

[the_carmelo_fellow23]

that feel when you check [URL='http://www.ign.com/boards/members/the_carmelo_fellow23.1558269/'][URL='http://www.ign.com/boards/members/the_carmelo_fellow23.1558269/']@the_carmelo_fellow23[/URL][/URL]'s last.fm profile and see he listened to the new gang gang dance's album that's supposed to be released on june 22 but it's not on soulseek and can't find it anywhere else

sorry i got an advanced copy and its watermarked. cant share but it is good.

 

[AaronP1264]

why does melo get advanced copies, how

 

[the_carmelo_fellow23]

why does melo get advanced copies, how

connections

 

[ducktape]

why does melo get advanced copies, how

he’s probably an alien

 

[AvocadoGenesis]

why does melo get advanced copies, how

connections

 

[garbarator]

i got to hear the new beach house a few days early cause my friend gets advanced copies of a lot of things but that's the first thing he actually shared with me early.

 

[AaronP1264]

but why, is he a music reviewer? part of the illuminati?

 

[garbarator]

idk what his actual job title is but he's been working on the music for a handmaid's tale and legion and some other shit

 

[dom_osx]

this is the greatest thing to ever happen

 

[AaronP1264]

y'all think the new death grips is worth listening to?

 

[AaronP1264]

streaky is amazing

 

[garbarator]

yea i could go for some death grips in my life rn

 

[the_carmelo_fellow23]

y'all think the new death grips is worth listening to?

y no thread tho

 

[Tomtin]

i was going through some old threads today just to see some of our lists from years before and i came across the post where siq asks if death grips sells bags of shit at their shows, bc he wants to buy and eat it. that was so funny.

but then i saw the okcupid girl and it ruined my night

 

[AaronP1264]

does that image still exist? woo man that was rough. i still don't know if that was a genuine profile or not. life isn't fair.

 

[AaronP1264]

it does. page 7 of albums of 2013. komusha's "was that really necessary?" made me laugh and also feel bad.

where is MeeshPotato?!?? Anyone know?

 

[garbarator]

ooooh my god i just looked it's even worse than i remember

 

[garbarator]

e: i meant to say this in another thread

 

[dom_osx]

haven't listened to death grips but I hope it's good! I rly like the lily allen record that came out a few weeks ago.

I don't remember the okc girl that's being referenced so I'm ready 2 have my mind blown in a minute.

 

[dom_osx]

I mean, I didn't care for that.

 

[MonkeysWithGuns]

Wow the gang is like back or something.

 

[garbarator]

Wow the gang is like back or something.

we're trying

we miss you

please stay

 

[AaronP1264]

ya mwg tell us some stories or send me pics of you so i can finally see the woman behind the mask

 

[dom_osx]

plz send him a bunch of dick pics but like really bad ones

 

[ducktape]

ya mwg tell us some stories or send me pics of you so i can finally see the woman behind the mask

my love for her is like the flames of hell. it can never be put out.

 

[AaronP1264]

THE SOUL STILL BURNS

 

[ducktape]

i am a transgender woman

 

[AaronP1264]

well that was from left field

 

[garbarator]

classic ducktape

 

[garbarator]

Should i move to Nashville, TN? lol

 

[garbarator]

vs.

 

[AaronP1264]

why nashville? you might enjoy getting out of california and experiencing "weather seasons"

 

[dom_osx]

I spent a night in Nashville and thought it was pretty cool

spread ur wings bb