A couple of things: Deafheaven, particularly the singer from Deafheaven and how he looks like Richard Spencer. Did you know Richard Spencer's middle name is Bertrand? How are you going to be dumb as blocks with a middle name like Bertrand?

Also, Brittany Murphy. Had no idea she was in so many movies. Only saw her in Clueless.

that's it.

rsmurphy wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 2:14 pmAlso, Brittany Murphy. Had no idea she was in so many movies.

She was Eminem's love interest in 8 Mile and you know only so much you can do with that role. But then I learned that she's Luanne in King of the Hill and like DAMN. That makes me interested in her. Also RIP.

kokorodoko wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 2:21 pmBut then I learned that she's Luanne in King of the Hill and like DAMN.

Just realized this as well. I enjoyed her in Clueless and sometimes say "I hope not sporadically" like Tai.

I don't know if anyone has seen these large color stickers on cars, they're anime girls with massive breasts in skimpy bikinis.

There are at least two examples of this peculiar automotive decoration in my neighborhood. I always wondered who or why someone wants to advertise that, I'm not sure what, to the world. Then I pictured if it was a lady's car it's kind of nerdy and quirky in a way that's almost cool. Then I saw the driver of one of these anime pinup mobiles: dude bro. I'm sure my double standard is unfair but it just made me think he was lame, and weird, and maybe not someone anyone should be alone with.

Alanis Morisette's Jagged Little Pill won the grammy for best rock album in 1996.

That's what I was contemplating after reading it. On the other hand most of the things they picked is terrible. The next year a Sheryl Crow album won.

enframed wrote: Tue Oct 10, 2023 8:48 pm Billy Squier fucking ruled. If there was an American "equivalent" to Marc Bolan, he was it.

I just learned of Squier's pre-solo band, Piper. Has anyone heard this? Holy shit it's fucking great!

I'm looking through some stuff at my mother's house, and just found my late father's Best of Billy Squier disc. I might this on if the CD player still works.

losthighway wrote: Sat Nov 11, 2023 3:03 pm I don't know if anyone has seen these large color stickers on cars, they're anime girls with massive breasts in skimpy bikinis.

There are at least two examples of this peculiar automotive decoration in my neighborhood. I always wondered who or why someone wants to advertise that, I'm not sure what, to the world. Then I pictured if it was a lady's car it's kind of nerdy and quirky in a way that's almost cool. Then I saw the driver of one of these anime pinup mobiles: dude bro. I'm sure my double standard is unfair but it just made me think he was lame, and weird, and maybe not someone anyone should be alone with.

Koreatown in Los Angeles is full of these.

play the billy squier.

Oh fuck it's that time of year where white people think that "you've heard of elf on the shelf, but have you heard of <picture>" memes are still funny.

"In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes", said Andy Warhol, or something like that. Anyway, 15 minutes of fame, we all know the deal.

I found this phrase rattling around loose in my brain recently, and rather than give it the standard tip of the hat "OMG social media Andy SO TRUE" and carry on, I thought okay, so let's run some back-of-the-cerebrum numbers on that.

Assuming a standard human lifetime of 80 years, let's say you spend a third of your time sleeping, a third of your time attending your own personal business, and a third of your time doing stuff that involves paying attention to strangers in a way that might contribute to somebody being famous. That gives you around one million fifteen minuteses to distribute among the famous as you see fit. Reciprocally, that would mean the fair amount of attention you should expect to receive for your 15 minutes is one million people watching you.

Anybody who gets more than that, you're getting more than the average amount of attention. People are looking at you doing your thing more than you are looking at other people doing their thing. The whole world can't watch everyone for fifteen minutes - there isn't time.

You can adjust it for different time scales - one hour of fame for 250k people. Thirty seconds of fame for 30 million people. You could exceed a lifetime's worth of attention with a ten second Superbowl ad. Four people in a band playing a thousand hours of gigs for a thousand people. Or ten hours of recorded music by a solo artis, listened to ten times each by 2500 people.

The maths is all completely stupid of course, but it might give some sense of perspective to anybody who feels like the world hasn't given them enough attention. There's only so much to go around.