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  • deadboy
    Senior Member
    • Jul 2013
    • 107

    #16
    I second Steve Jobs. Can't believe there have been two films made about him since his death.

    Speaking of which, Danny Boyle. Apart from Trainspotting, which was mostly a right-place-right-time film for me, I've found his films to be a whole lot of meh. And I really didn't care for Slumdog.

    While I love some of his older movies (and some of his Wes Anderson roles too, haters), I find the love for and obsession with Bill Murray to be totally disproportionate to the quality of his work these days.

    And lastly, Prince. The weeks following his death really hammered home how ambivalent I am toward his music. I don't hate it, it just never appealed to me. I'm totally fine being wrong about him. But he did seem like a huge jerk.

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    • david s
      Senior Member
      • Jul 2010
      • 492

      #17
      ooh a fun one

      Heidegger, besides being a fascist, navel gazing at it's worst

      Miles Davis, always been stumped by his music, have never been able to get into it...always felt as a jazz legend I should like him, alas no

      Michelangelo Antonioni, his films are just so unbelievably sloooooow and boring

      Yayoi Kusama, personal connection, worked on an advertising gig that was promoting her work with LVMH, to me boils down to lots of dots

      the Who, except for Live at Leeds pretty much sounds all the same to me
      Last edited by david s; 05-25-2016, 08:59 PM.
      It's absolutely Hedious!
      shy poser

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      • Faust
        kitsch killer
        • Sep 2006
        • 37852

        #18
        Originally posted by david s View Post
        Yayoi Kusama, personal connection, worked on an advertising gig that was promoting her work with LVMH, to me boils down to lots of dots
        Also does nothing for me for the same reason.
        Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

        StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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        • Arkady
          Senior Member
          • Apr 2011
          • 957

          #19
          I was really puzzled by her exhibit, looked like mid-tier Ridgewood loft party decorations.

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          • monster
            Member
            • Aug 2009
            • 78

            #20
            So many persons that could be on my list were named so far: from Jobs to Von Trier, from Warhol to Innariitu (though still missing some figures like Zuckerberg and Rubchinsky). Fortunately I have no counterparts that suppose me to like Kanye or Asap Rocky, (or maybe unfortunately I have no social life) but here is a couple of figures that supposed to be liked by myself, but don't:

            John Balance I'm a big fan of all these industrial, experimental, darkfolkish sort of things, and Balance has always been one of the most eminent members of the "occult underground", and still his music seems absolutely uninteresting, boring and superficial so far. Maybe I was listening to the wrong things. Will be very interested to get some guidance from anyone who is into this stuff.

            Fitzgerald Absolutely can't get Fitzgerald and have no idea why his sort of corny, mawkish literature is praised by so many.

            BBS I suppose I'am expected to be killed with fire for this, but seriously almost not a single piece that doesn't remind me of other designers' works or I've ever wanted to purchase. Might be my bad taste or lack of knowledge, but still.

            And one more thing: I noticed name of Vladimir Nabokov, mentioned by Galia, not quite sure what's in this gentleman's novels could be hated. As for me, it's a very smart, well-written, deep and touching literature. Not mention a perfect style that could be beaten only by Benedict Erofeev

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            • galia
              Senior Member
              • Jun 2009
              • 1719

              #21
              You're probably righ about Nabokov, I just don't like to be condescended to and his prose stinks of condescention for the reader. I'm not alone in this opinion, although admitedly there are not many of us. Maybe you have a higher tolerance for pompousness

              Erofeev is definitely better, I liked Москва-Петушки, but if he's high up at the top of your litterary pantheon I feel sorry for you

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              • Faust
                kitsch killer
                • Sep 2006
                • 37852

                #22
                Terence Malick - I find most of his films cheesy or borderline so. Of course, the cinematography is stunning at times, especially those peerless late afternoon scenes.
                Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                • MJRH
                  Senior Member
                  • Nov 2006
                  • 418

                  #23
                  Originally posted by galia View Post
                  You're probably righ about Nabokov, I just don't like to be condescended to and his prose stinks of condescention for the reader. I'm not alone in this opinion, although admitedly there are not many of us. Maybe you have a higher tolerance for pompousness
                  there's this weird tension i have reading nabokov, where the stone-cold lapidary beauty of his style is constantly pulling against what you've just described. i do like him still, but with definite reservation—i just wish he'd had more of a sense of humour (that wasn't just a snigger at someone's expense).

                  the only feller to die this year whose music i listen to with any frequency was tony conrad.
                  ain't no beauty queens in this locality

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                  • Faust
                    kitsch killer
                    • Sep 2006
                    • 37852

                    #24
                    Meh. I love Nabokov. His ridicule of the fatuous is delicious. Come live in America, Galia, and you'll understand him better.

                    Everyone from the YBA. A bunch of posers and Warhol-wannabes. Well, I can go on about contemporary art for a long time...
                    Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                    StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                    • killah
                      Senior Member
                      • Jun 2009
                      • 160

                      #25
                      radiohead and nine inch nails two completely different bands sure both equally cringe-worthy

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                      • Faust
                        kitsch killer
                        • Sep 2006
                        • 37852

                        #26
                        Originally posted by killah View Post
                        radiohead and nine inch nails two completely different bands sure both equally cringe-worthy
                        FUCK YOU
                        Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                        StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                        • mrbeuys
                          Senior Member
                          • May 2008
                          • 2313

                          #27
                          Originally posted by Faust View Post
                          FUCK YOU
                          This took you 2 days? I was so waiting for it :)
                          Ditto btw.
                          Hi. I like your necklace. - It's actually a rape whistle, but the whistle part fell off.

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                          • Faust
                            kitsch killer
                            • Sep 2006
                            • 37852

                            #28
                            Haha, I was working!
                            Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months - Oscar Wilde

                            StyleZeitgeist Magazine

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                            • galia
                              Senior Member
                              • Jun 2009
                              • 1719

                              #29
                              I would never live in the USA, it seems like a nightmare of ignorance, self righteousness and processed food. Ugh

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                              • cjbreed
                                Senior Member
                                • Feb 2009
                                • 2712

                                #30
                                dying and coming back gives you considerable perspective

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