Choon of the Day

[Corpsey]

Luke's paste thing really resonates with me cos my life has so often been completely banal and tawdry, completely devoid of glamour and intrigue.

 

[version]

I think he got that from Mark E. Smith.

There are twelve people in the world
The rest are paste

 

[Corpsey]

Fitting that he copied and pasted that 'insight' from someone else I suppose

 

[linebaugh]

the entirety of Dematerialisation is just that Frederic Jameson essay

 

[Corpsey]

Luke's paste thing really resonates with me cos my life has so often been completely banal and tawdry, completely devoid of glamour and intrigue.

There must be novelists, I suppose, who've captured the directionless, meaningless banality of much of day-to-day existence?

Flaubert was intent on depicting that in 'Madame Bovary' but couldn't resist making it all about secret extramarital affairs and culminate in a dramatic suicide.

And yes that's the most contemporary novel I can think of.

But if you did capture that banality authentically there'd be absolutely no incentive to read it. Books exist to make life less boring, after all.

 

[version]

Bret Easton Ellis did it with Less than Zero and it's remarkably readable.

 

[Corpsey]

There's no way easton ellis's banality is as banal as listening to jamiroquai on radio 1 while you man the phone at a korean car company in a small market town

 

[Corpsey]

It'll be the banality of going to parties at LA mansions and feeling depressed about how much sex you're having

 

[craner]

It'll be the banality of going to parties at LA mansions and feeling depressed about how much sex you're having

 

[Corpsey]

CHOON

 

[Corpsey]

Can't believe that's only got 207 million views, isn't that a huge flop considering who it is?

 

[william_kent]

There must be novelists, I suppose, who've captured the directionless, meaningless banality of much of day-to-day existence?

I've never read it but David Foster Wallace's The Pale King is supposed to capture the boredom of everyday life

Richard Rayner wrote in the Los Angeles Times that The Pale King's subjects are "loneliness, depression and the ennui that is human life's agonized bedrock, 'the deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and which most of us spend nearly all of our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from' [quoting Wallace]... The Pale King dares to plunge readers deep into this Dantean hell of 'crushing boredom,' suggesting that something good may lie beyond."

 

[version]

I've read it and can confirm that it is boring.

 

[version]

There's no way easton ellis's banality is as banal as listening to jamiroquai on radio 1 while you man the phone at a korean car company in a small market town

True, but a lot of it's just people asking to use the phone and sitting in restaurants.

 

[Corpsey]

Can't believe that's only got 207 million views, isn't that a huge flop considering who it is?

I've just realised its only a lyric video, so that makes sense.

 

[Corpsey]

Wasn't there something that made you continue reading? Or was it just sheer bloodymindedness?

 

[Corpsey]

Billie Eilish - Ocean Eyes (2016)

I tried listening to Beilish's first album and there was nothing on it (on initial listen) that stuck out like this one. This one I love.

I group this with stuff like Lana Del Rey but also Maggie Rogers


(Who I only discovered cos Youtube pushed this clip on me, which I recommend watching, btw)


And (via Maggie Rogers) HAIM, too. (Although Haim are a lot more energetic and plaintively joyful.)

Am I just being a sexist pig to group these all together or is this a sort of 'genre' binding them? It's sort of a blend of folk music and contemporary, rap-production influenced pop/R&B.

 

[woops]

I've read it and can confirm that it is boring.

so boring it made him kill himself, right? i (used to be) a huge fan of his work but even i have avoided that one

 

[linebaugh]

 

[IdleRich]

I prefer this one on the same theme