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Post by Subtext Mining on Dec 3, 2021 19:58:32 GMT
Tying abandoned buildings with Cyndi Lauper, and her video for Time After Time being filmed in an abandoned train station, and me wanting to live in a Streamline trailer with her when I was a kid, here's this song.
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Post by Subtext Mining on Dec 5, 2021 21:38:14 GMT
Like that scene from The Legend of Billie Jean? Co-starring a very young Yeardley Smith, the voice of Lisa Simpson. Interesting to hear her talk as an actual kid. |
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Post by Subtext Mining on Jan 15, 2022 21:16:30 GMT
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Post by Subtext Mining on Jan 18, 2022 12:59:25 GMT
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Post by Ingram on Jan 19, 2022 1:19:56 GMT
I'm so hoping that there isn't a horse ranch within miles of that property and that horse was just some random stranger who decided to crash their video moment. Someone needs to gif this Travolta style by compositing said horse into various comically adverse footage, like ESPN golf or Biden in some luxuriant palace lobby shaking hands with a Saudi oil baron. It's a female, too. And she drives better than 89% of human females.
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Post by Subtext Mining on Jan 30, 2022 12:56:45 GMT
This video kind of saved my life over this last summer so I thought I'd put it here. I guess a documentary was being made on the MLB umpires that year, so the doc crew had them mic'ed during some games. And they caught an (unintentional) comedic gem here with an argument between an ump and manager Earl Weaver. In case playback is disabled: m.youtube.com/watch?v=rpS-XFXxJvE |
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Post by Subtext Mining on Feb 5, 2022 17:58:56 GMT
I want to see this version.  |
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Post by eljedicolombiano on Mar 2, 2022 2:16:17 GMT
I wonder where Ingram has ran off to-
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Post by Ingram on Mar 28, 2022 10:21:53 GMT
I wonder where Ingram has ran off to-
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Post by Subtext Mining on Apr 7, 2022 12:31:34 GMT
Why isn't anyone ever telling Mark's characters the whole story about his family?
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Post by Ingram on Apr 8, 2022 1:54:25 GMT
Why isn't anyone ever telling Mark's characters the whole story about his family? I get really upset when food is wasted in scenes. |
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Post by Subtext Mining on Apr 11, 2022 10:12:20 GMT
I feel that.
On a semi-related note, my most relatable Homer moment @ 8:37
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Post by ArchdukeOfNaboo on May 6, 2022 5:27:46 GMT
Anyways, malls are surreal places now, anachronistic cathedrals of commerce; at their best, polished and lit up with store signs yet largely devoid of human life. A mall on average lately, at any time during the day, feels like they used to feel during the early, pre-business morning hours, where traffic mostly consisted of elderly people doing their power-walks. It's like being onboard a self-automated mothership ...the occasional star-citizen passerby:
"Greetings, Ingram."
"Good day, Psylore."
There's a genre of music dedicated to those themes you speak of. No, seriously folks, there really is. It's called...
m a l l s o f t
Comes with music video:
It's a subgenre of vapourware. If the connoisseur of all things weird and wonderful that is Ingram hasn't already heard of vapour, then I'm the Queen of England.
We wouldn't be complete without a selection from the YouTube comments:
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Post by Ingram on May 6, 2022 10:14:11 GMT
Anyways, malls are surreal places now, anachronistic cathedrals of commerce; at their best, polished and lit up with store signs yet largely devoid of human life. A mall on average lately, at any time during the day, feels like they used to feel during the early, pre-business morning hours, where traffic mostly consisted of elderly people doing their power-walks. It's like being onboard a self-automated mothership ...the occasional star-citizen passerby: "Greetings, Ingram."
"Good day, Psylore."
There's a genre of music dedicated to those themes you speak of. No, seriously folks, there really is. It's called...
m a l l s o f t
Comes with music video:
It's a subgenre of vapourware. If the connoisseur of all things weird and wonderful that is Ingram hasn't already heard of vapour, then I'm the Queen of England. I'd say the crown is safe for now, because I have in fact heard of Mallsoft...to some extent; vaporwave, more generally at least. There's some clever craft that goes into it but like synthwave, being a 21st century convention of retro-hipster stuff, I tend to bypass such altogether in favor of a more authentic musical experience: muzak sourced directly from the era in question. Arthur's Theme - Christopher Cross
Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
I Made it Through the Rain - Barry Manilow
Now if you'll excuse me, I was just over-charged for a half-windsor tie, striped with generic little coats of arms that make no sense, and I'm feeling kinda down about it so I'm headed over to the food court for a baked pretzel and some Orange Julius. Then maybe later, Radio Shack.
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Post by ArchdukeOfNaboo on May 6, 2022 13:59:32 GMT
I'd say the crown is safe for now, because I have in fact heard of Mallsoft...to some extent; vaporwave, more generally at least.
Why of course  There's some clever craft that goes into it
There is. There's an intriguing ambiguity to it. It's at once deeply cynical of consumer capitalism, at another nostalgic over its fruits. It's made its mind up, and yet it hasn't. It's ready for revolution, but then its not - its stuck in its basement, and the streets are faraway. When you then add to this its heavy focus on sampling, dare I say it, it's almost like a musical version of a Cryogenic essay 
Those who've wrestled with the Sequel Trilogy - a microcosm of neo-liberal capitalism - from rejection to flirtation to questioning their sanity to shameful capitulation, will find much to love. It's all about deconstruction, except it actually works.
But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. The consumer had won the battle over himself. He loved Disney Star Wars.
but like synthwave, being a 21st century convention of retro-hipster stuff, I tend to bypass such altogether The cheek of you to compare it to synthwave! Vapourware is intellectual. There's a philosophy there, somewhere, if you know where to look. |
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Post by ArchdukeOfNaboo on May 6, 2022 23:02:23 GMT
Pure, unadulterated, unfiltered, unapologetic, VAPOR
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Post by Ingram on May 13, 2022 11:36:05 GMT
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Post by Subtext Mining on Jun 10, 2022 22:31:21 GMT
The only shopping-related music I listen to is from the Ren & Stimpy soundtrack.
Along with their large assortment of strange musical curiosities, like this which Ingram's last post reminded me of.
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Post by Ingram on Jun 10, 2022 23:04:27 GMT
Paging Robert Farnon...
1950s' Light Orchestra is in its own universe and, yes, no other decade more potently fused sublime normality with the hidden otherworldly.
Do you have any rubber walrus-protectors?
Caall the poh-leees!
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Post by Subtext Mining on Jun 11, 2022 21:06:32 GMT
This has been my jam lately.
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