The Spam Thread: Channel Your Need to Spam Here Only - Music Banter Music Banter

Go Back   Music Banter > Community Center > The Lounge
Register Blogging Today's Posts
Welcome to Music Banter Forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with over 70,000 other registered members. After you create your free account, you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 1,100,000 posts.

View Poll Results: x
1 0 0%
2 0 0%
Voters: 0. You may not vote on this poll

Reply
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Old 01-14-2017, 07:48 PM   #11021 (permalink)
kibbeh
 
kibbeh's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2016
Location: nowhere
Posts: 648
Default

***** is not a swear word lol wtf
kibbeh is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-14-2017, 09:34 PM   #11022 (permalink)
Caesar is home.
 
Thelonious Monkey's Avatar
 
Join Date: Sep 2014
Posts: 876
Default

I am so stressed and tired, and this bowl is the only good thing that's happened today.
Thelonious Monkey is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-14-2017, 11:31 PM   #11023 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
innerspaceboy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: The Organized Mind
Posts: 2,044
Default

Angry out-of-touch man rant:

One of the delightful caveats of owning a home built in the early 1920s is the complete lack of overhead lighting. Every room is exquisitely dark... just the way I like it. (Plus it's a lovely excuse to buy a ton of ornate antique brass swing arm floor lamps with marble bases and ornamental fringe shades.)

But it's a ***** to read in the dark, so I need a good bedside table reading lamp. My wife said, "let's pop into Target. Never hurts to look."

Words fail me here. The sight I beheld in Target's lighting aisle was one of indescribable despondence. Where I'd expected to see lamps I was instead stupified by a pile of garishly new, geometric, gaunt, angular, repulsive, plastic grotesque abortions of design aesthetic. (Okay, so perhaps words don't fail me entirely.)

Where was the porcelain? Where were the ornamental brass filigree bases? The hand-crafted silk scallop fringed shades? Am I to understand that these plastic horrors are what light the homes of the everyman?

I made a hasty exit and vowed never to return. Instead, I visited the owners of each of the city's antique dealers and put the word out to contact me should any quality lamps surface in the resale or estate markets in the coming months.

I also mentioned that I was in the market for an antique 1900s cast iron cooking stove and an 1830s style end table like this Jonathan Charles piece from their Buckingham Collection -



A table like this will be perfect for the Tantalus I've commissioned.

Lesson learned: Stay the hell out of Target.
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chula Vista View Post
You are quite simply one of the most unique individuals I've ever met in my 680+ months living on this orb.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Trollheart View Post
You are to all of us what Betelgeuse is to the sun in terms of musical diversity.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Exo_ View Post
You sir are a true character. I love it.
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Batlord View Post
You, sir, are a nerd's nerd.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Marie Monday View Post
Just chiming in to declare that your posts are a source of life and wholesomeness
The Innerspace Connection | Essential Recordings | Top Archives | Hot 100 Albums | Top 550 Artists
innerspaceboy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-15-2017, 04:06 AM   #11024 (permalink)
Zum Henker Defätist!!
 
The Batlord's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Beating GNR at DDR and keying Axl's new car
Posts: 48,199
Default

Idea: reality show where we send ISB to various icons of Western consumer culture (Walmart, McDonalds, a mall, etc) with a shopping list of completely arbitrary bull**** and see what happens.
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
The Batlord is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-15-2017, 09:38 AM   #11025 (permalink)
Fck Ths Thngs
 
DwnWthVwls's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2014
Location: NJ
Posts: 6,261
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by innerspaceboy View Post
geometric,
Really? Seriously, really?

You just have a fetish for old crap. I'm sorry you can't appreciate the beauty of modern design. Idk, if your blinded by your economic morality or what, but youre awfully close minded.
__________________
I don't got a god complex, you got a simple god...

Quote:
Originally Posted by elphenor View Post
I'd vote for Trump

Last edited by DwnWthVwls; 01-15-2017 at 12:09 PM.
DwnWthVwls is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-15-2017, 11:58 AM   #11026 (permalink)
Music Addict
 
innerspaceboy's Avatar
 
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: The Organized Mind
Posts: 2,044
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls View Post
Really? Seriously, really?

You just have a fetish for old crap. I'm sorry you can't appreciate the beauty of modern design. Idk, if your blinded by your economic morality or what, but your awfully close minded.
You're absolutely right, DWV. Yes - I am a fetishist for "old crap", particularly Victorian, Elizabethan, and Edwardian crap. The regal aesthetic and expert quality craftsmanship appeal to me.

And as such, it's understandable that I find half-a**ed geometric plastic goods rather frightful. Don't get me wrong - I absolutely love minimalism and simplicity when they are employed thoughtfully. There is a tremendous value to minimalist design in art, decor, music, and philosophy. Wonderful stuff. But crap like this -



...(these are all from Target's website), are frankly laughable. And yes - I'm closed-minded in that regard because it is silly for me to expect the general public to subscribe to my design aesthetic. I just find it perplexing that anyone would look at something like the "urchin lamp" above and say to themselves, "Yes! That is what I want in my home. That object reflects and accentuates my taste in art and general aesthetic values!"

Of course, that's where I get it wrong at the outset - the average person just wants a friggin lamp and doesn't pay the slightest attention to what it looks like. I just think that that is a terrible waste of potential beauty and expression.

But you're 100% right - I'm a bit daft.
__________________
Quote:
Originally Posted by Chula Vista View Post
You are quite simply one of the most unique individuals I've ever met in my 680+ months living on this orb.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Trollheart View Post
You are to all of us what Betelgeuse is to the sun in terms of musical diversity.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Exo_ View Post
You sir are a true character. I love it.
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Batlord View Post
You, sir, are a nerd's nerd.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Marie Monday View Post
Just chiming in to declare that your posts are a source of life and wholesomeness
The Innerspace Connection | Essential Recordings | Top Archives | Hot 100 Albums | Top 550 Artists
innerspaceboy is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-15-2017, 12:20 PM   #11027 (permalink)
OQB
 
Ol’ Qwerty Bastard's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2015
Location: Frownland
Posts: 8,831
Default

i'm no lamp connoisseur but i certainly agree those are hideous.
__________________
Music Blog / RYM / Last.fm / Qwertyy's Journal of Music Reviews and Other Assorted Ramblings

Quote:
Originally Posted by The Batlord View Post
I'm not even mad. Seriously I'm not. You're a good dude, and I think and hope you'll become something good
Ol’ Qwerty Bastard is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-15-2017, 12:21 PM   #11028 (permalink)
A.B.N.
 
djchameleon's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: NY baby
Posts: 11,451
Default

The 1st and 3rd in the second row are fine but I wouldn't touch any of the others.
__________________
Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.


Quote:
Originally Posted by RoxyRollah View Post
IMO I don't know jack-**** though so don't listen to me.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Franco Pepe Kalle View Post
The problem is that most police officers in America are psychopaths.
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Batlord View Post
You're a terrible dictionary.
djchameleon is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-15-2017, 12:52 PM   #11029 (permalink)
Account Disabled
 
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: The Black Country
Posts: 8,827
Default

"Rather frightful" lamps ffs
Cuthbert is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 01-15-2017, 01:10 PM   #11030 (permalink)
Fck Ths Thngs
 
DwnWthVwls's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2014
Location: NJ
Posts: 6,261
Default

The old crap comment was tongue in cheek. I also enjoy the aesthetics you find appealing, but some of the adjectives you used to support your ultimate conclusion of grotesque aesthetics is what got to me. Geometric, angular, and new to be exact.

You also have to understand that those designs would, in fact, fit the aesthetics of many modern homes, so it's not unreasonable for low/middle class consumers to feel "Yes! That is what I want in my home. That object reflects and accentuates my taste in art and general aesthetic values!" even if you can't appreciate or understand where they are coming from. I have no argument in regards to the quality of the products, but aesthetically I disagree. I like a couple of those designs.
__________________
I don't got a god complex, you got a simple god...

Quote:
Originally Posted by elphenor View Post
I'd vote for Trump
DwnWthVwls is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Similar Threads



© 2003-2024 Advameg, Inc.