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kind of a basic take but it feels like the mid 20th century (60s onward) brought this explosion of sincere songs about really sad slices of life
simon and garfunkels "the dangling conversation" is just a three minute overview of a tragically broken marriage where the couple just reads books and has perfunctory conversations and it seems too real to have existed in the fifties
and i think the reason this happened is obvious but uhhh i guess where I'm going with this is that it's interesting how that became so mainstream that it became unnoticeable?
examples uhhh
ben folds' "cigarette" is a song I've listened to a hundred times, didn't realize it's about a man tired of taking care of his dying wife. apparently based on an even more tragic true story
"sunny came home" by shawn colvin is about a woman burning her house down on purpose in what's clearly an altered state
they just play that one on the radio like nbd. it has pleasant chords
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i think the thing that infuriates me the most is this last part. they are consuming material resources to create scam chaff. little electronic devices never meant to work for longer than it takes to get their money and run
go to goodwill. look at the vast piles of forgotten little plastic boxes. ask yourself how many of them kept the subterfuge going more than a few days
millions of little plastic boxes that got a few sad, unsatisfying uses before they were cast aside, "too cheap to return." the advent of the $1 plastic thing was the dawn of a billion companies making billions of $1 plastic things
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google is going to buy up silent hill and have two amazing games released solely on Google Ouya and when they shut it down we'll lose them forever but at least we can be reassured that we'll learn nothing from the process and do it all again next year
"we" learn nothing from the process because there is no "we". megacorps have the money to produce 50,000,000 of a thing and all the infrastructure without asking a single person if they want it
so they will make it, and it will be in stores, and then you and everyone else will say "oh well i mean it makes no difference now, it's not like it'll be undone if i don't buy it" and you're right
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CW: fucking disturbing drawing

this is an illustration from a macworld game roundup circa january 1994

WHY WOULD YOU DRAW THIS?
WHY WOULD AN EDITOR PUT IT IN A MAGAZINE?
WHAT DOES IT >>>>> MEAN? <<<<<
WHAT WERE THE NINETIES?
i think constantly about this 90s aesthetic - deeply unsettling still lifes with unexplained emphasis on objects you don't understand the purpose of. memphis design played a role. shivers ii was full of this.
can you explain what's going on in the picture in my first post? what does it represent? why are the shadows so severe? why does the... creature... stand at such an uncomfortable angle? why are there red stormclouds in its eye?
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