Topic Lords

117. Your Self-Inflicted Artistic Purgatory

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Lords:

  • Brad
    • @bradspendlove on Twitter
    • Check out https://twitter.com/so_writing, especially episode 6
    • Quil

      • Topics:

      • What superpowers like shrinking and invisibility suggest about how we conceptualize reality
      • Is there a point where you can call the silly things you make "art" and not feel like an absolute tool about it? Not a debate about what is vs is not art. But I feel weird if I make a bunch of bad music and call it "my art"
      • Stinky meat and stinky feet
        • http://www.stinkymeat.net/
        • https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hamilton-if-it-was-sung-entirely-by-adam-sandler/id1382504305
        • Hope is a Thing with Feathers, by Emily Dickinson
          • https://poets.org/poem/hope-thing-feathers-254
          • Visual novels are neat, but I'm never sure whether they belong in my video game queue or book queue and therefore I rarely play them because I always think I could be playing a "real" video game or reading a "real" book
          • Cortical homunculus
            • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_homunculus
            • https://www.etsy.com/listing/509252848/angry-little-friend-taxidermy-monster
            • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus_loxodontus

              • Microtopics:

              • Accidentally agreeing to be on the show.
              • Doing nothing in Chicago.
              • Computer creativity.
              • Making an argument that a computer program is creative.
              • "Honey I Shrunk The Kids" as a philosophical text.
              • Using a set of mirrors to give yourself 360 degree vision.
              • Imagining additional colors.
              • Assuming the listener knows what cellular automata is.
              • A platonic dude in the way you would conceive of a dude.
              • Trying to find a game that uses cellular automata but it's occluded by search results for Conway's Life and Nier Automata.
              • The top four Live 'em Ups.
              • A game that left the world when Flash stopped being a thing.
              • Putting tremendous creative effort into a project but not being willing to call it your art because that would be pretentious.
              • Calling your bad music your "works" because they make ye listeners despair.
              • How you conceptualize the things that you make.
              • Attaching a label to the semiotic representation of a thing and thereby changing the nature of the thing.
              • Making a song in the amount of time the song takes to elapse.
              • Having done NaNoWriMo once and then being able to tell people you're working on your second novel.
              • Wanting to have the identity of being a creator.
              • Something that is cool to be and do.
              • How to make art that feels meaningful when you are surrounded by art that is way better than yours.
              • Ancient handwriting samples.
              • Doing psychic damage by singing the wrong words to a song.
              • Leaving a plate of meat in your neighbor's yard.
              • Deciding it's time to stop your science experiment and go to a doctor.
              • A storied history of people screwing up their bodies for the sake of internet points.
              • The melding of art and science.
              • Piss Christ and other works that are intended to annoy.
              • Trying to elicit a strong emotion but not caring too much which emotion it is.
              • What it takes to know Bennett Foddy.
              • The idea that heavy metal bands were trying to get listeners to kill themselves.
              • The euphemism treadmill and the inverted euphemism treadmill.
              • How come there are still kids if kids keep growing up??
              • Slurs in various stages of reclamation.
              • How there are stupid people out there and they're not bad people, they're just stupid.
              • Jabroni origins.
              • Replacing all your pejoratives with "ridiculous."
              • Mario running up the infinite euphemism treadmill saying successively more watered down swears.
              • The purpose of comparing an emotion to a bird.
              • What is a poem? A pile of lines about a bird.
              • Conceiving of hope as a bird sitting outside your window and waking you up way too early.
              • Enclosing poems in letters to your friends.
              • Making art for a person and sharing it just with that person.
              • Reading "Hope is the Thing with Feathers" in the Sick Sad World announcer voice.
              • Reading poems in a sarcastic voice and analyzing how it makes you feel.
              • Reading Emily Dickinson poetry in the voice of somebody begging for their life.
              • Whether Poe's Law is the sarcasm thing.
              • Whether Machiavelli was doing a bit.
              • A performance of the entirety of Hamilton in the Adam Sandler voice.
              • Getting famous for singing "All Star" and having to sing it for the rest of your life.
              • The realm between video games and books.
              • How the phone would be the perfect venue for a visual novel if it weren't for all the phone games.
              • Approaches to consuming media.
              • Watching half a movie and then falling asleep and eventually realizing that now there are at least five movies you've watched half of.
              • A library book from 2019 that you still haven't returned.
              • Mapping the size of your body parts to how much space they take up in your brain.
              • A Cortical Homunculus Funko Pop.
              • Shrimp Obama Magnet.
              • T-shirts about adrenal cancer.
              • Angry Little Friend Taxidermy Monster Sculpture Oddity.
              • Too good an idea to just let be a joke.
              • Symbolizing the emotions of people who wait at the dentist's office.
              • Max Rebo, the popular jizz-wailer.
              • Seeing the two tabs but not knowing the difference between them.

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