Lists Top 5 Lists Best Lists Favourite Lists Lists Lists ....
The Jesus Lizard
25-11-2005, 15:28
In light of some crappy threads recently ...
Lists are the inane cataloguing of a pointless dead eyed society attempting to validate itself before slowly grinding to an artistic and cultural halt.
Discuss.
In top five form if you wish. :p
In light of some crappy threads recently ...
Lists are the inane cataloguing of a pointless dead eyed society attempting to validate itself before slowly grinding to an artistic and cultural halt.
Discuss.
In top five form if you wish. :p
I have no argument with that. These alleged documentaries where they just have a bunch of former NME journalists and B list celebrities sitting around discussing some ridiculous list or other are pretty grim, really.
Heron-Marked Warriors
25-11-2005, 15:32
In light of some crappy threads recently ...
Lists are the inane cataloguing of a pointless dead eyed society attempting to validate itself before slowly grinding to an artistic and cultural halt.
Discuss.
In top five form if you wish. :p
Shopping lists, on the other hand, are very useful
Monkeypimp
25-11-2005, 15:33
Every issue of Salient magazine (www.salient.org.nz) (victoria university student mag) has loads of top 5s, most of which are inside jokes about being at vic uni so are probably useless for the purposes of this thread.
Gruenberg
25-11-2005, 15:35
1. Smells Like Teen Spirit
2. London Calling
3. Help!
4. God Save The Queen
5... oh, sorry.
I think lists are good ways of comparing quantifiable data. I'm afraid, though, that a lot of the sort of list polls that you seem to be referring to aren't quantitative, but rather qualitative. Furthermore, I think bickering over which is 'better' implies a one-dimensionality of art, culture, personality, whatever, whereas in fact there are many, many criteria to be taken in. So I agree, in essence.
allow me to nominate this thread?