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>>8521268
My diary desu

William Gass.

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>>8521268
You can't buy good taste, unless I tell you you can, but only from me, square.

Dang it. I fucked up and missed an entire row. What do I win?
Fuck you. India has a caste system. Here, talented people lead fools around by the nose, rape rich people, and laugh behind their backs. Truth.
And we fuck better in shacks than you do in ivory towers, husks.

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>>8521328
OOPS! FORGOT MY NEW PIC!
Give me a bunch of thumbs up and I'll turn it into a graphic novel for you heating and cooling company, and then fuck your wife, because she likes adventures

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>>8521268
Interesting that this chart links "High-Brow" literature directly to expensive lifestyles... almost as if there were some sort of class thing going on...

>no middle-middle brow

>bridge
>lower middle brow

what?

Why an ashtray from a chemical company?

>Bach and before. Ives and after.

Yes, just disregard an entire two centuries worth art music. So fucking patrician.

Anyone who consciously does this deserves to be necked

>>8521411
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_pR1sHHeQU&feature=youtu.be&t=236

> if that is what classical music was I would do something else in my life

>Jacks and mixer higher class than beer

lmao

>>8521268
The highest brow is reading the hailed classics but having high enough status as a person that this comes off as a definite verdict that they really are the best works rather than you just falling for the memes.

>>8521428
found the beer drinking numale

>>8521268
>westerns
>lowbrow

whoever made this is a confirmed faggot.

>>8521450
Westerns were largely complete garbage fifty, forty years ago. Today we remember The Dollars Trilogy and Wild Bunch but not all the crappy mass-produced novels, movies and comics.

>>8521350
What is he reading though?

>>8521268
Nigger where did this come from?

>>8521268
>vogue, harper
>upper middle brow
wew lad. Also any westerner who tends to play go is an obnoxious douchebag without any exceptions.

>>8521818
sturgeon's law applies but you don't know shit if you think there weren't a ton of good western films back then

>>8521450
That chart is from 1949. Western wasn't considered as a serious movie genre until 60's. Besides many of the low brow stuff depicted here is being used by high brow hipsters just for the sake of looking retro.

>>8521884
It'll be like in 50 years time with Superhero movies. You'll have some guy who's only seen Super and BvS saying the genre was great.

>>8521883
>Also any westerner who tends to play go is an obnoxious douchebag
Ressentiment. Get back to the craps table at the lodge.

>>8521889
>Western wasn't considered as a serious movie genre until 60's.
Is this a troll? Many of the best Westerns were pre 49. Howard Hawks did his best cowboy shit then. 60s had a dearth of campy shit.

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>>8521895
Please I don't want to see your katana collection Bruce sempai.

>>8521342
>not wearing a fuzzy harris tweed suits with no hat at all times in india

pleb

>>8521818
So, basically, Westerns were the superhero films of their day. Interesting to speculate that in 50 years we might remember Spider-Man 1 as the equivalent to the Searchers, the Dollars Trilogy as the equivalent to Nolan's Batman films, and so on

>>8521922
Not really, not unless some Italian makes a gritty Batman movie without any cheesecakes and sweet hollywood funding.

>>8521818
Way to ignore John Ford who is worth more to the development of cinema than all your favorite new wave directors combined.

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>>8521928

>>8521268
me on the top

>>8522221
Wow, an ancient meme.

Why is theater lower than ballet? Sure, theater's got its fair share of crowd pleases, but ballet pre (and still to a large extent post) Stravinsky was bourgeois escapism for the old and adolescenct women of Paris.

>>8522279
It's not bolshoi ballet, it's some modern existentialist type of ballet.

>>8521818
>Today we remember The Dollars Trilogy and Wild Bunch
No, today we remember actually good westerns like The Searchers, Stagecoach and Rio Bravo

>>8521268
Henry James deserves a mention in this thread. Especially the Ambassadors period. More exhausting than later Joyce.

>>8521838
looks like all quiet on the western front

>>8521415
Steve Reich is unbeliavable. Listen to Music for Eighteen Musicians and tell me you're not transfixed.

Whats high- and low-brow?
Sorry, english isn't my mother language.

>>8521914
Except Go is a lot of fun. Would you call an asian that plays Chess a fedoratipper?

>>8522416
I have a lot of respect for C McCarthy but how does he not see James or Proust as good? what gives

>>8521268
This chart would be fine except for the obvious flaw that it implies highbrow is necessarily better than lowbrow. The finest example of why that's wrong is right in the chart: Lowbrow sofa looks comfy as all fuck, highbrow chair looks like a medieval torture device.

>>8522905
Massive lowbrow detected

>>8521268
brb buying fuzzy harris tweed suit

>>8521268
if Harper's is middle-highbrow, what magazine would be highbrow?

>>8521902
Did you mean dearth?

>>8522905
pleb

>>8522803
envy he cant hold a candle to them. he's painfully aware of the fact that he will be forgotten in 50 years while james and proust will continue to be read and studied and canonized

>>8521350
M-Marx?

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>>8522963

One of those literary magazines that the CIA funded to troll leftists.

>>8522783
Not him but there's really something off with white men trying to adapt themselves in eastern games and customs. No one would blame an asian who plays a guitar, but trying to imagine some american dude playing koto kinda ticks me off.

>>8521268
>go
>not chess

>>8522307

>modern existentialist type of ballet.

That sounds so unbelievably gay and insufferable.

Is it real?

>>8522969
Good call, no.

>>8523441
Unfortunately yes. You can imagine it as the 200x slowed version of Mettaton Ex fight in Undertale.

>>8523441
It's pretty good bruce. If you want Bolshoi style go for an Opera, that's still quite common.

>>8523483
Why talk about shit you don't know about bruv?

>>8523406
>Playing probably the second most popular classic board game worldwide makes you an insufferable orientalist.

Kill yourself

>it's a /mu/ thread
yikes

>>8523492
Fuck off nigger. I will never ever be in one of those modern performance shit again.

>>8523498
>orientalist
Is this how they call weeaboos in here?

>>8521415
And Reich is the type of artist who is above average but isn't an intellectual or can criticize for shit.

>>8522469
That's way too big to be All Quiet.

>>8523406
So you're just racist?

>>8521268
>avant garde literature
>ballet over theater
>Bach and before, Ives and after
High-brow has got a lot of pretentious shit thrown in there. Is this a troll chart or was it published in the New Yorker a few decades ago?

>>8523698
Actual chart from April 11th, 1949 issue of LIFE

>>8521268
is that chart from 1970s?

>>8523523
I don't see Go as particularly Japanese

>>8521268
tfw I just lost the upper-middle game.

>>8521922
The difference is that superhero films are reliant on expensive licensing of existing characters and lots of special effects, so
1. Only big studios have a chance at them
2. Studios need guaranteed returns, so they focus on wide mass appeal over depth

Its a shame no studios are willing to take the risk of making new superheros that originate in films. Can't think of a single non-comedic one besides Darkman.

>>8523748
That's literally the japanese name for weiqi.

>>8521268

low brow: thinking strictly in terms of binaries (e.g. high-brow/low-brow)

high brow: realizing that reality defies such oversimplifications

> It takes an excellent taste in highbrow to have an excellent taste in lowbrow

> zing

>>8521268
Holy shit this chart is retarded

>>8521268
This pic gave me some sad nostalgia for the lowbrow man. he sounds fun to be around. I don't know anyone who's like that anymore. Too much "highbrow" in the world. we're outta balance

>>8523644
I really need to know what he is reading, update?

>>8521268
Who would even want to be high brow by those standards?

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>>8524969

Reminds me of my grandpa except for the beer and craps. He's a fun guy, very positive and curious. He never graduated high school and it makes me guilty for being so hard on plebs. He's a peasant, literally, and he gets upset if he knows the crop is going to be bad even though he hasn't had crops of his own to take care of since youth.

It's fun to drive around with him and listen to him comment on random farms, "Why they're growing so much rapeseed all of a sudden I just don't know, son." He knows a lot about farms.

My grandma is well educated and will scold him if he tells stories that are not likely to be true or even scientifically plausible, but he'll just grin and wink. He's also aware that some racial slurs are no longer appropriate but will occasionally say them because he knows my brother and I find it hilarious.

>>8521268
FREEMASONS BTFO'd

>>8525027
The world is left wanting for more people like him! Almost every peasant is a good man... almost every aristocrat is a bad one. I would rather live in a world of good, ignorant men than in a world of overeducated perverts, morbids, or parricides.

>>8524280
Now you literally admit that you're lowbrow

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>>8524981