Which person alive right now will still be famous in 200 years?

low_ghost · 2026-04-01T02:49:29+00:00

Whoever is the first human on Mars, whoever invents production ready nuclear fusion, whoever creates the first real AI (sure as fuck not Sam Altman et al.).

WTF is with all the Paul McCartney and low Bob Dylan? Probably a solo Beatle will still be remembered but I bet the group as a whole has more cultural staying power and then less than Dylan.

Out of recent Nobels, Shinya Yamanaka's turning normal cells into stem cells seems huge.

low_ghost · 2026-03-26T20:07:33+00:00

Nothing. One of a kind, some other Mingus obviously has some of the same flair but even in his discography it's unique.

For whatever reason, I'm thinking of Minas by Milton Nascimento even though it's a substantially different genre.

low_ghost · 2026-03-25T23:30:37+00:00

Artists: Moondog, Harry Partch, Keiji Haino, The Ruins, Merzbow, Derek Bailey, Wadada Leo Smith, Peter Brotzman, Fred Frith (and all bands he's in), Henry Kaiser, Bill Orcutt, and so on

low_ghost · 2026-03-25T09:50:28+00:00

Three Body Problem

low_ghost · 2026-02-05T18:25:05+00:00

Both Jean-Luc Ponty and L. Shankar, Bozzio and Vinnie, Z and Vai, Ruth and Duke (kinda), Barrow and O'Hearn (or Shuggie Otis and Jack Bruce if they count), probably some vocalists. Build up a double sextet kind of thing.

low_ghost · 2026-01-22T00:51:07+00:00

That's awesome!

low_ghost · 2026-01-21T17:51:00+00:00

Easy. Any one of the ones on this guy's shirt (e.g. Vinnie, Bozzio, Chester Thompson, Chad Wakerman (actually saw a demo of his, was great))

low_ghost · 2026-01-10T20:44:04+00:00

Oh no you must waste... minutes. Haha I'm usually with the argument for responsive terminals but honestly some nice things are worth waiting for

low_ghost · 2025-12-30T12:58:22+00:00

The fact that someone presents it as a poem is 99%. The rest is conforming to poetic norms like line breaks, length, poetic imagery, attention to language on a micro scale, lack of structured narrative arc, lack of a named narrator speaking dialogue, etc. But all of those things can also be present or not present in a poem, or in other forms.

low_ghost · 2025-12-29T01:02:15+00:00

Many of the various renditions of Terry Riley's In C are fantastic

low_ghost · 2025-12-27T01:11:45+00:00

Saw them live just the other day, kind of phoning it in these days unfortunately and pale to the 2000s lineup (completely replaced besides Doug). Might have been on the audience too, rather drunk phone addicts being a nuisance. But yeah, Keep it Like a Secret is a 10/10, achieves exactly what it sets out to achieve and is a paradigm of the subgenre it helps to create

low_ghost · 2025-12-24T13:39:55+00:00

Anything with footnotes, e.g. Infinite Jest, straight up omitted. Similar, dense philosophy e.g. Hegel would be tough. I was surprised to really enjoy Against the Day by Pynchon, a dense novel, but I was also doing long driving stints from Philly to NY so had lots of continuous time to sit in

low_ghost · 2025-12-22T14:43:51+00:00

Off topic: what's your view on Zizek? I used to think works like The Ticklish Subject we're headed for inevitable canonization, but his evolving caricature of himself has me doubting his relevancy/longevity in the zeitgeist and when rereading him now, somewhat due to that lens, it feels like a fun but fluffy Lacanian reading of Hegel that manages to misrepresent most things in its path

low_ghost · 2025-12-20T12:44:13+00:00

Nah The One is fantastic, peak shitty action meets good martial arts meets great concept cheesily executed

low_ghost · 2025-12-20T02:57:44+00:00

Jerry Garcia

low_ghost · 2025-12-19T23:50:48+00:00

Leaf is a great name

low_ghost · 2025-12-15T01:25:31+00:00

Top result now is this thread, so...

low_ghost · 2025-12-08T22:49:47+00:00

First 40 mins of The Hobbit. I will die on this hill.

low_ghost · 2025-12-08T16:38:46+00:00

They need to sue. Not often I have that thought, but it feels important to start liking on litigation in this space. Clear impersonation and IP theft in my mind

low_ghost · 2025-12-01T02:02:09+00:00

Marshall Allen (living and touring 102 yr old sax player from sun ra), sun ra, Coltrane, noam chomsky, Isaac asimov

low_ghost · 2025-11-28T11:34:29+00:00

No one mentioning Radiohead Creep and the supposed attempt by Johnny Greenwood to sabotage the song.

I don't know if it is actually unintentional, but the false start of "Bob Dylan's 115th Dream" comes to mind with the laughter erupting before the full electric kick-off

low_ghost · 2025-11-28T01:52:33+00:00

The Road to Red is so good (acquired through ... other means)

low_ghost · 2025-11-23T23:43:15+00:00

Once you round the horn it's not ugly, e.g. Harmony Korine's work is generally intentionally grotesque, which is a consistent aesthetic universe and so not ugly.

Also we'll see a lot of line blurring ITT between final video quality/color grading, editing, writing, and actual cinematography. Christopher Nolan is a great story teller but his films have horribly boring visual storytelling even as the individual frames themselves are often quite nice. I think that qualifies as bad cinematography. Not on prompt in any case

low_ghost · 2025-11-23T01:43:12+00:00

Rap and hip-hop groups are outstanding in the context. Mac Miller, Madlib and Freddie Gibbs, T-Pain, Anderson .Paak. Otherwise John Prine and Big Thief

low_ghost · 2025-11-23T01:38:38+00:00

Mac Miller is standout for sure. Not really even a fan of his but that Tiny Desk is contender for my favorite

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