art gallery anxiety - Bits and Banter [05⧸12⧸2026]

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0:00 sorry, i'm reading all of yeti's messages. no, we're in an argument in the discord over how necessary carrying around the 1.5 to 2 liter water bottle is at all times. it's the most controversial discussion in discord history. i didn't say i hate people who drink water. i just, i mean, my genesis for the conversation is not that drinking water is bad. drinking water is obviously good. just the people
0:23 who are obsessed with hydration have a certain sense of smugness about it.
0:29 that's where i'm at. i just find... i didn't say performative because you do get something out of it, but whenever people are like, i just feel so awesome when i drink water, i just... i don't know. i feel about the same and i've... but i mean, i guess i do drink a lot of water. they also... and i don't mean to make this like a nationalist thing because like canada and the u.s. are both suffering under the same schism here.
0:56 but they'll literally say something like, i'm not like you, i drink a gallon a day. and i'm like, i don't know what that means, buddy. what the fuck is it? i might drink a gallon of water a day. i have no idea. that's four quarts. wait one second. okay. a quart is 750 milliliters. will, it's not just you. it's not just you who said, i feel so much better.
1:16 but i do need to say that it's, i have to approach it from the perspective of, you know, i've been on this earth for like 37 years, so if you're like 22 and you grew up in like a gummo situation with spaghetti in the bathtub where like you weren't given water, then maybe you do feel bad and not realize it and then drinking like eight glasses of water a day brought you back to baseline and that's turned you into an evangelist.
1:43 and i had that realization in 2003 or whatever when i was 14 and i stopped drinking, you know, mccain orange juice from concentrate every single meal and then started to drink while i went to nest tea first because i heard tea was good for me. and then i went to water at that point.
2:02 so maybe they're just having the realization that everybody has at some point in their life, but they're having it 20 years after me because they're 20 years younger than me, which would be very human. it would be inhuman to be upset about that. nothing human is alien to me. nick, have you seen house? the japanese horror comedy from 1977?
2:25 hell of a movie. i don't think i've ever seen a movie like house before. no one, my girlfriend always gets on my ass for not watching it. it is like 83 minutes long, which is, i mean, i mean that in a very positive way. it's definitely keynote too. let me put it this way. you will not watch it and be like, hmm, i don't have strong opinions about that.
2:43 seen hocum? have you noticed this nick? do you get the same thing? where when you mention like a seminal film from like 50 years ago people are like that's nothing. have you seen a movie that's a three and a half out of five that came out last week? what are we talking about here? i'm not so i'm not nothing against hocum, but like this, you know, it's not really an apples to apples comparison. why do people get so mad at you when you rate a movie below two stars?
3:07 um, it's just because clock watchers has parker posey in it. a lot of the people who really like clock watchers have not seen it, but they know that they would like it because it has toni collette and parker posey in it, which is fine. i like parker posey too, the busy bee and so on and so forth. wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, i kind of like that. parker right in the posey! that could be... i'm picturing liv schreiber from the day trippers grabbing the mic. parker right in the posey!
3:34 went on a date last night with a girl who ran a very popular letterbox account. am i cooked? wait, wait, okay. so here's what's interesting to me from the way you phrased it, you've revealed and born naked a universal truth that i think you would have preferred to obfuscate with the benefit of hindsight. what do you mean she runs a very popular letterbox account? she's not a person with a letterbox account that is giving their honest opinion about movies.
3:58 she's a separated entity. she's a corporate officer that has possession within the incorporation documents of a letterboxed account that signals to the end user.
4:13 i was on instagram and a clip from balls up came up. 95% of the comments called it phenomenal and they watch every new mark wahlberg release. has the world always been like this? yes, but with an asterisk which is i haven't been here for the whole history of the world. but i will say, i do think, and i know you're holding your emotional support water bottles when i say this and you're waiting for me to bring it all back around. i do think that the younger generation,
4:40 generation zed as i like to call them. i do think that they're making more of an effort to get in the keynote. not as like, it's not the zeitgeist. i don't think the average 23 year old is like, you know, let's watch mishima, life in four parts. i think the average 23 year old in here is certainly getting a little bit more into that wave and i appreciate it because they're pushing me along too.
5:04 we like art. well, i think also you have the misfortune but also the benefit of growing up in what i would call like a cultural swamp. it's like when i was 10, it was like 1998 and it felt like studios were still taking some swings. but if you were like 10 in 2017, i
5:23 i mean, that's rough for you, man. that's a tricky situation. i can understand. and when everyone around you is watching jason momoa movies in the jake gyllenhaal remake of roadhouse, you're like, you know what? maybe i'll fucking watch some japanese shit from 1981 or whatever. i'm not going after ricky peacock. although i will say ricky peacock still has something to say.
5:45 to me about send help. it's still the only three and a half i've ever seen ricky give. a half star is like it's a shot across the bow from a whole star enjoyer. it just has extra attention paid to it as a result of how rare it is. like when gamestop or gamespot gives something a 10.
6:01 beckett's last tv play got 2 million views on german tv in 1983. yeah, well that's not that big of a deal because wednesday season 2 has been watched for over 1.7 billion minutes on netflix so far. and they cancelled it. i'm hearing reports... netflix has just released a press release calling wednesday the most popular show in media history. it's been watched for 117 trillion seconds
6:28 and has occupied the front of the netflix carousel for more time than any show in netflix history. breaking news! it's been cancelled!
6:38 i know when i was younger my biggest fear was to become bald like you but today at 25 i discovered there's something far worse. i found a bunch of gray hairs on my head. is it over for me? also i miss michael. there's something worse than being bald or gray. i think it's better for you if you remain ignorant to it because it might be being a 25 year old tomodachi life viewer. but anyway,
7:01 no, there's other things. that's true. guy who orders more than two sugars and two creams in each coffee. you guys ever wonder... so like our senses, we have five senses i'm hearing. except some of us have... we can see dead people.
7:13 but that allows us to take in information from the world around us. visual information, auditory information, sensory, you know, touch, etc., etc., smells. you ever wonder if we fall victim to the idea that because those are the boundaries of our senses, we don't know that we're missing out on a staggering amount of information that's available but just goes right by our persons because we don't have the proper receptors to pick up on them, man?
7:40 i wonder what type of shit, like if there was like an alien species here, if they would be like, damn, look at them just sitting in his office. he doesn't even know, like, i don't even know what i wouldn't know, man. i can't finish the bit.
7:54 how could i even know what i wouldn't know? because the bounds of my thought are correlated with the bounds of my senses, man. i'm always out here saying some shit like it would be really hard to be blind. and i think it would be really hard to be blind. but maybe i'm like 10x blind to an alien that can see like, you know, cosmic waves or some shit. or it has like some kind of weird nose that can tell me that there's going to be an earthquake in like 18 weeks or something like that, man.
8:22 who knows dude? who slipped him the weed brownies? it's giving uh it's giving the beatles must have been on drugs when they wrote this. also we're giving pot too much credit pot does not lead to these sort of like
8:34 existential thoughts. it usually leads to you being like, i had to do something but i forgot what it was. or you'll be like watching something, you'll be watching a three minute long video and then a minute into the video you'll be like, i haven't been paying attention for 10 minutes. what did i miss? after 60 seconds you're like, i have no idea what i'm watching. it's so funny that in rimworld they call it yayo man.
9:04 just imagine imagining the rimworld developer typing yayo into like vim or whatever you use. i just assume it was some fucked up ide like vim. this just seems like the type, right? public static void, under lowercase
9:21 why yayo used open bracket. the parameters are how much yayo, quality of the yayo, how long was the yayo kept at higher temperatures. you should make a game, man. nah, most of them are not that good. even the ones, like most games are not bad. most of them are just kind of like so much worse than the best games. there's sort of like no reason to play them. you really should only make a game if you're going to make one of the best games.
9:50 if you're just gonna like make a game and be like i made a game, it's good to make stuff. don't get me wrong. just don't try to trick me into playing it. this guy hates art? i love art, i'm just not a big fan of vampire survivors.
10:07 like if it's your dream to make a vampire survivors clone then follow that dream. if you just said hey this game is like i could probably make one of these in three months and then come out with it and maybe it'll make some money then like i mean i understand the impulse don't get me wrong but now you're popping into my email trying to gussy it up a little bit like an avon sales salesperson. yeah i almost said saleswoman there's probably men who sell avon too
10:32 did you see the motorcycle stuck on the stoplight pole in vancouver? nice try! that was in surrey delta. that is south of, almost an hour south of vancouver. that ain't in the city proper. did you guys see we're getting the fifth donbo? ooh! donbo number five! wait, i didn't even think about that. greater vancouver is vancouver. i will die on this hill. yeah, i know what hill it's gonna be. mount seymour, because you sound like you're from burnaby.
11:07 yeah, yeah. now, mount seymour is not in vancouver. it's in burnaby is the thing. guys, i have a math problem for you. i'm 37. if you
11:18 reverse the digits, that's 73. 73 is almost 2 times 37, but not exactly. it got me thinking, doing a little mental exercise, and i was like, is there any age where if you flip the digits, it's exactly 2x what the original digits were? i started to think about like what the mathematical rules of this would be. the second digit
11:44 would have to be at least twice as big as the first digit and the first digit would have to be the... and that's kind of where i got lost. that's kind of where i got lost on it. 11, 22, 30... no, no, vip daniel, that doesn't work because... no, not all multiples of 11. you guys are not listening. because if you take 22 and you flip the digits, that's 22. 22 is not half of 22. 22 is all of 22.
12:14 24? no man, because then if you flip the digits it becomes 42. and 24 times 2 is 48, man. does it have to be two digits? cool. okay, well wait, do you have one that's three? maybe three digits could make it work. i'd be amazed if you could make it work with one. i'm opening my formal prover for this shit. we need someone with mathematica pro, man.
12:35 25 is the only one that's close. okay, literally 37 is closer which is the genesis of this bit. you know what? i'd s you know, this is my fault. i brought it to the wrong audience. i thought you guys would be good at this because you all have master's degrees and you smoke a lot of weed but you are fucking horrible at this. i really thought you were you were gonna fix this for me.
12:54 i really, really thought that this was going to be like, you were going to solve it in two seconds and go, you're stupid for not coming up with this answer. i was so ready for it.
13:05 i only have a bachelor of fine arts. okay, a bachelor of fine arts is literally better than a master's in science just for the record. also, i have a question about art galleries, man. i'm not talking about like a, like, you know, the vancouver art gallery where you go to see like vincent van gogh's 400th most famous painting because we're pretty low down the totem pole. i mean like smaller, like more community oriented galleries that just have like local artists that do
13:34 exhibitions at them. can you just show up to that? is that what they're there for? are they there so that people just show up?
13:41 then go like hey this art is cool is the artist gonna be there? because i don't really want the artists to be there because then you could end up with like an oscar and pam type situation you know what? i mean? but i don't want to be talking to gil and say something like why it's hotel art and then all of a sudden somebody over there is having like the word they're having an existential crisis because they've dedicated their life to this or something like that and
14:06 also, if i go and i'm not saying that they would expect me to walk in and like save their lives or anything like that, but are they gonna expect me to purchase the art or are they just gonna expect me to look at it? like if i have a conversation with the artist and i go, that's really cool, are they gonna be in there in the back of the head? are they gonna be like, please buy this? or are they gonna be like, it's not for sale because it's priceless to me. it could be either. damn, i'm not sure i'm ready for this, man.
14:33 just buy it if you like it? well, i'm not gonna buy something the first time i go to the gallery because how do i even know if i like it? you know what i mean? i could buy something that looked pretty cool then all of a sudden i go to the next artist exhibition and i'm like, what? all this shit clears the last one. i think i gotta at least go to like maybe 20 exhibitions before i even buy one piece of art. because i'm like, how else would i even know man? you ever see art before? i've seen drawings. art and soul.
15:03 it's got a lot of heart and soul i don't know the rest of the words but it's got a pretty good bass line pretty good bass line, heart and soul
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