I don't like Ani DiFranco or Bjork.

[complain jane]

There, I said it.

[Madrone]

1. I LOVE Ani...

...live. Her studio stuff, not as much. As for Bjork... I'm with ya.

[Orrex]

2. For this, I will never again let you borrow my lawn mower

[tigereye]

3. well, who do you like?

Ani grew on me over the years - I used to find her guitar style kind of tedious and repetitive but she's not a bad lyricist. Bjork is on a whole different creative planet. Hell, she's married to Matthew Barney, for god's sake - that's even more out there.

[Orrex]

5. Mathew Barney is the biggest blot against Bjork

Anyone see his bullshit "Cremaster Cycle?" Horrible.

[tigereye]

7. have only seen parts of it - but he's a very challenging artist

I can't say I like what he does, but he's better than Jeff Koons - not that that's saying much. :D

[Orrex]

8. I happened to be in New York when the Guggenheim featured him

He worked a lot in yellowish, faux-biological resins and was very interested in imagery pertaining to sexual stereotypes.

However, that brief synopsis makes the final product sound a lot more interesting than it really was.


But if he makes Bjork happy, I guess I can't complain!

[tigereye]

9. he loves resins, waxy stuff, and vaseline

There's a complex sub-text there. :D

[Orrex]

12. He's not very subtle in his imagery, that's for sure

At one point, a video-format section of the exhibit featured a woman made up to look like a cat, cavorting near a man who wielded a hammer. Not sure what Barney might have been driving at, there...

[tigereye]

17. I think a lot of his images are pretty dream-like and probably not that

rational, from the little I have seen and read.

[Orrex]

21. For me, the problem was that the dream-imagery just wasn't interesting

It's been a few years since I saw it, but IIRC his psycho-sexual imagery was drably pedestrian.

However, I admit that part of my annoyance stems from the fact that his exhibit took up just about the whole museum, so that anyone who didn't like what he had to offer on the first floor would be totally sick of it by the time they reached the top level!

[Fire Walk With Me]

19. Calling me out?

x(

[Orrex]

20. Um. What?

:shrug:

[Fire Walk With Me]

23. I'm a huge Cremaster Cycle fan, and have posted the trailer here.

I don't care for his sculpture, however.

[Orrex]

24. Oh. Oops.

Then I guess I was calling you out, though it wasn't intentional!

[Fire Walk With Me]

25. Oh no you don't.

I'm all called out 'n shit, and yer not gittin' away with it that easy! Ah'll turn the hose on yuh! Get off'n mah propertay!

[mvd]

4. I'm also not a fan of either one

For what it's worth. I like a lot of female artists, too.

Ani does indeed have some good lyrics, though - "Self-Evident" nailed it.

[MrScorpio]

6. Glad to see that you're owning up to your nom du guerre

However, I love them both

There, my Yin to your Yang

[Ikonoklast]

10. I'm with you on this one.

I don't like Armour Franks or Pork, either.

[ghostsofgiants]

11. I enjoy both.

[Bennyboy]

13. I love Ani, she has something to say....(just saw her and she was fantastic)

[mix]

14. I love Björk.

The Sugarcubes, her solo work, and her acting.

[KittyWampus]

15. Bjork is a genius and I adore her.

[LostInAnomie]

16. A-fucking-men.

Bjork is just fucking awful, and I never really understood the popularity of Ani DiFranco.

[bigwillq]

18. Me neither

but I don't mind that people like them. I can just choose not to listen to them.

[Kali]

22. I can take small doses of Ani DiFranco but don't care for anything I have heard so far from Bjork

but neither irritates me as much as polufuckingphonic spray