I played guitar when I was younger. I know that what jazz musos do is really impressive. I know that all “real” musos admire what jazz musos do, and most of them at least dabble in playing it. But I just cannot stand to listen to it.
I was at my sister-in-law’s house a few years ago for dinner and she had jazz on as background music. I had to apologize profusely and ask her to put something else on because of the way it made me feel.
Novelty Bobble is the first person I have ever heard who shares my reaction. It really does make me feel physically bad.
There are lots of styles of music I don’t really like, but jazz is the only one which causes a physical reaction.
Oh, another one. Comic books and superheroes. Another thing all stereotypical geeks are into. Yeah, I read em as a kid, kind of, but wasn’t any more into them than I should be. Haven’t really paid any attention to any comic book anywhere since I was 15. IDGI.
And woodstockbirdybird, it’s not a laugh track, it’s called a live studio audience. I dare you to find a cite to shatter my illusion.
And, you read my orders, march. And take kushiel with you.
***GLEE. ***I’m a gay man who sings in a gay chorus. I’ve watched two episodes of Glee, and am not interested in watching more. I even Tivo’d a few more, but never watched them.
I dislike Star Trek and Voyager, and am indifferent to The Next Generation and Enterprise, but still consider myself a Trekkie. I love Deep Space Nine.
Me too! It’s like I can’t find the music. When I hear a jazz song I do like, my purist friends are quick to remind me that it’s not real jazz. King Pleasure’s version of Moody’s Mood for Love and Spyro Gyra, for example. I think what makes jazz great is what I dislike about it most.
Coen brothers movies
Kevin Smith movies
Quentin Tarantino movies Firefly - yet I love Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. To me it’s a juvenile series aimed at 13-year-old boys. Office Space The Princess Bride - I don’t hate it, but I don’t much like it.
Kim chee, the food - I’m working on liking it, but I don’t like it yet
I love Murakami so much. I finished Wind Up Bird Chronicles about a month ago, and now I’m reading Norwegian Wood. No depth? What about all those wells? : /
For me it’s playing Scrabble. I’m a diehard word person and love playing word games, but Scrabble bores me to tears.
I’m also not a jazz fan, but people expect me to be and act disappointed when I’m not. Men, I mean. Most women I know don’t give a flip about jazz.
Another one: Beer. And wine. And, well, any alcoholic drink, really. I just don’t care for booze.
And I’m a middle-aged Southern football fan, and an NPR-listening left-leaning sushi eater - so demographically, I’m supposed to live on beer and wine. But I’d rather drink sweet tea.
Born in California. Without any tastebuds that respond to avocados, or guacamole. Those don’t taste bad, don’t taste like anything - but that greenish paste does look a little dodgy… you can have mine. But I’m going to feel really bad when the other dudes find out and force me to move out of the state…
I worked at a company that licenses many well-known Japanese anime as well as the Star Wars franchise, and I hate 'em both. They used to DRAG me to see Star Wars movies so that I’d be able to keep up in meetings. I once tossed an unopened action figure signed by one of the SW actors, and when I mentioned it to friends they cried and cursed my stupidity.
I am a huge aficianado of Asian film. I own over 400 Asian movies on DVD and have seen hundreds more.
But I don’t like anime at all. Oh, there are a couple of films I really like (**Spirited Away **is a masterpiece) but I just don’t get the cartoons. People will say "Oh, you must love **Cowboy Bebop **or Dragonball Z or whatever and I’m like, uh, that would be NOT.
Ryan Adams. On paper, he should be my favorite musician of all time. Actually, I enjoy his songs when they pop up on Pandora or last.fm, but when I listen to his albums, I’m just left cold. Solo stuff or Whiskeytown. I just don’t understand why I’m not a rabid fan when he literally fits in perfectly with my musical tastes (Wilco, the National, M. Ward, My Morning Jacket, etc).
I totally love this for some reason, especially after the thread title of your review of Burlesque…
Jazz - for those of you say “I don’t like jazz” - totally cool. I will argue, though, that many, many potential jazz likers miss a great chance simply because getting started listening to jazz is SO FREAKING DIFFERENT than listening to pop, rock, country, classical and many other popular genres. Without some basic grounding, jazz can start off sounding like gibberish, and then your ear can ONLY hear gibberish when you are exposed to it again. It breaks my heart…