RobbertJan

past week:

The Great Gatsby

Portrait of the artist as a young man

The Crossing

Bob Dylan: Chronicles volume one

nice:P!^

i went to 24 in soho last nite with a mate, got a table n all so that was good. but waaay to posh, m never doin that again, fucking 8 quid for a beer n general shit atmosphere n ppl

what are best clubs for dnb n techno?

and fuck seven sisters!! last 2 weeks:

someone got mugged, someone got stabbed, someone got shot, n yesterday some dude got assaulted n killed outside my front door....

im goin to oakenfold next saturday, forgot where, only a tenner!

well it was fucking hilarious and drinks were cheaper then usuall so every1 was fucked up so that might ve added to the fun, my roommate tried to lose a cab driver who he owd 20 pounds to, by climbing the fence of station court, the cab driver was 6''8 hahaha it was the funniest shit...

im off to koko in a bit, anyone going?

and anyone go to pendulum @ on and on last night? i wanted to go but had uni @ 8 and had been goin out all week...

ok sounds well nice man! i'll check it out soon!

course started!

read pride&prejudice (horrible)

reading: romeo&julliet

jesus son- denis johnson

slouching towards bethlehem- joan didion

great expectations-dickens

white teeth-zadie smith

and for myself reading: allen ginsberg: howl and selected poems

dida was roommate of rivaldo during wc2002 that's why

dont know so gimme directions please;) what music?

yeah considering all london threads suck, i thought we'd copy herpsky's tokyo thread since that's full of great info and a great discussion in general!

so let's start with the clubbing, i've been living here for a month now:

went to koko's every friday, it's a great club if u're into indie, though everyone's gonna say it was soooo much better when it had the other name (forgot which one)

theme parties @ zoobar leicester square, like the pirate one last week, are fucking great

madam jojo, fucking sucked, some rip off horrors bands, the street in which it's located is like amsterdam though, sexcinemas ftw

metro on leiceister square, good club, kinda crappy music

some of my friends went to tigertiger on piccadilly and to fabric, but those are bit more expensive and i'm still a poor job-less student

i live in station court, south tottenham, seven sisters, which yeah sucks, but loads of nice ppl here so that makes up for it and good bus connections to central london!

anyway, discuss, add, recommend etc.

ebay is your friend

can we please stop whinin about ronaldinho's form when he scores 24 fucking goals in the league?

hahaha ronni to chelski where the fuck did u get that?

^i started with crime&punishment as well, i think it's not a bad place to start with dostoyevsky because is has all the elements that make him such a brilliant writer. i read notes after that and i think i understood notes better because i'd already read c&p.i have the double at home, haven't gotten started with it yet though. the road is great btw!! i love the way he describes the apocalyptic world although it's a bit more positive about humanity then his other novels, because the focus lies with the good man and boy.

you'll finish on the road in no time, so you can take a break from walden and go back to it after!

i really, really want to see no country for old men at the toronto international film festival.

same here:cool: you read the book?

finally finished underworld, the last 300 approx. pages are mesmerizing, with a blinding epiloque, brilliant stuff, very powerfull. i mean, disfigured fetuses in heinz pickle jars...sick stuff as well!

bought cormac mccarthy's the road and william faulkner's the sound and the fury yesterday so will be reading those this weekend.

and I'm starting on an english literature and creative writing course in London on tuesday, can't wait:)

Almost finished on the road, but went back to Underworld. Read a lot in a couple hours, my faith in the book completely restored. I love love love it now. I found that it's easier to just start reading and sort of let yourself get swept up with the pace of the narrative. It's a great experience, once you start thinking oh who's that exactly again you get lost, but if you just get on with it, it has some of the best passages that i've ever read.

re-reading on the road for the 4th time because i cannot really get through underworld atm. it has a lot of beautiful passages but there's to many times where you kind of lose it in the huge amount of people that play a small role in it as well as you mix up the different time periods easily which is confusing...

bought No Country For Old Men by McCarthy, almost finished it in a couple of hours, real pageturner

interesting stuff viv! i think i'm gonna pick neuromancer up soon. But first gotta finish Underworld, which i've been reading for a month or so, on and off and in between books cause I find it hard to read over 200 pages a day of it, but everytime I take a break and get back at it i love it. the jazz style of the proze is beautiful and i love all those stories that are loosely connected in some way, it's a great study of the last fifty years of US.

Blood Meridian is my favorite book now. It's haunting in the way it portrays this bleak apocalyptic world. All those people murdered for no reason at all, a couple of dead babies dangling from tree branches, sick stuff. I like how no party is portrayed as the '' good'' guys. All parties murder, rob and destroy stuff. McCarthy's proze is difficult to get into, bit like reading the Old Testament, but once you get into it, it's really beautiful in the way in captures the zeitgeist and the empty desolation of the desert. I'm almost done with it, 50 more pages, gonna finish it now, then Underwold and then I'm starting on the Border trilogy.

I liked Glamorama very much as well. Though I was a bit lost sometimes in the surreal second part of the book, but it's certainly approaching the greatness of American Psycho.

put nietsche on hold for a couple days and am reading atm:

Blood Meridian-Cormac Mccarthy and bought border trilogy as well. Really like these novels.

and on a side note, anyone watch the trailer for new Coen's adaption of No Country For Old Men? looks very interesting!

Torday- Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

just finished that, really witty and a nice satire of Blair era politics (especially Alastair Campbell) mixed with a nice and simple message about faith.

have read past weeks:

Delillo-Underworld (not completely finished yet)

Kafka-Metamorphosis

Dostoyevsky-Notes from Underground

Easton Ellis- Glamorama

Harry Potter and Deadly Hallows

and various short stories (Frank Sinatra has a cold; The Kentucky derby is decadent and depraved; Snow of the Kilimanjaro; and some more)

Now starting with Nietsche's Thus spoke Zarathustra and finishing Underworld

i fucking hate pickeys