denimdestroyedmylife

anyone reading Ta-Nehisi Coates' Black Panter?

i'm all caught up. it took a bunch of issues for him to set up the chess pieces but it is looking promising. i havent read a marvel title in ages.

On 11/23/2016 at 8:10 AM, danii said:

no matter how much you neg rep the original movie is lame as fxck.

i like the original film

i was reluctant to watch the series on HBO but they did right by the movie

there was a late 1970s porno spoof on West World called Sex World: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0127862/

i saw it and thought it was pretty cool too

the HBO series is like the marriage of the original film and sex world

read by the author

horace andy and johnny

^ i will check it out. i loved Shade The Changing Man

i am reading Moebius' Edena

pretty wild

i haven't listened to everything i want to yet but so far:

lambchop - FLOTUS

bowie - black star

nick cave- skeleton tree

babyfather - BBF

frankie cosmos - next thing

iggy pop - post pop depression

http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/11/16/you-are-still-crying-wolf/

 

i don't know how one can argue about trump's non-racism and omit his hiring of Steve Bannon, the poster boy of white nationalism, as Chief Executive of his campaign

or trump management inc's redlining of POC at his apartment buildings

i will agree that crying wolf is not good but this is not that

Denver Becomes First US City to Allow Marijuana in Bars

http://abc7.com/politics/denver-becomes-first-us-city-to-allow-marijuana-in-bars/1610242/

all these pussies cryin about trump victory

shut up already

this is a kind of political correctness, isn't it?

fall in line behind the president no matter what.

crying about trump's victory is a first amendment right.

shutting up about it, being scared to speak out, is more pussy-ish, don't you agree?

this was my favorite vine ever:

i'm on facebook

pm me her name and address history

i'll find her and pass along your message

every living thing that is big started small

encountered twin brothers with the same exact name

hi there. are you here for vacation?

i just read the first Planetes omnibus and will crack open the second soon

very good, obviously

you have a way with words, edmond

i already read neuromancer

i'd be down for book club if it was something i haven't read

i suggest the illuminatus! trilogy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy

i got this from the library one time but didn't get very far before i had to return it

give me an excuse to try again!

i just read The Loser by Thomas Bernhard

fantastic readabout Glenn Gould's friends/classmates who were crushed by his piano virtuosity

the style is very much Notes From Underground, with a bit of Kafka and Beckett thrown in

now i'm reading Italo Calvino's Collection of Sand

ekphrastic essays by I.C. - amazing to view art through his lens

a very thoughtful and meditative writer

also reading a translation of Don Quixote 

i've read fragments of it in english and spanish but it has been a while

enjoying it more than is reasonable, probably

i've been thinking of reactivating my calcified third eye chakra using crystals

anyone know anything about this stuff?

i'm considering the purchase of an indigo kyanite crystal to wear as a pendant

anyone have a vendor they like?

i currently wear a tiger's eye ring

have found a local source of mugwort (in the woods) to help with astral projection and lucid dreaming

i was walking my dog early this morning (5:30 AM) and i was startled by this super old lady covered in a cowl who was standing perfectly still next to the sidewalk. she said "hi baby" to the dog and i told the dog, lamely, "say hi." i was terribly spooked for the next block. in the moonlight, she looked like some kind of witch. 

i've so far decided not to do anything

he did not tell me directly, but admitted his heroin use to my coworker (an old friend of mine) when pressed

i recently read and enjoyed micheal de forge's big kids.

i wasn't expecting it to be so poignant but yes, it was. 

confessional and touching in an oblique but clear way.

highly recommended.

ito junji's cat diary was also very good. he infuses horror into everyday cat-ownership life. very good. recommended to fans of ito junji, horror manga fans, and/or cat owners/haters alike. 

i just finished the Miles Davis autobiography

it was really really good

not malcolm x autobiography life-changing good but maybe the equivalent for jazz heads

he is outspoken about race throughout the book and it is easy to imagine his continued outrage if he were alive today

i'm reading ametora: how japan saved american style now - anyone else reading it?

sufu gets a mention

interesting to revisit the LEVI'S lawsuit

seemed like the end of repro jeans at the time

also reading norwegian wood: chopping, stacking and drying wood the scandinavian way

kind of niche, i guess, but excellent

i am working with someone who is hooked on heroin

no one else knows and it is affecting a lot of people (and their paychecks)

trying to decide whether it is up to me to intervene or just let him throw his life away

he's a very pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps type and his pride comes into play here

but i was working this same job when i got a call about a close friend who OD-ed and died

i know how this ends - i mean, i do have friends who have made it to the other side (one severely incapacitated, but some no worse for wear) - but still... 

my boss would be understanding but if i told him, i'm sure my co-worker would feel betrayed by me

i have two conflicting values here, loyalty and this save-the-world impulse i have

very much do not know what to do here