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  1. I'm wearing some old evisus ( 7 y.o, real deal no 2) right now that feel much like the levis I had 10 years ago.\

    I have swiss combat boots now.

    10 years ago it was $10 jungle boots.

    only difference is I have a tanktop on now and then I had a checkered lumberjack shirt.

    Nothing and everything has changed.

    Good thread.

    Made me think.

  2. I surfer.I no skate. Not a poze or rep of any sort, I just prefer water over wheels.

    So me no talk like skater.

    When I surf, I surf alone. I have a wetsuit that is 20 years old and a girl's board with pink fish on it that leaks water. I miss waves and sometimes stay for hours on end without standing up once.

    I don't hang out with all the cool dudes that have been showing up on rockaway beach in the last few years.

    I don't talk.

    I don't socialize.

    I'm not part of the "culture".

    Yes, i'm seeing kids with new boards that look way too new.

    But think about it.

    One day.

    One of those kids.

    Will stand on that board.

    And roll.

    And keep rolling.

    And never look back.

    And it will all be worth it.

    Don't hate.

    Give them a chance.

    Skateboarding is so much indefinetely cooler than hiphop.

    Wanna know why? cause there's no victimology in it.

    "They give us guns and wonder why we dangerous" shit.

    Hey, you bust your teeth out skating, it's your fault.

    Skating is much more ruthless as far as the real life application goes.

    A white wigger from the suburbs is not doing 10 upstate- chances are.

    But every kid that skates is gonna have to deal with some serious pain sooner or later.

    Welcome the kids, help them if you can. Let's avoid the whole "who real from the hood " shit. We don't have to represent anything.

    Or just wait for the magic of skating to work- it will :P

  3. Nice thread!

    Skulls and Anchors- two things to avoid this season.

    I don't think it's necessarily the internet that is to blame for globalisation of trends.

    MTV anyone? TV in general?

    We might think we are the uber elite, but main line designers are paying attention to magazines first, television second (or vice versa, depending on their target market),.

    The internet is more of a tool for trend forecasters/ edge fringe crowds.

    Point - crezy Japanese fashion fruits were a magazine phenom before they hit the internet (as magazine scans, may I remind you).

    And lo and behold, 8 years later, Finland and Russia have caught on...

    But their kids saw it in magazines and on tv, not the web.

    Oh, and the mall. Hooray hot topic.

  4. These two are friends of mine, and I sincerely recommend this show.

    It's this friday, tomorrow

    July 28 NYC

    Hiroki Otsuka and Lisa Alisa

    NEW YORK, NEW YORK

    Stay Gold Gallery

    ARTISTS:Hiroki Otsuka and Lisa Alisa

    Opening Reception July 28th 7-10PM

    July 28 – August 27, 2006

    DATE: Friday, July 28th

    TIME: 7-10PM

    LOCATION: 451 Grand St.

    Stay Gold Gallery

    http://staygoldgallery.com/act3.html

    lisa.jpg

    Collectors preview- 6pm

  5. MY granny got 50-year old vintage jeans and an ipod. guess shes hardcore.

    I think today the market is much more segmented= the internet be blessed.

    but In general we see a shift of consumer masses towards the ultra luxurious.

    As some stupid lowlife LV peddling 'ho wrote on Ebay- "To own Louis Vuitton is a preveledge" (that's how she spelled it).

    Do you remember the stories of Katrina victims using their red cross debit cards to buy LV shit?

    And the whole hip/rap bling/ trademark /logo thing, don't even get me started.

    So yes, lusting for luxury is the prevalent trend for the unwashed consumer masses.

    On the prosumer level (editors, photographers, insiders, etc)

    we see a strong attraction to vintage, slim fit, rock/punk, and absence of visible logos /decals

    But since they all know the hot items/trends, they get a kick out of wearing something that only a select few know true value of.

    Me, i'll just stick to what works for me- I'm all about fake shit and vintage that doesn't look it. And military, big time.

  6. I used to have a pair of ankle-high british army dress lace-ups that I loved.

    Alas, lost in the wave of time. hand a rounder nose that I loved.

    A good idea is to skope online auctions for "ankle boot" or if you have time on your hands "boot".

    you'd be surprised who sometimes comes up with a boot you like- kenneth cole etc.

    Finding the model you like is the thing.

    But with prices online on auctions about $30 , what do you have to lose? that's like 10 pairs of boots.

    I love my swiss army boots, greatest purchase ever, have had them for 10 years, just resole them.

    Just a side note to vent- Ed Hardy is absolute shit, and I'm so happy I don't have any "old school" tattoos, because all people that have them look like $60 converse ripp-offs by Hardy because of that.

    Haha. servers them right.

  7. Hemingway brought along a revolution in writing and thinking. His influence on global culture cannot be overestimated. What we see in movies today- and even the articles in pop magazines- have directly been influenced by his writing.

    But all of "the classic" writers made an impact of some sort or other. Hemingway was influenced by Tolstoy. At least he didn't love Tolstoy, praise the Muse. Here's what he had to say:

    "War and Peace is the best book I know, but imagine what a book it would have been if Turgenev had written it."

    We are sliding into lit theory.

    I'm gonna go read some fantasy by King, I'm done being all smart for the day.

  8. I had a chance to walk over the body. Thank uncle sam for that.

    And you know who understands human nature much better? certainly not christians and not Dostoyevskiy.

    Buddhists. The thing about killing, you suddenly understand just how fragile YOU and YOUR LOVED ones are. I had no regrets about killing. But you certainly will never have innocent days in your life again.

    A killer is looking out for killers that are coming for him- I can usually tell by the eyes - and they can tell me too.

    As far as Joyce. This motherwanker wanted to write a book thick enough that the title could be writeen on the spine horisontally.

    And he did. It's called Ulysses.

    This was told by my professor in lit class, I never bothered to look up the source for the quote, as to me the self-assured smugness of the writer is self-evident.

  9. Saikaku- short stories

    Castaneda- Journey to Ixtlan

    Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    P.K. Dick

    Douglas Adams - the Hitchikers Guide to The Galaxy Trilogy

    Neil Gaiman "American Gods"

    James Clavell "Shogun" - buy this book you won't regret it. This is what a samurai soap opera written by Dostoyevsky woul be like, once he got over his Christianity.

    Every intellectual snob seems to list Dostoyevsky as his fave- well the guy is boring and his characters pathetic. If you kill an old lady, walk over the damn body and don't look back.

    I much prefer classic Chinese novels - same moral message but more entertaining. read some Pu Songling.

    Simply amasing. And it was written in the 17th century.

    Tolstoy was a moralist wanker . Nabokov never did it for me. Too much self pity and an obsession with words as a means to an end. And too much god in the wrong places.

    Out of the Russian bunch I have great respect for Pushkin and Chehov (that's the right way to say it, screw spelling, think Che as in Guevara and ho as in you da).

    Also Bulgakov. Amazing writers. You should read them- they are available in translation online, for free.

    I read too many books and just can't take serious literature anymore. You keep seeing this wanker trying really hard to impress someone with how much words mean.

    Words are just bullshit.

    Good books let me be free of words for a while, or at least make you laugh.

    plum blossoms, where?

    snow falls in clumps

    among the sparrows

    Issa

  10. I'm a knockoff whore- I don't care about brands, they're all knockoffs anyway, so I'll just pick by trends and not names. Remember, the cool hunters are looking at us, shouldnt be the other way round.

    What's hot this fall (more of the usual):

    cords

    501 cut for jeans and pants +tight pants

    80s motorcycle jackets

    black-the color

    rock still dominates high fashion, while the masses continue to embrace disgusting baggy 'hop garbage.

    military

    "sexy look" is changing for " strange look" for women

  11. I'm into older games, since I don't play much anymore, and the new controllers are too complicated for us NES oldtimers :P

    1)Super Mario Brothers

    2)SoulCalibur (dreamcast forever, mine is running 600 NES, Super-NES, and GENESIS games )

    3)BladeRunner

    4)Diablo hack and slash never felt so good

    5)Planescape Torment - The best script for an RPG.

    6)Dungeon Keeper

    7)Doom and Quake

  12. It means restauraunts make very little money and cut corners. Trans oils and other shit.

    rotten meat. Bad vegetables. whatever it takes.

    it means going out and losing weight don't go well together.

  13. It's funny how soon these rebelious outlaws, the grafitty nonconformist idealists, are coming out with big label stuff now.

    It's all about rebellion for sale.

    You know who they are.

    Subversive or not, that logo is everywhere, and all his art ever was is a vectorised rip-off of comunist posters from the com-block.

    It's nice to have a nifty ideology for not coming up with anything original.

    Just a rip-off.

    I'd rather go for real quality- no one can argue that japanese denim is the best- that's because they didn't cut corners and used the best looms, etc.

    No logos, no flashy shit.

    One reason everyone is shitting on Evisu is because of the large obversive crap they have everywhere.

    Yet look at the brands that get respect- some of them even go so far as not to have patches on the jeans.

    Real subversion needs no marketing, and real quality speaks for itself.

    That's why obey is for kids- it's much more easier to latch on to.

    You don't have to not wash your pants for 6 months to figure things out :P

  14. I wouldn't be caught in it dead.

    A friend of mine that has been buying them for years has complained about a drop in quality.

    I just don't like the whole propaganda-for-teens aspect.

    "Yeah, kiddo, we're like rebels, you and me. Buy our shit."

    that's the message. No thanks.

    Large logos are so 90's. I'm not going to do someone's advertising for them.

    A lot of cool designers are going away from visible branding nowadays- horay for that.

  15. I was about 15 pouns overweight a year ago.

    Some of you might say that that's very little- i'm a size 28 and went up to 32/34 waist.

    But- it is just as hard to lose 15 pounds as a 100- you still have to change your habits .

    The 100 pounds will take you longer, but the amount of thinking you have to do is the same.

    As many posting on this forum say, There Is No Way- you have to find what works for you.

    I decided to cut out all crap in my life

    *No ALCOHOL

    *No Cigarettes

    *No Junk Food

    *No snacks/readymade food

    *ONLY HEALTY RESTARAUNTS- japanese, fusion, smart mediterranean.

    Just without sugar and alcohol, i lost my beer gut and 7 pounds in 1 month.

    I'm now back to my former slim self, and I can still bench 200 pounds- that's without protein shakes.

    If I did the whole healthfood / fintess routine, i'd be back to more benches, but I don't want to bulk up and have a gym body.

    I'm 5'10 short, so I don't want to look like one of those insecure people that gain muscle to look bigger.

    What is simply great :

    MISO SOUP

    GREEN TEA- the cheap $3 gunpowder crap in a paper box- works WONDERS

    oatmeal with unrefined raw brown sugar for breakfast (that's th esugar that you have to break with an ice-pick)

    I walk about 1 hour a day on average and do pushups.

    That's it.

    Easy enough.

    So if I found something that works for me, i'm sure you can find something that works for you- it's a question of finding a plan that is not heroic, so that you can stick to it for a long time.

    None of that yo-yo dieting crap.

    You cannot cut out all the fun stuff at once unless you have sports experience/ discipline.

    You'll just binge and then feel guilty.

    Self-control is a muscle, and unless you have a coach, build it up gradually.

    And clean out your fridge- you don't have to throw things out, but jut stop buying new crap.

    Some dangerous hidden calories:

    JUICES

    SODAS

    Artificial sweeteners- new studies show that your body messes up it's metabolism when it thinks it gets sugar from aspartame and other crap

    SALAD DRESSINGS

    any restauraunt food - remember, any restauraunt brings about 10 percent income at the end of the year- they all cut corners!

    And one final thing- self-change is like war- just because you lost a battle doesn't meat you lost the war- not untill you fuck up so badly you get diabetes because of your trash eating ways.

    So if you can't quit, loose weight, stop drinking, etc- don't hate yourself.

    Just try again and don't give up, and stick to things you try for at aleast 2 months.

    if you lose 2 pounds a month, that's 20 pounds in 10 months- and it's easy to do that.

    Magic pill diets fuck you up, easy solutions lead to hell.

  16. 1)Seven Samurai

    2)Ghost in The shell an Ghost in THe Shell Innocence

    3)Bladerunner

    4)The Original Star Wars - all 3

    5)Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi)

    6)Alien and Aliens 2

    These are the ones that are always in my heart :P

    others:

    FightClub

    ChinaTown

    Citizen Cane

    Funny how we all think we're so special yet a lot of people like the same movies. Musical tastes are more diverse. Goes to show you that film is universal.

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