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Children of the Alley sounds good to me. Local library has it on shelf so I can pick it up tomorrow.

I'll look for Out as well.

Yes, it is the William Gibson.

http://www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/2005_12_01_archive.asp

here is a blog posting he made a while ago.

Basically:

a character in one of his novels wore a Buzz Rickson jacket, a black MA-1

Buzz Rickson had never made a black MA-1

Gibson fans and others wanted to buy black MA-1s

Buzz Rickson began to make a whole line of black jackets, pants, shoes, accessories with Gibson's name on them, inspired by the turn of events.

Now Gibson seems to be gladly embracing his associations with Japanese artisan repro gear.

^please send me high res shots of your bookshelves

Hm, I would say just announce when you are ready. It will take me a few days to get a copy of the new selection anyway, and I am always open to discussing the things we have read even after finishing with them.

I hope the lack of participation this month is neither a sign of decreasing interest in the Book Club nor due to a poor reading selection on my part!

I am looking for housing in New York at the moment, thought I would put the word out on here to see if I can get any superfuture help.

Basically:

need housing for 6-7 months.

Move in as soon as possible. Mid september is best, mid October is too late

I can't deal with smoking indoors, cats or dogs. Sorry.

if you know someone or whatever looking for an extra room mate please keep me in mind. I consider myself easy to live with and all that... what everyone says pretty much: neat, quiet, washes dishes immediately, picks hair out of shower drain, you know the rest.

Send me a message for more information or to say hi.

Thank you.

I saw Dark Knight for the second time a couple days ago. I didn't notice the first time around but in one part Joker self identifies as a dog, saying he is just chasing after cars but wouldn't know what to do if he caught one. Other characters frequently refer to the Joker as having been "let off the leash" as well.

Reminded me that I have been meaning to write something up about Self's self identification p. 193

and the beginning of the next paragraph Self describes America as "viciously mongrel" also by the way.

Self is chasing his ambitions, yet also tethered by them. By his avarice and superficiality and single mindedness. Yet he realizes this and admits it, and claims to want the play and thought just beyond his grasp.

so.... no one else has finished reading? Lan you still up for announcing a new selection on the 11th?

I wear far fewer than ten brands per month, but some of my favorites

45rpm- great designs and vibe to their whole collection, but I am reconciled to the fact that their clothes just don't suit my body so I can never really wear it.

The Flat Head- Great quality and vibe. Only the jeans fit me, but I love them. I'll be wearing them everyday for as long as I can forsee

Iron Heart- I love the fabrics they use. So durable.

Uniqlo- high quality to price ratio. I wear their undershirts literally every day.

Patagonia- Great quality, ethics, and warranties. Their styling isn't exactly what I am looking for most of the time though. Best under wear (the boxer briefs in particular) ever though.

Supreme- I like the idea of their photo tees. They don't make the logo tees anymore so they now do pictures of people wearing logo tees. Once every month or two I will wear tyson tees everyday for a week straight.

design wise, but I am not in a position to do much more than admire in stores:

Yohji Yamamoto- he is making the kind of clothes I would want to if I were a designer. Saw Notebooks on Cities and Clothes and really began to appreciate him and his work.

Jil Sander- I think I like Jil Sander the label more than Raf Simons the label.

now I am running out of labels which stand out in my mind...

Nom de Guerre- they are cool. I have more to say about Nom de Guerre and the similarities with Yohji Yamamoto but can't quite articulate it at the moment.

Futura- I like Futura 2000 a lot. Don't particualrly like all the stuff he is making clothing and show wise, but I respect that he is doing his thing and has adapted to commericial culture and can make money from his art work.

Iron Heart, Uniqlo, Supreme, Nom de Guerre and Futura are on the list just because it is top ten and not just the ones I like and admire the most.

am I japanophile?

here are some facts:

I studied japanese in high school

did two (2) homestays in Japan

own a bunch of Miyazaki DVDs, Cowboy Bebop, Lain and Trigun

own all 2000 pages of Akira comics

listen to Boris

like The Flat Head, 45rpm, Iron Heart, and Buzz Rickson

like Yohji Yamamoto a lot

have read probably 10 Yukio Mishima books, and as of august 2007 liked him enough to list under my "interests" while creating my supertalk account

my only long term serious relationship was with a half asian half white (chinese though not japanese) girl

is it possible for all these to be true and not be japanophile? Am I in denial in the face of overwhelming evidence?

Thank you, Self Edge, The Flat Head, Kiya, Clay and Derek for putting on the party. I really enjoyed stopping by and checking out the new gear. And meeting the Flat head guys was exciting for me, though ultimately anticlimactic as all celebrity encounters are.

Thanks!

and is Gibson himself going to be at the November party? ahhhh too exciting. I did get to awkwardly shake hands with him once in the past, but to repeat this experience... and perhaps simultaneously mumble compliments about his work... briefly make eye contact then look away... to savor the moments of standing ten feet away waiting for a lull in his conversation so that I may go impose myself upon him...

Keep me updated, Kiya.

damn, i love kanye’s swag. this site is mad useful. i hella wanna dress like kanye west.

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-cant delete most visited on startup which sucks specially after porn

you can change it by setting a homepage. wrench>options then under the "basics" tab tell it what to do on startup.

Most visited still shows up on new tabs though... a bit annoying but whatever.

try out the incognito mode though it is funny.

ctrl+shift+N instead of ctrl+N for a new window.

I really notice a big difference in speed between firefox and chrome with chrome being significantly faster.

I don't really understand how the browser makes the internet slower or faster since I am on the same connection, but it works so I will use it. Only problem is that my middle click scroll isn't working with Chrome.

browser of the future no doubt.

installation was very quick for me also, not sure how it got all 46MB or whatever on my harddrive so quickly.

ha.. ha. uhh I don't know what salarayman and corbin law are talking about, bouwnt.

and branespload I remember that comment. It was about how we once played isketch and you won a bunch of rounds in a row, and then also about how that food and steeze rap is dope.

what's up with disappearing rep comments though? I have some from months ago still displaying, even gray ones, but some from just a few weeks ago are gone. I am tempted to put them all in a word document to save them forever.

school would have started for me to today but I am not going this year.

I sat around reading back issues of Thrasher magazine and listening to Drive Like Jehu.

it was actually pretty good.

5'6"+ is my limit (0)

limits are made to be broken though :S

yeah for sure. And people don't seem to remember how tall I am for some reason... my height hasn't changed since high school yet old friends and family are always like "have you grown??" Maybe since the majority of the time knowing these people was when I was shorter. Huh.

and I hate meeting cool girls who are 5' or 5'1"... even high personal compatibility is overridden by physical incompatibility.

everytime habia +reps me, he writes like a note. its great. its like he's everyone's best friend.

coolest dude. also very tall in person.

haha, not everyone but yes some...

did that lunch with you, dino and fookums ever happen by the way? It should.

and I am surprised you notice I am tall... I pretty much classify guys as shorter than me or about my height, and girls as so much shorter than me that it is unbearably awkward, or reasonably shorter than me. Haven't really met tall girls yet somehow.

Chapter 2, pages 62–63

Did anyone else find John Self's boorish behavior toward Doris Arthur hilarious?

"Can you see okay, or do you want to sit on my face? Tell me something. What's

her

motivation? What's theirs? Listen. I got the Fiasco outside. Let's have some lunch at your hotel. Then I'll take you upstairs and give you a really long lesson in motivation"....

"Thanks, she said as I approached. "This is one of the worst times I've had for years."

"Come on, darling, you know you love it."

She steadied herself. She spoke with effort, but she managed to get it all out in the end. "You asshole," she said. "I didn't know they were still cranking them out. You think that despite ourselves women like me are attracted to men like you. But I don't want to go to bed with men like you. I don't want men like you to

exist

."

at this point I hadn't quite warmed up to Self yet, but one part I did find totally hilarious is p. 233 when he is trying to rape Selina. I was surprised by my reaction to this; usually I really dislike any casual use of the term "rape" such as in discussing sports or whatever ever since a friend of mine was raped our first year of university.

Nonetheless, I was laughing at the drama and desperation leading to his increased respect for the rapist's resolve.

The rape sequence and then Self's conversation with Amis on p. 242 really hooked me. This was the main turning point for me while reading Money, when suddenly it grabbed me and I began to trust the author entirely and was ready to go wherever he was taking the narrative. When Amis asks "What's up, John? You seem low." and Self responds by explaining about various problems with the Fiasco, rather than explaining recent turns of event concerning Selina.

also a one liner for which I have strong appreciation: p.204 discussing literature and Fielding says

The Sound and the Fury might be my favorite book of all time, and the best work of literature I know of (or at least that I know I know of).

hey

could I get cuff measurements on jacket?

thanks.

looks dope

yo jake here is some advice:

first some context: I have never applied to UCs. I have applied to private universities 3 times. During 12th grade applied to 6, during 1st year of university applied to 5 for transfer, during second year of university applied for internal transfer at my school (same exact application for regular transfer, which I had done the year before). Now the plan is to apply to 5 or 6 this coming spring.

What happened is that in 12th grade I was denied everywhere and waitlisted at one place (I fortunately got accepted from wait list). Then in freshman year I applied for transfer and was accepted everywhere but one school (cooper union). Then I applied for internal transfer at my school so that I could switch majors and was denied. Now in spring 2009 I will apply again for internal transfer, but also apply again to other universities this time knowing exactly what I want to study (up until first week of sophomore year I was completely undecided).

advice:

Work like hell on making the best essay possible. Revise it over and over and over. Make sure every single word you use is the best word for communicating what you need to communicate to the admissions committee. Even when you think you are done, wait a few days then come back to it. Don't feel done until you are re reading it one day (for the thousandth time) and realize this is better than any essay you wrote in high school, or the rest of your life for that matter.

Start early, so that you have plenty of time. Application are due around late November as I recall, start working on the short answers and essays next weekend (0).

Get dope recommendations. I think you once said you hate your boss at work, but hopefully you are on decent terms since he/she would be a great person to write a recommendation. The admissions committee will be curious about why you left/finished high school early and how you have been occypying your time since then. Also though it is good if the person writing the recommendation is a good writer him/herself.

The first time I applied I didn't think my essay was very good at all, but the college counselor at my high school told me it was fine so I just went ahead and submitted it. I really believe this is the main reason I was denied at so many schools. My grades and SAT scores were legit, but my essay was honestly just bad. Recomendations were OK. Just high school teachers who liked me.

Second time around applying I got in pretty much everywhere. The essay I submitted that year was dope. Very well organized, very well thought out, accurately reflected a part of my personality and outlook. I also got a really good recomendation from a university professor I had met and hung out with while doing a homestay in Tokyo during high school- someone who knew me out of the classroom, and is a very eloquent writer.

Third time around I spent about 4 hours on the essay (practically nothing since I write very slowly) and rushed the whole application last minute. Didn't get any particularly special reocmmendations, just typical stuff from professors I liked.

conclusion:

Don't sweat your grades or SAT scores. They only demonstrate one side (academic) part of your personality.

The essay is the most flexible part of the application. use it to demonstrate something which isn't covered in grades, scores, community service.

Think hard of people who know you and can write well. Even if they ask for only 1 or 2 recommendations send 1 extra anyway- they probably will read it, and even if they don't it will not hurt.

but, my experience is with private schools (plus mcgill). I know UC is a bit more by the numbers than a lot of private schools out there, but regardless, I believe in you, Jake, you can do it.

I rewatched most of Cowboy Bebop over the past few days. Discs 3,4,5,6.

and wow, it is great. I do not have much experience with serialized narrative like this, but Cowboy Bebop and Deadwood have got to be some of the best series out there. Only fault I have with Cowboy Bebop is that the whole idealistic, tough living, loner badass is almost a cheap shot in terms of drawing in an audience.

I am reminded of many friends and acquaintances who write off all anime as bad or even just as a novelty in reaction to so many anime nerd otaku types who- with the same generalizing taste as those who dislike all anime- love all japanese animation. Too bad they are missing out, though I can't really blame either party.

fuck you people who team up on me and shove me around at concerts. I hate you.

fuck you my lazy friend who looks like me but is a year older decided not to "lose" his ID so that I can have it. I don't hate you, my friend, but I do hate that I will have to miss a bunch of great 21+ shows again this year, like the last 5 years since I started paying attention to music

fuck you my school, advisor, deans. I hate all of you, you fucking bureaucrat robots.

well that's all for today :confused:;):rolleyes::eek:

Anyone live in Sunset Park, Brooklyn?

How is it? Quiet, loud, busy? Family type place or what?

easy to get in and out of Manhattan? Are trains ok late night for the most part?

thank you.

polaroids (no pomo)

Fuuma looks like this guy to me

aaaaand

sup leroy