sawyer

this isn't 90s but its one of my favorites

the bus ride from my apt to the nearest payday loans is almost a goddamn hour long

^^i dunno how seriously you take this alpha/beta/whatever claptrap, but just FYI:

"ranking" systems like that have only been observed in wolves in captivity (read: jail)

real wolf packs usually are a monogamous male+female pair mated for life, immediate family and sometimes extended family

THE MORE YOU KNOW

a la carte

a jay-z album is "ethnic culture?"

TTM is from (?) Wisconsin. The most overheard bar song here is "Wagon Wheel", hope this helps.

is that how ninja goths dress when they go to the gym?

via Vice magazine:

Rick Owens: I’m not really into clothes. I wear one outfit like a uniform, and I have for years. Black sweatpants, black baggy shorts over them, a black or white cotton t-shirt, and a black cashmere t-shirt over that. I couldn’t imagine having to change outfits every day or having to change for the gym.

You wear the same thing to the gym too?

This outfit takes me to the gym, to work in the studio, and then to dinner with a mink coat over it.

RO has been athletic since the start but it doesn't seem like his gym clothes are as popular as the leather jackets. Trinity is wearing OG RO style...

aitor throup:

boris bidjan saberi

everyone should be banned

The mind of a sociopath/psychopath (whatever is the correct term) is obviously a very interesting area but I wonder how accurate an (assumingly) non-socio/psychopath can truly capture the inner workings of the mind.

The book has a completely different tone to the movie as well. All the people who 'idolise' Bateman are obviously ones who've only seen the movie.

American Psycho the book is fucking great. I was not expecting it to be that good, but I seriously enjoyed it.

question for people who have read American Psycho and seen the movie.

In the movie when bateman doesn't kill his secretary he shows what seems to be a legit sense of sympathy or self doubt. Something as though he doesn't want to kill her. I don't know if that makes any sense, but he just acts with more emotion or at least Bale portrays it that way. Anyways, how is this conveyed in the book? Is it worth reading the book? Does it convey much more than the movie?

for those that haven't seen this quote from Ellis:

"[bateman] was crazy the same way [i was]. He did not come out of me sitting down and wanting to write a grand sweeping indictment of yuppie culture. It initiated because my own isolation and alienation at a point in my life. I was living like Patrick Bateman. I was slipping into a consumerist kind of void that was supposed to give me confidence and make me feel good about myself but just made me feel worse and worse and worse about myself. That is where the tension of "American Psycho" came from. It wasn't that I was going to make up this serial killer on Wall Street. High Concept. Fantastic. It came from a much more personal place, and that's something that I've only been admitting in the last year or so. I was so on the defensive because of the reaction to that book that I wasn't able to talk about it on that level."

i also thought this was a great discussion about the book:

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/3750

does everyone live happily ever after at the end of the tale or is it more like a shakespeare tragedy?

what ho! fetch me my rapier, boy

Only who can prevent forest fires?

You have selected you, referring to me. That is incorrect. The correct answer is you!

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You know it's still one, right?

i'm pretty sure i saw some unironic posts in this thread

I don't care if someone's a vegan or not. it's their choice and they're missing out. also, more cows for me.

but one thing that confuses me is when people call themselves "vegans" when they drink alcohol products that aren't vegan-friendly (most are made with animal byproducts).

i think the mistake is turning a diet into an identity. vegetarians and vegans should be a bit more willing to bend rules. if the goal is to reduce animal suffering, 100% of the population going veg for half their meals (where they'd normally have meat) is the same as 50% of the population going fully veg.

i've had friends who are ashamed to try fish and when they do they get shit from their friends/co-workers. both sides seem kinda silly to me for making a big deal out of it.

^^dissent

i've never been to any rez in NY/NJ but if they're anything like the ones in wisc they're not exciting unless you know people

if you're going to trip on the casino floor that might be a different story

It's bad enough this is a graphic tee "label", but even the part where you could have been original, you just copy+pasted public domain iconography (Eiffel Tower, cassette tapes, razors, heart, etc). It's pretty incoherent and I'm not sure what kind of message it conveys. Maybe it'll be a hit with Parisian wrist-cutters?

you guys know this thread started out as a joke right

I still do no get Damir Doma.

i really like doma, his references are usually abstract. he goes out to textile/fabric expos and chooses fabrics that appeal to him, then he creates a garment that suits the fabric. at their most concrete, his references are from antiquity or medieval.

damir is creating stuff so far outside the current fare (like punk, romantic, gothic, sportswear or trad suiting) i think it gets overlooked.

kimmel bball sneakers, alden bluchers, doma trainers, RO tanks

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i want to go to the gathering of the juggalos

I disagree, Sawyer, I think Uniqlo a huge step above Gap and H&M (dunno about Land's End).

personally i have always found uniqlo's quality in relation to price miles ahead of gap and H&M.

no way.

next to h&m? come on now. it's not incredibly quality, but to me it's the best value for what they charge. everything i've bought from them held up quite well over the years and looks good.

i guess i can't argue quality compared to other mass market retailers like h&m or the gap as i haven't really owned any pieces from them for years and years.

But do you guys know anything about the actual production process for Uniqlo's clothes, and where it differs from H&M, Gap, AA, etc? I've posted this in other threads, so apologies if I sound like a broken record:

Those are from FY 2009 and 2010. Source: http://www.fastretailing.com/eng/ir/library/annual.html

All we know for certain about a garment's production is the country it is made and if we're lucky there's some kind of auditing that's obliquely accessible to a consumer. Your clothes are made by children who sew for days without rest. No access to bathrooms. I find everyone's loyalty to Uniqlo breathtaking. Do you know how it is possible to make clothes cheap?

I also don't think that Uniqlo contracts with a special production facility in China or Vietnam that doesn't contract with anyone else.

Let me put it this way: there are only so many garment shops in Vietnam. To my knowledge, none of these shops have an incentive to produce exclusively for one brand or another. IE: One shop might produce for Eddie Bauer, Abercrombie and Fitch, Banana Republic and Hollister. They're making dress shirts, the shop is equipped for that process. Overlap is inevitable. So what you get on the Uniqlo floor are clothes from eight different countries, how can anyone say with certainty what Uniqlo's "quality" is when there are possibly twelve different production sources?

Anecdotes aren't good enough. If anecdotes were good enough, the fact that I've had jeans from H&M last years without repair puts them on the same playing field as Nudie and APC. The textile might be cheap, but that doesn't predict the integrity of the stitching. On the other hand, I've read stories on SZ about buttons falling off of CCP shirts or the sole of a boot coming undone within days or weeks of wear.

I also don't mean to pick on Uniqlo exclusively, nor China or Vietnam. "Made in the US" can mean made in Samoa, Guam or the Marianas. "Made in Italy" might mean this: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/13/world/europe/13prato.html

There is no good reason to give Uniqlo a pass while having a knee-jerk aversion to H&M or Faded Glory. They all have similar pricing, and the ability to produce cheaply comes from the way you treat laborers; your variable costs. Fixed costs such as textiles, dyes or tools are, well, fixed.