Random Thoughts...

[branespload]

lol and now my dad came home and yelled at me for not bringing in the trash, leaving my doors unlocked and not putting up the shades in my car and leaving the door wide open in my absent-minded rush to the toilet..

[red]

second worst elevator ride, ever.

[AliceGlass]

second worst?

I'm getting altitude sickness just from looking at that pic

[Harry Sledge]

uuuuurrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhh...why would you have 20 shower gels but no shampoo?

[Lab]

.........

FUCK.

IM DONE. BYE.

[red]

second worst?

I'm getting altitude sickness just from looking at that pic

first worst elevator ride, ever.

p_bMhNI_TY8

[Spaghettini]

atlanta is cool and everything, but my god is it good to be back in new york

[jeepster]

BiG was epic let down. Plus those somet's totally fit like shit. They need AC in there, seriously. I was sweating buckets.

[Leonard Leroy]

http://www.nbcolympics.com/tabletennis/photos/galleryid=235373.html

each picture from olympic ping pong is ridiculously hilarious. enjoy.

[AgentJ]

Requiem for a Dream was like a new level of depressing for a movie, but it grips you so hard that you cant stop watching it. Awesome movie.

[jeepster]

Requiem for a Dream was like a new level of depressing for a movie, but it grips you so hard that you cant stop watching it. Awesome movie.

hey you are approximately... 8 years late.

[AgentJ]

hey you are approximately... 8 years late.

I realize this. Its an old movie but I somehow didn't see it sooner.

[midnight]

Ignore the music, but a lot of these girls are of lookbook quality.

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[Guest jmatsu]

I realize this. Its an old movie but I somehow didn't see it sooner.

yeah no biggie. was rated r. you didn't have anyone to accompany you into the theatre, did you? or did you finally get a blockbusters membership?

[Leonard Leroy]

Requiem for a Dream was like a new level of depressing for a movie, but it grips you so hard that you cant stop watching it. Awesome movie.

now go watch baraka

[habia]

What is best translation of Kafka's The Metamorphosis to read?

I have Willa and Edwin Muir translation published by Schocken Books 1968. I always thought the famous first line was that he awoke to find himself transformed into "monstrous vermin" but the Muir translation says "gigantic insect"...

Cool thing about this edition is that german is on the left page and english on the right. I don't read german unfortunately.

[landho]

What is best translation of Kafka's The Metamorphosis to read?

I have Willa and Edwin Muir translation published by Schocken Books 1968. I always thought the famous first line was that he awoke to find himself transformed into "monstrous vermin" but the Muir translation says "gigantic insect"...

Cool thing about this edition is that german is on the left page and english on the right. I don't read german unfortunately.

About ten years ago, Mark Harman published a new translation of The Castle. It was supposed to be more accurate. Never read it. Read a lot of the old Muir translations, which I loved for their straightforwardness and their detachment--qualities that influenced my own writing years ago and that I, rightly or wrongly, attributed to Kafka.

All the translations I have are the Muir ones, but they are probably not the "best" for your purposes, which I imagine are to get a version that most closely approximates the original.

[bouwnt]

mmmy thousandth post and i stand behind Muir as well.

and

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[AliceGlass]

first worst elevator ride, ever.

p_bMhNI_TY8

wow 41 hours?! Did he even pee? Didn't look like it. (Why is it that's what I automatically think of lol)

[midnight]

Maybe they just cut out the part when he peed.

[inaya]

why was it for 40 hours? holy shit. I feel for that dude... that would be terrifying.

[midnight]

Yeah. That would be terrifying. Its really freaky how they can't get people out of there very quickly. You'd think they have some manual way of pulling the elevator down with a cranking thing or whatever, but no, your just stuck for 40 hours.

[habia]

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/04/21/080421fa_fact_paumgarten

it was a holiday weekend or something and they were doing service on the elevators. I forget exactly been a while since I read it...

Good article though, I recommend reading it.

Most interesting to me is that elevator construction on big/famous buildings is done as a "loss leader" by the elevator construction companies. They don't make a profit on making it, just do it for publicity and the maintenance contract.

[operationjake]

elevator rides shmelevator rides.

THIS IS DA SHITTT.

http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Decorated-penguin-knighted-Norwegian-King-Guard/ss/events/lf/081508penguinknight/im:/080815/ids_photos_wl/r1874088372.jpg/

you will not be disappointed. it's something off the onion that's actually on yahoo and ... REAL.

[midnight]

How pimp would it be to have a rabbit that was 3 feet tall and would always walk on its hind legs and has human features but still look very much like a bunny. It would speak english with a classy british accent and wear a top had and raf and would be a servant. Pimp.

[jayrock]

i just got a new haircut

you know what that means...

[mpcec]

That week after getting a haircut is the worst. "HEY DID YOU GET A HAIRCUT?" type bullshit and if you get a bad one just forget it. Everyone will be telling you how good it looks. Not to mention you have to shower afterwards...

[evisu 2000]

it's impossible to watch an episode of mad men without wanting to smoke half a dozen packs of cigarettes.

[salaryman]

^ or want to rail Draper's wife.

[chronoaug]

Now the storm is supposed to turn into a hurricane in the atlantic then plow right back through florida. My friends' band is playing a show thursday night as the storm is supposed to hit. This could either turn out really great or really terrible.

I think for the show, i'm gonna bring like 3 miracle fruit tablets with me and then just get drunk while taking it. I wanna see how shots of tequila or rum taste. Or cranberry vodka.