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pasts and presence
another twist, turn
-ing 2010 luciferous
velociferous
but this time i'm ready to
be surprised
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how do you spell 'lame'?
so i just find out that WILEY was one of the opening acts (the other being FORCE VOMIT) for the TING TINGS show earlier this year. what can i say? in addition to their uncanny ability to reap profits from overcharging on second-rate productions, shoddy marketing and design work, and general bad taste, L.A.M.E. Productions also lacks the cow sense ( ( Read more... ) -
ethical living
i've been eating a lot of meat the past weeks because i had wedding dinners and christmas dinners and while i usually avoid meat i don't go out of my way and i will eat what's laid out in front of me and of course i've also been overeating because it's the season to do so and there's so much damned food around then i read about the woman with a ( Read more... ) -
viet-fuckin-nam
Somewhere in Alex Garland's The Beach lies a Generation X safety-cocooned fascination with mediated danger.
"'Vietnam!' A great crowing grin spread across his features. 'You said it! You wanted it! And now these are the breaks! In Country, losing your shit comes with the territory!' He whooped and slapped his thigh. 'Fuck it, man, you should be ( Read more... ) -
this is the new year
back from hanoi, sapa, hoi an and ninh binh. i was charmed, fell in love, disappointed, at peace, tired, blissful. we trekked mountain trails, lay on beaches, lived in bamboo villages, drank immaculate rice wine, lapped up cheap bia hoi and the barley quench of bia ha noi, rumbled on trains chasing the red river, tasted goat, pigeon? foetus, and ( Read more... ) -
hello hanoi (soon)
i'm leaving for hanoi in a bit. it's a six a.m. flight. slow at packing as usual, but it gets me in the mood. backpack is heavy coz we has got winterwear in there. everyone thinks i'm being ridiculous--"this is viet nam dont be ridiculous!"--but then people don't have an impression of sapa in northern vietnam, a frontier town that the french ( Read more... )
