Never thought I would say this.
but I'm going through major culture shock at the moment. i don't think it is an east vs. west thing or whatever, I think it is a re-introduction into the collective culture of the U.S. that is throwing me for a loop.
Where was I for five years?
I didn't realise how much of a blanket reality I had placed over myself in Eugene. It was so easy in that shithole/paradise to let the convenience of the hippie struggle offer me the opportunity to completely remove myself from mass culture. Fuck, I spent four years in that town with only consuming under 20 gallons of gasoline (in four fucking years!). I walked everywhere, I recycled or compusted almost everything I tossed away, had good food, good music, a good scene (not to mention a group of kids that were willing to get beat up by the cops for a good time)....
It had it's down points, but it still was pretty cool (not to mention Thursday and Abra living close by
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So yea, anyway I'm having a hard time with this whole "mass culture" thing. The consumption here makes me want to vomit, I literally feel sick when I think about how far I have to drive to work, about how I hav eto use a fucking car to get almost everywhere. I get sick when I hear all the fucking racism that comes out of the mouths of these elitist pure bread arian fucks that are all around. The fucking blind patriotism that permeates the culture, "One Nation" bullshit. The sexism, the "bitches and hoes" rap that all the little Conn. and NY suburb kids absorb like's it's the fukcing next testament, singing along while poor black men are still being shot at by pigs in even the streets of the small towns.
I must have been sleeping for the last five years, either that or I'm getting old.
I'll tell you one thing though, the next little rich white fucker partying with my neighbor's (in our backyard) that I hear call a woman "a loose piece of ass", might just get himself a quick little date with a 12gauge and a trip off the property....
love, peace, and annihilation ( a combination of all three would lead to no humans)
but I'm going through major culture shock at the moment. i don't think it is an east vs. west thing or whatever, I think it is a re-introduction into the collective culture of the U.S. that is throwing me for a loop.
Where was I for five years?
I didn't realise how much of a blanket reality I had placed over myself in Eugene. It was so easy in that shithole/paradise to let the convenience of the hippie struggle offer me the opportunity to completely remove myself from mass culture. Fuck, I spent four years in that town with only consuming under 20 gallons of gasoline (in four fucking years!). I walked everywhere, I recycled or compusted almost everything I tossed away, had good food, good music, a good scene (not to mention a group of kids that were willing to get beat up by the cops for a good time)....
It had it's down points, but it still was pretty cool (not to mention Thursday and Abra living close by
)
So yea, anyway I'm having a hard time with this whole "mass culture" thing. The consumption here makes me want to vomit, I literally feel sick when I think about how far I have to drive to work, about how I hav eto use a fucking car to get almost everywhere. I get sick when I hear all the fucking racism that comes out of the mouths of these elitist pure bread arian fucks that are all around. The fucking blind patriotism that permeates the culture, "One Nation" bullshit. The sexism, the "bitches and hoes" rap that all the little Conn. and NY suburb kids absorb like's it's the fukcing next testament, singing along while poor black men are still being shot at by pigs in even the streets of the small towns.
I must have been sleeping for the last five years, either that or I'm getting old.
I'll tell you one thing though, the next little rich white fucker partying with my neighbor's (in our backyard) that I hear call a woman "a loose piece of ass", might just get himself a quick little date with a 12gauge and a trip off the property....
love, peace, and annihilation ( a combination of all three would lead to no humans)
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there's an alleycat race on september 10th based on that movie "deathrace 2000." it starts in brooklyn and goes to who knows where. if i'm not in LA, i'm going.
i'm riding a shiny new bianchi with most of the stock components stripped off and replaced with lighter more durable ones (i thrashed the cranks, chain and un-trued the wheels in the first month of riding).
i'd thought about getting an old track bike and fixing it up, but decided that would be stupid if i decided to actually use it on a velodrome as well as the street, so i settled on the cheap bianchi and figure if i start racing and like it, i can just move the parts off of my pista to something like an IRO, bridgestone or colnago frame.
I tend to read peoples journals that are connected to friends every once an a while. Usually when they post interesting comments, and I'm bored. I don't read your journal every day, but yes I've read a few of them. If you want to call that lurking so be it.
I wouldn't move to NY as a state in general. If I had too I'd go for NYC, it has good restaurants. I also wouldn't like to move to any north east state. I have been all over this country as well as Canada and Mexico. I like the history in the north east but thats about it, oh and you can get a better assortment of good food.
Sorry if I made you mad dude.