CITY POP (70s-80s Japanese Pop)

luka

luka

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sat nav do you know suspended tried to make it in brooklyn but the pace of life got too much for him. how are you finding things in The Big Apple?
 
snav

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luka said:
sat nav do you know suspended tried to make it in brooklyn but the pace of life got too much for him. how are you finding things in The Big Apple?
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that's where i met spendy (and that's why i'm here), although we apparently met back on reddit in 2013 arguing about the same stuff that you all have been saying in this thread

brooklyn's great, i go to my bodega guy every day and he sells me Georgia-stamp cigarettes
 
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version

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luka said:
one thing that has been said many times, by me and others, is that the last human future we had was japanese. now the future is china, saudi, dubai... slave labour. survelliance, authoritarianism etc well grim
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Wasn't the Japanese future cyberpunk though? That featured all of those things.
 
luka

luka

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version said:
Wasn't the Japanese future cyberpunk though? That featured all of those things.
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i meant that the actually existing japan represented the future to us. the toilets warm your arse for you, then squirt water up it while playing a sweet melody
 
luka

luka

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when i finally made it over there i was a bit sad to realise it didnt look futuristic at all any more. it looked a bit run down. still amazing and beautiful but not the future
 
snav

snav

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luka said:
i meant that the actually existing japan represented the future to us. the toilets warm your arse for you, then squirt water up it while playing a sweet melody
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these are still the most luxurious shit

luka said:
when i finally made it over there i was a bit sad to realise it didnt look futuristic at all any more. it looked a bit run down. still amazing and beautiful but not the future
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thing i liked about Tokyo was i could turn off a busy road onto a side street and it's just QUIET and has tiny parks and whatever. but yeah i guess i wasn't expecting proper cyberpunk, more like quaint animeverse, which it did live up to.
 
sus

sus

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One of the first things I ever wrote as an adult that wasn't for school, I don't stand by a lot of it and especially not the prose, but it happened. Wrote a buncha stuff like this in 2013/14 I've talked about this before on the board. Getting to youth culture in the big city in New York City getting to liberal arts school, after growing up in a smallish town, you expect to board the Mothership, here it is, exciting cultural things, I can integrate into the stream of the New, the avant, artistic innovation, and everyone's playing 70s throwback guitar music. Incredibly disillusioning. Took years of processing
 
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luka

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yeah its sad new york hasnt been a cultural force since i dunno, 1999 at the latest.
 
craner

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luka said:
when i finally made it over there i was a bit sad to realise it didnt look futuristic at all any more. it looked a bit run down. still amazing and beautiful but not the future
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It's amazing when you come across the claims being made for the future of Japan in the late 80s/very early 90s compared to what happened next. From global domination to second tier irrelevance in the space of a few years.
 
luka

luka

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craner said:
It's amazing when you come across the claims being made for the future of Japan in the late 80s/very early 90s compared to what happened next. From global domination to second tier irrelevance in the space of a few years.
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america did well to castrate them. i dont think they will be able to do that to the chinese though.
 
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