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it's a good plan sus. sounds like an interesting and nice way to spend some years.

that is really annoying to get that far and get stuck at the airport. in a lot of places you can get a hotel room near the airport for $100 or so - no idea if that's the case for turin. or if you have $100

there's a financial bed to it as well. pj harvey doing whatever she wants vs tricky still trying to make something that sells. musicians end up making financial choices. dizzee being the best example of someone who made one massive album, a follow-up where he's grappling with exiting his...

it makes sense that luka and woops are getting those thiel bucks. it was only a matter of time

no one is talking about this is more or less along these lines although more internet than phone-specific and i remember it being pretty good

148 years old i think

i go to westside market all the time and it's fucking terrible carrefour is a standard french supermarket, very normal, everyone goes there

napoli's a vision of what a future poor europe might look like, if that happens. european cities with a middle-income level of development. a colombian or peruvian amount of money and the loosening and roughness that brings. a level of dysfunction. a distinguishing feature of western europe is...

in sicily all the men look like frank zappa. so much wild hair going on. curly and unkempt. i love places where that era of alt continues on. like punk never touched it

such a young country. the rules are still being worked out. i was in milan, fashion capital, and the fashion is fixed within parameters. you can do something within them. even the hipsters are within the parameters. in nyc, fashion capital, there's no parameters. there's people dressed in ten...

trying to work out how to say something about american food without it sounding like the reddit repeatadrome. it's not the worst in the world, there's loads of places which are worse, ecuador for example or uganda, places where the food is very basic. american food is distinctive and unique. the...

jetlagged and watching it slowly get light

i think the thing we're all dancing around is the chilling effect that version has had on open discussion

the worst thing about dissensus is that version has copied my picture

one thing i noticed about sicily was that compared to last time i was there five years ago the african migrants had mostly gone. they were all over the place last time. time moves on and the issues of the day recede, and then no-one talks about them.

this is a bit like when mixed biscuits spends all night with a whiteboard and nescafe working out the perfect thing to say to wind up mr tea

people keep saying that all the good stuff in europe only exists coz of some invisible moral failing. in america it's the idea that it's only coz the americans cover our defence bill. on the nu-left it's coz of colonial exploitation. it's hard to get your head around all these strands and work...

america has the worst food on the planet. that is one thing that europe nails, especially italy. seems like it's escaped the factories

was thinking about the baggage of these places. are these buildings really that beautiful? they're starting to look like toys, the big centrepieces at least. my taste is getting twisted by big brutal america. but then it was already twisted by the UK imagination where we equate summer holiday...