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  1. shakahislop

    The Weather.

    new york winter is colder, it's fucking freezing and you've got to be outside a lot, it's not the kind of place where you can go from your house to a car to a building, it's a streets city, you've got to walk down them walk up from the subway into the freezing wind tunnel air. but it's blue sky...
  2. shakahislop

    New shit 2025

    everyone on here says that about tim reaper but to me the production on nu-jungle sounds clinical compared to the originals. you can hear the computer, it has that same HD thing as everything else. you can listen to this then metal then sabrina carpenter and the production all has the HD thing...
  3. shakahislop

    The Weather.

    yeah i think so and that's an interesting way to put it. every time i come to england in the winter it always feels so extreme. by march everyone looks like they've survived something
  4. shakahislop

    The "Great Weird Boy Books" canon you have read, or not, and why (not)?

    that wwas one of the books we had in our house growing up, i started trying to read it about ten times, absolutely hated it, i remember those opening paragraphs well, found them depressing
  5. shakahislop

    Patti Smith's Meltdown

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    The Elon Musk Thread

    yeah its way better, this is the current style of dissensus, we have embraced autofiction. we need to know what you're up to
  7. shakahislop

    Kid Charlemagne is Pussy Whipped

    yeah i don't think so
  8. shakahislop

    Kid Charlemagne is Pussy Whipped

    it makes a load of little hearts flutter up from the bottom of your screen
  9. shakahislop

    Kid Charlemagne is Pussy Whipped

    it's ambiguous. it's like any kind of like on anything.
  10. shakahislop

    Choon of the Day, redux

  11. shakahislop

    The Elon Musk Thread

    biscuits get with the trend on here we need you to go autobiographical like everyone else is at the moment stop arguing about immigration and weird south africans it's new years eve
  12. shakahislop

    Choon of the Day, redux

    a crowdpleaser but it's sounding imperial today
  13. shakahislop

    The Elon Musk Thread

    yeah i'm in a similar boat, been here for ages now but no right to stay unless i get married.
  14. shakahislop

    Decline

    this was called 'Decline' on the mp3 download when he first released it, i loved this EP, i walked around lost in boston spaced out listening on an mp3 player, no maps on a phone, singing to myself at night by the seaport, i'd been at occupy for a week or so sleeping under a tarp and getting wet...
  15. shakahislop

    Decline

    there's grains of truth in the decline thing, it's not nothing but the perception of it is interacting with other things
  16. shakahislop

    Decline

    uk and europeans i've noticed have stopped coming to nyc very much, you don't see like french people wandering around williamsburg taking pictures of corporate commissions graffiti anymore, i used to have a steady stream of friends in town and haven't had any for a year, every time someone came...
  17. shakahislop

    Decline

    i don't know if you'd necessarily be able to notice any kind of uk decline without all the words you read on the internet. you couldn't be very sure of it anyway. people have thought the uk is shit for a long time like so many people have had the experience now of coming back from like spain and...
  18. shakahislop

    Decline

    its people looking at screens reading comments and typing comments, even the FT man is doing that ultimately but in a more checked and guardrailed way, you have to think about the medium being the message or whatever, or at least factor in how the worldview you're talking about is first and...
  19. shakahislop

    Decline

    plus the echoes of what was created when people started to think of themselves as remainers, that has not gone away, battle lines were formed by that period and if you're committed to it there's a certain i told you so satisfaction to believing that everything is getting worse economically . a...
  20. shakahislop

    Decline

    have noticed the same thing and have watched as the idea / assemblage / discourse / has gathered pace and began to sprout its own appendages. a great example of how things written online are creating subjectivities / worldviews. there's some kind of interaction between the reality of a slightly...
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