yyaldrin
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how small is your flat then? or how small are flats in nyc? and have they always been that small? build like that? or have they been partitioned into smaller units as a result of gentrification?
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shakahislop
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they're tiny. it's mad. the first time i was here i ended up in a lawyer's place somewhere in kips bay or something, she was maybe in her 50s, i couldn't believe how shit her flat was. i assumed she must have quite a lot of money but it was this tiny little place that smelt of dogs. it's the same now, like my techno banker mate, i mean it's a nice flat, but it's tiny. you end up sitting on this bed thing he's made out of pallets in the combined living room / kitchen thing.
i don't know but my guess is that it's always been more or less like that. it's by far the most important city in the western hemisphere, there's not even a near contender. it's the most important city in a country that's still basically the global hegemon. and the island geography means there's only a couple of directions the city can sprawl in.
yyaldrin
in je ogen waait de wind
yeh it makes totally sense but it's something you don't really associate with nyc very quickly, as if everybody is just ignoring this fact? in contrast for example with tokyo that is fameous for its microappartments and all that.
shakahislop
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some apartments do have them, and they tend to be seen as a perk that people are willing to pay quite a lot of money for. it's quite amazing how rarely you see people actually on them though. you look at these massive buildings in the summer and you look at fifty totally empty balconies. at most people store a bike on them. they seem like they're full of false promise.
sitting on the fire escape though is of course an aesthetic classic
version
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A national treasure.
for a nation that wants to be annihilated off the surface of the earth, definitely.
IdleRich
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First came to our awareness when her mother unforgivably got pregnant out of wedlock. The only possible course of action that might prevent the entire country discovering that she had had sex before marriage - and thus being irrevocably corrupted - was, of course to fire her from Blue Peter.
william_kent
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I once lived in a shared house and one of the guy's living there , now a tax inspector, fixated on the mother's ankles
fucking "hot", apparently
he insisted on us watching Blue Peter while we got wrecked
william_kent
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I was pissed off, I'd be clearly winning at our 24 hour backgammon marathon and then Blue Peter would pop up on the telly and he'd be like "look at her ankles" and we'd have to pause my domination
blue peter / Sophie's mum's ankles : my tax inspector mate enjoyed it, no doubt
shakahislop
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This sort of aesthetic seems to be a thing in alt new york at the moment. Dimes has it as well. This is in Bushwick. It's uncomfortable in every respect, the baristas are talking about kasimi washington and flying lotus scoring anime soundtracks. It's weird that stuff, it's like the internet come to life, it still feels embarrassing to me. To be fair the coffee and the music they've got on is killer
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shakahislop
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or alternatively wes anderson. that heavily stylised thing that nods towards surrealism (eg the children's classroom style tables in this cafe)
that cafe is called loveless which makes it better / worse
