turning Gus into a Londoner

[thirdform]

important distinction, the former leads to the latter. first set the scene of early 00s shoreditch.

 

[version]

but you don't drink fermented cows milk, so, again, the Turk wins.

This guy who's trying to drink every drink mentioned in Pynchon went to Kyrgyzstan and drank some fermented horse milk thing called 'Kumis' that sounded horrible;

"I cannot claim to have become a real kumis fan. The combination of acidity, creamy milkiness, and meaty smoke (which I think must come from the wood fired stoves being used around all the houses and yurts while the milk’s fermenting) is really pretty challenging going for an unaccustomed palate. Kyrgyz people wishing to cure themselves of an ailment will sometimes undergo a kumis therapy involving drinking five 200 mL cups in a day. I still feel that the only thing that much kumis might cure me of is the will to live."

Kumis

Some in the past have had the gall to suggest that this project is nothing more than alcoholism dressed up in exotic hats and tweed jackets. These scurrilous individuals should take careful note of…

drunkpynchon.com

 

[luka]

i was thinking more italo era shoreditch, not stepney housewives era Shoreditch.

oh right. i was out of town but yes, cocaine and italo, sounds fun

 

[thirdform]

and after the klart you will do this one.

 

[version]

Could Gus get Weatherall-pilled through a specific track horizon? The city man’s city man all the way to the Great Plains of east anglia. Not JBO, a remix, brain frazzled from work memory

This is the one that sold me on him,




That and the Essential Mix Patty or someone posted,

 

[luka]

two lone swordsmen is a corny name. leave those poetics to the wu tang clan

 

[luka]

im anti club culture and he is an icon of club culture. wearing fancy clothes and looking good.

 

[version]

He didn't look good though. He looked like Alan Moore was a DJ.

 

[thirdform]

two lone swordsmen is a corny name. leave those poetics to the wu tang clan

hes dead mate.

 

[thirdform]

im anti club culture and he is an icon of club culture. wearing fancy clothes and looking good.

middle class scruffy! nothing wrong with fancy clothes, clubs can get the fuck tho.

 

[thirdform]

also lol UKG was the absolute apex of that kind of club culture, so you can't talk.

 

[version]

Wasn't Metalheadz supposed to be like that too? Celebrities turning up, The Face etc.

 

[Murphy]

got to be a bird in it for Gus - Raise

 

[thirdform]

the best thing about ukg was the mcs, it got musically more interesting with dubstep.

 

[thirdform]

semi-trolling, fine, but also there's a grain of truth in what I said.

 

[thirdform]

Wasn't Metalheadz supposed to be like that too? Celebrities turning up, The Face etc.

yeah but Luke hates metalheadz. But I think some celebrities went to awol so there's a bit of mythmaking here. Bjork definitely did as she was shagging goldie.

 

[version]

got to be a bird in it for Gus - Raise

 

[luka]

so so good. i actually have no memory of this from the time. i only heard it when i was getting bang into illegal downloading

 

[thirdform]

i find the contrast between luke and gus fascinating. Luke ultimately rejects cool, but has to cling to it for ideological reasons. Whereas Gus can't reject it because he has no fully formed concept of it.

 

[luka]

i think that is the only song Gus will love unconditionally. in fact it might make him a Londoner overnight if he plays it at an adequate volume