Bechuga
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From about 11PM to about 2AM, I hear this from next door:
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Reading 40 Stories by Donald Barthelme. Meh. Absolutely not my type of book.
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JKB remixes are some of the best things in metal. All he touches is wonderful:
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Ikaruga is a masterpiece but I'm not fond of the memorization shmups, even if of the highest quality. I prefer the more random ones. That said, I hope and pray for Crow / Karous to come to Steam. Please, Milestone?
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Is the album art dated or ahead of its time?
If the album art is ahead of its time, that means there is a date in the future which is beyond the past day it was released and even past the present day, so regardless of whether it is leap years ahead of its time in terms of the period it was released, it is still dated, albeit for a future date and not a past one.
tl;dr: yes.
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Sucked back into Payday 2 again and building up my collection of shitty masks. Here's my current one:
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Virtually all of his other stories are free to read online (his choice to do so apparently), so hunt around. Most are linked from his wikipedia page. Exhalation and The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate are particularly good.
I have Great Apes by Self but read only 50 pages and probably won't finish. Not much a fan of satire. Which means I probably won't like most of his other work either.
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Was gonna go shopping but I think a bomb has just gone off there and the place is cordoned off. Well shit.
Actually, I heard what sounded like an explosion last night. Related?
edit: oh a guy with a knife was arrested there, as well as an explosion. Well shit, still no shopping then. :/
This makes your problem very first world
Totally out of yogurt. You don't know the pain I'm in.
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What Will Self's new book Phone looks like:
Once you get into it, the style works surprisingly well (his two previous books were written in the same style, and I'm somewhat used to it, bizarre as it looks). Forgot it was out so soon. Looking forward to it!
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Was gonna go shopping but I think a bomb has just gone off there and the place is cordoned off. Well shit.
Actually, I heard what sounded like an explosion last night. Related?
edit: oh a guy with a knife was arrested there, as well as an explosion. Well shit, still no shopping then. :/
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The Spy who came in from the Cold by John le Carré. Very good. Have a lovely leather bound omnibus copy of his early spy work (5 novels in total), and reading them will be a treat.
Was a very good read, definitely holds up some fifty years later.
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Tempted to get PUBG but wary of early access games...
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The Spy who came in from the Cold by John le Carré. Very good. Have a lovely leather bound omnibus copy of his early spy work (5 novels in total), and reading them will be a treat.
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Fuck, just received this
I'm Special Agent James Britt Johnson from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Field Intelligence Groups (FIGs). We have just intercepted and confiscated two trunks at John F Kennedy International Airport in New York, NY 11430 coming from a foreign country.We crosschecked the content of the boxes and found it contained a total sum of US$10,000,000.00 (Ten Million United States Dollars). Also with one of the trunks were documents with your name as the receiver of the money. As we progressed in our investigations of the Diplomat which accompanied the trunks into the United States we learned that he was to deliver these funds to your residence as payment of an inheritance/winning, which was due to you.Further checks on the consignment, we found out that the consignment paperwork lacked the PROOF OF OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE AND LEGAL DELIVERY PERMIT CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE forms. We then confiscated both trunks and released the Diplomat.The trunks According to section 229 subsection 31 of the International, Commerce Regulators Code Enforcement Guidelines, your consignment lacks PROOF OF OWNERSHIP CERTIFICATE AND LEGAL DELIVERY PERMIT CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE from the joint team of Homeland Security and therefore you must contact us for direction on how to procure the two certificates, so that you can be relieved of the charges of evading tax which is a jail offense under section 12 subsection 441 of the Tax Code. We will also be asking the IRS to launch an investigation of money laundering if you do not follow our instructions.You are therefore required to contact me within 72 hours on this email at that point I will walk you through the process of clearing and claiming the money.Failure to comply may lead to your arrest, interrogation and/or you being prosecuted in the Court of Law for tax evasion and or money laundering. You are also advised not to contact any bank in Africa, Europe or banking institution. We sincerely apologized for sending you this sensitive information via e-mail instead of a certified mail, post-mail, phone or face to face conversation, it's due to the urgency and importance of the security information of our citizens. Today, I issue you this code for communication (G11) which must be contained both in the subject and at the end of any of my email letter to you, This is for your own good.Once I hear from you, I will instruct further.Regards,Agent James Britt Johnson (G11).Can someone pick these trunks up for me? I don't even live in America. I will gladly give you some of the proceeds of the trunks. I don't want to be arrested for not paying tax in a country I don't live in. -
Jury service has finished and I went in to work for a half day every day due to not being selected for any cases during the two weeks. Had been hoping for two weeks of being home and not working. Bleh.
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Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor. Follows 13 years of life in a small village after a young girl goes missing, and the subsequent time after her disappearance. Written in a detached third person narration in short sentences but turns surprisingly emotional at times.
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Spent the last two days writing a section of a new story that relies heavily on observations I've made about a coworker I detest and wish would disappear into a cosmic vortex. It has been very therapeutic: 5000 words of character assassination in prose form.
Who said hate wasn't productive?
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I just found one of those microcassette recorders I used to own, and it turns out it makes some weird Doppler sound when you spin it through the air and play the tape. Will have to try some BoC tunes through it.
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You're still on those? Pff.
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Thomas Pynchon is 80 today. Happy Birthday, you nearly impossible to read but magnificent bastard!
Also, it's nearing on four years since his last book. Hopefully another is coming out, but considering he's covered all the major time periods of the last few centuries, what is left for him to write?
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Had about all I can tape with cassettes
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Every Love Story is a Ghost Story: David Foster Wallace Biography by DT Max. Surprised to find it's not so much a glowing tribute but a page by page destruction of DFW and the 'nice guy' image. DFW sounded naive as hell (and mostly crazy). Still a fan though.
sounds interesting. half a year after finishing IJ i keep finding myself thinking man that was a damn good book
Yeah. Not many books stick in my mind after reading them but that one does.
the long interview book is a good bio of DFW since it's all his own words/conversations.. the movie was actually pretty good too. i thought it was pretty endearing and the book is a good 'getting to know you for a minute' type experience whereas the biography i read is like a portrait or something.. very flat.. but it was so long ago.. i think if you want to know DFW just read his books in order they were published. you can see by "Oblibvion" what's going on in there.. and then after he died.. "The PAle King" and things i've read about it.. how he was "writing to escape boredom" because his meds didn't work and he was depressed as fuck. anyway.. title of the road trip interview book is below.
"Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace"I've read that, one of my favourite books and one of the few I've reread. The problem is that he seemed to have a resistance towards telling the truth--ironic for someone obsessed with 'sincere and direct involvement'--so how much of his own words you can believe is tricky (Lipsky repeatedly catches DFW out in that book, who asks him to stop the tape several times out of anger / annoyance). Even his non-fiction has been confirmed to be largely made up. A strange mix of desire to show off and insane guilt at having shown off.
Then again, how much of anything any of us say can be truly believed? And the non-fiction is entertaining so perhaps it was better it was falsified.
stupid first world problems you're dealing with
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It's a woman's voice I hear most of the time, and usually it's incomprehensible gibberish. She sounds like she's stringing vowels together (aaeoeooeoaooaooe!). If there's a man talking, he's very quiet. I've seen her in the morning and she's super polite. All 'oh hello, good morning' and so on.
Honestly, I find it funny more than annoying, and I can only really hear it if I go into the hallway. And she ends it with 'I will fight you every step of the way!' No way I'm talking to her! Been tempted to set a speaker outside her door and play Bob Marley's One Love through it though.