snipelfritz wrote:I finally looked up what you're talking about. I was expecting some guy who stole a bunch of overpriced shit from American Apparel, published a guide on how to do so and was selling they're bland yet mysteriously appealing clothing at reasonable prices. I was disappointed.
i don't see how you could be disappointed.
Sam woke around 3:30 p.m. and saw no emails from Sheila. He made a smoothie. He lay on his bed and stared at his computer screen. He showered and put on clothes and opened the Microsoft Word file of his poetry. He looked at his email. About an hour later it was dark outside. Sam ate cereal with soymilk. He put things on eBay then tried to guess the password to Sheila’s email account, not thinking he would be successful, and not being successful. He did fifty jumping jacks. “God, I felt hosed lying on the bed,” he said to Luis a few hours later on Gmail chat. “I wanted to fall asleep immediately but that is impossible. I need to fall asleep. Any second now. Just fall down asleep.”
“I played video games,” said Luis. “Perfect Dark. I killed people for two hours then I got bored. I know what you mean by impossible.”
“This is hosed,” said Sam.
“You know those people that get up every day, and do things,” said Luis.
“I’m going to eat cereal even though I’m not hungry,” said Sam.
“And are real proactive,” said Luis. “And like are getting things done, and never quit their jobs. Those people suck.”
“We get poo poo done too,” said Sam. “Look at our books.”
“I know, but that brings in no money,” said Luis. “Are we, like, that word ‘bohemians.’ Or something. Our bios: ‘They lived in poverty writing their masterpieces.’”
“We are the hosed generation,” said Sam. “Someone release the press release announcing this. Look at that typo.”
The word “announcing” was almost twice as long as normal.
“I’m laughing,” said Luis. “That is a good typo.”
now, do i personally think tao lin is awesome? i dunno, there's a lot of interesting stuff in his work. he has a lot of interesting ideas and i find him just to be an interesting person, probably (at least partially) because of how people seem to generally flip shit when you mention him in literary circles. i like how polarizing he is. what kind of subversive (semi)intelligent debate can you really make about that manner of opinion?