The Madness of American Culture
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He's turned into one of my favourite authors, I've read all his books now. The only poor one is called 'the future won't be long', I gave up with that one.
Most recent one, 'only Americans burn in hell' is really good, very metatextual but good with it.
And he's done a really touching ebook about xxxtentacion.
Loads of good interviews with him floating round, including one with Alan Moore I think, cos somewhat bizarrely, he's a fan of this British comedian Stewart Lee, who is mates with Moore I think.
Runs his own publishing company and has published this book called 'death and facebook' by a sort of scenester London writer, iphgenia baal, but it was a big disappointing.
And he also reissued iain sinclairs first book, thd kodak mantra diaries, which is one of the best books I've read in last 5 years. Just amazing on a lot of levels.
Kobek is a proper hero.
Most recent one, 'only Americans burn in hell' is really good, very metatextual but good with it.
And he's done a really touching ebook about xxxtentacion.
Loads of good interviews with him floating round, including one with Alan Moore I think, cos somewhat bizarrely, he's a fan of this British comedian Stewart Lee, who is mates with Moore I think.
Runs his own publishing company and has published this book called 'death and facebook' by a sort of scenester London writer, iphgenia baal, but it was a big disappointing.
And he also reissued iain sinclairs first book, thd kodak mantra diaries, which is one of the best books I've read in last 5 years. Just amazing on a lot of levels.
Kobek is a proper hero.
luka
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"But the rolling grasslands of the Amerixan west and south-west were a different matter. Roughly 11,000 years ago they were teeming with animal life - giant bison with a six foot horn-spread, towering beaver-like creatures called casteroides, camels, ground sloths, stag-moose, two types of musk oxen, several varieties of large, often lion-sized cats, mastodons and three mammoths, woolly, Colombian and imperial. Within a thousand years of mans large-scale arrival most of them were gone - including all the horses."
vimothy
yurp
"there is no god, and ataturk is his prophet"
Mr. Tea
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It's been applied to Paul Dirac, too.
vimothy
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interesting interview with bruno macaes on this subject here: https://www.thepullrequest.com/p/american-magical-realism
pattycakes_
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And quite frankly, good riddance.
wild greens
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I love how well this comment has aged
wild greens
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Surely 3pm Saturday kick offs and the old idea of half day working on a Saturday massively effect the UK's odd licensing laws - both of these created a massive culture of heavy daytime drinking at the weekend that's unsustainable past a certain point of the night
It does of course mean that as a nation England is incredibly good at getting daytime ratarsed but a transition into night-time sophisticated drinking culture is still something that takes a lot of time
That said i was out till half 4 on Saturday night and started just after midday but i do have a decent tolerance
It does of course mean that as a nation England is incredibly good at getting daytime ratarsed but a transition into night-time sophisticated drinking culture is still something that takes a lot of time
That said i was out till half 4 on Saturday night and started just after midday but i do have a decent tolerance
wild greens
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Just replying to page 4 two years late dont mind me
shakahislop
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one thing that is going on with british drinking is that both tory and labour governments, backed up by the public health world, have been fairly strongly trying to change how it works, mostly through making it expensive. quite a deliberate attempt to make people drink a lot less through making it too expensive to do so. it's been going on for long enough that you can see the consequences now, the kids being less into boozing, no pints at lunch and all of that. fewer old geezers propping up the bar every evening.
shakahislop
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but there's loads of changes aren't there in that time period. girls out on the lash. no drink driving. no pints at football. approximately a billion pubs fewer than there were.
shakahislop
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the extreme level of winter darkness has got to be part of the mix behind the old 11pm closing time i think. and the desire for alcoholic joy and oblivion. there aren't that many cultures on the planet who have had to find a way to deal with that dark midwinter period.
Mr. Tea
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Horses are quite annoying, tbf.
Mr. Tea
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The drunkenness is OK, it's when you start to sober up and feel hungover without even having had any sleep - that's the really gross bit.
i think we should move towards a situation where supermarkets can no longer sell it, it's generally less available to buy, there's less price differential between buying a bottle in a shop and in a pub. basically limit the supply a little and make drinking alone more difficult