July 29, 2009 · 8:10 pm
Too lazy to think
I literally cannot wait to read Haruki Murakami’s new opus, 1Q84. I have the feeling it is the capstone of this decade although I won’t be able to read it until it’s translated, which is going to be a while seeing as it’s 1000+ pages. I caught myself wondering if I’d be able to become literate in Japanese faster than it’ll be published here. (No.)
I’ve caught a whiff of a developing meme – Jake Lodwick, who’s an interesting cat, has started systematizing his life based on an intriguing rule – evolve the other rules once a week – and Buster Benson picked up on it and I expect to spread around the web as a kind of post-Getting-Things-Done movement. I personally find myself thinking more about applying the Situationist notion of detournement to my own life – for the sake of phenomenology, not art. Right after I eat this cheeseburger.
It is time to start thinking about the 00s being over, though. I’m nervous about the kids who were born in the mid to late 90s and grew up with this last decade as the norm. Maybe the years 2000-2007 only screamed CRISIS to me because I was formed in the beanbag chair of the 90s?
Making the changeover
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