just for the record, have you every had absinthe, david? yes or no, please.

Dave brought back some from France and I had a glass. I never drink alcohol and my body has almost no tolerance, so we sat outside on the downtown square and watched the neon signs reflect off the old pickup truck windshield.

Absinthe tastes like licorice == very gross. It was a pretty color though.

I wrote this on absinthe! Or at least its legal equivalent. There would be a difference between the two in effects if absinthe was psychotropic, which it is not, unless you count "high-alcohol content" as psychotropic, no?

I've always been confused about this too.
In the world of absinthe--what's really?
I'm sure r.'s knows the score...

Oh, and is there like a chamber-music version of Three 6's sippin' on some syzuuuuurp one should play while getting their late 19th century style crunque on?

DJ Satie, suckas.

Look it up on the Internet - there is not much evidence that absinthe is/was psychoactive beyond its high alcohol content. Too little wormwood to do much beyond "drunk."

is a dog one you do not trust
You leave your green around him
Nigga your green gonna get sipped up

Look it up on the what?
Can't someone just do that for me?
danke.

What is incorrect about my post is "can no longer feel her lips" which was more a product of me drinking faux-absinthe straight on the rock rather than diluted with water.

So, I've found that most of my Japanese friends hated the taste of Absinthe (fake or real). Same reactions to Jager, and no one seems to like Dr. Pepper either. ("薬の味する！")

Don't like the anise here... or medicine.

So, I've found that most of my Japanese friends hated the taste of Absinthe (fake or real). Same reactions to Jager, and no one seems to like Dr. Pepper either. ("薬の味する！")

Don't like the anise here... or medicine.

Dude, dude, I heard you the first time.

i love absinthe (from Portugal), just as i love licorice. and, i do know one exception to the rule of Japanese friends not liking absinthe. my例外swears to have seen everything in strange colors (which apparently talked to him) after drinking half a bottle in half an hour. i remember dancing incessantly (after drinking the other half of the bottle in what seems to have been only half an hour...it seemed like hours) and then throwing up into my friends (not the japanese 例外,but one who was sane at the time) bed. I did consider cutting off my ear out of shame, but instead just fell asleep. No recollection of colorful dreams.
still, as close to a preternatural experience as i ll ever get, probably.
danke für die aufmerksamkeit

oh, and...im sure the absinthe drinker has this look of feeling slightly sick on her face, because she, too, has just danced like a crazy woman, then fell down into that very seat (not realizing the smelly guy next to her) and is now considering whether she can still make it to the bathroom to throw up, or whether it's safer to just stay put for the moment.

I prefer absinthe than Denki Bran...so Japanese cant say that absinthe is yucky...Denki Bran is by far the worst thing ever!

I knew you couldn't give me a straight answer. Typical.

Sorry to but in again but i've got to spread the news. How could Marxy keep us all in the dark? By some uncanny nietzschian-deleuzian twist of eternal return it's happened!

As i finaly get to the end of the studio voice i mentioned before on the last pages there's the promo for the next issue. The topic : the 90s, picture: flippers guitar, first time i see the actual term shibuya-kei mentioned in this publication (including the shibuya-kei era). This in itself might not be much, (though you have to see it to believe it, it's different to having Keigo Oyamada in some recruit magazine) , on the oposite page there's a full-page add for the book of the exhibition Shutter and Love - 10 female photographers which is by no means pakkuri but an authentic eternal return of Shutter and Love - 16 female photographers , published in that glorious year 1996. [girl photography and shibuya-kei are always simultaneus, closely related phenomena]. So in the near future we should expect to see a very content Marxy and possibly Momus (the musician) performing live on J-TV.

Absinthe is only for 罰ゲーム！
I hate absinthe,licorice, and Dr. Pepper...

本当に("薬の味する！")

I knew you couldn't give me a straight answer. Typical.

Shame on me, right?

As i finaly get to the end of the studio voice i mentioned before on the last pages there's the promo for the next issue.

I am glad you mentioned that, because I picked up the issue at INFAS earlier in the week and it was sitting on my floor being unread. Should be interesting. I am not the only one with early nostalgia...

On second realization - yes, I have a bottle of Henri Bardouin Absinthe at my house.

but no, that's not the issue, oh unless you did pick up the not yet out december issue.

i obviously havn't seen the december 90s issue but the way i understand it the review of the previous (if decade - there was one SV about the 80s in the 90s) in this publication but also in the j-culture machine as such is less about nostalgia and is probably closer to a peculiar application of that Walter Benjamin idea of the revolution being a repeat/redemption of the past. (this might sound like a heap of shit to some but i'm actually serious this time)

and of course if there's a point to the above then it becomes clear the lack of historicity is not a lack as such but a kind of necessary condition.

all my references to 'continental' thought are kind of funny but what often strikes me is how on a most basic, concrete level european people whatever their standpoint may be, almost as a rule, basically 'get' or at least accept (what,? something sort of ontological about) japan while american people , again regardes of standpoint, for better or worse tend to find themselves at odds with it - or simply take flight into fiction. //

Re: Shutter and Love. The exhibition at Parco (which closed at the end of September) was neither pakuri nor "an authentic eternal return" of the original Shutter and Love book (and by the way, the new book "Shutter and Love" is just a one-shot from Ryuko Tsushin magazine). It was, as Monty DiPietro complained in Japan Times, an extended advert for Nike:

"One of many ironies in this exhibition can be found in the press release, which tells us that the 10 photographers "were free to produce their own photo stories with models they chose to work with in Higashikawa, Hokkaido." Sure, they went to Hokkaido -- but are we supposed to believe that the look of the show was not determined by the principal sponsor, Nike? The show poster is of a girl in a Nike sweatshirt. Of the eight-photograph series presented, all feature comely young models who at some point wear Nike products. If you go keen to play a sort of "Where's Waldo?" with the trademark Nike Swoosh, then you may have fun. Otherwise you may feel a little ripped off -- you may feel as if you just gave a corporation your money in order to look at their advertising."

That sort of advertising saturation is, incidentally, the subject of my latest Wired piece, as well as a feature in PingMag. It's a subject Marxy could probably tell us quite a lot about, though it might strike too close to home.

Don't click on those links, boys! It's a trap.

It's a subject Marxy could probably tell us quite a lot about, though it might strike too close to home.

I just do market research. If assassins use weather reports to time their kills, is meteorology to blame for the crime?

We can probably still enjoy that photo book despite its product placement - although more as a well-done advertisement than a piece of "art." Get used to it though: this market can no longer sustain media that does not specifically and directly promote the products of the sponsors. Other markets soon to follow? This website - as well as Momus' - are sponsor-free.... for now. Soon, I will posting pictures of myself blogging in the latest kicks from N社.

If assassins use weather reports to time their kills, is meteorology to blame for the crime?

According to Hillary Clinton, yes. We need to protect or families from meteorology.

this market can no longer sustain media that does not specifically and directly promote the products of the sponsors.

If so then weve come full circle. The notion of a "full time artist" without a patron had its day. Time to go back to the old school system. I myself look forward to the next Hamazaki Aiyumi ode to Shisedo foundation and eyeliner.

This website - as well as Momus' - are sponsor-free.... for now. Soon, I will posting pictures of myself blogging in the latest kicks from N社.

On the other hand - and i'm saying this as a neutral observer and believe me i'm not taking any delight in trying to offend anyone neither am i masochistic enough to continuously risk puting myself in the position of dick-head - there's quite an unnecessary (enough, as far as i'm concerned, to spoil certain things; conscious or not to the producers) ammount of (occasionally crass?) self-promotion going on on both these blogs. to be specific in marxy's case i recall him actually stating that part of the reason to doing this blog is career-oriented ,,, in momus' case the unnecessary, occasionaly verging on compulsive, links to click opera sometimes really do stick out. So the question begging to be asked is what would these two blogs be if the bloggers were writing more leasurely and totally dissasociated from any financial/career-oriented concerns - while of course wearing nikes.

conscious ammount of (occasionally crass?) self-promotion going on on both these blogs. to be specific in marxy's case i recall him actually stating that part of the reason to doing this blog is career-oriented

Yeah, that's why you see so many pictures of me on here, etc.

the comment - defense span here is so short. that's why dzima left i think.

I link to stuff I write where relevant. I also link to stuff you write where relevant too, Alin! (ie when I was blogging about the Matterhorn.) I also put pictures of myself on my blog, because we're not disembodied ASCII, we're people. I think Marxy should put more pictures of himself up here, too, because he's a fine handsome lad.

all art is a ad, all ad's are art... if it's displayed. i guess if you just keep it to yourself.. then it's not an ad. but once it goes public. it's an ad for the artist. "here is my art, if you like it, you should look at my other art." "maybe. buy something?" etc.

otherwise. people are overrated. why can't i have ASCII friends?
do all my friends have to be people with faces?

I don't consider it self promotion as much as Marxy and Momus telling what they are up to. They don't put pressure on their readers to go out and actually do anything to support them, so I can't really see how it's 'crass'. I like to hear about the projects that interesting people are working on and if I didn't find them to be interesting people I wouldn't be reading their blog to begin with. The work that people do is important. They should be allowed to talk about it freely without having to apologize for it.

conscious ammount of (occasionally crass?) self-promotion going on on both these blogs.

Add to that the huge amount of nepotist game playing going on in the background, which sort of contradicts the sort of democratic debates going on in here. If you're not in the gang, got to be prepared for some happy slapping!

Now the question that begs to be asked is: have Marxy and Alin met yet to perform some ultimate (rigged) sumo wrestling in the flesh?

Add to that the huge amount of nepotist game playing going on in the background, which sort of contradicts the sort of democratic debates going on in here. If you're not in the gang, got to be prepared for some happy slapping!

Nice narrative, but what you describe has more to do with me returning your specific nitpicky hostility. (Also your weird daily passive-aggressive posts on the Mixi Marxy community did not help things...) I have never met a majority of my commenters, and please notice that my "slapping" extends to just three of you who habitually give me a hard time above and beyond ideological arguments.

your weird daily passive-aggressive posts on the Mixi Marxy community did not help things...

I was obviously just mucking around... (no offence intended).

sometimes i just want to see where those buttons, switches are and push them to see what happenes at the risk of looking like a fool. this was obvioulsy the case with the last comment. other times i think i have quite valid points that can't be taken here because we're talking different paradigms. either way it's part of playing the alin part here (part dialectic, part immigrant, part dickhead, part virus) - it's time to reconfigure the program though.

rust before restart:

They don't put pressure on their readers to go out and actually do anything to support them, so I can't really see how it's 'crass'.

obviously most advertising itself doesn't really put pressure onto anyone anymore. i think alin's point about momus and marxy operating as micro-corporations is neither invalid nor deplorable.

the idea of marxy posting or not pictures of his handsome-self is off the point since it's not handsome-modeling products we're talking about.

a hard time above and beyond ideological arguments

you are wrong here i think but this is just a mirror-image of where things are on a macro level

(Current music:

Oh ho ho
Life can be cruel
Life in Tokyo

because the Neomarxisme hotpot is going to boil again)

On another note, please correct if I'm wrong but Marxy seems to like 19th century and modern art better than contemporary art, is that right?

Things You Didn't Know about Richard Serra's Art:

* Now that it has tasted blood, it will kill again...
* Is named "Rusty"

because the Neomarxisme hotpot is going to boil again

Do you mean you're gonna do a Tokyo-blog-guy nabe party?
Maybe trevor can join by IRC.