It's interesting to me that only about 15 years later, the impressions of what the aughts were like is already this off. It makes me wonder how wrong our impressions of past decades are at this point.
100%. Not head-to-toe, and Beacon’s Closet was preferable, but absolutely. I did once accompany The Faint to get free Diesel Jeans tho. So that too was a thing.
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again i think americans come up with pornographic fantasies where they are the primary victims and cross-bearers of their imperial adventures (which is never the case) out of a latent nationwide desire to be punished for existing mixed with malignant narcissism
it sounds dumb but it took me until 30 to internalize that people just say anything and it behooves you to ignore them and focus on what they do and how what they do makes you feel.
i think thinking about yourself too much is a common form of modern neurosis. you can’t think yourself out of a problem most of the time you just have to do things and live. you’ll be surprised at how many things end up resolving themselves that way
i learned more about christianity when i stopped being a christian than i ever did in the church. learning about religion from an educational/historical perspective is so much better than learning about it as a stan
I worked at one of the big ad agencies in the early aughts fresh out of college. They put me in charge of the pbr street teams. So I can speak with authority here: Millennial hipsterism was a product. All the bands and apparel were chosen for you. You weren't cool you were a mark
This is honestly why I prefer Kawabata, because on the aggregate Mishima and Dazai are “I’m such a uniquely miserable little whelp” while Kawabata is “we are all making each other miserable in our attempts to not be”
Honestly, a reading of the Backrooms film as "misandrist" (and I'm not saying this in a moralizing or complaining spirit) makes a lot more sense than "racist." The crux of the narrative is basically a female shrink taking a socially dysfunctional male to task for his narcissistic and destructive patterns of behavior; the monstrous "Pirate Clark" is a physical manifestation of this toxic "pattern" in the protagonist's head. It destroys him because Clark makes the deliberate, conscious decision to not oppose it. The movie was practically saying, 'hey, dudes, sorry about the loneliness epidemic and all that, but it's impossible to help those who won't even help themselves.'
You didn't "make Mishima popular." He's one of the most well-known post-war Japanese authors alongside Osamu Dazai. You larped that he was some obscure esoteric sigma male warrior poet and then people responded by rightfully pointing out that he was a homosexual larper.
@phre@THEAnimeHERO As far as I know, Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett is a huge fan of anime and manga (this was especially evident in some photos where he mostly showed his interest/love for Go Nagai's works, at a point he even took a photo with him).