What are you reading?

[Faust]

at this point i am convinced mamaboy is dominidior/dioruchka of the Golden Age of Hedi Slimane at MSN Groups Dot Com

Even if it's not, I'd like to pretend it is. Long time no see, my main man.

Dioruchka, for sure. He misspelled it though - he meant to be durochka.

[destroyed]

Reading Infinite jest

[mamaboy]

proust again ...."new year could be such sad time for lonely people.."....

[mamaboy]

strange enough intellect only rarely has something to do with taste...even taste for literature....and acqiuring even alittle taste is such a painfull and sometimes humiliating process...
limonov edichka:"roden mudak"---how true...

[AKA*NYC]

strange enough intellect only rarely has something to do with taste...even taste for literature....and acqiuring even alittle taste is such a painfull and sometimes humiliating process...
limonov edichka:"roden mudak"---how true...

[Faust]

This strangely reminds me of...

[philip nod]

i think im in need of a parrot

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/magazine/04Creatures-t.html?_r=1&hp

[AKA*NYC]

i've always perceived limonov as a political performance artist, a nationalist andy kaufman or something to that effect. his early novels, some of which are translated into english are fantastic, especially "it's me eddie." the title of that newspaper is great: a pun on his name and "hand grenade."

[Faust]

i've always perceived limonov as a political performance artist, a nationalist andy kaufman or something to that effect. his early novels, some of which are translated into english are fantastic, especially "it's me eddie." the title of that newspaper is great: a pun on his name and "hand grenade."

I'll take your Edichka and raise you a Zhirik. Sorry everyone for crash course in Russia's "politics."

[AKA*NYC]

I'll take your Edichka and raise you a Zhirik. Sorry everyone for crash course in Russia's "politics."

amazing

[loveless]

joan didion - play it as it lays

brutal brevity, somewhere btw mccarthy and easton elis but she preceeds them and is a chic which is whats amazing..

[AKA*NYC]

that is an actual russian politician, by the way. or was, at one point.

translation:

"shit, if you'd like, we've got the weapons and, shit, overnight.. our scientist could, you know, slightly alter the earth's gravitational field, leaving your whole fucking country underwater. 24 hours is all we fucking need and your whole damn country will be at the bottom of the fucking pacific-atlantic ocean. shit, who do you think you're fucking with? you fucking think about it. you fucking understand where it got bonaparte? where it got hitler ? you'll be making an error of historic proportions. your daddy won't be so grateful to ya! forget about him - yer daddy -- your own generals are telling ya don't fucking go starting a war. its not too late. its still the 21st of june, 1945.. but if tomorrow morning you send yer planes to make em bomb.. isssgonna be your grave, you're gonna die in this war. & nobody's gonna bury you because you're going to impact the whole country, the whole of humanity. six billion people have no desire for this war, six billion! (gestures to show 6 on the fingers of his hands) SIX!! SIX BILLION, YOU FUCKING ILLITERATE, can you count? ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR! FIVE! SIX! BILLION! the entire planet's against you. you're the only one looking for war, just you and that bitch condaleeza rice, the half-black bitch who needs (unintelligible). you need to send her over here, we've got the Tamanskaya division*, the guys will calm her down right proper like, over at the barracks in an evening's time they will, and i'm telling you she won't be going around looking for no war, you hear? fuck, she's gonna be drowning in russian sperm, that shits gonna be coming out of her ears. this ain't no monica lewinski who'd suck it off once - fuuuuck, now the way we do our sucking over here's gonna leave her crawling back on all fours to the russian embassy in moscow, shit. george, you've gotta stop..(singing) come back homie.. george.. why don't you just head on over to the casino.. over to las vegas.. and lets just be done with the whole lot of this, aight.. all's quiet in bagdad*

1 - 'tamanskaya' is the well-known russian mechanised infantry division.
2 - 'all's quiet in bagdad' is lyrics quotation from a well-known song, though i forget where from exactly..

merz you are amazing. brilliant translation. all's quiet in baghdad.

[Faust]

The Gift by Lewis Hyde

[D_S]

Hilarious, id love to read more of this guys rants

[Faust]

Hilarious, id love to read more of this guys rants

plenty more