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saddleblasters

4 months ago

A poem for suboptimalism: https://saddleblasters.com/poetry/#1744557778

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sorbier 4 months ago

omfg

sorbier 4 months ago

i sent the post to my friend and she immediately fired back "he forgot the most important one: write about it on neocities"

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daliwali 4 months ago

godspeed, mr. suboptimalism in your quest to meet girls. the future of humanity rests on mr. suboptimalism's quest.

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labyrinth-limbo 4 months ago

the sheer number of reactions to his post is the gift that keeps on giving.

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saddleblasters 4 months ago

behind the humor, there was something very visceral about his post... somehow it's transcended its form

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suboptimalism 4 months ago

unfortunately i'm not in any condition to reply to emails currently...

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suboptimalism 4 months ago

i could put out engagement bait like this every week but i choose not to... what i've written about neocities history might Break this website

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saddleblasters 4 months ago

Update #1: New micro-saddle https://saddleblasters.com/records#twentysix

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saddleblasters 4 months ago

Update #2: I read another book by Houellebecq https://saddleblasters.com/trades/map

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siqu 4 months ago

The Quiet American (´･ω･`) (i dont have an email, so feel free to ignore)

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readingproject 4 months ago

I love this idea but I'm too overwhelmed with long term projects and other books on my TBR pile to participate

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saddleblasters 4 months ago

@siqu Ok! In return I suggest Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald if you haven't read it. Your writing often has a similar feel to his narration.

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swiftred 4 months ago

Regarding the micro-saddle, I really enjoy what you said about indulging in the fantasy aspect and its role and disconnect it has from reality

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suttaslime 4 months ago

"I’ve wrapped myself in an artifact of another person’s life" - i've always loved the feeling of wearing someone else's clothes, and i think this is a great way of putting it. my childish brain imagines it like an alternate costume for a video game character, or a superhero, or something; like when the black power ranger dons the green ranger's chestplate. it feels cool to adorn myself with a small part of my friends

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saddleblasters 4 months ago

I translated an interview with the noise musician Shu Ride: https://saddleblasters.com/translation/shuride

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saddleblasters 5 months ago

I took suboptimalism up on his book trade offer: https://saddleblasters.com/trades/elementary_particles

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saddleblasters 5 months ago

Also, in hopes of doing this again with someone else, I made a page for future book trades: https://saddleblasters.com/trades/

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suboptimalism 5 months ago

i've been called out... https://suboptimalism.neocities.org/secret/wang.xml

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saddleblasters 5 months ago

My plan to strong arm you into writing something worked! I will have to add Wang Xiaobo to your Murakami vs. Houellebecq analysis at some point and make a three way venn diagram out of them, since he also exhibits many similarities and interesting differences...

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saddleblasters 5 months ago

Also you might have read it already, but Vonnegut's Bluebeard is another meditation on "what is art?" that specifically focuses on Pollock. I like to pair it with his earlier novel Deadeye Dick, narrated by the son of a failed painter.

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suboptimalism 5 months ago

haven't read either of those but i have read the one that came out right in between the two, galapagos...

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swiftred 5 months ago

I really enjoyed reading ‘On Waking’ !

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malletunderheaven 5 months ago

good shit bud

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saddleblasters 5 months ago

I wrote an essay about noise performances I saw last year and poems I wrote about them: https://saddleblasters.neocities.org/essays/noise_poetry

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daliwali 5 months ago

Chinese noise is crazy... i know about Merzbow, Masonna, Gerogerigegege, Les Rallizes Dénudés, ...but had not much clue about the Chinese noise scene.

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saddleblasters 5 months ago

I only really talked about the Shanghai scene in this essay. If you're curious about the Beijing scene, you can read Yan Jun's English language writing (though a lot of it is outdated): https://www.thewire.co.uk/about/contributors/yan-jun/yan-jun_which-hell-do-you-prefer_

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saddleblasters 5 months ago

Added a section for short pieces that don't fit what "records of a saddle" has come to represent.

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sorbier saddleblasters

6 months ago

thanks for pointing out the delineation of xiang3 vs think. it's tempting to draw conclusions about what the two languages presume is primarily on your mind (desires vs beliefs). in general i think it's really fun to observe how the two different language (families) draw lines around concepts and group them into words -- thinking/speaking in mandarin changes how i think about things compared to english.

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sorbier 6 months ago

that said i think (haha, jue2de) that the average mandarin word performs more roles than the average english word, which renders mandarin more figurative/conceptual broadly. apologies for stating it so definitively though -- agree that it's totally my subjective impression.

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palmistshouse 7 months ago

A local venue that my friends would perform at frequently recently shut down and is set to be demolished. It's always so heartbreaking when those kinds of things happen :-((

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balckwell 7 months ago

In our apartment, "upstairs" is the top shelves of the kitchen cabinets that my wife can't reach.

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readingproject saddleblasters

7 months ago

Sorry. You would have probably gotten an email sent to you from neocities from a post I made about your RSS not working. It does. Ignore it. I'm an idiot

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underwhite 7 months ago

you know you can disable email notices right? I did it for my site cuz it's unnerving

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readingproject 7 months ago

Thanks for that. I’ll look into it. I assume others get them because I do.

saddleblasters 7 months ago

I have email notifications turned on so I did see the messages, but it's fine! This is exactly the sort of mistake I can imagine myself making too haha. Glad to hear RSS actually does work. I'd used a validator to check it and had tested subscribing to it myself, but as always was a bit paranoid I might have done something wrong.

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readingproject saddleblasters

7 months ago

Thanks for your interest in our site. I found your follow this morning and started reading through your site. Despite lack of sleep and very tired eyes, I just kept reading. I felt what you said about dogs, among other things. They are great animals and can get a rough deal sometimes. Hoping to read more from your site. Cheers

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saddleblasters 7 months ago

Thank you for the kind words! I'd seen your website before, but it was only yesterday that I finally started reading through some of the reviews you did last year (*The Red and the Black* and *The Ark Sakura* to be specific) and I felt like you did a good job writing about some very tough-to-analyze books.

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saddleblasters 7 months ago

Added RSS!

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saddleblasters 7 months ago

Also, despite the frivolousness of it all, I translated some Milk@Coffee lyrics in honor of madeinv's most recent post

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cult-master-status 7 months ago

good advice

cult-master-status 7 months ago

but I still left some words of disencouragement

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daliwali 7 months ago

two girlfriends... gigachad.jpg

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saddleblasters 7 months ago

Well, that phrase only describes the situation in retrospect. At the time I didn't really think of it that way exactly, and spent all day worried that they both hated me (the internet girlfriend had already broken up with me once before, during which time I met the real life girlfriend... it was all very complicated, and being honest to everyone didn't really help (i was in fact slightly insane at the time))

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cult-master-status 7 months ago

eww you make becomeing an adult sound really terrible id hate to go to collage and spend a couple of years like that but I cant really say everything up until this point has been any less chaotic then your story regardless im little more scared about becomeing and adult now if stuff like that can happen on a side note you are a very good writer

saddleblasters 7 months ago

for a whole host of reasons, i have a greater propensity for bad decision making than most people, so i wouldn't read into my experiences too much. you'll probably be fine. that said, i don't really feel like anything i've written about was that terrible. it's just the long road to understanding other human beings.

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cult-master-status 7 months ago

yeah your right I avoid everyone so I havent had a chance to really mess up yet I think I can still be pretty sure I will tho not because of "bad decisions" but because of who I am as a person

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