-Anatole Broyard, ‘Kafka Was the Rage’
True? What are some others? Hunting for treasure? Opening a record store?
yes, true. for me, yes to
bookshop
living off the land
hunting for treasure
and add
just walking away
yeah.
and add
just walking. walking and walking.
living in a train car
nonstop travel with my life in one suitcase
yes. yes.
another:
invent something... grand or important.
start a business.
invent something otm
start a business: yes. those sweet little specialty stores we went to on tammy’s shopping day right before i left bln (bag age, mara schmuck) revived this fantasy for me. i just feel like i could do that shit better than so many of the people who are doing it, ya know? (not referring to the two mentioned above... those are great.)
open a dance club.
yeah open a dance club. or do a dance monthly or weekly. i was thinking about ‘sunday afternoon social’ earlier tonight and how fun that’d be
yes to sunday afternoon social; sounds very fun. this slots in with my new innovation, sunday night cocktails, the perfect answer to “sunday: the slow burn. ”
monthlies check. weeklies check.
sort of silly and decadent but:
live in a hotel. be super swanky.
Owning a movie house in a smallish town and showing wonderful classic films that everyone in town has never seen, but comes to and loves.
that’s lovely, jaq. there’s a theater like that in dayton, wa (right, jergins?). well, he should tell you about it since he’s been there and i haven’t.
anyway, yes to that!
yeah dayton. they do arty movies and some popular movies and community theater. the inside is lovely.
i think maybe jaq and i talked about it once but there’s a rundown old theater in the center of pasco with a great marquee, all boarded up iirc. maybe she told me it was going going gone? it was one of those theaters that makes you dream, though, at least from the outside.
We would park outside that Pasco theater on Saturdays when we’d go to the farmers’ market. There were flurries of restoration activity, and long pauses of silence. Nothing could be seen through the windows, even where the brown paper was torn by the ticket window. I hope it opens someday with a grand fiesta and shows the films of Robert Rodriguez and Almodovar with episodes of a serialized telenovela to start each.
There’s not much I would go back to the tri-cities for, but I would go back for this.
my first thought is always HAVE a patron, but wouldn’t it also be great to BE the patron?
in the perfect world, first HAVE, then BE. PERfect world.
I will someday open a restaurant based on the principles of SAME (so all may eat). Two kinds of delicious stew or casserole (veg and not veg), maybe a salad, a freshly baked bread of some kind, butter, water, milk, or tea to drink, a simple dessert. Everyone pays what they can, everyone eats. Lunch and dinner only, maybe just on weekends at first, or a few days a week. Checkered table cloths and a comfy relaxed atmosphere.
Jaq, I love your thinking. Your restaurant sounds much like my fantasy restaurant, which is called Kitchen. Super simple, cute. I never thought about what people would pay — my fantasy is limited to the design and the fare — but the principle of SAME sounds like a terrific one, so that is now officially part of my fantasy.
live in an industrial part of town with no neighbors, other than daytime industry. be loud and carefree. have dance parties. make art. be self-sufficient.
GRIND:
GET
OUT
OF
IT
otm
this 40 hours a week bullshit is horeshit
fuck, 40+, 45–50 soon
find an abandoned cabin in the woods
fix it up and provision it, but invisibly, subtly, so no one can tell
go there when the time comes to disappear
or when everything falls apart
fuck, 40+, 45–50 soon
― jergins, Monday, October 8, 2007
oh shit here we go again
marry an heiress
an awesome cute and smart heiress
is wanting to open a bookshop really that common of a thing? doesn’t seem like it.
not for illiterates, no
what about literates?
i have a pact with my girlfriend where if were both unhappy with our career/life situation in 5 years were going to move somewhere sort of rural, maybe upstate new york or southern new jersey or somewhere in rhode island, and open a tiny little restaurant/bar with my dad as the chef with no more than 5–6 tables and just one menu every day based on what we can scrounge up and well just close the restaurant when we run out of ingredients
um thats a little more complicated than the actual pact which is just that well open a small business if we hate our lives in five years
opening a bar is probably a bigger fantasy for me than opening a bookstore, but bookstore rates pretty high
i have been thinking about this a lot because it turns out that living in the real world and having a job is not as much fun as fucking around in college
i liked your boats/sorta freedom/port post. thanks.
thanks j, i always feel really embarrassed after i barf up those long nervous personal posts about the music that i like
boats/sorta freedom/port post
referring to what, pls
paint the brick wall outside the hotel window
w00ds admitted he is totally stuck and going crazy. it was ‘a moment’ as he might say
maybe he will live off the land or just walk away
?
seems like one of those
find an abandoned cabin in the woods
fix it up and provision it, but invisibly, subtly, so no one can tell
go there when the time comes to disappear
or when everything falls apart
― lxy, Tuesday, October 14, 2008 10:07 AM
live in an industrial part of town with no neighbors, other than daytime industry. be loud and carefree. have dance parties. make art. be self-sufficient.
― lxy, Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:37 PM (7 years ago)
lxy is cool
<3 harbl
we’re nearly halfway there!
i have been thinking about this a lot because it turns out that living in the real world and having a job is not as much fun as fucking around in college
― max max max max
obv Max is unquestionable but ftr this is not my experience
max is a little questionable ime:
might as well just vote in the nazis and have done with it
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(he said that about ME!)
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the other day i said to lxy we should open an english language bookstore in montevideo but then explained it would lose money always and we’d have to actually work there and she said nahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
maybe in BA
i have worked in several bookstores; it is pretty decent
does everyone on some level wish they were a librarian?
i have before but i don’t think i’d like it
ok but what is your dream job
hmm let me try that again
https://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=23182
goddamn it
good thread
we are doing this. not off the grid by any means, just a different one. better, we hope. and no grand plans for opening any shops, etc., just making a new life in a new place. destination amsterdam, spring 2023. start making plans to see us there or meet up nearby!
are u 4 real
we just said goodbye to the jarbl, this is getting really real
!
Hard to wrap my brain around you two not being in seattle.
this is so amazing and exciting! and weirdly sad too even though seattle is a million miles from here, but i know we will meet again which is joyful and i wish you both a wonderful new life <3
i still don’t know what a jarbl is, except that i think i’m taller than it?
i think it’s a harbl-designed or introduced jar for catching fruit flies so if that’s correct it’s probably quite short
tbf harbl is quite tall. but so am i
at the risk of needlessly referencing ‘highlander’ this seems like ‘the quickening’ in which we all converge on amsterdam, but to have beers instead of behead each other
our house is for sale now, it’s a very strange feeling. maybe someone will buy it? i don’t know.
oh wowow
and our heights are marked in the basement in perpetuity
they made it through our cleaning (of course), agent’s cleaning, staging, viewing, offer, second offer, counteroffer, mutual acceptance, and pending. next up, inspection, appraisal, and sale (knock on wood fingers crossed). so far so good!
sandboxlers forever!
i just regret mookieproof and deems didn’t come to have their heights recorded. there’s
still a little time?
i was sure mookie’s was there?
hmm
I checked and no, which I’m actually glad about because otherwise it would mean I am having major memory failures.
i had beers in seattle but no measurements
perhaps we might do both in amsterdam?
definitely! <3
well now I’M having major memory failures ;_;
yeah but not about something you experienced + something you walk past multiple times a day!
true i guess it would be only a very minor memory failure
lxy has sold our data but we still <3 her vv much
<3 the data has been preserved and will travel with is where ever we go.
we’ll leave this house forever on june 5 and leave this country not forever (but maybe we’ll never live here again) on june 13ish.
v. jealous
just walking away
― lxy, Wednesday, May 2, 2007 11:19 PM (sixteen years ago)
getting close. this has been hard but i know it’ll be worth it.
<3
bon voyages
best best wisjes and so much love <3
sandbox, we made it
pix or it didn’t happen <3 <3 <3
why is everything to do with getting or getting rid of a home so stressful?
i took myself to the apple store to buy EU plugs for my devices. now i am a dutch?
you aren’t truly dutch until you post on de subjectivisten
lxy is a dutch treat
love you all, miss you all
<3
let op!
drempels
updates pls!
we move in to our apartment tomorrow! one month and one day after we left our house for the final time. it has been a ~journey~ in all the ways.
pretty sure our jergins has changed his mind about this one:
nonstop travel with my life in one suitcase
― jergins, Thursday, May 3, 2007 2:19 AM (sixteen years ago)
and i have definitely changed my mind about this:
live in a hotel. be super swanky.
― lxy, Friday, May 4, 2007 4:41 PM (sixteen years ago)
friends, it is not swanky.
we once did six weeks in a damp grimy room in a comfort inn in orlando so i second this
magic kingdom my arse sez u
we bought an apartment:
https://www.funda.nl/detail/koop/verkocht/haarlem/appartement-kleine-houtstraat-75-zw/43889988/
i love it, it’s so beautiful and perfect! congratulations<3
alas these photos do not immediately suggest that i/we could sell books there?
but in any case congratulations; i wish i too could get out of this fascist shithole
actually, the property is zoned for both residential and commercial use, and those big front windows are classic winkelramen. it’s hard to tell but there is a shop right next door. so indeed, a “business” may happen at some point in the future. not a bookstore, but maybe an atelier or open studio, or something. much needs to happen before that can be considered, though. still in “persistent romance” territory.
i love everything you are doing and wish i could manage anything even remotely comparable <3
we feel so fortunate
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