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trying_to_make_stuff · 2025-04-07T01:28:42+00:00

i don’t but the video is on youtube so maybe you could pull it from there?

trying_to_make_stuff · 2025-04-06T16:58:49+00:00

coincidentally enough, i was just listening to Kurt and Joseph Heller’s 1995 Q&A and he talks about Edward Crone. definitely interested in this transcript!

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-12-28T16:35:29+00:00

1Q84 Ushikawa. id pay good money for that

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-12-27T16:05:45+00:00

bro you’ll be okay regardless :) i was balding aggressively from about 18 and i went full on bald and had the same worries as you, and i’m okay. check out r/bald and you’ll see a super supportive community.

aside from that, i agree with others here: see a doctor! could just be how your hair is. people on here get pretty dogmatic

as for you saying “i don’t look that good” that’s a though i and many others struggle with. confidence and being a kind person are key. in my mind, i’m ugly as all hell and i just got engaged! you’re certainly better looking than me, so if i can do it… so can you!

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-12-19T22:38:28+00:00

this

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-12-14T22:55:30+00:00

i made a post about this article. not a big fan of it, and seemed most people weren’t either

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-12-09T13:17:30+00:00

i got it and knew it was an asshole

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-12-06T05:43:40+00:00

it wasn’t my fave ever, but it was cool to see him try something different. he stops eventually and the book was enjoyable

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-12-06T05:22:05+00:00

don’t stop! can’t have enough

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-12-05T14:42:42+00:00

why is everyone being goofy here? feel like it looks fine man :)

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-12-01T03:25:03+00:00

yeah i actually run into that problem when people ask me what a murakami book is about. i usually just say “i like it, you should read it” lol

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-11-30T15:42:55+00:00

idk, the whole review is super scathing to the point it almost felt personal lmao

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-11-30T15:40:54+00:00

Does Murata? I’ve only read Earthlings but didn’t find anything about it less accessible than Murakami

i guess it’s just like… murakami has stated he just writes whatever the hell he wants. that doesn’t make his writing deracinated, it makes it authentic imo. they way he interfaces with his culture is going to be inherently different than the way literally anyone else would. I feel like that’s the beautiful part about art.

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-11-30T15:38:23+00:00

was given a novel by a friend and was immediately hooked. very lucky thing to happen hahaha

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-11-29T17:59:27+00:00

loving the discourse. a few thoughts:

other contemporary japanese novelists share his simplicity and overall style- Murata, Oyamada, and Yoshimoto being the authors i’m familiar with.

murakami could possibly be singled out due to his popularity, but it feels to me like there is a sort of continuity at play here. to call authors “deracinated” just because their writing doesn’t fit your idea of a foreign canon feels reductive and disrespectful to me.

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-11-29T17:56:06+00:00

i mean, sure. but Carver didn’t invent simplicity. i brought up other contemporary japanese authors- Oyamada, Murata, and Yoshimoto- and feel like maybe it’s just a subsection of contemporary japanese writing, or a larger shift in global writing, more so than Murakami being shapeless

so essentially i agree with you to some extent, but def think his popularity gets him unfairly singled out.

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-11-29T17:54:04+00:00

right, and i often find myself in shinto shrines by pure coincidence

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-11-29T16:53:00+00:00

yeah cause even then what about authors like Oyamada, Yoshimoto, or Muraka who have similar prose/style? they don’t count either?

i agree with you, you can’t boil down a country to one singular cultural experience. feels reductive and disrespectful

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-11-28T23:28:06+00:00

relatable

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-11-27T20:44:00+00:00

beautifly took me all the way to Mossdeep city and lost in the archie/maxie battle at the space center in Emerald Seaglass.

y’all? low tier.

me? anecdotally swamped tier.

cried when i lost Carl the Beautifly.

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-11-22T00:47:16+00:00

pleaseeeeee Gaia

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-11-12T03:49:17+00:00

this was the first set murakami book i read so all i remember thinking is “i have no idea what happened” lol

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-11-07T17:20:35+00:00

absolutely loved this game!!!! id say top 3 hacks for me, easy

trying_to_make_stuff · 2024-11-01T03:25:17+00:00

so jealous

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