tao lin thread? he seems to be really, really into drugs now and is soon to be publishing a non-fiction work on terence mckenna. compared to how venomous the rest of the world is right now, he seems like a charming fool and i wish him the best.
maybe he'll be better at nonfiction than fiction, as he seems like he would be very meticulous. the fact that supposedly he pulled a wake-and-bake every day while writing it might not bode well, though.
Has anybody here read taipei? I kind of liked the first 3 pages I read
Jack Reed
i almost bought it but then i remembered the dude is annoying shill so i put it back
Ryder Reed
i read it the whole thing, actually. i liked the part about smuggling drugs inside a cd case. the part actually in taipei had a cozy, almost vaporwave feel to it.
Julian Young
Hey Jax, don't blame me for your own retardation. If you fucked yourself into a position you can't undo, nice fucking job, that's on you. Born from seeds of cruelty you reap your awful fruits, deal with it. Don't look for sympathy or guilt from me, you burned that bridge, or don't you remember?
Fuck off and fuck yourselves, if you don't like the situation, say something about it. Go ahead, I dare you.
M, R, J, B, C.
You brought this on yourselves, I have you ample opportunity to do the right fucking thing. Too bad.
Hunter Perry
don't trigger my schizophrenia like that brah
Blake Edwards
Go to bed fatherdubs, danny, tao lin, mira, or whoever else made this thread.
Jace Cooper
Ok guy you just keep paying up and say whatever you want, I got my revenge ten times over. Habe fun. And remember, if the collections start to be too much, you can always just, you know, say something about it.
Something tells me you won't.
Henry Torres
Man, I love Tao Lin. Lit shouldnt be some pretentious dragons and fantasy shit. ITs that KMART FICTION. We all from the kmart parking lots. I wanna relate to the mundane things in life. Turn the sidewalk into a cosmic experience. Then life dont seem so dreadful. He pretty much inspired me to write whatever nonsense i can think of and edit later. Then you have a manifestation of ur consciousness in that specific point in your life and you can look back on it a realize it was ur purpose to share ur dread all this while. WATCH MUMBLECORE ON YOUTUBE.
Liam Perry
stop advertising your terrible "book" here
William Reed
I like this old forced meme better than that new forced meme.
Alexander Fisher
there's something very knausgaardian about him
Cameron Barnes
he sounds like he's on the verge of either laughing or crying in this clip.
Noah Smith
one of them has a long recording of him peeing
Dylan Ortiz
lol. he should make an album of this stuff. frickn gold
is he 9/11 truther btw? if he was id have more respect for him.
Xavier Rivera
He seems to just be getting into 9/11 stuff lol. Seems like he mostly cured his autism with drugs, but he's starting going off the deep end now.
Jaxson Richardson
Go to bed, Tao.
Isaac Barnes
One of the most pointlessly depressing books I’ve ever read. Though at the same time it made me kinda feel good for not having such a terrible life as Tao / his protagonist.
Nicholas Cooper
why is "fingered" in quotes? what is the stylistic effect he is trying to achieve? detachment? irony?
he seems to be focusing on the chemical in roundup and crusading against that for some reason now
Noah Rivera
>*record scratch. freeze frame* "You are probably wondering how I got into this situation" *cooking by the book feat. Lil Jon starts playing*
>compared to how venomous the rest of the world is right now What in the fuck does this mean
Samuel Scott
have you read the news lately? have you been on facebook? the world is a powder keg ready to explode. each morning when i wake up i think that i'm going to find that civil work has broken out in america or that some big murderous rampage has happened in europe.
tao lin is a remnant of the old "post-bush pre-trump" hipster class. they've almost completely vanished as a species.
Jaxson Brooks
*smokes weed once*
>terence mckenna did nothing wrong >9/11 was an inside job >plants are people too >pesticides are ruining everything
Henry Fisher
>still being worried about rampages in europe
It's the new status quo mate, that's what you get with multiculturalism.
Luckily a lot of the times most of the victims are the people who are part of the problem, urbanite progressive refugees welcome types.
John Jackson
Hi Tao, Hi Mira
Carter Nguyen
Tai Pei really lacked a good ending. It seemed like a nook about the "descent" of an author, he began to use more and more drugs and have tender and more tenuous relationships, and the novel was quite depressing but then it just kind of ended, concluding in some stupid mushroom-influenced epiphany about the value of life or some shit.
Samuel Long
what is it about weed that makes certain ideas like this more plausible? it's certainly true in my life that ever since i started smoking i've gotten more interested in "hippie shit" and conspiracies. is there some direct pharmaceutical explanation re: brain chemistry or something?
Caleb Russell
Yes but is Tao redpilled on the jews like Veeky Forumss favorite author Kevin MacDonald?
Jaxson Ortiz
it opens the miiind maaan
Lucas Lee
tao might be just one trip away from parentesis posting
Christian James
lol nah
Ethan Cooper
It was so obviously autobiographical and depressing to the point that it actually was not bad. However I liked his short stories more.
Jason Williams
An open mind is like a fortress with its gates unbarred and unguarded...
Gavin Parker
Will he ever recover?
Joseph Diaz
He doesn't seem the prescriptivist type.
Adam Gonzalez
>he seems to be really, really into drugs now I think it's the type of drugs that really shifted.
He used to be into adderal, benzos and opiates. Now it's weed and psychedelics.
David Hall
>in this clip more like in this life
Kevin James
correcting tao lin for saying "less" instead of "fewer" is like correcting mccarthy for forgetting quotation marks
Juan Williams
grammar aside, it seems really bizarre for him to post this considering twitter is what made him famous
Kevin Campbell
Good morning Tao.
Nicholas Bell
I read it, it was decent.
Hunter Martin
This is painful
Robert Baker
>why is "fingered" in quotes? what is the stylistic effect he is trying to achieve? detachment? irony? I guess it's too metaphoric for him. youtube.com/watch?v=d2BJSV8Q1Yw
also, i wonder what it's like to have sex with tao lin. i imagine he is very submissive in bed.
Jayden Long
Nice wife beater there Anthony Fantano.
Charles Gray
It pushes you to actually think for yourself and examine your own beliefs. Unfortunately most smokers still do not possess critical thinking skills so they simply flip from their suburban brainwashing beliefs to believing in easy and simplistic takedowns of that brainwashing.