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My entire life has been focused on ‘moving to the city.’ I hear a lot of songs about ‘the city’ and see a lot of meaningful pictures of culture/daily life from ‘the city.’ Within ‘the city’ is a network of creative people and a thriving public transportation system. In the context of the city, doing even the most trivial things like ‘going to the store to buy groceries to prepare a meal’ is more meaningful than the exact same process in suburbia. (less fossil fuels)
The concept of ‘the city’ might be dead. Authentic Alts are ‘raging against the city’ because s0 many mainstreamers are ‘moving in’ (also a high cost of living). I am not sure what will be a more authentic place to live in the future: ‘the wilderness’ or ’suburbia.’
The Wilderness seems like you could ‘really chill out’ and listen to some AnCo. You can ‘be alone with your thoughts’ and just get kind of raw, unwired, and uncut.
But I feel like I could really tap into a lot of creative angst if I ‘lived in a place like suburbia.’ I could really reflect on the human experience, and how so many people will never ‘achieve happiness’ because they don’t ‘get’ how space/architecture has a direct impact on their lives’. There are just so many people around u ‘living the same life as u’ that u ‘get kinda down’ and feel ‘a lil bit meaningless.’
Where do yall think yall are going to move to?
Do yall know n e 1 who will take over my lease?
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furst?
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The Wilderness is the place to be right now, do you want to be trapped-in-suberbia-bro?
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when go all bomby all stuff can u hit the wall sts frst H8 those bros right now
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post-ironic meaninglessness, big in 2k12?
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Carls, you are so funny. I think you should move to a cabin/forest lodge with only your Mac and some mushrooms. Then fly into major cities to free present powerpoints to major companies about ‘brand strategy’ and ‘consumer research/attack plans’. You will make so much dough that you can afford to own your cabin and make gourmet meals on the campfire. DO IT!
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i live in rural RI, cnt w8 4 new apt. in provy. wnt 2 get the fux out of this boring place.
city > cuntry
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jane jacobs
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//////////Reply by Ashley
//////////Posted January 26th, 2009 at 6:09 pm
@anonypants,
You rock my world with your simple Jane Jacobs comment.
The other posts were attempts to express their wittyness and make Carl giggle. With one name you made more sense than all of them.
Who are you? Perhaps we should get married.
U are one solid Gold Bro/SIs
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//////////Reply by anonypants
//////////Posted January 27th, 2009 at 2:25 am
@Ashley,
thanks.
i am a bro.
in tragic atlanta.
jj is among my heros.
who are you?
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//////////Posted January 29th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
i now pronounce you altbro and wives
I live in the wilderness and AnCo sounds great here. Being outside in the mountains is great. Black bears and moose visit me on my porch, and sometimes I see another person when I’m out hiking/mountain biking/snowboarding/snowmobiling. Outdoor/action sports are pretty authentic here, and I wear Sorel boots over my tight pants (cause there’s a lot of snow). I drive a pick up truck into the mountains to collect huckleberries and firewood. Sometimes I host indie/electro dance parties, but most people in the wilderness prefer singer songwriters Bob Marley/Jack Johnson/Ben Harper, or electronic acts like Bassnectar, and freaky dancehall music. I still get to blog/comment on blogs via my iPhone 3G, and spend time with my iMac. Thinking about moving to the city to network/find different work/finish my marketing degree/go to concerts instead of downloading live recordings from city people like Nyctaper. The wilderness is nice but you have to trade your public transit pass for a sled/ATV, and trade your fancy shoes for a pair of boots and a chainsaw. Oh, and the girls have a little more hair and ’spirituality’ in the wilderness
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i moved out of the city back in 2k6 (too much crime, n e 1 seen Lilja 4-ever) and now i’m chillin on my fathers stud farm in the country. no AnCo, though. h8 them.
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//////////Reply by до свидания
//////////Posted January 25th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
@FG, dat is a g8 movie
s0 sad :(
h8 burb/miss city/<3 country (need a meaningful relationship w/ pretty girl/boy to take full advantage)
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CMMNT THE BLACK METAL BRO, OVR THERE!
WTF. Are black metal bros rising again?
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move 2 lebanon oregon and live in the mountains. friend did it n went str8 up nutz but now he is very in touch w his creative intellect or so he sez
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Atlanta
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wow people are still doing that whole vest and tee thing haha jesus christ
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//////////Reply by scientologist
//////////Posted January 25th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
@absolom, hahahahahahaha i love you
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the poors are revolting
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dankvibe.wordpress.com/
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wow your changin!
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this is exactly how I felt today
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thinkin of moving to canada y’all. for the healthcare and the easy access to america (via in case i change my mind)
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It’d be a bettr world if we sucessfully mixed the sense of self and ’spirituality’ of the wilderness with the modern-ness of the city. 1+1=2 y’all.
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y duz every1 in that ‘burbia have ded lawns???
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fucking brillllllliant.
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i will move to india and live in a small mntn village.
i will wander the mntns and eat only plants and curry.
i will send you postcards of me posing with keut little children,
and in 5 yrs will come home and feel “accomplished” or “enlightened” or that i actually managed to “get off drugs” and “sort my life out”
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http://ninesixtynine.com/fiore.php
“The city of Austin will soon be home to a state-of-the art residential community which will be, upon completion, the first 5-star rated green development in the United States.
Fiore has been designed to maximize opportunities for open space living, thereby enhancing residents’ experience of community life. The development will also feature a unique destination within the neighborhood: a community-shared, 40-foot-wide, pedestrian lane and park around which all of the homes have been designed. The park features a community garden, playground, hike and bike trails and a hammock court.”
meet yall in montauk…
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i understand…
i was just in the boring, plain midwest, and there was some wild kind of virtue to it
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i live in houston. where ‘the city’ is suburbia. we have no public transport save for a cpl of buses. we don’t take party pics b/c we don’t care. fuck austin, i live in houston. we skip the frontn and stick 2 keepn it ‘trill’. fuck austin, i live in houston. h8 white ppls. i’ll never move 2 the real suburbs b/c i h8 white ppls. fuck austin.
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yeah. this is how i’ve been living for awhile now. i put on the AnCo. stare at those blue ridge mountains. a small tear will roll down my cheek. i take a swig of pbr. i sigh. i am one with nature.
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//////////Reply by fagivore
//////////Posted January 26th, 2009 at 12:34 am
@m,
fkn went 2 the 12109 show @bowery ballroom &&rxxkd &&def. did N suck. i mite hav peed myself a leol bit. the christ child knoes i was getn drvnk th@ nite, they were passing glass bowls thru the crowd im all “fuck Y!!?” &&smOKed th@ shyt grey.
fl33t foxes also do N suck @all. i<3u, i<3you, o altbro o myne
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i’m trying to move out of the city
i mean, into another city.
hate suburbia.
on the real. love ohio though
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I wanna live like Whitney and live free in “The City” and work for DVF (but not rly).
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//////////Posted January 27th, 2009 at 4:46 am
@Bana, omg luv that show. MTV rly has its ‘finger on the pulse’.
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went on a road trip with 4 sbrbn friends
only listened to Slightly Stoopid and Bob Marley
smoked bowls
country=cunty
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pot makes me uncomfortable
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//////////Posted January 26th, 2009 at 2:08 am
@Joe, :(
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I lived two years in Mexico City and trust me, swimming upstream, fighting just to do the simplist things is not AUTHENTIC or even cool. It’s wasting time, energy, patience, and your very life.
Suburbia is sucessful because it’s logical and the people selected it, not that fuckhead AlGore, or some God Damned government wonk trying to tell you how to life.
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//////////Reply by M
//////////Posted January 26th, 2009 at 2:46 am
@AltCauc,
MEXICO CITY
2 words, MEX ICO
Fuck that place, I wouldn’t live there if you threatened to color treat my hair pokemone stylez.
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//////////Reply by до свидания
//////////Posted January 26th, 2009 at 9:57 am
@AltCauc, i know it doesnt fit in ur racist reactionary world view but the suburbs r sum of the worst use land in the world.
google it dawg.
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//////////Reply by AltCauc
//////////Posted January 26th, 2009 at 11:09 am
@до свидания,
Sounds like you still believe all the shit crammed down your throat.
Learn to think for yourself. Not comsume the propaganda like you’re trained to do. Are you still reading Pravda?
Besides, who gives a fuck if it’s “bad” according to some envirowacko’s view. If you like and can afford…..fucking do it! Don’t let some pencil neck geek tell you what you can and can not do.
It’s called Freedom…Liberty Google that!
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//////////Reply by до свидания
//////////Posted January 26th, 2009 at 1:39 pm
@AltCauc, yase the freedom of having your pathetic parcel of land created artificially (by the govt), i dream of sending my children to horrible schools, spending gazillions of dollars for a house ill nvr own, sitting in traffic, IF OnlY those envirowackos wernt keeping me down!!
vote ronpaul 2009
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//////////Posted January 27th, 2009 at 4:53 am
@до свидания, <3 u
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//////////Reply by до свидания
//////////Posted January 27th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
@me, tanks bro.
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//////////Posted January 29th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
@AltCauc, u really think “da peeps” selected suburbia? the fed house auth and fed hgwy auth and racist lenders r naught “da peeps” u stupid fuck
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can you still blawg from ‘the wilderness?’ how will i know when the wilderness fad has passed and it is safe to return to the city? my human instaincts just tell me to go where the tugs are. are there decent tugs in the burbs? can’t remember.
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CRLS, that lastnightsparty video ad is really messin with your mind.
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the t-shirt was awesome!
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Where ever your spirit tells you to go… and then your there. You can’t get lost if you don’t know where you are going
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I am reading this book right now called “Terminal Architecture” by Martin Pawley, a British guy who died (and was an archi-critic). He says, to paraphrase in an awful manner, that cities have been irreversibly wrecked by the car, and that this is a good thing. We have the internet, we don’t need urbano-alt-WmsbrgSPACE. The people that live in WmsbrgSPACE (Berlin is one of these) are tourists, transients, museum-goers and post-urbanites occupying places once held by industrial functions, which themselves are now DISTRIBUTED all around the countryside. Hence, terminal: these big boxes and faceless distribution centers and server farms and data centers are the real terminals which shunt us our food, energy, and information.
And then we have http://www.hotbush.com for everything else.
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