[Lain]

@lain: loving it so far, it's expanding my approach a bit which is good, I was struggling a bit and this is helping a ton.

Yeah not only is it historically accurate in everything that the teams tried, but it also gives some guides on how to make your own homebrew mods and all the methodology used to get past the bootloader shit.

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Guess I'll also drop what I'm getting through.

I read After Dark like I mentioned in last post. Amazing book, it captures the atmosphere of a modern (slightly-dystopian) Tokyo and the entire book takes place in one night ranging from love hotels, a Denny's, the basement of an apartment building, an office, and just shows all sorts of different lives and how the night isn't all that different than the day. Dunno if I like Murakami's writing style since it really sounds like he wants to write more about horny Beatles fans, but it was a really good book.

Considering starting Killing Commendatore next, since I also got an audiobook of that.

Currently getting through K-Punk, the late great theorist Mark Fisher's blog about the cancellation of the future through pop-culture and how nostalgia is essentially what most pop-culture is feeding off of (I mean, look how popular citypop/lofihiphop/mallcore is nowadays, sampled from 80s songs, and today while out, I heard old Jonas Brothers songs and Green Day's Holiday playing on the radio.)
Also great if you want to understand modern trends from a more philosophical standpoint, but keep in mind that Mark Fisher was British so most of his works will allude to the British punk movement of the 70s, with punks screaming 'No Future' and whatnot. The intro to acid communism is also in the book, which is what I found really interesting, and sounds exponentially more optimistic than his book 'Capitalist Realism' in which he describes the other end of Marx, where Marx would talk about revolutions throughout the ages in his writings (think: the manifesto talking about the French Revolution,) Fisher talks about how a slightly modified version of capitalism is instated as a result of every revolution and that true communism isn't impossible because of human nature being oppressive, but that it's what people are familiar with and can compatibly work with.

Also finished reading some of Joyce's works (Dubliners, mainly.) Great collection of short stories, not that I actually enjoy the writing or style (I really don't), but I find it extremely reminiscent of my own hometown and this sort of grainy and slightly pessimistic outlook on life. Ulysses is next on the list, after I finish Gravity's Rainbow already (It's been nearly a year since I started.)