6/24/08

the lower class can read my next novel

i want to target young black youth in ghettos

poor people in taiwan can work in street markets then go home and read three to six pages from my next novel then go to sleep feeling consoled for some reason

people can save up money recycling cans to buy my next novel

there is an untapped market, that market is not hipsters

i feel confused right now sort of

i know my target demographic is hipsters

i don't know what i'm trying to do right now

i just deleted many lines about delivering pizza

i want my next novel to be like a 10-piece chicken nugget meal from mcdonald's

mcdonald's 10-piece chicken nugget meals look very clean and refined, like something has been taken from nature and worked on a lot, making it seem very unnatural and exciting and without bacteria or sand on it

the opposite of a 10-piece chicken nugget might be the 1/2 dragon bowl from angelica kitchen if purchased for take out

the 1/2 dragon bowl gets 'compacted' into a tiny container, when you open the container a moment of confusion is experienced, you see something that has no primary colors and is really wet and mushy and gives off images that do not make you think of specific foods, and then a thought process must occur where you think about what it factually is before you can eat it and feel healthy, it looks like a livejournal entry by a 13-year-old girl who has a degenerate disease that makes her look like an 65-year-old woman which you can see from her profile picture

a 10-piece chicken nugget appears just really good, it has bright colors, the container is colorful and looks expensive and does not contain any colors that make you think about being 65-years-old like gray or brown and no colors that make you feel like life is really shitty like dull purple or dull green, it is never mushy or wet, and when you look at it it is difficult to not eat it with barbeque sauce unless you first apply logic to your brain and make yourself think about certain things, hopefully my next novel can be like that a little

some aspects of a 10-piece chicken nugget are maybe not things i want my next novel to be like

i just want my next novel to feel very clean and not make anyone feel dirty

if someone is reading my next novel and eating organic grapes they should feel severely detached in a high-quality way that is very enjoyable

40 Comments:

Blogger ryan manning said...

serious literature

5:45 AM  
Blogger Ignacio said...

i watched a dvd of a movie made in brazil and it had cockfighting in it as did 'cavite' which is from the philippines and it occurred to me that this 'sport' is popular with poor people all over the world wherever they have chickens

it's just some chickens fighting to death and maybe 'red' or whoever feels like russell crowe in 'gladiator' and gets high on

adrenalin and testosterone or something which might be fun before you get cut up and dipped in batter with special spices

and fried

but you seldom ever see any of the winners in a limo with 2 augmented babes

named ashleigh and

jenna haze

9:09 AM  
Blogger OutOfContext said...

This post seems clean to me.
It got me thinking of clean entertainment.
When I think of clean entertainment I think of "A Hard Days Night". Paul's grandfather is very clean. John takes a bath in it and shows George how to shave. Ringo lays his coat on a mud puddle and though the woman plunges into the mud, it is still very clean.
I am very literal.
That's clean.
I do not see grapes in literature but I find it perfectly natural that you do.
I see your large grapes.
That's clean.
That is clean.
For a second there I felt that a contraction was not clean.
I have swept so many letters under the rug.
I apologize for writing more than the six words at the beginning of this comment.

9:51 AM  
Blogger Roo said...

I could really go for a 10-piece chicken nugget meal right now.

Somebody get me some nuggets.

10:07 AM  
Blogger Mandy said...

i don't know, a 5-piece chicken nugget meal is probably better. by the 8th chicken nugget most people start to remember why it was a bad idea to get chicken nuggets in the first place. which is why it's mind-boggling that you can buy a 20-piece chicken nugget meal. if you say chicken nuggets too many times it sounds really fucking gross. nuggets. ew.

10:21 AM  
Blogger Zachary German said...

'life is meaningless'

1:17 PM  
Blogger jereme said...

Ah this is the Tao that I love to read.

Good stuff.

Babies can communicate. A baby can be taught sign language before the vocal skills develop.

Babies have cognitive thought.

You might want to think about including that some how into your book. You can expand your readership by a large amount if babies buy your book.

I actually just finished listening to C.R.E.A.M. an hour ago.

I hear different things in their songs but I like your thought process.

I miss Ol Dirty Bastard.

I think my writing is like Hagis. It looks like shit and only a few people really enjoy it.

I have no use for aesthetics. I am a brute.

Cash Rules Everything Around Me.

And watch out for the cops.

2:43 PM  
Blogger jereme said...

Mandy,

You are thinking of Wendy's. they are the only fast food place that sells 5 piece nuggets.

Wendy's is not as sterile and aesthetically pleasing as McDonald nuggets.

I concur with mr. german.

2:45 PM  
Blogger Mandy said...

the smallest nugget meal you can get at Macdonalds is a 10-piece? that's weird and gross.

3:13 PM  
Blogger jereme said...

I think McDonald's is 6, 10 and 20 unles you get the kids mean which is 4.

it has been awhile but i remember those numbers have not changed since I was a little kid when the great processed meat nugget was introduced into popular society as we know it.

3:20 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

i like braveheart more than gladiator

3:51 PM  
Blogger KEN BAUMANN said...

i like this post

4:18 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

my novel is being a little bitch right now

5:03 PM  
Blogger Mandy said...

oh thank you jereme, that was very informative.

5:06 PM  
Blogger jereme said...

yes Mandy you are quite welcome.

I would like to believe that part of my brain would have been used to remember a beautiful girls smile, or a massive storm on the beach or a sunset or something productive.

But it wasn't. My brain is chock full of uselessness.

5:13 PM  
Blogger dottie bones said...

i really liked reading this.

7:15 PM  
Blogger dottie bones said...

i loved reading this.

7:15 PM  
Blogger jereme said...

oh way to go ignacio

just piss on our dreams from your ivory tower

why do you have to rob us of this simple joy

4:39 AM  
Blogger Glen Binger said...

Tao, I pasted my depressing poem on your eBay post.

So you know.

I suck at life...

11:21 AM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

i have read it glen, good job

i hate america so much

3:47 PM  
Blogger Glen Binger said...

Haha, thank you.

6:07 PM  
Blogger JimK said...

too much mccartilage

10:43 PM  
Blogger Kathryn said...

this is funny. that third paragraph is perfect.

12:27 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

i want to eat five burgers from counter

5:24 PM  
Blogger me said...

i read this when i was drunk and there was something about feeling lied to while eating mangoes.

i guess you deleted it but i really like the idea of that.

5:42 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

i deleted it, it was ruining my career i felt

5:43 PM  
Blogger me said...

obviously not, because one meaningless reader returned to see it again

AND IT IS GONE

I AM NEVER COMING TO YOUR SITE AGAIN

mango
mango
mango

5:59 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

i don't know the consequences of my choices

here is the mango thing:

to me 'the stranger' by albert camus is like a mango

i feel like i'm being lied to when i eat a mango, i know i will need to eat other things at some point, i know that i will not be able to survive in a sane manner if i keep eating only mangos, i also know that i will feel better if i eat something else soon, so that there is a different taste in my mouth

6:04 PM  
Blogger jereme said...

Don't you need a career to ruin first?

I joke, I kid.

I liked the longer version of the post.

I am sad to see you conform and remove the longer version.

6:05 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

i edited it, my blog is a work of art, i edit it like i edit a novel or story

my life is a work of art, i will edit anything, nothing is outside the possibility of ruining my career, cash flow can be stopped

cash flow + art + bitch ass hos

i feel strange right now like i'm on livejournal or something

6:08 PM  
Blogger me said...

i think i just like the phrase "i feel like i'm being lied to when i eat a mango."

i'm trying really hard to think about how the stranger is like a mango, but i have read it too many times and can only think of early college and bad mistakes i made then so it's hard to think of mangoes. there is also a fly flying around right now so i can't concentrate. anyway, it's ok that you deleted it, i just really like the phrase and think it should be made into some sort of artwork.

6:10 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

maybe i can record myself saying that on youtube and it can become 'viral'

6:11 PM  
Blogger me said...

i am drinking wine and listening to lil wayne and new order back and forth. can we make that viral?

6:13 PM  
Blogger me said...

no we can't.

yes, i agree you can edit anything however the fuck you want.

i like that you said that

6:13 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

i'm not sure if that can become viral

6:14 PM  
Blogger jereme said...

I did not say "do not edit your blog"

I said I am sad that you conformed to pressure and fear of ruining your career.

You conformed to the voice inside your head.

This does not mean the new, edited post is "bad".

It is distilled and refined.

I like the raw writing.

It humanizes you.

I feel "connected" because I can tell you are a fellow human.

That is all.

Existential mango despair forever.

6:18 PM  
Blogger Tao Lin said...

i understand jereme

the future is uncertain

my brain tells me things

my brain tells me other things

my actions seem disconnected and somehow 'unviable'

i don't know

6:20 PM  
Blogger OutOfContext said...

I say "do not edit your blog".
I say "edit the comments of others".
Otherwise you compromise your voice.

I like blogs where your comments must be approved by a moderator. It keeps me from being immoderate. Also, it is wonderful to see "This comment has been removed by the blog administrator". I feel like I am reading a redacted government document. I don't like seeing "This comment has been removed by the author", especially when it is immediately followed by a comment by the same author.

10:29 AM  
Blogger bruce said...

what is so wrong with livejournal? stop hating.

2:29 PM  
Blogger Matt Plummer said...

I love your description of the half dragon. xxx000

7:51 PM  

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