i sold my myspace account sold for $8100
i'm rich not sure what to blog about
i made a 'myspace account on ebay' collage to commemorate what has happened to me
still feel 'dead,' or 'empty,' on the inside
like a 'used' bottle of 'synergy' brand kombucha in a dark alleyway 'deep' in queens
am i lost or is 'everyone else' lost
seems like i'm probably inside a 'major downward spiral' right now, as i blog for the fourth consecutive day in a 'demystifying, livejournalesque, non-iconic-status-forming' manner
feels like the next 1-16 months are going to be 'insane'
i have images of coconut water somehow 'running away' from me when i'm really thirsty, or else evaporating 'extra fast' as i'm trying to pour it into my mouth
seems like i should buy a farm in tennessee
but then it seems like that isn't what i should buy
seems like i should buy a trampoline or 'amphetamines'
should i buy pizza
what can money buy
can money buy a wounded lemur or chimpanzee for the sole purpose of 'nursing it back to health'
should i go on an african vacation, a vacation to africa, to see lions
is a twenty-dollar bill sad or happy
where does money go after you spend it, in terms of yourself
what effect will the existence of shoplifting from american apparel and then richard yates have on my weekly carbohydrate intake, will a graph of it 'seem' 'interesting'
will any of my tumblr memes ever go viral
and will bookforum ever review one of my books
107 Comments:
buy weed and pizza
did you sell it to yourself?
obv. you need to either buy a llama farm on mexico
donate it to save the whales (or ocean sunfish)
some kind of charity
how many acres of rainforest could you buy
take that special someone to the amazon, turns out piranhas aren't that aggressive
damn
leafmiles
sometimes i wonder what anyone is.
stumbling upon this page kind of reaffirms our uselessness
I call shenanigans.
Very loco site, Mr. Lin, Tao amigo.
Checked out your stories at diverse other sites from your wiki. It's late night here in Chile, but I'll read them thoroughly tomorrow first time in the morning.
Great style so far!
its sad & pathetic that you have to lie
you are nothing but a joke
you think this is shit-talking but it is pity and fear from someone who used to like & admire you
its a shame what you have turned into
sad
i think its too late for you now
you know nobody paid $8100
your enablers will cheer you on
'buy weed and pizza' etc.
is this what you want?
people in the literary world do not respect you
the people who don't care will cheer you on
the people who want something from you will cheer you on
the people who dont really know the person and the writer you used to be will cheer you on
but you will know, i think
and i think some decent part of you is disgusted with yourself
disgusted that you have to say "i'm rich" when you know you dont have much money
that you keep having to do these degrading things
really, the worst honest job is a zillion times less degrading than what you've done here, tao
i can't bear to see what you turned into
'damn' you will write to this
or not
ironic or whatever
but deep down you know
deep down when we're all alone and late at night and we're lying in bed and can't sleep none of us are ironic
you will just dismiss what i am writing now
the cool anonymous or real people will mock me
'we mock what we are to become'
you once made fun of writers who made asses of themselves
now you have become one of them
i hope you will still change back
or maybe i was just wrong in the first place
either way, i feel sad
not angry
you think doing shit like this will make people care about you
sad sad sad if it works
i can't read your blog anymore, its too too painful
the opposite of funny
the opposite of entertaining
if i see one more set of single quotation marks around decent words, i think i will vomit
you make me sick
really sick
i have to stop now
please think about yourself and 'i'm rich' and all the lies you tell others and you tell yourself
no one is being hurt more than you
in the end, and you know it already, you are alone
the only person you have to answer to are not moronic anonymous bloggers or hipsters who don't give a shit about you as a person or as a writer or the blank numbers of the hits you are trying to get
this is, as was said in the last post's comments, the saddest and most depressing story i ever read
and you are responsible for it
i guess i should thank you
thank what you've become
but i just feel terribly, terribly sad
i wish for you it were 2005 or 2006 again
sad
....fuck that guy.
but seriously, save the polar bears, tao. or just buy one. or bookforum. then they'll have to do the review.
i feel afraid
crap i'm scared for you tao. be careful, people's perception's are incredibly fragile
8th commenter:
i feel like your comment is still shit-talking
you are intentionally casting a negative light on tao
if you are going to call tao out on being dishonest than be honest yourself
shit-talking 5,000, 8th commenter
Someone e-mailed me and asked if I wrote that rant. I did not.
@anonymous (8th commenter)
can you elaborate, i'm interested in reading more
@anonymous (above this comment)
who are you, seems interesting
hi em
think i saw you at that thing hosted by ellen frances
shit-talkers have been defeated by the mighty dollar. feels like nothings at stake here now.
Hi Tao,
I never know quite what to think or feel after reading the comments here, but this time I thought I'd chime in to say hello, and to say congratulations on the extra cash.
M.
Congrats, bro.
Best of luck!
Best,
Carles
"deep down when we're all alone and late at night and we're lying in bed and can't sleep none of us are ironic"
that is a great line. it is very true. being cynical and ironic all the time is sad. it just makes other people sad, which in return makes you more sad.
i love your work though tao. i think you are important.
am i on acid, what is happening tao, are you okay
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Yeah, that makes sense. Nobody bids for 5 days and then l***m bids constantly, raising his price offer every few minutes or hours with nobody bidding against him, till the last minute when someone steps in and outbids him and then he outbids that person.
You can live in a fantasy world.
And you expect Bookforum to review a loser/liar/pathetic jerk like you? That commenter had it right, you're just a joke now.
Justin Taylor and other "friends" of this pathetic guy, how do you sleep at night? You're watching your "friend" kill himself in public and doing nothing.
From The Telegraph (UK)
Penniless author sells shares in next novelShameless self-promotion or the future of the publishing industry? A young novelist is selling shares in his next book, to allow him to quit work and concentrate on his writing.
By Matthew Moore
Last Updated: 4:54PM BST 04 Aug 2008
Tao Lin's first novel Eeeee Eee Eeee is at 29,914 in the Amazon sales rankings Investors can pay $2,000 (£1,000) in return for a 10 per cent share of the royalties of Tao Lin’s as-yet-unfinished second novel.
Tao posted details of his “initial public offering” on his popular literary blog last week and claims to have already lined up buyers for five of the six shares.
He predicts, with little supporting evidence, that the novel will sell at least 13,000 copies in the US within two years, and that investors should be able to turn a profit within 40 months.
With potential film and reprint rights included, investors would then continue to reap dividends “every 6 months for the rest of their lives without having to do anything," Tao predicts.
Tao admits that he hopes publicity generated by his innovative money-raising strategy will itself boost sales of the book, but he also says that being publicly owned – at least in a professional sense - would boost his motivation.
“People who buy shares will actually help me focus more on the novel,” he wrote on his blog.
“I actually will work better on my second novel, the way the novel is right now, if I have no obligations or responsibilities at all.”
And the 25-year-old says he likes the idea of a group of capitalists having a financial interest in his sales.
“If anyone buys shares they will have concrete motivation to promote me and that also will increase sales,” he wrote.
“If people buy shares I will probably, I think, make even more money than if I had not sold shares of my royalties.”
The shares can be sold on at any time, and investors will receive cheques in the post every six months after the book’s publication, which is due to be in late 2009 or early 2010, Tao promises.
Tao wants the money to cover his living costs over the three-to-four months he says he needs to complete the novel, after quitting his job as poetry editor of a literary magazine
Signing an orthodox book deal with a publisher would only have given him about a month to finish the work, he claims.
But given the fickle nature of literary success, and Tao’s fairly vague details on the sales of his previous books, why would anyone risk the $2,000? Tao's first novel, EEEEE EEE EEEE is currently at 29,914 in the Amazon.com sales rankings.
The author has a wry answer. “People who buy shares will also have more meaning in life,” he wrote. “You can call yourself a producer of my second novel if you want.”
Tao, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, has also published a collection of stories and two books of poetry. Prospective investors can contact him via his blog.
******
More lies. Nobody ever bought shares, except maybe your folks, who send you money anyway.
You don't know the difference between reality and lies anymore, do you?
You should be scared. You've totally fucked up everything.
Now go kill yourself.
@anonymous
Are you completely insane? I'm not buying that the eBay thing is real but do you think telling somebody to "Go kill yourself" is productive in any way or just indicative of the fact that you are bat shit crazy?
If you don't like Tao's promotional style or his writing WORK ON YOUR OWN. Otherwise you just come off sounding like some jilted, stalkerish ex-girlfriend.
Anonymous (the long-winded one) is in a cool position; s/he could either be
a) Tao Lin himself, in a move I thoroughly approve of- authors need to be their harshest critics. S/he also either intentionally or otherwise writes a little like Lin: little punctuation, small phrases etc.
b) An actual fan, trying to get a rise out of Lin for fun/interest and provoke conversation
c) Someone who simply dislikes Lin. The problem with this is that it's unlikely for someone who dislikes him that much to read his work/blog consistently. Why bother?
Apart from accusing Lin of being overly depressed/depressing, our vocal friend classes everything as "pathetic", summing up with
"deep down when we're all alone and late at night and we're lying in bed and can't sleep none of us are ironic"
Isn't Anonymous' nihilistic rejection of postmodern lit rather that a personal attack on Lin?
The question comes about again. Why bother?
on the the collage it says the buyer's postal code is 11218 (Brooklyn)
not sure if this means anything
i second weed and pizza.
i believe that tao wrote the shit-talking comment
confused. how about something positive. 'yay for tao'. 'yay for the winner'. yay.
i don't think that zipcode is tao's part of brooklyn. thanks for the add!
@Jimmy,
Or is it a nihilistic rant against a nihilistic view of postmodern literature?
Is it that the critic doesn't understand that selling your MySpace page IS literature, probably more important and attention-grabbing than any of Tao's books?
What Tao has done here is a work of art. Fiction is not the same thing as lying. I think everyone here who cheers Tao on (yay Tao! yay for the winner!) understands that this is make-believe.
We're all characters in a story, Jimmy.
Tao made you up too.
“Anyone who ever dreamed the hippie dream owes Tao Lin their gratitude for adding the ‘wow’ factor to their view of the cosmos”
“My pursuits are a joke in that the universe is a joke. One has to reflect the universe faithfully.”
Speak 4 yrself, asshole.
This is legit!
Not you, Lauren. I meant the other asshole.
Not you, Lauren. I meant the other asshole.
Not lauren, you. I meant the other asshole.
i am tao writing all this
tao has left the blog
I don't say he's a great man. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person. You called him pathetic... no, a lot of people think he's lost his... balance. But you don't have to be very smart to know what his trouble is. The man is exhausted. A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. And what goes through a man's mind, writing seven hundred thousand words without having earned a cent? Why shouldn't he sell his MySpace page on eBay? Why?
Word to Jackie.
I think Tao bought the thing himself. I also think that's a great idea. The only mistake was not creating more faux bidders to cover his tracks.
This was, in the end, genius.
Some people need to chill the fuck out.
Good on you Tao, i like you, i think you are doing important work. I really hope that you sold your myspace account for 8 grand, but even if you didnt, its still a great idea and I think that this kind of stuff is as important as anything you write.
Man, I think its sad that people get so fucking jealous the moment that someone starts to experience some kind of success. Tao Lin is not on Oprah's book club. Go after one of those people if you want to try to take someone down through the power of posting anonymous and overly harsh blog comments.
Thats the problem with the internet. because its so easy to be anonymous, everybody thinks that they are fucking Rambo and can go around telling other people to go kill themselves. I miss the days when if you wanted to shit talk an author you had to go to one of their readings and do it face to face.
Tao, I have been enjoying your blog very much recently. Dont take the shit talkers too seriously.
I like Tao Lin and I hope he doesn't kill himself.
-Rambo
is tao lin afraid of the non-virtual world. he does not seem it in person so then why is he so disproportionately active on the internet?
Tony, you pretentious slob,
Tao opened this up to anonymous comments and specifically asked people to start shit-talking.
If your delicate little-ass sensibilities can't take it, well, Tao's can.
He's like 10,000.000 times the man you'll ever be, you creep.
oh, ouch anonymous, you really hurt my feelings. i'll go home and cry myself to sleep now, you cocksucker...
tao is undoubtedly 10,000 times the man that i am. i can figure this out by using the 'tao's myspace value vs tony's myspace value' axis. In fact, using this system, Tao may well be the most powerful man alive right now. Take that, Obama.
I haven't read your comment section in a long time. Felt some feelings I haven't felt in a while.
"Yeah, that makes sense. Nobody bids for 5 days and then l***m bids constantly, raising his price offer every few minutes or hours with nobody bidding against him, till the last minute when someone steps in and outbids him and then he outbids that person."
That's what I thought at first. Then I realized a***y probably put in a maximum bid for eight grand after someone bid $140. Then l***m kept bidding up until they went above the eight grand. That explains the multiple bids. I think that's how ebay works. Haven't used it in a while. Still doesn't explain why someone would bid eight grand after it's only $140 though.
notice how tony's tone of longwinded outrage matches that of the more deranged anonomous haters...could it be that tony posted that shittalking & then comes on so he can play 'hero' and defend (ie, suck up to) Tao
style is the same, tony, evidently you canb't cover your tracks just like you couldn't cover the drug tracks on your arms, you judas addict
and notice how tony dwells on 'jealousy' because subconciously he is jealous of Tao's success, much greater (& more deserved) than his own
tony=iago
that's othello, for you, tony, in case you never read it, you drug-addled illiterate traitor
i'm sure Tao sees thru you so your asslicking will do you no good
hi tony, was happy to see you commenting here
tao's whole existential depression is also a put on. i was at a really dull party when suddenly
some guy bursts thru the door and screams "let's get this party started!!!" and started high-fiving everyone. the room went mad. it was Tao Lin, smiling from ear to ear and getting everyone hyped up. he bought a couple of kegs in and later got everyone in the room up and started a conga line. it was a crazy night i'm telling you.
Who's l****m? Will s/he ever be revealed?
"hi tony, was happy to see you commenting here"
If that isn't a way of communicating he's on to Tony (2 minutes after he pretends to be anonymous), I don't know what is.
Tony, Tao knows what you did.
@anonymous (one above the above anonymous) existential despair is 'on the inside'
ha, ok. so i came on here and shit talked tao and then switched idenities to defend him.
ok. whatever floats your boat. you have put a lot of thought into this and i commend the idea that i really would have the interest of inclination to do this, but no, sorry its a lot less exciting than that im afraid.
'traitor' ?
this is very funny and weird, but really you're being silly. anonymous i really have no interest in "sucking up" to anyone because i fail to see what that would actually gain me. you suck up to your boss to get a raise. thats about the only real reason i can think for anyone to suck up to anyone. i would have no reason to suck up to tao or anyone else. i just thought that your original post where you were urging tao to kill himself was amazingly harsh, and i said so.
this is all getting a bit paranoid and fucking complicated for a blog post about someone selling their ebay account, isnt it?
PS -
hey tao.
this is like a blog version of listening to a lot of tweaked out paranoid crack heads talking.
i don't think harsh shit-talking really bothers the author i think he would see it as just something abstract- thats why everyone is going to town its like vent your anger therapy day or weekend or however long people keep it up
"hi tony, was happy to see you commenting here
I guess Tony can't see irony when it's in front of his nose
He's happy because he knows you've revealed yourself as the creep he long suspected you are, Tony O'Niell
Tao won't get you readings, publications, anything anymore
Tony, your gravey train based on sucking up to Tao is over...go back home now.
ha, ok anonymous. i'm glad you able to fill me in on all of this, you nut case.
tao - i'm really sorry that you wont be arranging any more readings and publications for me any more. will you still be ghost writing my next book?
no one answered my unrelated question
also what is so bad about his life? he has a new book coming out, so what is bad
i think i am going to choke myself soon, tao, are you okay, please be okay
"deep down when we're all alone and late at night and we're lying in bed and can't sleep none of us are ironic"
true. but $8100 would make going back to sleep easier.
shit, can someone sum up these comments?
just when you thought it was safe to go back on the internet again...
seems like most of this could be tao
seems really entertaining if it is, less interesting, actually, if it isn't
SUMMARY
TAO: I MADE $8100 SELLING MY MYSPACE
SOME PEOPLE: BOO!
SOME PEOPLE: YAY!
ALTERNATIVE SUMMARY
SOME PEOPLE: SOME WORDS TO GET A REACTION FROM TAO LIN
TAO LIN:
Wow! This has become an ocean of crazy. So, Tao Lin pulled a self promotion stunt by putting his myspace account on ebay (kind of interesting), then may have bought it himself under a phony name (which I suggested in the comments of an earlier post) and people go insane.
The dude is trying to promote his work. There's nothing wrong with that. Why all the outrage? None of this is a big deal.
i like tao lin. why does it matter if he sells stuff?
OTHER PEOPLE
IS TAO LIN EVERYTHING?
TAO LIN IS KIND OF LIKE UNCERTAINTY
IS TAO LIN EVERYWHERE?
TAO LIN MAY BE GOD
ALL OF THE WORDS HERE HAVE BEEN TYPED BECAUSE OF DESPAIR
AND HEARTBREAK
GOD IS NOT ON EARTH
CHASING HIM IS A MISTAKE
GOD IS NOT ON EARTH
i wonder if tao lin has sexytime
nathantyree said...
"Wow! This has become an ocean of crazy. So, Tao Lin pulled a self promotion stunt by putting his myspace account on ebay (kind of interesting), then may have bought it himself under a phony name (which I suggested in the comments of an earlier post) and people go insane.
The dude is trying to promote his work. There's nothing wrong with that. Why all the outrage? None of this is a big deal."
I THINK IT'S BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKED THE BLOG WHEN IT HAD MORE STORIES ON IT INSTEAD OF THE CONSTANT SALES TALK AND PROMOTIONS. LOTS OF EMOTIONAL POSTURING ABOUT THE PROMOTIONS. FEELS BAD
"THINK IT'S BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKED THE BLOG WHEN IT HAD MORE STORIES ON IT INSTEAD OF THE CONSTANT SALES TALK AND PROMOTIONS. LOTS OF EMOTIONAL POSTURING ABOUT THE PROMOTIONS. FEELS BAD"
I can see that, but so what. If you don't like it, don't read it. Don't buy the dude's books, ignore him.
If you appreciate it, then enjoy.
yes that is a very sane comment
gen-tle snow-fall
...and fade.
that's it for now but tune in next week to see those crazy kids go mad when tao sells his facebook account!
uh oh!
you would have thought if you'd just paid 8000 bucks for a myspace page you would have logged in by now - still says last log in 01/05
My Facebook account is for sale
can everyone elaborate
if there are more paragraphs to read i feel like i might be able to comprehend something, some kind of meaning, that i could use, to stop feeling like my head is inside a swamp that formed inside an oil spill
i just need more information, i think
because right now i still feel lost
when i look in front of me i only see things that i don't comprehend
i see the computer screen and it looks scary, then i turn around and i see a wall, or a table, and it also looks scary
feels like i'm in a horror movie that no one is ever going to see except myself, from my own eyes
i want to cry but i think i just lack knowledge, i lack more information
i want to learn
i want to be in a romantic comedy or existential comedy not a horror movie with one viewer
i'm scared
but i don't want to 'give up'
i think you should disallow anonymous comments because it has made this site scary to come to like Vice Dos and Donts comment sections
miss you tao
miss you tony
zachary german why are you so attractive
this has become excessive and sad. some sort of spiraling in some mysterious direction has happened within the past two to four years.
i vote you [lin] take a break from the internet world. it would show shittalkers who's that man. tao lin is the man.
"god speed"
tao lin you need to get out
into the real world
talk to real people
instead of sitting inside
brooding
morbid little thoughts
go to africa
work for a charity
see real people
who are starving and have diseases
every day a struggle to survive
and you'll see when you come back
you're the cause of most
of your own problems
and maybe get over yourself
but you'll need a ladder
tao there are no stories, I agree with the others who have said this. post more stories. situations or fiction just please post something other than existential depression on this blog.
give it away for free and I (anonymous) will read it and if I like it send it to my friends. right now I have zero perception of you as a writer, just your public persona, and your public persona is kind of annoying and putting me off your writing. but the personas of many writers annoy me and I still enjoy their writing. give me something for free. I guess you have to prove it now because I wasn't reading "dead dude's" blog before I ever got around to reading him.
hey man.
damn
i met tao once
you don't know his problems man
he's really really really depressed
i mean it's bad
his world is realer than real
it's sick
he ate ants once and has flies in his eyes usually
tao, you are a good writer. please stop all this silly shit and write more. - signe c.
People are too concerned with other peoples' business. That's a problem, the thin lines of respect are eroding.
I need all of you shit talkers to come over to my blog. It is dedicated to New Jersey writer Stephen Crane (1871-1900). He became famous at a young age, was shit-talked constantly in the press, and he was broke. Then he died. Read about this on my blog. Maybe it'll inspire you to give Tao more growing room. Cos in a hundred years, someone actually might care!
ahhhh
the book bed was recommended to me and i thought some of the stories were funny and interesting. well i found the author's blog thinking it too would have funny and interesting parts. but this what is this
just what
Just so you douchebags know Tao Lin has taken this whole Myspace thing pretty hard. I saw him on the street and God knows how many organic smoothies he must of had at that point but he said he wasn't going to stop till he'd been to every juice bar in the city. He had a neutral facial expression and put finger quotes over everyting he said, but i could feel his pain.
Hope you're happy shit-talkers.
whos this
http://www.unreliablewitness.com/2009/05/04/fame-puts-you-there-where-things-are-hollow/
hi Zachary
how are you?
Hi Tao
I cant explain any of this sorry.
Hi anonymous
Who are you?
Tony:
Sometimes it is more effective to be anonymous.
Does this mean my portion of our Sad Bear vs. Happy Cobra myspace page is worth something, too?
Would anyone like to give me $1500 for it? I'll throw in that copy of On Moral Fiction.
I bought a share in Tao Lins books
-Stephanie Meyer, author of twilight
i just read most of this except for the parts that seemed to be responses to responses to responses.
i feel confused, and like anonymous/maybe other people : tao lin might be tony clifton : andy kaufman. that feels funny. i kind of hope this is a joke or publicity stunt so bad feelings aren't real. shit talking is weird.
95 comments.
buy weed and pizza.
Tao Lin is a whiny little faggot. Boohoo its so awful that major media venues didn't cover this little story. No one wants to hear how he made $8100 from selling his myspace acct. It was probably bought by a friend or himself even.
Fuck off you pathetic excuse of a 'writer'
Gregory Afinogenov
this is straightforward question with no trick comment to follow up - has tao lin ever responded to criticism in the comments section?
it seems like he does'nt and would'nt
if so it seems like people are just wasting their time with any type of criticism in whatever form they pitch it in
Tao Lin responds to all comments that are not submitted by himself under "anonymous"
-Stephanie Meyer, author of twilight
does he?
i've lost sense of what this is. what is this? tao, what is this?
i finally got your book 'you are a little bit happier than i am' and i am going to buy everyother.
i like how you write/your internet activities.
stop 'feeling lost'
he writes just like tao lin if tao lin were a successful investment banker for j.p. morgan or something
I don't believe it!
It is not possible.
No-way.
Did I see it correctly $8100 ?
Would all you ARTISTES stop crying? I got linked here from some messageboard and all this shit seems pretty weak. Are people seriously mad that this guy supposedly made 8 grand? Is 8 grand suddenly a HOLYSHITLOAD of money? It's gonna be gone in 4 months anyway, who gives a fuck?
Real talk though, any little kid slangin' dimebags of shitty pot can make 8 grand in a couple months of little-to-no work and nobody ever gives a shit. Let this dude get his internet hustle on and stop crying.
p.s. - I don't know who the fuck this guy is and to be honest, I'm pretty uninterested from the 10 minutes I spent reading the blog, but there sure are a bunch of whiny babies commenting on here!
I decided to post annonymously for my own safety. Everyone seems so angry and pissy, it kind of looks dangerous.
Anyway, it's pretty pathetic how everyone still talks the 'Tao Lin talk' despite hating him so much.
Whatever. Tao Lin is a great troll.
Or maybe everyone is trolling each other and nobody is really pissed.
Then again, 'is anything real'?
I'm wondering if this is what the internet does, 'desensitizes' everything.
These are just words that will not reach the masses.
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