this is weird to me because i would read PRR in college when dude was my age. i was also aware of tavi at that time, who was described to me as a child prodigy.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 11:33 (nine years ago) link
i read his book, its not bad, hes tao lin but hanging out w/ more boring ppl if that's possible. it's obv a quick read and is relatable. the best part is like 3 pages long where he recounts applying for a job w/ an investment bank (only b/c he finds a woman who works there's cell phone in a cab), doesn't hear back for two and a half weeks, emails and tells her off and sez her company + their business ruined the economy, etc, and she responds showing him an email to HR that they were abt to hire him. it is the anecdote of a generation, and well told regardless of if it even happened
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 12:45 (nine years ago) link
dating tavi would prob be v good for him like emotionally & socially cuz she seems well-adjusted and really healthy in those respects
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 12:47 (nine years ago) link
Yeah that doesn't sound made up at all xp
― 龜, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 12:48 (nine years ago) link
such an upworthy anecdote!
― bnw, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 12:50 (nine years ago) link
i wish i finished the novel i started when i was 22 about an aimless post-graduate. it was similar to this book in its self-involvement but involved a hallucinogenic crucifixion scene too.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 13:06 (nine years ago) link
treesh do u think this shapiro person might be a sexual degenerate and future chemical castratee
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 13:10 (nine years ago) link
getting an email from an i-banker you don't even want to work for who is nevertheless eager to hire you is not the anecdote of a generation, it is the anecdote of someone with incredible luck
― katherine, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 13:18 (nine years ago) link
i remember that cab/cellphone anecdote from his blog
― Yo Gotti Nutter Ting Hummin' (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 13:41 (nine years ago) link
Was happy for Tavi when I heard this like "cool she's got a bf", didn't realize that certain young New Yorkers were considered more hateable than others
― flambient 4: on goon (fgti), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 13:56 (nine years ago) link
oh believe me there's this whole thing
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
to me you're an entire city of Tao Lins and I luv you regardless
― flambient 4: on goon (fgti), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
I've avoided reading Tao Lin because people kept noting that the PRR guy was ripping him off
― Yo Gotti Nutter Ting Hummin' (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
Lol brad
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:10 (nine years ago) link
― nakhchivan, Tuesday, September 30, 2014 7:10 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
<3
― mattresslessness, Tuesday, 30 September 2014 15:15 (nine years ago) link
I like Philip Sherburne's stuff and I guess you could review the Jeff Bridges 'Sleeping Tapes', but isn't this also an advertisement for Squarespace produced by Wieden+Kennedy?
― MikoMcha, Sunday, 8 February 2015 23:39 (nine years ago) link
In July, one devotee, David Shapiro, will publish “Supremacist,” a semi-autobiographical novel about the spirit quest of a narrator named David to visit every Supreme store on earth.
― just sayin, Friday, 18 March 2016 03:43 (eight years ago) link
lol
― small doug yule carnival club (unregistered), Friday, 18 March 2016 04:09 (eight years ago) link
the sponsored content of a generation
― denies the existence of dark matter (difficult listening hour), Friday, 18 March 2016 04:14 (eight years ago) link
that cannot be real
― Treeship, Friday, 18 March 2016 06:58 (eight years ago) link
WOWWW really? every store? all ten of them?!?
― the late great, Friday, 18 March 2016 08:21 (eight years ago) link
nope
― just sayin, Friday, 18 March 2016 08:50 (eight years ago) link
Mr. Shapiro said in an interview that he had visited every store but Paris
― just sayin, Friday, 18 March 2016 08:51 (eight years ago) link
is there a part about dating a quasi-high schooler
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, 18 March 2016 13:25 (eight years ago) link
yeah, but instead of writing it, he just C&P's from Richard Yates by Tao Lin and adds a few lines of commentary
― sarahell, Friday, 18 March 2016 16:55 (eight years ago) link
it's published by the same house that published marie calloway's collection of gchats and selfies. so
― maura, Friday, 18 March 2016 18:21 (eight years ago) link
literally every one of these dudes huh
― extremely online (Lamp), Friday, 18 March 2016 19:40 (eight years ago) link
right?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 18 March 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link
I went back inside and looked through all of the merchandise again. I bought two packs of Supreme-branded Post-It Notes for $2 each. They were selling on eBay for $18 each.I noticed that the guy working behind the counter was the white kid from Odd Future. I couldn't remember his name. He gave me a curious look. He must have noticed me sitting outside the store for four hours.He said, "Do you need a bag?"I said, "No, it's OK. It's just Post-It Notes." I put them into my jacket pocket.I walked back outside and sat back down on the bench. I lit one.I texted Camilla, "The guy behind the counter is the white kid from Odd Future. I just bought some Post-Its from him."I Googled "white kid odd future" and looked through some pictures of him. He changed his hairstyle from blonde to black. Looked cool either way.Camilla texted back, "Thought he looked familiar."I walked over to Canter's to use the bathroom. I got a pastrami sandwich on rye bread with mustard and I ate it in a booth by myself. I slipped an Ativan into the sandwich and ate it like when a dog owner makes a dog take its medicine by mixing it in with its food.I went into the bathroom, walked into a stall, and drank some vodka out of my bag. I took 5 milligrams of Mellow Yellow and 10 milligrams of Propranalol.I walked back to Supreme and sat outside again. The sun was bright. I bought a pair of sunglasses from the white kid in Odd Future.
I noticed that the guy working behind the counter was the white kid from Odd Future. I couldn't remember his name. He gave me a curious look. He must have noticed me sitting outside the store for four hours.
He said, "Do you need a bag?"
I said, "No, it's OK. It's just Post-It Notes." I put them into my jacket pocket.
I walked back outside and sat back down on the bench. I lit one.
I texted Camilla, "The guy behind the counter is the white kid from Odd Future. I just bought some Post-Its from him."
I Googled "white kid odd future" and looked through some pictures of him. He changed his hairstyle from blonde to black. Looked cool either way.
Camilla texted back, "Thought he looked familiar."
I walked over to Canter's to use the bathroom. I got a pastrami sandwich on rye bread with mustard and I ate it in a booth by myself. I slipped an Ativan into the sandwich and ate it like when a dog owner makes a dog take its medicine by mixing it in with its food.
I went into the bathroom, walked into a stall, and drank some vodka out of my bag. I took 5 milligrams of Mellow Yellow and 10 milligrams of Propranalol.
I walked back to Supreme and sat outside again. The sun was bright. I bought a pair of sunglasses from the white kid in Odd Future.
― Number None, Thursday, 2 June 2016 18:53 (eight years ago) link
who the hell takes ativan via sandwich
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, 3 June 2016 02:37 (eight years ago) link
Imagine a whole book of this shit.
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 3 June 2016 05:52 (eight years ago) link
http://www.thefader.com/2016/06/20/david-shapiro-supreme-book-interview
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 03:08 (eight years ago) link
hoping for a followup about fucking on every casper mattress
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 03:11 (eight years ago) link
This guy is like a real life carles without wit or self awareness
― Treeship, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 04:28 (eight years ago) link
what the fuck is Supreme
― jaymc, Tuesday, 21 June 2016 05:09 (eight years ago) link
the book is soothingly narrated in the flat-affect preferred by contemporary alt-lit.
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 June 2016 11:25 (eight years ago) link
the book is really fucking funny. i haven't read any of the press on it nor do i know who david shapiro is but it's really fun and stupid
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 5 July 2016 18:24 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq74A79Yhu4
― velko, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 04:47 (seven years ago) link
Really enjoyed Supremacist (much funnier than Tao Lin)
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 08:06 (seven years ago) link
that looks like a way less charming and creative version of high maintainence
― Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 October 2016 15:59 (seven years ago) link
is there nothing white men can't do?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 5 October 2016 16:09 (seven years ago) link
this guy really failed upwards in tremendous fashion
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 6 October 2016 00:42 (seven years ago) link
D-40 otm. i guess a stage play with dude's face plastered on the promotional materials is the next logical step. Then after it gets middlling-to-bad reviews and no one sees it, i don't know, a comic book maybe
― intheblanks, Thursday, 6 October 2016 02:57 (seven years ago) link
the presidency
― florence foster wallace (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 6 October 2016 03:00 (seven years ago) link
yesterdayall my pitchfork seem so far awai
― muntjac wagner (Neanderthal), Monday, 24 August 2020 01:50 (four years ago) link