Tuesday, June 21, 2005

The iKea Nesting Instinct

yes, iKea. like iPod. Bought a salt shaker today, and a new chopping board, and I'll probably be going back after my last exam to get a Desk, Chair and Lamp. actually thinking i should go back tomorrow, because if I set it up maybe I'll actually get some study done cos the 6 days that I have left are starting to fill out, and I don't have a morning to cram in like I did for American Studies. It's confusing in my self-image to want things from iKea, the disdain I've developed for the consumer culture conflicting with the desire that the marketing creates. nt even marking, just the desire to be a part of the culture. any culture. Nothin like watchin Fight Club to remind you that you're wasting your existence one blog entry at a time. at least I got out of the house today, if only to go down the road to the iKea.

Contributing to this feeling was the McLibel story that just finished 5 min ago on SBS, I'd seen it first way in the way back when I was still working at McDonalds, and this Doco helped me keep off the grease for a long time. Even sitting in Mcdonalds with people while they ate, and I'd go hungry rather than eat it.
so succumbing to the Golden Arches was somethin different to the Vegetarian thing. Kind of hard to explain. Vegetarian was a fight within myself, and against the Arches was against another entity. I'd started it long before I went vegetarian, and It's more of a lapse than a giving up. I'll probably eat it less than four times a year, because of the emotion that it evokes.

It tastes like America. posted by Keegan at 9:26 pm

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