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i need messy

Too much efficiency gets me down. Trains that only go to the stops with the highest ridership are boring. I want subway systems that go to stops only grandmas and gangsters use, like in Tokyo: the over-subsidized train consortium made lines that weave through neighborhoods where there's not much besides an underground music store above an okonomiyaki restaurant. But when you're craving the Boredoms and an eel okonomiyaki with a view of a graffiti-covered steel wall, you're in luck, you know you can get there, and fast too. Just you and the obaa-san, riding the train, not knowing what or how to say anything to each other.

In California the train I take to work is full of clean smart professionals and it only make stops at stations that connect places like the Google campus or Apple computer headquarters with the rest of the world. These companies are in the middle of nowhere, down here on the Peninsula. I guess this is a good place to think a lot. There certainly aren't any distractions, just sunshine and clean air.

Posted by on January 24, 2006 9:49 AM | Permalink

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