Yesterday I watched Equilibrium again. I like science fiction, but mostly I like the idea of a simplified world. I have so many different t-shirts. To me a t-shirt is something wear under the shirt. I want them to be interchangeable.
Recently I’ve been buying packs of 3, v-neck t-shirts from Uniqlo (it’s a relatively cheap clothes brand in Japan, I don’t link the site because it’s full of Flash crap that uses 100% of CPU time !). Plain t-shirts that come in black, gray and dark-gray. With those I can pick any of them cause color doesn’t matter and they all have the same size and consistency.
I like the idea of being able to dress without worrying if I’m going to feel comfortable or not. But then there are the sensitive people: my mother gives me loads of t-shits, many of which end up being sleepwear because of their large sizes or very colorful design.
I suppose that if I wore nothing but plain t-shirts I wouldn’t think so much about other people ! ..ummm
However I like to have my mind free to think. My apartment is full of crap that has mostly no use. Recently I’ve been hunting for useless unmarked CDs. Many went right into the trash bin, some of them I reversed on my Terastation (I’ll soon need to upgrade to the 1.6TB model ..forget the 2TB one, it uses ultra-expensive 500GB hard-disks).

I often feel like the urge to trash things I see laying around the apartment.
I’d like to optimize things. For example I wish I could have all my books in digital form.. I can’t wait for all books to come out in digital format ! I’d probably be willing to pay more for that !

I have some DVDs.. I buy them very rarely. They take up space !!
I have a lot of electronic gadgets and they all come with one or more cables, power bricks.. arghhhhh !!!

I hate all this, I want to live in a very simplified environment, but I’m also attached to physical things, things that remind of people, things that if I trash I feel like I’m letting someone down.

Trashing things in Tokyo is not so easy. One needs to pay a special feel for large items. I think one needs to phone somewhere to describe size and weight and then be told to buy some sort of sticker at the convenience store.
A year ago there was a red sofa lingering by the trash area of my apt building for the longest time. The trash area is very small, so this sofa was basically there by the street with no one picking it up..  that’s facked up !

Trash trash trash.. for small things I have to overcome whatever mental block I have and for large things I have to overcome the pain in the ass of getting into some procedure.

Material things suck !!!

Posted by Davide Pasca in Society, Diary, Japan