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...Donald S. Carswell ’50 about how to “Beat the System.” With whimsical suggestions on how to successfully employ the “vague generality” and the “overpowering assumption,” Carswell instructs his fellow slacker classmates (and, thanks to The Crimson’s gratuitous semesterly reprinting, countless future slackers) on the best way to pass a Harvard final without really studying...
...Rhodes, the chief appeal of writing for a living was not having to get up in the morning. In spite of that slacker attitude, Rhodes, 31, this month finds himself on Granta magazine's prestigious decennial list of the 20 Best of Young British Novelists, standing on the shoulders of giants like Martin Amis, Ian McEwan and Salman Rushdie, and rubbing his own with publishing hotshots Zadie Smith and Toby Litt. Rhodes' presence there is all the more remarkable since his first novel, Timoleon Vieta Come Home (Canongate; 214 pages), is only now arriving in bookstores and is likely...
While Stephen Malkmus’s self-titled solo debut may have frightened fans into thinking he had become sedate in his middle age, Pig Lib is a welcome return to form. The new full-length from the former Pavement frontman assures listeners that Malkmus is still the fractured slacker god that made Pavement’s 1992 Slanted And Enchanted the Nevermind for a different Generation...
...ITMFG tiddle cup is brimful of incidental pleasures and outrages. In Wilson Yip?s ?Bio Zombie,? which shambles through an hour of slacker slapstick set in a Hong Kong mall (it could be called ?Chungking Excess?) before it gets to providing actual entertainment value with a half-hour of vampire carnage, the two boho heroes, Jordan Chan and Sam Lee, spend half their time in the toilet. Chan: ?What are you doing here?? Lee: ?I am stooling...
...high school, Tsuyoshi, who played drums for a Kraftwerk and Cocteau Twins-inspired new wave band, spent most of his school days smoking cigarettes with his bosozoku (motorcycle gang) buddies. "But since my grades were good, teachers hated me more," he adds, laughing. His slacker attitude continued into university, where the budding DJ spent his graduation day "dancing in Goa." His absentee rate once prompted a worried Nihon University College of Art professor to land him a job at a local TV production company. He lasted two weeks. "Then I dropped out." He spent the next eight years wandering between...