Coca-Cola is the best drink

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I’ve been trying out dating apps - the free versions of course. The main thing I noticed is that nobody smokes anymore, everyone wants to stay healthy, everyone wants to travel, people like animals. I haven’t seen a single girl who is interested in anything remotely interesting. Of course that’s not a prerequisite for a date, but it would be refreshing to see a profile that said hey I like chess and Pavement and smoking and I don’t really give a shit about my health or going to the gym. I get it: my interests are a little acute. I don’t really care what somebody likes anyway. What matters re: high fidelity is what they’re like i.e. can you hang out with them? Obviously you need sexual attraction also, which might be problematic for me. I have a pretty high opinion of myself but on paper I’m not great. Not great job, lives with parents, has no money, overweight, smoker. Maybe I need to set my standards lower. Also what’s with Hinge? My friends are on Hinge but it seems a bit pretentious to me. I prefer Coca Cola to fine wines. In fact my tastes in general are pretty bargain basement standardised American. Tinder is by far the easiest one to use and seems to have a pretty regular cross-section of society. Anyway, I’m going to keep trying on Tinder and Hinge and Bumble. I’m not really looking for love, just people to hang out with. Meetup fulfils that purpose quite well and maybe I’ll start playing pickleball here in Zurich, but I loathe activities. Activities are so bourgeois. Since when was getting coffee an interest btw? Doesn’t everyone get coffee? I seem to be having the most early success on Bumble. And by success I mean chats and likes. It’s early days. 

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Everything in America goes at a million miles an hour. It’s so manic and frankly anti-intellectual. I can see why people like Bukowski are outsiders there. The majority of Americans aren’t thinking they’re just acting on their wits. Which makes it an exhilarating but also tiring place to be. Downtown Seattle isn’t even say New York or LA but I felt exhausted after spending even a smidgeon of time there. I met quite a lot of techies in Seattle. The key with those guys is that they’re not Engineers on the whole. I mean they do engineering work but the ones I’ve met are living in the moment - Artists. They talk bollocks at a million miles an hour and it’s like being with Dean Moriarty, except he likes Elon Musk instead of jazz. I once heard it said that America invented the 20th century’s purest art form - jazz. I like some jazz - mostly Miles Davis and bossa nova. But America is much more than just jazz. In music, you’ve got rock n roll, hip-hop, soul, blues. I mean pop music is basically American. Then you’ve got Coca Cola. The best drink. Pop art. The coffee in America is shit in general with some nuggets.