donderdag 13 maart 2014

RESTROOM ZEN by Jimmy Chen

Jimmy Chen's Restroom Zen is a missing manual to a lot of things. The Internet, yes (Chat Acronyms ExposedTop 10 Places to Feel Worse Online), Rock (Rhetorical Rock Questions AnsweredHow to Air Guitar), but also Love ("This is believed, by those once afflicted by it, to be a rumor") &, eh, Air Guitar. It is also an update on "what it's like to be a fucking human being," a new entry (#666) on the list of 1001 Books to Read Before You Die (jk), & as funny as hell (+ it's not gonna take it anymore).

Culled together lovingly from all of Jimmy's stuff I could find on the www, this is the book you'll want to have close at hand when the wifi is down, or you are.



Restroom Zen
Paperback, 64 pages, B&W

€10,- ≈ $13,50, includes postage + stickers.
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Excerpt (from Rhetorical Rock Questions Answered):

Q: Do you know where you are?

A: Yes, we are in the jungle, which you quickly answered for us before we could say “um, we’re in the jungle, and we’re gonna die…” The thing is, Axl, I am not in the jungle, but watching MTV’s Top Twenty Countdown circa 1988 with a bag of Cheetos, sucking down the teat of each orange finger in some unresolved Freudian oral stage. It may be worth mentioning that my pants are off; or rather, my 12-year-old genitals have been freely excised into my parents’ “master bedroom,” for the purposes of attending to the preceding video made by one of your peers/competitors, in which a lovely Midwestern girl, unhappy with the meatloaf and finger-dumb boys at home, moved to the jungle  and became a stripper — so this jungle motif of yours is a little hackneyed, I guess. Do you know where you are, Axl? You are inside my parents’ Sony TV, embedded in the bands with which your semblance is conveyed, looking like a pissed off version of Carrot Top. You are also going to die.