/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18613424]

>gf found the 300+ page rough draft for your alternate history novel on Cambodia in the 1970s.
fuck. fuck. fuck. fuck. fuck. fuck. fuckkkk

[Anonymous No.18613433]

>Mom found the fart letters

[Anonymous No.18613439]

based

[Anonymous No.18613459]

>>18613439
hes assasinated in the novel

[Anonymous No.18613545]

>cousin found the creature erotica collection

[Anonymous No.18613663]

>>18613424
>Dog found theWMAD love-jihad short stories collection

[Anonymous No.18613680]

>>18613424
>professor found the 200 word essay that was due last monday

[Anonymous No.18613698]

>>18613424
>alternate history novel on Cambodia in the 1970s.
So what’s your position on physical versus social relations liquidation in Marx or are you just a larping wehraboo who lacks the ability to write Cambodian alternate history of the 1970s? Who is Marat?

[Anonymous No.18613706]

>alternate history novel on Cambodia in the 1970s

That's my country, why are you writing an alternate history? We are thankful for the development

Fucking Americans are idiots

[Laura Numeroff !BmHtx5LcGM No.18613721]

>>18613706
>OPs gf

[Anonymous No.18613850]

>>18613706
>That's my country

You dont own shit

[Anonymous No.18613871]

>>18613706
You're thankful for Pol Pot?

[Anonymous No.18613877]

>>18613698
I have no idea what the fuck you are talking about. its not really political its supposed to be a fun story of vengeance
>>18613706
its a romanticized story of the sudden decline of Phnom Penh's thriving music industry caused by the rise of the Khmer Rouge. Its ends with Pol Pot being assassinated.
Cambodias most famous musicians serve as a lot of the main characters and the story shifts from different characters perspectives including Pol Pot.

also I am Canadian and of Italian descent

[Anonymous No.18613948]

>>18613721
she keeps saying that she doesnt care but i can tell she thinks im extremely weird(weirder than she already thought i was) for having an obsession with cambodian music. theres a very clear aura of judgment and animosity.
it is now a situation where i know im being heavily judged for being weird but she doesnt want to admit it.
and shes mad at these accusations.
not only has my future magnum opus been revealed but i am going to lose my gf over my obsession with Cambodian music.
its unironically over bros...none of this is a joke....everything i am living for has been ruined.....

[Anonymous No.18613996]

>>18613948
Get help, you are pathological

[Anonymous No.18614001]

>>18613948
Based.
https://youtu.be/obQDFh6vz4M

[Anonymous No.18614042]

>>18613424
>dogwalker's boyfriend refuted the kitchenette comedy in one act

[Anonymous No.18614050]

>hey son, when you gonna let me take a look at some of your writing?

[Anonymous No.18614067]

>>18613996
No. You people (including my gf) just don't understand how good the music of Cambodia was
https://youtu.be/7qeFpmWOqtI
>>18614001
thank you. im glad someone understands

[Anonymous No.18614080]

>>18614067
My point is that you for some reason think any of this is a big deal.
Get help.

[Anonymous No.18614083]

>>18613948
she probably has a bigger issue with you obsessing over her supposed thinking you are weird. Just accept it or you will destroy the relationship.

[Anonymous No.18614086]

>>18613424
>Wife’s son found the buck breaking erotica
Man my bull is NOT gonna be happy...

[Anonymous No.18614092]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaZsoSenSPI

[Anonymous No.18614102]

>>18613424
>Brother found the German language diary

[Anonymous No.18614132]

>>18613877
>>18613948
Fucking based, link some Cambodian bangers

[Anonymous No.18614136]

>>18614083
>>18614080
fine maybe you guys are right.

[Anonymous No.18614144]

>anon found the template thread

[Anonymous No.18614162]

>>18614132
i have to leave the house rn so i dont have time to link a bunch of shit but if you look up 60s/70s cambodian music you will find a bunch of good shit. the biggest musicians at the time were Sinn Sisamouth and Ros Serey Sothea but there is plenty of other good artists.
Virtually every musician died brutally in the killing fields of the Cambodian genocide.

for now ill leave you with one of my favorties: https://youtu.be/3SYfOZc1IU0

[Anonymous No.18614237]

>>18614001
Godamn how can a song be so gritty and so clean at the same time, thanks for sharing that bro.

[Anonymous No.18614249]

>>18613424
Come to Long Beach dude, most Cambodians outside of the old country, all the restaurants in Anaheim street Little Cambodia are playing these bangers.

[Anonymous No.18614250]

>>18614083
This guy is right, it's kinda cool desu own it

[Anonymous No.18614269]

>>18613424
People think I’m weird for being super into Ethiopian psych and jazz from the 70s. They think I’m trying to be purposely obscure like a hipster from 2011, but like damn I don’t give a shit because it’s so fucking good.

[Anonymous No.18614401]

>>18614269
Link me some anon, I wanna hear it

[Anonymous No.18614424]

>>18614269
I feel you. People don't respect my taste in Syrian pop and folk music.

https://youtu.be/d5hpfLThIsc

[Anonymous No.18614464]

>>18614237
Haunting isn't it, especially when you know he was marched out and Phnom Penh and killed by the Khmer Rouge not long after it was recorded.

[Anonymous No.18614466]

>>18613948
put me in the screencap

[Anonymous No.18614539]

>>18613948
If she can't accept it she's not the one. A woman who is truly in love with you will have no problem dealing with weird quirks like this. Let her go mate

[Anonymous No.18614561]

>>18614424
This sounds like the sort of thing TMS-era death grips would have sampled

[Anonymous No.18614569]

I have a Vietnamese girlfriend and whenever we have sex we roleplay with me as an American soldier and her as a Vietkong spy I'm interrogating

[Anonymous No.18614580]

>>18613948
Now this is a man that has something to write for.

[Anonymous No.18614588]

>>18614561
Delightful, is it not?

[Anonymous No.18614597]

>>18613424
>the sheikh found the homosexual jihad letters
I'm gonna get kicked out of our Bedouin tribe wat nou

[Anonymous No.18614607]

>>18613698
Marat is some guy from the French revolution who's probably in hell now like all the others

[Anonymous No.18614621]

>>18614067
This one is great, so funky. Thanks for sharing. Old pot still cooks good rice. Haha! I can imagine hearing that from an old Asian prostitute.

[Anonymous No.18614633]

>>18613877
>its not really political its supposed to be a fun story of vengeance
So it’s not alternate history.

[Anonymous No.18614848]

>>18614269
hey bro i fkn love ethiopian music too.
hmmm maybe ill write a fictional account of hailu mergia and the wailas too...
>>18614539
its looking like i might have to :( its just too awkward these days. i just hope she doesn't tell anyone what im writing.
>>18614580
thanks
>>18614621
yea. easily one of my favorites. such a good title too
>>18614633
did Pol Pot get assassinated by a musician irl? no he didnt. so what would you call that.

[Anonymous No.18614885]

>>18613948
Dangerously based, keep it up king. I remember finding an LP of cambodian hits in a record store on holiday in Europe. Reading the back it went on about how Pol Pots rule led to the development of a fantastic music scene, didn't bother processing further but it sounded interesting so I tossed it on spotify on the train to the airport. Thought to myself Pol Pot wasn't so bad after all - really groovy stuff. Only later did I realise I'm a dyslexic retard and Pol Pot actually killed them all youtu.be/HtH4uQuzyMw

[Anonymous No.18615069]

>>18614848
I sunk in such a deep rabbit hole rn because of this thread, the (cultural) history of Cambodia is insanely interesting - keep your based work up and fuck anyone who's being weird about it, thanks

[Anonymous No.18615107]

>>18614848
>did Pol Pot get assassinated by a musician irl? no he didnt. so what would you call that.
Magical realism. Alternate history explores historicity even when it’s PKD or Jewish Policemans. You’re exploring realistic interpersonal relations and adding magic. Your interest is fuck not history.

[Anonymous No.18615137]

>>18613877
Post it, Canadian cambodaboo, post it
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOhlK9HqM3Y

[Anonymous No.18615308]

>>18614885
Yea its extremely sad what happened to Cambodia. Reading about what he did and how all these great musicians were brutally murdered had such a profound affect on my listening experience. I get sad listening to this music because it just makes me think of how much they didn't deserve the fate they all got. And the saddest part is that to this Cambodia has not recovered from what Pol Pot did. He ruined a beautiful culture.
The reason why all the recordings are low quality is because all the good ones were destroyed by the Khmer Rouge and we are only left with rips.
Horrible.
>>18615069
I was hoping that this thread would have this effect. I implore you to watch the documentary "Don't Think I've Forgotten" (https://youtu.be/Ipq4FefX5Ps).). This is perhaps my favorite documentary I've ever seen. This is where my interest in Cambodia began. I love this documentary so fucking much. Please watch this if you are curious about Cambodian music.
>>18615137
Someday friend....someday...
https://youtu.be/as_BecDh8wM

[Anonymous No.18615474]

>>18615308
That looks sick, too bad all the torrents are dead...
Seems like I have to throw my principals overboard once again and online-rent from vimeo, thanks anyway for the recommendation and inspiration!

[Anonymous No.18615478]

>>18615474
WAIT DONT. GIMME A SEC ILL FIND WHERE I GOT IT FROM

[Anonymous No.18615492]

>>18613424
>gf found the 300+ page rough draft for your alternate history novel on Cambodia in the 1970s.
Ok, I'll bite.
What the fuck where you doing OP

[Anonymous No.18615493]

>>18615474
here you go bro. RARBG has it. only 1 seeder but hey its better than spending money.
>https://rarbg.to/torrent/t5dc98n

[Anonymous No.18615532]

>>18615493
what a fucking king man - thank you
I hope you publish your book, I'll find it once you do
If anyone else wants to watch it, I'll keep seeding for another hour or 2
Long live the lost bangers of cambodia

[Anonymous No.18615614]

>>18615492
read this post >>18613877
it mostly follows the struggle of some of the most famous Cambodian musicians as they have to adjust to the horrifying totalitarian state they now live in.
it constantly switches perspectives of characters(kinda like catch-22 if you've read that), even from the perspective of Khmer rouge officials and Pol Pot himself.
Eventually, one of the musicians who has now become a band member for the Khmer Rouge military (based on an actual member of the band Drakkar) plots to assassinate Pol Pot and succeeds. The Khmer Rouge quickly dissipates and Cambodia is restored as a thriving happy nation. And that's how the story ends.

The book is essentially how I wish the history of Cambodia in the 70s went down. Instead, everyone died horrifically and Cambodia never recovered.

[Anonymous No.18615660]

>>18613680
>>18614067
Unironically catchy as fug

[Anonymous No.18615676]

>>18614001
https://youtu.be/uRtYHxYor9w

[Anonymous No.18615700]

>>18615660
yea unfortunately she was raped, mutilated and murdered by the Khmer Rouge military.
Not the fate she deserved at all.

[Anonymous No.18615705]

>>18614424
>omar souleyman
>syrian pop and folk

[Anonymous No.18615716]

>>18615493
>>18615532
if you cant download it and you have any private trackers its on ptp cg hdb etc

[Anonymous No.18615722]

>Even those who were stereotypically thought of as having intellectual qualities, such as wearing glasses[...]were executed for fear that they would rebel against the Khmer Rouge

[Anonymous No.18615730]

>>18615722
The bit that always gets me is the airport. The Khmer Rouge put out an international call to Cambodian students and professionals abroad to come home and help establish the new state. They killed them all when they stepped off the planes.

[Anonymous No.18615738]

>>18615722
>>18615730
yup. people talk about all the other totalitarian rulers like they are the worst. Pol Pot was the worst. Completely ruthless. Essentially anyone the Khmer Rouge didn't like was murdered. It didn't matter what you were or weren't, if they didn't like you, you died. There wasn't even a real goal to what he was trying to do. He was trying to turn Cambodia into a backwards country that just farms rice or some shit. And the worst part is he got away with it all. Nothing happened to him and he denied everything he did until his death. Truly the worst.

[Anonymous No.18615748]

Finish this book, OP. By god you have a higher calling

[Anonymous No.18615749]

>>18615738
The kicker is he was a history teacher. Shooting himself would have been his first goal if he meant any of it.

[Anonymous No.18615766]

>>18615107
>shooting a different person
>mAgIc

You sound actually retarded. And it's not magical realism, not by a long shot. Are you seriously on this board without even a basic grasp on the concept? Go read One Hundred Years of Solitude

[Anonymous No.18615790]

>>18615748
there is so much pressure now.
and because I'm Canadian and have nothing to do at all with Cambodia its so hard to make it super authentic. I feel as though this is a stupid idea and it will never work, simply because i am not Cambodian. I want it to be so epic bros....the forgotten music culture of Cambodia needs to be glorified and remembered...
>>18615749
exactly, completely goalless sociopath. interviews of him are so disturbing, hes so clearly out of touch with human reality

[Anonymous No.18615827]

>>18615738
>pol pot lived until 1998

wat de fug

[Anonymous No.18615845]

>>18615827
watch videos of him interviewed in his older years.
He just denies everything and plays victim while they try to explain that he brutally murdered half the population of Cambodia.

[Anonymous No.18616226]

>>18613706
I genuinely could not tell you whether Cambodia was in South America or in Asia.
t. American

[Anonymous No.18616235]

>>18614042
I actually gave a rough draft for one of my novels to my at the time manager in a kitchen. He never got time to read it and I took the papers back.

How hard should I drink to drown the self-cringe?

[Anonymous No.18616275]

>>18616226
don't worry. he's even dumber for thinking his country benefited from the Cambodian genocide

[Anonymous No.18616290]

>>18613698
What the FUCK does the Wehrmacht have to do with Cambodia in the 70s you politics-brained retard?

[Anonymous No.18616508]

Keep grinding and finish this thing OP

[Anonymous No.18616590]

>>18616508
idk i really get discouraged at the thought of it being inauthentic because im not Cambodian.
but ill try.
ill try.
https://youtu.be/DZZxlxpqkfQ

[Anonymous No.18616966]

>>18614067
Oh my fucking god he's right. She for the streets OP, she doesn't know what's good for her, probably doesn't know what's bad for her either.

[Anonymous No.18616974]

>>18615614
you should write a non fiction work of cambodian history too accompany it.

[Anonymous No.18617219]

>>18615493
Cheers man getting this now, good luck with the book. Not weird at all desu
>>18615532 Thanks for seeding

[Anonymous No.18617226]

>>18616974
meh i think there's already enough

[Anonymous No.18617273]

>my younger self found /lit/

[Anonymous No.18617623]

>>18615766
History isn’t things in the past. Fuck me stop chewing lead paint.

[Anonymous No.18617641]

>>18617273
>my inner child has embraced Stirner and calls me a spook

[Anonymous No.18617684]

>>18614569
Post pics of her feet pls

[Anonymous No.18618107]

I would read that book, especially now that I fell into Cambodian music

[Anonymous No.18618115]

>>18617684
I don't have pics of her feet but I have some soft porn pics of her tits and pussy, would you like me to post them?

[Anonymous No.18618141]

>>18618115
Post them

[Anonymous No.18618640]

>>18613698
Pseud hands typed this4U4GN

[Anonymous No.18618878]

>>18616590
>im not Cambodian.
Interview old Cambodians as research. They'll probably love to help you but you might need to get the younger generations to translate for some. Basically anyone fun who loved music before the revolution might not exist today, and the few that still exist would probably excuse inaccuracies.
There are very few autists who will correct stuff when their other option is listening to the music, and practically everyone on the scene hates them because they love being right more than they love the music. Nobody likes those dicks. History is vague, and music is beautiful.

[Anonymous No.18619286]

>>18615308
Watched that documentary, very good - hit me in the feels. Thanks anon, godspeed

[Anonymous No.18619387]

>>18618878
yea ive thought about interviewing some survivors or some shit(if they are still around)
>>18619286
yea its pretty sad right. cheers
>>18618107
glad to hear!

[Anonymous No.18619633]

>>18619387
>interviewing some survivors or
I saw a recent documentary called The Donut King about a Cambodian refugee who had been lucky enough to get out before the Khmer Rouge, and who took over the donut business in California by sponsoring refugees to come to the country and start more donut shops. You can probably find an enclave like that in Canada or just put out a Facebook/Twitter/whatever post asking for survivors memories and explaining the basic plot. You'll probably get lots of stories about which clubs were best and nice small details about the music culture and fans.

[Anonymous No.18619688]

>this entire thread
Even after close to 14 years on this fucking site, there's still quality to find.

[Anonymous No.18619800]

>>18619633
fuck it maybe ill travel to Cambodia myself and spend 5years studying the khmer language and the Cambodian genocide and rewrite the whole thing in the Khmer. i think it would be pretty funny for some 3rd generation italian-canadian to contribute to the Cambodian canon of literature
>>18619688
im glad my shitpost turned out like this.
if i tried to tell people irl to check out cambodian music from the 60s and 70s they would just laugh at me...they'll never understand...

[Anonymous No.18619900]

>>18619800
>spend 5years studying the khmer language
This could be based because there's probably idiosyncrasies in the lyrics you can't pick up on without knowing it. You might have to study older Khmer though because a lot of languages in the area have modernised with the rest of the culture. Kind of like if you want to write a story about 1960s rock in the US you couldn't use the word based or redpilled as part of the characters' vocab.

[Anonymous No.18619917]

>>18619900
wow true. ive never really thought about that in terms of other languages. you just blew my mind

[Anonymous No.18619925]

>>18614132
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R93eln-eT3Q

[Anonymous No.18619952]

I've fallen in love with Pov Varrany because of this thread and I demand you do her justice OP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljUIlGGMzE4

[Anonymous No.18619966]

>>18619952
yea shes one of my favorties. the saddest thing is her career began right when all of this was ending

[Anonymous No.18619979]

>>18619966
Her voice is beautiful. I'd have loved her if she was physically uglier than Janis Joplin and fatter than Mama Cass but she's unbelievably beautiful in photos too. Please take good care of my waifu.

[Anonymous No.18620002]

>>18619979
Yea and i love that she switches between Khmer and English sometimes.
But for me anon...its Huoy Meas.
I've never had much of a thing for Asian women. But for some reason this is one of the most beautiful faces I've ever seen. I guess its the smile of innocence.
Sadly she was raped, murdered and mutilated.
https://youtu.be/6qcWqhvhF8c?t=1622

[Anonymous No.18620068]

>>18620002
As much as I respect your life choices, OP, and encourage you in your work, you have to understand my heart only has room for Pov.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=debrlewxhHA

[Anonymous No.18620116]

>>18620068
wow i dont even think ive heard that one before. beautiful.
you've really fallen in love anon. cheers

[Anonymous No.18620131]

>>18620116
She's the only person besides Harry Nilsson who is allowed sing Without You
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVR0490Y-lU

[Anonymous No.18620155]

>>18614067
Did you make up a fake story to promote Cambodian music?

[Anonymous No.18620173]

>>18615107
MAGIC JOHNSON.

[Anonymous No.18620180]

>>18620155
If he has, I still want to thank him for introducing me to Pov.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wWLxacME1g

[Anonymous No.18620197]

>>18620131
no this is an actual idea i came up with and have been working on.
the only exaggeration is that its a 300+ page rough draft. it is not 300 pages and its more of an outline than a draft. i still have a lot of research to do about the Cambodian genocide

[Anonymous No.18620207]

>>18620197
I'll still be in love with her whenever you publish.

[Anonymous No.18620925]

>>18615614
If this isn't a troll, can you share some of it? I'd be very interested in reading this.

[Anonymous No.18620940]

>>18615730
>The bit that always gets me is the airport. The Khmer Rouge put out an international call to Cambodian students and professionals abroad to come home and help establish the new state. They killed them all when they stepped off the planes.
What the fuck.

>>18615790
I will read this anon. Post what you have so far, finish it, can drop my email if you want to stay in touch. This thread has piqued my interest. I need to read this book.

[tikhanovlibrary (at) protonmai(...) No.18620968]

>>18620197
Listen OP, this is a beautiful idea and you sound like exactly the kind of man to carry it through to completion. If you ever want an editor or a proofreader my email is in the name slot and I'd love to read what you have so far. Really enjoying the music ITT too.

[Anonymous No.18620983]

>>18620197
dude, could you upload your draft here?
The story seems so batshit insane i would really like to comment on it and give you some ideas

[Anonymous No.18621137]

>>18620925
>>18620940
>>18620968
>>18620983
At this moment I have nothing worth sharing. As I said, the 300+ page rough draft was an exaggeration. I deeply apologize, i did not think this thread would go down like this, it was mostly meant to be a shitpost(my girlfriend really did find my notes thought. that part is not a joke).
I only have a rough outline of the direction of the story with notes on specific themes, characters and aspects of the story.
For now I can only give you a more detailed summary of the story and description of various characters.

The novel will mostly follow 2 story lines taking place in separate locations.
- The struggle of various characters in labor camp (this storyline is meant to detail the cruel and harsh suffering Cambodians were subjected to)
- The plotting of the assassination of pol pot by members of the official band for the khmer rouge military (this part is meant to add a suspenseful vengeance aspect to the story along with potentially detailing the inner workings of the khmer rouge)

the labor camp storyline will mainly follow Sinn Sisamouth (who is essentially the father of cambodian music) and the curel and harsh suffering he and those around him face. Through his diary entries the reader will learn what Cambodia was like before the Khmer Rouge and this is hopefully how i can insert some non-fiction history writing into the book. A central element to his character will be the guilt he feels over not being able look after Ros Serey Sothea(the mother of cambodian music) due to his work duties(in real life they had a brother/sister kind of relationship and he looked out for her throughout her career). this storyline is far from being fleshed out but i do know that i want Sinn as the main character. i still dont know how ill fit Ros into the story. maybe shes already been killed off before it begins and thats where he gets his guilt from
this labor camp storyline will also feature brutal episodes describing the actual deaths of certain musicians
- the rape, mutilation and murder of Houy Meas
- the execution of Meas Samon for playing music on break
- and probably a fictionalized death of Yol Aularong

the Khmer rouge storyline will mainly follow a group of musicians who managed to avoid working in labor camps by becoming bandmembers for the official band for the Khmer rouge military(this is based off of Drakkar guitarist Touch Chhatha) and their plot to assassinate Pol Pot at an upcoming parade. Another important aspect of this storyline will be detailed descriptions of the innerworkings of the khmer rouge and the psychopathy of Pol Pot himself. It will have episodes depicting the planning of large "killing fields" executions and there will be first person perspective chapters of Pol Pot himself.

im tired of writing. I would like to once again deeply apologize for not actually having anything presentable that i can show.

[Anonymous No.18621167]

>>18621137
>would like to once again deeply apologize for not actually having anything presentable that i can show.
It's okay OP. Everyone loves your idea. I hope you don't mind but I'm going to write a book about being in love with Pov, and mention you in passing. If you mind, it won't go anywhere but my diary desu

[Anonymous No.18621183]

>>18621167
please write that lol
what does that even entail? are you just going to write a book about a westerner in love with a Cambodian musician whos been dead for many years? and his struggle to accept that he will never be able to have her?

[Anonymous No.18621187]

>>18621183
Yes exactly that.

[Anonymous No.18621196]

>>18621137
>im tired of writing. I would like to once again deeply apologize for not actually having anything presentable that i can show.
Don't worry about it anon. I really love what you've got so far and I hope you'll keep us updated as you progress.

[Anonymous No.18621244]

>>18621183
This is where I mention you (rough draft- I've decided to call her Pau in the story so readers cannot steal my waifu):

It was an act of undoing, and a wholly conscious one. It had been consciously stolen too: a stranger had presented the possibility of Pau, of a world in which she lived, and where someone hummed her Water Flow next to you on the bus. The pen hung over the scrap of paper as our narrator, the undoer, the thief, paused to gather the correct intention, atmosphere, and breath to begin.
>Pau looked at her guitar for the last time...
It was a consciously futile act too. Pau would never love our narrator. But our narrator would immortalize her so some passing casual spectator could observe it accidentally as a romance.

[Anonymous No.18621285]

>>18621244
nice lol

[Anonymous No.18621299]

Since we're /mu/ now, a fun music rabbit hole to go down is Argentine National Rock. Basically during the 70s the dictatorship banned most forms of creative expression, "disappeared" a lot of people, and generally organized an Orwellian reign of terror where he'd go so far as banning specific words or expressions.
This led to a lot of rock musicians making extremely melancholic songs full of coded messages as a form of protest. They couldn't directly state their discontent with the dictatorship, so they buried it under layers of allegory and imagery while singing about depression and heroin abuse.
Maybe some of you will like it. Not to detract from all the Cambodian bangers in this thread.
https://youtu.be/R3CaLuzp9EY
https://youtu.be/yhdRxr9bsEk
https://youtu.be/j8NTPQR0lc8
https://youtu.be/9GoO4jZ-aX8

[Anonymous No.18621308]

>>18621244
great prose. you better write this thing OP

[Anonymous No.18621320]

>>18615614
>>18619387
>>18619800
>>18621137

Assuming you have halfway decent prose, this is the kind of vaguely-woke yet surreal enough to be engaging story that has a realistic chance of being publishable. Like PKD meets The Interview.

[Anonymous No.18621431]

>GF found the 200 page outline for the historical novel about female vietcong using CBT to interrogate captured americans

[Anonymous No.18621457]

>>18621299
ill check it out. love foreign music.

[Anonymous No.18621484]

>gf found the lolita fanfiction collection

[Anonymous No.18621492]

This thread has not left my mind since I saw it last night. Have actually been thinking about most of the day. Back to the topic of your GF, have you tried to explain to her why you feel this way, as you have done with us here on /lit/? If you have earnestly expressed yourself to her like this, and she is still unhappy with you, that is a damning sign about her. Your partner should be supportive and understanding about your passions.

fuck this new captcha is awful

[Anonymous No.18621538]

>>18621492
desu i think i was just being retarded and itll blow over by the end of this weekend.
i just got too offended by the natural confusion the average gf would experience upon finding out that their bf is writing an epic fanfiction about Cambodian musicians in the 1970s.
im generally a pretty self aware person but sometimes i forget how unusual i am and get offended by the suggestion that i am.

im not too stressed about the gf situation anymore. we had a good night last night

on another note. im sorry my thread has consumed your headspace for the last 24hrs

[Anonymous No.18621607]

>>18613424
>cutie gf found the way out of the basement
>FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

[Anonymous No.18621676]

>>18613706
>That's my country
I'm very sorry to hear that.

[Anonymous No.18621689]

>>18614569
so so so SO BASED

[Anonymous No.18622147]

this thread is fucking hilarious
I'll make a screencap after I get bored from reading
brb in 1 hour or so

[Anonymous No.18622223]

>>18613424
>gf found the word document with the copypastas

[Anonymous No.18622288]

>>18613877
Why are Cambodian chicks so hot?

[Anonymous No.18622349]

>>18621183
>are you just going to write a book about a westerner in love with a Cambodian musician whos been dead for many years?

[Anonymous No.18622355]

>>18621244
Based and redpilled, joyce-tier prose

[Anonymous No.18622362]

>>18613698
>So what’s your position on physical versus social relations liquidation in Marx or are you just a larping wehraboo who lacks the ability to write Cambodian alternate history
Midwit: the post

[Anonymous No.18622452]

>>18621308
>>18622355
She's beautiful, listen to her
www.youtube.com/watch?v=35osrGa-Blk

[Anonymous No.18623066]

>>18613433

[Anonymous No.18623080]

>>18613424
>Big Other found the trash can

[Anonymous No.18623095]

>>18622362
You seem to have an itchy arsehole.

[Anonymous No.18623164]

>>18622288
>Why are Cambodian chicks so hot?
Because they will "love you long time".

[Anonymous No.18623189]

>>18613877
Damn this sounds gay as fuck. I hope your girlfriend cheats on you

[Anonymous No.18623193]

>>18613948
Just to be clear, are you Cambodian?

[Anonymous No.18623215]

>>18621244
Absolute dog shit. I work for a publishing house too. Your gf was correct to be revolted.

>>18621308
>>18622355
Faggot redditors

[Anonymous No.18623304]

>>18620925
>If this isn't a troll, can you share some of it? I'd be very interested in reading this.
As a wanna-be musician, I'm seconding it.

[Anonymous No.18623338]

>>18613424
why would this be an issue? unless you wrote severe cringeworthy material just say you're working on a book...you literally have proof and most bitches are not going to willingly read the whole thing unless actually into reading.

[Anonymous No.18623341]

>>18613948
She’s probably just annoyed at how you’re acting so insecure about it. Just keep working on it and don’t bring it up around her and you’ll be fine.
Sounds like a cool concept by the way.

[Anonymous No.18623354]

>>18613948
Is your gf uncreative or something? Why would writing a story be out of hand. While this is a quirk that may make me consider you "weird," granted I don't know about your other interests, just say you like to understand others' cultures or some bullshit. Only have to say the reason you listen to the music is because you've been working on your story. I think it's really about owning it, but you seeming to be so embarrassed about it makes me think there's some other things going on. Like you should be able to tell your partner one of your own hobbies.

[Anonymous No.18623375]

>>18615827
>>18615845
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD5oMxbMcHM
this is about indonesia but similar vein, good watch

[Anonymous No.18623397]

>>18615730
Unironically, source on this? Really intrigued me, but I couldn't find anything.

[Anonymous No.18623442]

>>18613424
I think this idea of yours OP would also make a great film.

[Anonymous No.18623443]

>>18623375
Seconding this. Great documentary on a lot of levels.

[Anonymous No.18623494]

>>18621299
I really like the first and the last song:
The first one is pretty catchy, the last one is pretty trippy. Why can we make this kind of crazy lyrics in the mainstream anymore, bros?
These guys were so lucky to be in the right zeitgeist.
As a curiosity, some argentinian girl compared me to the Sumo guy once. Kek

[Anonymous No.18623500]

hey everyonee im back and im drujnk as fuck. didnt thjnk this thread would still be alive but here we are. cheers,
>>18622147
cheers
>>18622288
idk but yea its pretty cool right
>>18622349
nice
>>18623189
nicew. cheers
>>18623193
i am not cambodian. whatsoever
>>18623304
icant as i have nothing presentable. im sorry
>>18623338
i guess
>>18623341
thanks brother. cheers
>>18623354
yea like i said earlier in this thread. that situatuin will likely clear over the weekend.
im just retarded
>>18623375
damn, ill definitely watch this. hasvent gotten into indonesian music yet. thanks man
>>18623442
probably would. i am giving you permission to steal the idea and produce the movie quicker than i can write the book.

[Anonymous No.18623525]

>>18623494
Lol, idk if lucky is the right word, but it was definitely something. Argentina honestly has a great rock scene, even today. I lived in Cordoba for a while and there where tons of punks, metalheads, and various musicians around. Cool city. Cool country really, other than the economic and political issues its easily one of the best places in the world.
For some reason miserable dictatorships seem to produce the best music. Here's some Russian stuff you might enjoy:
https://youtu.be/T4Lvln8sRB4

[Anonymous No.18623539]

>>18623500
torrent guy here - watched the documentary as well and enjoyed it a lot
I hope I'll be as based as Yol Aularong too someday, I bet he was among the first ones to get killed just because he refused to cut his hair or some other trivial thing
His music is like a blend of beach boys and garage rock, really unique

[Anonymous No.18623610]

>>18623539
yea bro he forsure got murdered instantly. he seemed like a reall "belief put into action" guy. definietley didnt cut his hair or stop being a hippe

[Anonymous No.18623667]

>>18623095
Found the midwit again

[Anonymous No.18623732]

https://youtu.be/Hllo5vlWty0

fucking sick language

[Anonymous No.18624245]

>>18618640
>4U4GN
based
>Verification not required.

[Anonymous No.18624518]

>>18619688
Yeah, I entered this thread expecting nothing but memes, I'm glad I was wrong.

[Anonymous No.18624529]

>>18613424
don't come crying to me chad. you have a gf. you don't know pain

[Anonymous No.18624597]

>>18623397
Can't find the original source I had but
>As foreign minister, Ieng Sary helped persuade hundreds of Cambodian diplomats and intellectuals to return home from overseas to help the new revolutionary government. They were sent to “re-education camps”, and most were executed.
https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/khmer-rouge-leader-who-was-on-trial-for-crimes-against-humanity-1.1335752
That's the name of the guy who organised the return of the expats. You have to keep in mind that the Khmer Rouge had a lot of international support even after the genocide was revealed, with the UN seat belonging to the Khmer Rouge into the 90s. A lot of the stuff the international community put their fingers in their ears for is especially poorly documented. I'll keep trying to find the documentary I originally learnt this from, because it had two of the "airport workers" who were responsible for killing everyone.

[Anonymous No.18624651]

Seems like a plotline from pynchon: some poor schmuck absolutely obsessed with the death of the cambodian musicians fumbles around and destroys all his relationships one by one while famtasizing about what could have been different, but in his own life and in cambodia

[Anonymous No.18625094]

>>18623189
die normalfaggot

[Anonymous No.18625259]

>>18614067
This song kicks. I’m sorry I ever doubted your obsession. If you were smart, you’d abandon that ho gf for a cambodian qt

[Anonymous No.18625311]

OP my friend please, can you make a playlist that we can save or something to introduce us to Cambodian music? I beg you. I really want to get into this music after this thread but there's just a few videos posted and many song titles are written in a foreign alphabet.

[Anonymous No.18625406]

>tutor found the picaresque novel
>is now bitching about how I should only read 'real' literature

[Anonymous No.18625622]

>>18625311
Not OP, but search up Cambodian Nuggets on spotify/youtube, pure bangers from the major artists

[Anonymous No.18625698]

>>18625311
Ryuichi on YouTube has lots of compilations

[Anonymous No.18626062]

im back again and very hungover
>>18624651
lol nice.
you should write it
>>18625259
cheers
>>18625311
if you have spotify look up "60s-70s khmer psychedelia / cambodian rock" its a 10hr playlist
theres also good compilations on youtube of specific artists
https://youtu.be/LNTfLsdSpSQ
https://youtu.be/Wa70IJTmcHQ
https://youtu.be/YcWv1XALox0
https://youtu.be/d-9jN3l2nYM
https://youtu.be/ziybn54XHWI
https://youtu.be/xthhc0NNk30
https://youtu.be/9o3dS9tt2FY
https://youtu.be/5yJ6Bzu6ZjE
it was truly a thriving and prolific music scene so you will basically never run out of music.

[Anonymous No.18626585]

>>18626062
Bless you OP. This is one of the best threads we've had on /lit/ for a while

[Anonymous No.18627464]

>>18613721
kek but your still tripfag

[Anonymous No.18627497]

>>18626585
This
I’ve been out of /lit/ for some months and returned just in time to witness this incredible thread. 4chan is really full of shit but sometimes there is gold hidden in it. Thank you so much OP.

[Anonymous No.18627654]

>>18626585
>>18627497
damn bros you're being too generous. didn't even mean for this thread to have this effect. was just a shitpost. Im no god. I'm just a dude with a lot to share but no one to share it with. I guess this time I happened to land on the right crowd.

Since this thread did have this effect though, id like to take this opportunity to promote the exploration of other cultures and other cultures music and music in general. Its all too common for youth and people in general to just consume what's "given to them"(ill leave you to interpret what that means). As the years go by, the decline in individuality increases. Were living in the age of information, you can obtain information on anything you want from anywhere in the world, and yet no one has a drive to do so. There are plenty of other countries that make beautiful music and there are plenty of other countries that have beautiful cultures, don't stop at Cambodias.
Music is a universal language. The art of things sounding nice. Explore it. Appreciate it. Be eclectic. I live by the idea that somewhere out there, there is the most beautiful music ever and I have yet to hear it. So I am on a constant search for it.
And when you like something. Read about it. Knowing the history behind anything increases the enjoyment of it.

[Anonymous No.18627676]

>>18613948
Bro you are amazing.

[Anonymous No.18627709]

>>18613424
Posting in this glorious thread. God bless you Cambodiaanon

[Anonymous No.18627744]

>>18613948
it is not over, in fact it is just beginning

[Anonymous No.18628412]

>>18627654
Good post. For me it's North Korean synth https://youtu.be/5u2UhBMZdjc . I strongly suspect that the North Koreans took a while to replace the keyboards the Soviets probably gave them, and by the time they replaced them the musical style enforced by lazy use of those keyboards had stuck

[Anonymous No.18628553]

>>18628412
Damn bro that sounds super sick ill check it out more

[Anonymous No.18628829]

>>18628412
There's a movie called Aim High in Creation! which is about an Australian woman who was worried about a gas company that was going to destroy her local park. So she did the obvious thing, and asked North Korea to teach her how to make a propaganda film that would lock the gas company down like the North Korean people.
Her propaganda movie isn't as good as theirs, but she did get access to basically everything that goes into those films.

[Anonymous No.18628862]

>>18614067
I am actually loling

[Anonymous No.18628958]

Fuck it. OP, you've inspired me to finally start my historical fantasy novel about the Polish-Soviet War.
See you on the flip side.

[Anonymous No.18629606]

>>18622288
my first gf was adopted from cambodia. her ass was perfection

[Anonymous No.18629654]

>best friend found suicidal posts on 4chan

[Anonymous No.18629658]

>>18613424
>gf found the evola collection

[Anonymous No.18629855]

drubnk again. hows everyine doing
>>18628862
Cheers
>>18628958
Nice. Finish it.

[Anonymous No.18630565]

>>18629855
Thanks for this thread anon. It really inspired me and I've been writing all day listening to all the Cambodian bangers you recommended. I look forward to reading your book when you finish it. Please keep us updated on your progress.

[Anonymous No.18630579]

>>18629855
>>18630565
And stop being a fucking drunk

[Anonymous No.18631665]

Post excerpt

[Anonymous No.18631755]

>>18630565
Glad to hear that anon. As for the drinking; leave me alone.
>>18631665
I got nothing bro sorry. Been drinking for 3 days

[Anonymous No.18632912]

Bump. Let's take this into next week

[Anonymous No.18633387]

Really hope I could read your book in the future OP

[Anonymous No.18633644]

>>18613459
>history novel on Cambodia in the 1970s
>hes assasinated in the novel
I guess everybody is assassinated in the novel
after being tied and rape tortured

[Anonymous No.18633649]

>>18613877
>its supposed to be a fun story
what made you chose cambodia in the 70's?

[Anonymous No.18633651]

>>18613877
>I am Canadian
ok leaf, that explains the weirdness

[Anonymous No.18633677]

>>18613948
let me guess, she is not cambodian right?
(nor another leaf)

[Anonymous No.18633818]

>>18633649
idk. Previously i had only heard of cambodia as an extremely poor country so when i learnt that it was once glowing with culture i was amazed and felt that it would be fun to write about these forgotten times.
>>18633651
Whatever
>>18633677
leaf

[Anonymous No.18633871]

>>18633818
What are you planning for researching this novel?

[Anonymous No.18634187]

>>18633871
thats my main problem. i have to decide how authentic i want it to be.
im probably just going to do 50x the amount reading ive already done and watch interviews of survivors and shit.

[Anonymous No.18635539]

You know I took a chance on this thread and im glad I did. Very cool idea OP

[Anonymous No.18635552]

>>18621137
Do you need help getting your chapters in order and such?

[Anonymous No.18635622]

>>18634187
Dude just write this. Even if you get stuff wrong, have a first draft you can work on with 'corrections'.
But please OP.
Write this book.
I want, nay, need, to read it.

[Anonymous No.18635676]

>>18613877
this sounds great, go ahead and finish the story op

[Anonymous No.18635707]

>ITT Sublime Frequencies

[Anonymous No.18635847]

based cambodian music thread
here's my favorite artist, sinn sisamouth, singing house of the raising sun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obQDFh6vz4M

in phnom penh you can still find some old musicians who made it through the genocide. this one old blind guy, man, just the thought of the songs i watched him play gives me chills.

[Anonymous No.18636092]

>>18629606
Why'd it end bro?

[Anonymous No.18636825]

>>18635552
eventually
>>18635622
I will write it
>>18635676
thank you
>>18635847
nice. id like to travel to phnom penn someday. from what i understand you can still find all this music on cassettes in stores

[Anonymous No.18637819]

I like it

[Anonymous No.18637866]

>>18613424
>school counselor found the "I JUST WANT TO FUCKING DIE" notes
High school sucked

[Anonymous No.18637924]

>>18637866
>mom, dad, and pre-school found the drawings of skeletons and people dying brutally

[Anonymous No.18638626]

I could've saved her

[Anonymous No.18639125]

>>18638626
in an alternate reality we saved them all...

[Anonymous No.18639581]

>>18615107
That's not magic realism, ffs magic realism it's not even a genre, it an editorial label of a reduced quantity of novels from the LatinAmerican Boom. Garcia Marquez is not even a "magic-realist" writer (How the fuck are "the Colonnel" or "Cronic of a foretold story" magic realism?). The other Boom writers didn't even wrote magic realism: Vargas Llosa was 'realist' all the way, Cortazar wrote fantastic short stories (ala Borges, Maupassant, Poe).
Who the fuck wrote "magic realism"? Allende, Murakami? It's also a marketing descriptor for what have already been writting some time ago, the fantastic and the marvellous, see: Alejo Carpentier, Borges, Rulfo.

[Anonymous No.18639667]

>>18613424
Top tier thread. I will read your book, should you ever get it published

[Anonymous No.18639857]

>>18613698
>Le Wehrmarat

[Anonymous No.18639867]

>>18613948
>everything i am living for has been ruined.....
How can this possibly be the case if you're living for Cambodian music and your magnum opus? Surely, only your relationship with a judgy slag has been ruined.

[Anonymous No.18639882]

>>18614162
>Sinn Sisamouth
Ha that is pretty funny. I also stumbled across his story after watching because of you. Such a beautiful song and what a tragic story.
Mou Pei Na is also great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hllo5vlWty0

[Anonymous No.18639896]

>>18639867
yea i was just fucking around lol.
life is fine, my gf is fine, been doing more Cambodia research and ive been on a 4 day bender
>>18639882
damn this one really is great. yea sinn is too cool. i find it so cool how he is singlehandedly the father of popular music in Cambodia, its not an exaggerated title or anything.

[Anonymous No.18640011]

>>18639896
Here is a Cantonese version of Because of You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzbCSvyiyz8
which is also beautiful imho.
I actually do not know who recorded this first or if this is just a Chinese folkore song, but I like Sinn's version the best.

I went down quite the rabbit hole to find more Cambondian recordings in the past. But most that you find that is even of decent quality is by crate-digger labels or reworks such as this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVcmDI2OAgk

[Anonymous No.18640056]

>>18640011
Also this set has a couple wonderful tracks in it, particularly at the end.

https://www.nts.live/shows/will-and-yousif/episodes/will-yousif-14th-may-2017
As mentioned before, what is left from that time is not much. You will always stumble across the same set of tracks. Still worth checking out.

[Anonymous No.18640110]

>>18613948
>can tell she thinks im extremely weird(weirder than she already thought i was) for having an obsession with cambodian music. theres a very clear aura of judgment and animosity.
>it is now a situation where i know im being heavily judged for being weird but she doesnt want to admit
Dump her anon. You have a special gift and she doesn't appreciate it. Find a woman who does.

[Anonymous No.18640139]

>>18640011
>>18640056
wow its crazy how different the feel is of that Cantonese version. way more upbeat. Cool but i still prefer Sinn's too.
yea I'm pretty sure most of the master tapes got destroyed by the Khmer Rouge so all we've got is cassette rips :(
>>18640110
ah that all passed. everything is cool now but someday i will probably have to face the fact that she is not "the one"
but for now i shall continue to suppress that realization

[Anonymous No.18640263]

>>18623500
here you have it anon
sorry for the delay; I'm a lazy fuck
good luck with your novel and thank you for this thread!

[Anonymous No.18640560]

>>18640263
Wow. I still don't understand how or why this thread resonated with people so much but this has been incredibly fun and I will forever be grateful for the encouragement and inspiration you guys have given me. You cannot get this kind of encouragement in the real world; People are usually just confused or they laugh whenever I show them Cambodian music.

[Anonymous No.18642089]

>>18640560
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQAmszWgfMQ
Song title means Poet's Hope apparently

[Anonymous No.18642959]

>>18642089
Damn this one is amazing.

[Anonymous No.18643042]

>>18613877
I mean this sounds super original and history doesn't show the millions of men who were talked out of great plans by cunt spouses. GO FOR IT.

[Anonymous No.18643620]

>>18642959
My future wife is always amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KShuVvnEjfo

[Anonymous No.18643667]

Lily chou-chou esque thread.

[Anonymous No.18643675]

>>18643620
How will she be your wife in the future?
also this ones epic

[Anonymous No.18643683]

>>18643675
I'm going to find a crooked Buddhist monk. I think she's the guitar in it too.

[Anonymous No.18643855]

is any1 else here into life-affirming-techno-beat chinese love songs?
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9zWHENWlko

[Anonymous No.18643880]

>>18643855
no but now i want to be. send more

[Anonymous No.18644808]

>>18643855
>>18643880
Maybe only one got out?

[Anonymous No.18644884]

>>18644808
nah i found a few more from the same channel
https://youtu.be/1OwIV_Y3ZWM
https://youtu.be/A8TPkSX2b8s
https://youtu.be/nePLFAA-bXY
https://youtu.be/zc7r1_AShOg

i wonder if anon has any more beyond this

[Anonymous No.18644896]

>>18643855
>>18644884
Are these Korean not Chinese? I'm shit at both but it def seems Korean subs and I'm recognising more Korean words than Chinese?

[Anonymous No.18644966]

>>18644896
i have no idea what these are. but whatever they are. they're good

[Anonymous No.18645070]

>>18644966
I'm ignorant enough to be dangerous but I think we're looking at Korean trot

[Anonymous No.18645385]

>>18644884
>>18643855
these are japanese titles, with korean subtitles. It also sounds like japanese. No chinese to be seen. Japanese fan website btw lol

[Anonymous No.18645435]

How easy would it be to learn just enough Khmer to understand these songs?

[Anonymous No.18645454]

>>18645435
Under a year with consistent study

[Anonymous No.18645475]

>tfw spent two months in cambodia
>tfw the first thing you notice is how little old people there are
>All the old people are always together in groups sitting on the ground silently
>They all are missing at least one limb because of landmines
>Lots of young people too are missing limbs cause of landmines
>Even saw a fucking baby with scaring cause of one
>So many beautiful Buddhist temples but all the statues are missing their heads and covered in bullet holes cause the Khmer rouge tried to stomp out Buddhism
>You can still fucking find pieces of bone floating in rivers where it pushed up from the ground because so many people just died and decomposted in random places around the country
>There a look in everyone's eyes, even younger people like ptsd, the entire culture has like a unconscious trauma from the events
>It's quiet and people rarely talk, which is so different from Thailand or even Vietnam.
>People are still super friendly and always treat you with open arms
Cambodia is sad but a nice place. I recommend visiting if you can handle it.

[Anonymous No.18645486]

>>18635847
Yeah also all the old people always have instruments with them. There's like group of roving old men across Cambodia who all lost limbs or their sight in the genocide and make their living playing music and begging.

[Anonymous No.18645493]

>>18645454
I'm starting today with this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0XPeQACWm4
There doesn't seem to many resources but I guess that's expected.

[Anonymous No.18645503]

>>18645475
I really got to get there one day. How safe did you feel while visiting?

[Anonymous No.18645530]

>>18645503
Literally landmines were my biggest fear while there. My female friend cause she's an idiot ran off from us and spent an entire night till 6am drinking and doing blow in Siem Reap and she returned unharmed so that says something.
I found the people there kind, but I wouldn't want to wander around some poorer areas late at night.
The only sea country I've ever had a problem with the locals in was when I got in a fist fight with a mugger in Vietnam who climbed in my window (but that's another story).
If you go Angkor Wat isn't just a tourist attraction it's 100% worth the visit. You need to get there around 6am though, you can see the light come up through these little slits they built to make it shine on certain tiles and it's literally transcendent because no one else is there.
If you go when all the chink tourists are there I'm sure it would be misserable.

[Anonymous No.18645538]

>>18645475
yea ive been wanting to visit since i got into the music but now since im working on this book i feel like i have to visit.
where did you visit?
do a lot of people speak English in Phnom Penh? will i be able to get around easily if i learn just basic greetings and shit?
i really wanna visit because of the food too. the pho looks so fucking good

[Anonymous No.18645567]

>>18613721
Step on my urethra and peg my large intestine into my fucking skull

[Anonymous No.18645593]

>>18645538
Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Kampong Thom, a few smaller villages I can't remember the names of.
People speak English decently in Phnom Penh, in the touristy area you should have no trouble but those arent probably the place you want to go unless you want to buy blow and get your dick sucked, it's a nice city though outside of it, and it's a mixed bag if people know English. You can get by with food vendors and those stands on every corner sell fresh fruit milkshakes for 1$, which might be what I miss most about sea. Even if they don't know a lot of english I never struggled to get by with just a few basic Khmer phrases.
To be honest I thought the food was a bit dissapoointing, I mean don't get my wrong it's great and fresh, but every Cambodian meal tends to be a fried meat and vegetable dish and rice. Compared to Thailand (which had great cuisine) and especially Vietnam (which had the best cuisine I've ever had traveling anywhere) it was dissapointing but still very tasty don't get me wrong.

[Anonymous No.18645754]

>>18645593
Cool, thanks for the intel bro!

[Anonymous No.18645881]

>>18645754
Thanks. If you're looking for a big city to go to id recommend Siem reap it's great there.

[Anonymous No.18646130]

>>18613948
>>18614067
Just do the good ol' switcheroo and call her a racist cunt that she is, kek.

[Anonymous No.18646160]

>>18646130
I do not think my gf is racist. just a standard north American who is closed minded about other cultures.

[Anonymous No.18646171]

>>18646160
Call her that, she is being an obnoxious asshole for bashing you for what you like. Or don't do a single thing about it.

[Mitka No.18646498]

>>18613424
Chapter One: Annihilation

The Cambodians joined the Japanese by being nuked. There is now a bay where Cambodia once was. Good riddance.

[Anonymous No.18647397]

>>18622288
All the ugly ones were killed

[Anonymous No.18647418]

>>18647397
why does it seem like the opposite :(

[Anonymous No.18647423]

>>18613948
OP I will actually read this book from beginning to end if you go through with it. Sounds interesting. Just remember to make a thread when it’s done.

do you have experiences writing other things? Is this your first time?

[Anonymous No.18647432]

>>18614067
>>18647423
I have decided that I will have cambodian music playing in the background while I read your book

[Anonymous No.18647459]

>>18614269
Yea I like Japanese 80’s, German Industrial music like rammstein, and Russian post punk. You’d be surprised there’s a lot of good foreign music guys.

When you’re the type of person who cares more about instrumentals than vocals (like me) it’s easier to find.

[Anonymous No.18647462]

>>18647423
ive started a bunch of shit but never finished(mostly short story ideas).
i only got into reading recreationally about a year ago.
i dont know how good of a writer i am. i cant describe my prose but i can say the kinda prose i do like. I usually like simple and effective shit, not into flowery prose much but i respect it.

[Anonymous No.18647494]

>>18647459
https://youtu.be/2Urkb4OMHoI

And now I’m adding cambodian to the list of foreign music I like, in exchange here’s some future funk from japan

[Anonymous No.18647520]

>>18647462
I really do think your idea is great, and want you to finish this.

There’s a lot of feels involved, knowing that most of Cambodia’s great musicians were murdered by a brutal regime. It’s not fair. They probably just wanted to live their life and produce art, and then pol pot happened.

[Anonymous No.18647521]

>>18614633
Alternate history, as a genre, just requires that a historical event play out differently. Something like Roth's Plot Against America is alternate history because Lindbergh wins the presidency, and despite the fact the POV is a young boy who has little access to the alternate history unfolding beyond what he years on the radio or from his elders.

[Anonymous No.18647534]

>>18647494
unfortunately man that isn't from japan. that's just standard future funk that samples Japanese music :/
no shame tho! I've been a huge vaporwave fan since i was in highschool, i just thought you should know.
in exchange for the future funk here's some Nigerian funk/disco https://youtu.be/nuCabYRwWls
>>18647520
yea its horrible. really changes the context of the music :( thats why i became so obsessed with it

[Anonymous No.18647578]

>>18615614
>have to adjust to the horrifying totalitarian state they now live in.
It’s not even that it was totalitarian, pol pot’s cambodia was a straight up horror movie. Full on psychopathic hell hole. You’d have to be genuinely schizophrenic or crazy to believe in what he believed in.

He moved everyone outside of the cities to have them live in series of small farming communes dictated by soldiers. Just working all day long in the fields farming rice. That is your life. If you don’t work you get murdered and dumped in the killing fields.

If you had any qualities displaying even the slightest hint of “un-equalness” to anyone else, you would be murdered. If you wore glasses, you would be murdered because some people consider it a sign of intelligence. 1/4th of the population was killed. Every single Cambodian alive has a friend or family member who was killed. The music industry probably didn’t just decline, it straight up disappeared over night.

[Anonymous No.18647599]

>>18621137
If you do not do this, I will steal your idea and do it for you.

I am not joking, or else you will spend the rest of your life regretting that you could’ve made it.

[Anonymous No.18647624]

>>18647534
>unfortunately man that isn't from japan. that's just standard future funk that samples Japanese music
Dammit now I look stupid

I hope this next one is real
https://youtu.be/mml46rXspXQ

[Anonymous No.18647655]

>>18647624
now thats real. thats a good playlist. lots of classics in there. if you like that you should check out Tatsuro Yamashita, the husband of Mariya Takeuchi. Hes got some good stuff:
https://youtu.be/U2dvtv8P5_o
https://youtu.be/KXHsSnYRoNs

[Anonymous No.18647657]

>On 25 December 1978, Vietnam launched a full-scale invasion of Kampuchea, and subsequently occupied the country and removed the government of the Communist Party of Kampuchea from power.

This is a testament to how bad the Khmer Rouge and pol pot really were. “communist countries” have historically been allies but this time they had to put the foot down and say “you went too far”

[Anonymous No.18647762]

Bump before I go to sleep

[Anonymous No.18647768]

300 page draft is a lie. OP just made that up so he could have a thread about cambodian music.

[Anonymous No.18647790]

>>18647762
don't do that.

[Anonymous No.18647923]

This sounds like it checks all the boxes for a published historical fiction novel.
>niche topic that OP knows way more about than the average American
>set during a tragedy that most westerners know about
>several characters are shout-outs to famous historical figures
>surreal, slightly pulpy plot mixed with horrifying depictions of actual genocide
Sounds like a better version of most novels set during the Holocaust.

[Anonymous No.18647931]

>>18647923
Yeah all that genocide in “in King Arthur’s court”kom4m