Today I checked out the new mall. It’s an out-of-the-way location, but it’s pretty cool. I suppose its construction will eventually spawn the regular horde of strip malls and fast-food shrines. The architecture is nice; the inside is all really edgy-modern. The overhang above the entranceway is tilted almost to the ground — looks like it could fall on you any second. It’s something you don’t really see everyday. Even the inside is nice. The fast food court looks like the inside of a Maggiano’s: booths with dimly lit lamps and random fauna.
I tried looking for jeans. Let me tell you, jeans look like crap right now. Every single store I went to had only ripped-up jeans. It’s like some weird viral marketing scheme. It’s funny because there are actually people who buy this stuff, and it’s even funnier to realize that all the jeans that you’re buying have the same rip in the same place. There’s an actual assembly line somewhere that goes to the effort of making jeans, and then rips them. The effort to gain any sort of “individuality” is completely shot when you’re standing there and you realize, “wow, all these jeans have an oil stain under the left pocket. Cool.” So I bought some khakis from AE and left. I’ll wait and see what the next fad is. Don’t know if that’s good or bad…
