diumenge, d’octubre 30, 2005

have you ever been to Poughkeepsie?

The French Connection is an excellent film.
went to a really big party on Friday. Lots of people dancing in a room with a floor that was soaked with beer. My Pumas are now in terrible shape. I used to want to live in a co-op. Not anymore. Amy feels the same way, she says that these parties are indicative of the average co-op dweller's values: they let homeless people into their parties i.e. they think that hobos are real people and not the animals they actually are. I'm reticent to agree, but in the end i must. Its funny how the bohemian atmosphere in Austin, that is downtown and around campus, makes the bums blend in more easily, and thus, less of a scourge on my day-to-day experience.
I went on a little bullshit tour of the SoA yesterday with my dad, then we had mediocre barbecue in the gym that reminds me of a synagogue. My dad also bought me a sweatshirt and a burnt orange t-shirt, because i didn't have anything in that color and i felt left out.
I love christopher walken, he's just so neat, and although I have a link to his campaign website, i wouldn't vote for him. As if he has a chance at winning. I hope he doesn't become too popular and help to put some conservative jackass into office the way nader did in 2000. That was bad.
This quarter, Exxonmobil earned $9.9B, Shell did 9.3. This is roughly $100M per day.
Roy sent me a bunch of audio clips of HAL's voice (from '2001') and so i replaced the default noises that my computer makes with things like: "just what do you think you're doing, Dave?" and "i'm afraid, dave, i'm afraaaid." Its neato.
I think i should watch that again, or atleast my favorite part.
I have a design project due tommorrow, and i haven't started. Fuckin shit.
If i get one more drunken phonecall, i swear i'm gonna go kick a dog or something.
My brother closed on his house last friday and is currently in the process of moving. And to think that at one point my father thought that this brother (the younger of the two) was a bigger loser than the older one. We now know that is definitely not the case.
Amy had an ipod mini and no music, so she was sad. Then she came over to my room and i filled her ipod with random selections from my musical stock. I recently broke 1700 songs, and it was good. But its still not enough. I need more music, i have an insatiable appetite for the stuff.
okay, well thats all i can think of

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIhatepeople
Hello.
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?

Come on, now.
I hear you’re feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain,
Get you on your feet again.

Relax.
I need some information first.
Just the basic facts:
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship’s smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re sayin’.
When I was a child I had a fever.
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I got that feeling once again.
I can’t explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.

Ok.
Just a little pinprick. [ping]
There’ll be no more --aaaaaahhhhh!
But you may feel a little sick.

Can you stand up?
I do believe it’s working. good.
That’ll keep you going for the show.
Come on it’s time to go.

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship’s smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re sayin’.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOhmygod



Two people who have created stuff that i adore:

divendres, d’octubre 28, 2005

Satisfaction

I was at the studio for like 5 hours tonight. And i got to use our (OUR) woodshop for the first time, which was exciting. My model, or whatever it could be called, is pretty nice. Not as cool as the last one, but hey, i can't shit out golden eggs every day.
I voted today against this terrible 'marriage' amendment to the Texas constitution. Conservatives actually want to make an amendment that defines marriage as only between a man and a woman. fuck that, man. I say NO.
I have to thank Armando for giving me this video (if you are at your place of employment, you might not wanna watch it). Its totally awesome. Not pornographic, but almost. Quit crying, it's just a music video, and its clean enough for tv.
Dinner Friday night with the family.
my roommate is a noisy eater. nuff said.
I've been eating a lot of Cheeto's. I'm very glad that campus is so large, and that I do so much walking. Otherwise, i might get chubby. I used to be chubby and it wasn't cool. Ah how i remember the days of freshman year when i stopped eating lunch. yesssss.
My dad asked me to tell him how big a pool he could put in our backyard-to-be. I'm already his go-to guy for architectural questions, apparently. And why wouldn't I be?
I've been having really weird dreams lately. Melissa Etheridge visited us in studio and she got offended when she overheard a lesbian remark i made to my neighbor. And in another i snuck into this big beautiful stone mansion (that had a cemetery instead of a back yard) to take a shower. God is trying to tell me something. Or maybe it's satan.

^<>^<>^<>^<>^
Did you get your disconnection notice?
Mine came in the mail today
They seem to think I'm disconnected
Don't think I know what to read or write or say
Glossaries injected daily
Words and numbers spell out the price to pay
It simply states "you're disconnected baby"
See how easily it all slips away

This is no direction
Prepare for the city
Angels turn on heaven's light

Hurry up, the stage awaits you
Don't forget to memorize your lines
Can you hear them congratulate you?
Out of step just can't find the time
Will we pass thru undetected?
Everything's right here inside our file
You're not so free to be so unprotected
A secret Mona Lisa hides behind her smile

This is no direction
Prepare for the city
Angels turn on heaven's light

Did you get your disconnection notice?
Mine came in the mail today
They seem to think I'm disconnected
Don't think I know what to read or write or say
Glossaries injected daily
Words and numbers spell out the price to pay
It simply states "you're disconnected baby"
See how easily it all slips away

,.,.,.,.,..,.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.





Look closely at this one:

dimarts, d’octubre 25, 2005

Holy Crap


When I first saw 2001: a space odyssey i thought it was cool, but still the weirdest movie I had seen. Then I read the book, and it all made sense. WELL, now u don't have to read the book. Someone has made a lovely animation that explains the movie wonderfully. YOU WILL WATCH IT NOW.
We drew voids with sticks and sumi ink this morning. I wrote haiku instead.

dilluns, d’octubre 24, 2005

My last design project went well. Someone actually used the word 'gorgeous' to which I tiredly mumbled "thanks." In retrospect, i think that person deserved a big smile. My design prof. said it was 'awesome' then subtly scolded me for painting it. I really didn't know we weren't supposed to. Although, with every project, i have been reluctant to ask questions about specifically what we can or cannot do, that way I can be genuinely ignorant when the final review comes along and i've done something i probably shouldn't have.
I actually understood something in calculus today and was subsequently elated. It has also cooled down quite a bit, which kicks serious ass. And so now i get to go shopping for warm clothes, because i have none.
this weekend is parent weekend, and i look forward to at least two free meals in restaurants. YES. oh, and i'll get to see my... uh, family.
In design today we FINISHED the discussion from last friday, and so basically we sat around while Riley (prof.) and Jared (DA) talked about the remaining projects. It's interesting and informative to a point, but one can only be talked at for so long before he starts to imagine how he would kill himself in each project (they were spaces designed for human activity). That proved to be mildly entertaining, but the experience was still mind-numbing as always. One of these days i'll get around to taking pics of these things so you people can see.
My friend gave me a copy of the Requiem for a dream soundtrack. I'll play it if i ever need to cry, throw myself off the roof, or run out of the room screaming. I have mixed emotions about that movie. On the one hand, i must cocnede it's greatness, and on the other hand, it's just so fucking disturbing. BUT, after watching it, I am always (yes, i've watched it multiple times) left with a renewed appreciation for how good I have it. YOU PROMISED ME EVERYTHING WOULD BE ALLRIGHT!! Pi is excellent as well, and it was arronofsky's (sp?) first movie, i think.
I finished Lunar Park; def. Ellis' best novel. READ IT. I have started Thermal Delight as well as Chuck Palahniuk's new one, Haunted.
And now i'm listening to Elliot Smith. I think i would cry if I lost my ipod. I might actually have to listen to... minutiae as i walk around campus. *Shudders.
okay, i think that's enough for now.
UVUVUVUVUVUVUVU
The man in me will do nearly any task,
And as for compensation, there's little he would ask.
Take a woman like you
To get through to the man in me.

Storm clouds are raging all around my door,
I think to myself I might not take it any more.
Take a woman like your kind
To find the man in me.

But, oh, what a wonderful feeling
Just to know that you are near,
Sets my a heart a-reeling
From my toes up to my ears.

The man in me will hide sometimes to keep from bein' seen,
But that's just because he doesn't want to turn into some machine.
Took a woman like you
To get through to the man in me.
YIYIYIYIYIYIYIYIYIYIY
i'm running out of photos to show you. dammit
This is my date and me before prom. Yes, my hair is pink.


scultura en el museo de bellas artes

Rice

Kites

dimarts, d’octubre 18, 2005

Matame, dios.



Well for a while there I thought it was fall... Silly me, i forgot that this is Texas, and the weather here is more fickle than a woman. College is chuggin along. I went to a meeting for an educational trip to Tuscany this summer that would probably cost around $7,000. It might happen...
I bought a book that Larry Speck wrote, and i will ask him to sign it one of these days after class.
Months later, i'm still pissed at losing my $115 pocket knife. I wish so badly that I could blame it on our maid. grr.
I've been informed that my family and I will be going up to Toronto (Instead of St. Lucia, goddammit) for about a week in december and so i'm excited. Hopefully it will be covered in snow and unbearably cold. I have a huge christmas break, over a month.
Bret Easton Ellis' new novel, 'Lunar Park', is good; i've been reading it while I should be reading 'Thermal Delight in Architecture' for larry's class, but...
I've killed 2 tubes of Pringles in 2 days. Call it a 'fuck you' to the arteries.
I discovered that the convenience store in jester (my building) carries pure cane Dr. Pepper (Dr. Pepper w/ pure cane sugar as opposed to corn syrup), and I am DELIGHTED.
This morning i saw a black guy wearing an old wig. It was long straight black hair that had been dyed hot pink, but it was old and in several places you could see the fabric underneath. I was standing behind him as we waited to cross the street, and he put his hand down the back of his pants and left it there for at least a minute. I could see his crack. I wanted to barf and then kill him.
Austin is FULL of little oddities like that.
Dooby dooby doo. I could go for a doobie...

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time takes it's crazy toll
and how does your mirror grow
you better watch yourself when you jump into it,
cuz the mirror's gonna steal your soul
i wonder how it came to be my friend
that someone just like you has come again
never, never know how close you came
until you fall in love with the diamond ring

you throw all his trash away
look out he's here to stay
your mirrors gonna crack when he breaks into it
and you'll never, never be the same
look into his eyes and you can see
why all the little kids are dressed in dreams
i wonder how he's gonna make it back
when he sees that you just know it's make believe

blood crystallized to sand
and now i hope you understand
you reflect into his looking glass soul
and now the mirror is your only friend
look into his eyes and you will see
that men are not alone on the diamond sea
sail into the heart of the lonely storm
and tell her that you'll love her eternally

time takes its crazy toll
mirror fallin' off the wall
you better look out for the looking glass girl
'cause she's gonna take you for a fall
look into his eyes and you shall see
why everything is quiet and nothing's free
I wonder how he's gonna make her smile
when love is running wild on the diamond sea
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This is an 'Architectural Record' article about a firm made up of UT profs. (one of which was mine):
(click and zoom to read)



Dallas is good for SOMETHING:

dilluns, d’octubre 10, 2005

My kinetic night photography






i don't particularly like this song, but i thought it would be funny to put it here:
Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Those days are over
You don't have to sell your body to the night
Roxanne, you don't have to wear that dress tonight
Walk the streets for money
You don't care if it's wrong or if it's right

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Put on the red light, put on the red light
Put on the red light, put on the red light
Put on the red light, oh

I loved you since I knew ya
I wouldn't talk down to ya
I have to tell you just how I feel
I won't share you with another boy
I know my mind is made up
So put away your make up
Told you once I won't tell you again it's a bad way

Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light
You don't have to put on the red light
Put on the red light, put on the red light

BLARG

Finally autumn has come; i can now walk about campus in pants and shoes (as opposed to shorts and flip-flops, pervert), AMAZING. UT beat the crap out of OU this weekend and despite my apathy toward competitive sport, I must admit some small amount of elation from the victory. Oklahoma is what I call a fly-over state; the closest you'd ever want to come to it is 30,000 feet above in an airplane. Tulsa is actually pretty nice, though, but the rest is, uh... well, just go and see for yourself.
As usual, design and viscomm have me working long hours, we get to use photoshop for our current design project, and i used it for the viscomm one as well. I think I will buy adobe Creative Suite 2, which we can get at a steep discount. I currently have a pirated version of PhotoShop 7.0, which is adequate, but whatevah.
This weekend was okay, I went out to dinner on fri. to celebrate my friend's birthday, then we all went to this lame-ass party way the hell up on 183, but i didn't drive, so it's all good. The rest was lots of sleep and television, as well as the occasional drunken phonecall from friends.
I totally bombed my calculus test last week, but i found out that the prof. only gives Ds and Fs to people who fail miserably on everything, so i think I will be alright. I'm still going to get a tutor, though.
I passed Larry Speck on the sidewalk last week; he was carrying a broken umbrella in the rain. He has an odd habit of always wearing a suit, with a shirt buttoned all the way up, sans tie. He's very sauve, but without a tie, his shirts just look a tad silly. His test last week was a breeze, btw. I bought a book he wrote, and i can't wait to get it and have him sign it. Fun to the max...
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I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail.
Yes I would.
If I could,
I surely would.
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.
Yes I would.
If I only could,
I surely would.

Away, I'd rather sail away
Like a swan that's here and gone
A man gets tied up to the ground
He gives the world
Its saddest sound,
Its saddest sound.

I'd rather be a forest than a street.
Yes I would.
If I could,
I surely would.

I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet,
Yes I would.
If I only could,
I surely would.
FZFZFZFZFZFZFZFZFZFUZZ


dimarts, d’octubre 04, 2005

Ah, crap

My review went great. School (acadedemically speaking) is fine. Calculus is okay, i guess. We were assigned totally new projects this week in Design and Viscomm. Exciting stuff. My dad and stepmom have definitely decided to relocate to an area northeast of where they live now. I don't like the new house (which will be built in the coming months) as much as the current one. But its not bad, either. My mother has already moved further into the city and my brother and his wife-to-be will do the same before too long. My family is officially getting the hell out of the Cy-Fair area.
Like most people i thought college would be this awesome thing that would inject fun and new experiences into every part of my life, I would be engaged at all times with something cool and satisfying. Such has not been the case. oh well, one month down, 59 to go.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I've told myself so many times before
But this time I think I mean it fore sure
We have reached a full stop
Nothing's going to save us from the big drop

Reached our hate natural conclusion
Outlived the illusion
I hate being in these situations
That call for diplomatic relations
If I only knew the answer
Or I thought we had a chance
Or I could stop this, I would stop this thing
From spreading like a cancer

What can I say
I don't want to play anymore
What can I say
I'm heading for the door
I can't stand this emotional violence
Leave in silence
Leave in silence

We've being running round in circles all year
Doing this and that and getting nowhere
This will be the last time
I think I said that last time

If I only had a potion of
Some magical lotions
That could stop this, I would stop this
I would set he wheels in motion

What can I say
I don't want to play anymore
What can I say
I'm heading for the door
I can't stand this emotional violence
Leave in silence
Leave in silence.
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one that I took: