9:57 PM - People wonder why I have little faith in humanity...
Current mood: cynical

when things such as this are happening.

Holy Mother of Raptor Jesus, every new tidbit they regale us with baffles me more.

What baffles me most is that it's completely believable in every aspect. There's no point in furthering this experiment any more, you little white mice. Cut your losses, flood the atmosphere with whatever cocktail of poisons you want and move on to the more promising banana slugs and earthworms.

Currently reading : Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope By Shirin Ebadi Release date: 02 May, 2006

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9:59 AM - Someday, I will post an interesting new blog
Current mood: contemplative

But that day isn't today. I just felt like I should post something, I want to revive my habit of posting random personal info online. Jeff, start worrying, I'm definitely putting up your social security number and embarrasing personal stories.

Meanwhile, I started a Permaculture class last week. Looks to be really good. It mostly just feels somehow contradictory to be writing about it on a hunk of plastic. I'm going to think about that a bit and maybe write more about it. Or I might forget and write something totally unrelated 3 months down the line.

Currently listening : Life in Cartoon Motion By Mika Release date: 27 March, 2007

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2:59 PM - please drop out now, before you waste more of your parents' money making my experience worse
Current mood: enraged

You know how people always say that it's such a joy to share something you're interested in with people who don't know anything about it? Lies. Or at least naiveté. People are inherently stupid and resistant to any broadening of horizons that threatens their narrow little world. There's a bit of a catch 22 there, because once one's world has become a bit broader, learning stops being a scary thing, but until that happens, the sorority girl needs to be slammed over the head with an anvil to get it in. And yes, I do mean you, dumb blonde bitch sitting behind me at John Racherbaumer's presentation.

Currently listening : I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got By Sinéad O'Connor Release date: 28 February, 1990

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2:44 PM - Camping

I went camping yesterday-this morning. Grand Isle. Windy. Ocean. Sandy. Grass. Evil burs. Skinny dipping. Fire. Hummus. Six people. Oatmeal. Lots of sugar.

That's about all you need to know.

Also, the night before, we saw a movie called Mardi Gras: Made in China. Not quite as moving as I was expecting. I mean, it was good, and it was interesting, but I was expecting something else. It was basically just about the juxtaposition of cutures - the Chinese people who make the beads and the tourists who show their boobs to get them in New Orleans. Also, it was pretty much all about Bourbon St., with a little bit about one local woman, but not at all how I've experienced Mardi Gras. I was also expecting a bit about the environmental effects, but there was only a 30 second bit about how the plastics used are toxic when melted, and they're all melty in the factory. But nothing else about it, and not really anything about how they get from one place to another, something about globalization...

The director answered questions after the movie, and he was actually more interesting than the film. I guess he got footage and did research on most of what I've mentioned, but it didn't make it into that cut of the film. I suppose it makes sense to pick an area to focus on, but I think most of what I've talked about could have at least been touched on without making it too much longer. Perhaps in another cut.

Currently listening : *NSYNC By 'N Sync Release date: 22 June, 1999

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6:48 PM - Me and Cinderella...
Current mood: complacent

So, evidently The Wallflowers covered "I'm Looking Through You". The Beatles song. I know, I'm like a decade+ late on this epiphany, but shut up, I was young at the time. I suppose in a weird way it ties in, since I almost exclusively listened to Beatles. Anyway. The only reason I write this is because somehow, the existence of this piece of art makes the universe whole.

That's right. It's complete. Finished. Time to move on to a new project.

Ok, I actually took a moment to look up when they did that song, and it was for I Am Sam, which came out in 2001. So I'm not totally out of the loop.

Currently listening : I Am Sam - Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture By Various Artists Release date: 08 January, 2002

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8:22 PM - Architecture, again
Current mood: dirty

So my computer is up and running again. It was pretty amazing the number of things that managed to go wrong in a three day period - from the hard drive to the drivers to the printer, and beyond!

This year at school, they're getting more into the theoretical aspects of architecture, which is good, because it's finally something to think about and not just look at and think "ugly concrete" or "who let Frank Lloyd Wright DO that?". Part of the problem here, however, is that the issues that I consider to be important driving forces in design aren't really discussed, except in Professional Concerns, which is a pretty worthless class. But let's not go there, or this will turn to personal insults.

Is it wrong of me to take into consideration that a person is going to have to inhabit this space sometime? I was under the impression that the purpose of building a house, an office, a museum, and undersea research station, that one could assume that at least a person would at some point have to go into it. Perhaps a chimpanzee, but even then, ape rights anyone?

So, um, why does no one ever mention this? I know, there are the "humanists", the whole issue of design with bodily proportions and such, but that's not what I mean. Not everyone has to make their entryways 2.5 human heights wide, it just seems like taking such things as "hmm, am I creating a bottleneck by making everyone at the DMV stand in one big line, even those who have 5 minute problems?" and "a 3.5 foot wide hallway will leave more space for my James Bond-esque boardroom, thus it is a good idea to banish lowly executives to this tunnel of doom!" should be at least thought of for a few seconds...I expect too much from people.

Also, time is irrelevant now. The only halfway useful and interesting thing that has been brought up in my Concerns class is that architecture can only prove its worth over time. This is obviously no longer the case, as we build buildings out of cardboard to make it easier to tear them down ten years later. It's actually quite the creative facade to hide behind - no one can judge your work if you don't give them time to look at it.

Also, I really need to repaint my toenails.

Currently listening : William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: Music From The Motion Picture (1996 Version) [Enhanced CD] By Various Artists - Soundtracks Release date: 29 October, 1996

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3:16 PM - this is the journey to discover the chair
Current mood: relieved

I just added Silverchair to my Myspace friends. Seriously, how could I not have been friends with them before? I am slacking. Best band ever. Please forgive me, 'chair people. I love you.

Currently reading : Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture By Ross King Release date: 30 October, 2001

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9:34 AM - archi

Modernism: "Let's see, what is nonessential and can be stripped from the building? Oh! I know! The soul!"

Currently reading : Light Before Day By Christopher Rice Release date: 16 March, 2005

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12:15 AM - Not to be thrown off his mark
Current mood: dancy

Normally I'm not trendy, and thus I don't make blog posts just about spam poetry. But I liked this one, it was so...well, I guess it's just because it has the word moonlight in it, I kind of liked that.


Hi
look
Did you dream up the torn piece of uniform left in the

introduced. So he had simply roared up to the
A moonlight visit to the royal printers supplied an
not to be thrown off his mark by this kind of obliquity.

Currently watching : Firefly - The Complete Series Release date: 09 December, 2003

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8:06 PM - Nothing to say.
Current mood: horny

Hello world.

I don't have much to report.

I thought of something brilliant while I was falling asleep last night. But then I slept, and forgot it.

That is all.

Oh, and Myspace is not letting me tell you what music I am listening to. So you will have to guess.

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