January 2011
77 posts
Strange dreams.
Violin, Burroughs, heroin, law school, philosophy, academia, happiness, girls, soccer, a flea, the piano, music. Strange, beautiful, vivid imagery.
Roller coaster.
I wish that things had worked out between us, I really do.
Dingy basement, friday night. Sounds about right.
Texas defies EPA, approves coal-fired plant permit →
I went to this hearing; TCEQ is a joke.
“New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to...”
– Mark Twain
Talking with my therapist
Therapist: Lee, I think you're depressed.
Me: Oh really? Would a depressed person DO THIS?
Therapist: Do what?
Me: Ask questions that END LOUDLY?
Therapist: Yes.
Me: WHAT ABOUT at the beginning of questions?
Therapist: That's nonsensical.
Me: Would a depressed person keep his voice at the same tenor for the entire question, but while he's asking the question, be creating a playlist made entirely of songs that make him cry?
Therapist: Depends. What songs make him cry?
Me: The Black Eyed Peas entire catalog.
Therapist: You seem normal to me.
“When I first began writing I felt that writing should go on I still do feel that...”
– Gertrude Stein
-Brilliant.
Brow Beat : Stanley Fish’s Top Five Sentences—Now with Reader Contest!
“Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered...”
– Jonathan Swift
Brow Beat : Stanley Fish’s Top Five Sentences—Now with Reader Contest!
“For Heidegger, the impasses of philosophy—in this case, the repeated...”
– Michael Rosen
-This description of Heidegger’s method brings to mind the later Wittgenstein, and his description of philosophy as fundamentally being ‘therapeutic’, a process that aims ‘to shew the fly the way out of the fly-bottle’—an activity that does not...
Well, I've a great many things on my mind.
Spitting them out quickly: I got into Austin yesterday, I did not plan on going to Austin until yesterday; this morning, not half a mile away from the University of Texas campus, I received a call from the Dean of UT Law, informing me that I had been admitted—synchronicity?
I’m quite pleased, to say the least. This is the first T-14 school to admit me, and I’m going to savor the...
Paul Krugman, I love your shit.
So does my dad, btw.
“First of all: in the immortal words of John Maynard Keynes, in the long run we...”
– Paul Krugman
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On Marx.
The world has never given Marxism a proper expression, I think. In Russia, the political-economic situation that unfolded initially is properly termed Marxism-Leninism, and is characterized by the presence of a ‘vanguard party’, an advance party of enlightened intellectuals, professional revolutionaries, who would kick-start the revolution, before the class consciousness of the...
Austin TX tmrw
Can’t. Figure. Any. Thing. Out.
Existentialism and phenomenology and Saussere’s linguistics and binary oppositions and Claude Levi-Strauss and Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Wittgenstein and the linguistic turn and Barthes and Derrida and post-structuralism and Foucault and Heidegger->Gadamer->Habermas and Nietzsche and Vattimo and Foucault and the ‘decentered subject’...
Also, I’d make a great Junky. Burroughs style, sans being gay.
Oh, and I learned to stand on my head! (just fyi)
In no particular order.
- I need to pay my old piano teacher a visit. He taught me for twelve damn years; the least I can do is drop in and say hi.
- My aunt’s coming to visit tomorrow. Should be fun. She’s probably the coolest forty year old lesbian I know.
- I don’t think I’ma go out for a while. I’m tired of Lou’s. I’m tired of bars. I’m tired of people. Not my...
The Great Facebook Reply Dilemma →
BBC News - Zsa Zsa Gabor goes home after leg... →
“On approaching the other it has lost its own self, since it finds itself as...”
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
“Je est un autre.”
– Arthur Rimbaud
“Scientists have theorized that once cats hit their terminal velocity, their...”
– 6 Cats More Badass Than You (And Most Superheroes) | Cracked.com
I’m tired of waking up in the morning nauseous, weary, Bukowski-like, disappointed, tired of myself.
tumblr's boring me tonight.
ASK AWAY ANYTHING
I might lie, though.
Feeling Bukowski-like.
ick. I don’t want to go to sleep bc I dont want to wake up and face tomorry.
lucky lou's, again.
Ick. I’ve been there once too many times this week. And this time was the once too many.
PARTYPARTYPARTYPARTYPARTYPARTYPARTY.
I haven’t been to a good house party forever. Maybe tonight?
Er,
given the sheer quantity of substances I was under the influence of last night, I’m really rather amazed at how lucid that essay-length post I wrote was.
Impressive.
I’d celebrate it more if I weren’t suffering from a raging hangover, ha.
Utter immunity to Ambien. What next?
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apologies for the nostalgia-laced tripe that...
I’ve got a head full of Phenibut and Klonopin and Ambien, and a lot of shit on my motherfucking mind. The story that follows shall be rambling, hard to follow, not eloquent in the least, and probably doesn’t have a point. You’ve been forewarned.
Rilo Kiley was the soundtrack to my sophomore year. Interpol for my junior, and the Walkmen for my senior. Now that I’m a...
“Alas, my love, you do me wrong,
To cast me off discourteously.
For I have...”
Kierkegaard on the Couch - NYTimes.com →
“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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I played "Greensleeves"
repeatedly on the piano for about an hour today. All the while poorly singing its woeful lyrics.
Note to self: checking the mail did not help me to write USC’s one page essay.
I’m a bit frustrated and a touch sad, because I don’t think that my writing now is nearly as good as it was about a year ago. School really did keep my skills sharp. Oh, and I still have a nice total of zero words on my scholarship essay. Maybe I just need to finish my tea first.
Or maybe I’ll go check the mail first. That should help…me write? Doesn’t seem to make...
No. no no no.
“I would like to invite your participation in one of our premiere scholarship programs, the Frank Rothman Scholars Program. The entering student receives a full-tuition scholarship and a stipend for three years at USC Law and is awarded a paid fellowship at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in Los Angeles during the summer following the first year of law school.”
All...