philloak

i had to buy d. a coke yesterday because i had bet him that i would get detained upon attempting to re-enter the country on a possibly expired visa. i wasn't. and i got the extension i was looking for, all fast-like. i was actually kind of disappointed with how easy it was, if not with how much money it cost to go to paris....
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i forgot to include this this morning, but i was listening to the revolting cocks' (henceforth abbreviated to revco) album "big sexy land" and i was wondering why that industrial album is so head and shoulders above everything else the genre has produced. furthermore, i was thinking about why einsturzende neubauten, feotus, KMFDM, ministry, pigface, and nine inch nails are untouchable by most of the...
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the awkward thing about your roomie and his visiting girlfriend sleeping in the front room is that while i get the bedroom to myself i feel really awkward going in and making breakfast so i've just been skipping out. and that's an essential meal!

i saw jeremy irons in a play last night. he is a golden god.

right, okay, so i'm changing the post because it retrospect it made me appear to be about 30% more of a dick than i actually am. what i was trying to get at in the most melodramatic way possible was that i am annoyed when people seem to think that utterly superficial solidarity gestures make one iota of difference. buy bracelets, writing shit on the...
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so things might not be so bleak for the summer after all. my advisor got back to me about summer project-ing and says that it's probably doable if i write a fairly tight proposal and include drawings and past work, because the committee is not so good when it comes to imagining things. also, as is to my understanding almost no one tries to do...
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since when were people supposed to start planning their summers in january? i think that's mildly ridiculous, but of course i tend to just fly by the seat of my pants anyway. which is probably why i won't have much cool stuff to do over the summer because god forbid anyone would work out what they're doing a two or three months ahead of time...
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i am cordially invited this weekend to a private viewing of a recently installed art show, i feel so chic. also, the washing machine powder we bought gave me a huge rash. stupid powder.

gosh three updates in two days, what's wrong with me?? i think i want to go to spain this weekend, i wonder how much it costs. which means i have to politely sneak out of that damn trip i impulsively signed up for that i definately do not want to go to. wait, no, scratch that, i can't go to spain this weekend, there's an...
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oh and i hate room selection, a lot. all my friends can go fuck themselves like whoa this year.

hey, i won! wouldn't you know it.

i'm fucking sick of travelling for class, but only this weekend, really. it's fun going to cambridge and such, but shit man, not this weekend. i missed an assload of stuff, not the least of which was a 3 floor special at slimelight. i also wanted to turn in my membership application there, as it has been burning...
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okay, so i take back the earlier post about subcultures. i went to this (surprisingly) local goth dance club last night with some friends and it was more fun than a barrel of monkeys. scary, pvc-clad monkeys.

i was kind of surprised to find myself actually having fun (in a dance club, no less) and not in a smirking, superior way (though i got to...
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wandering around camden town today i couldn't help but wonder why i occasionally go out of my way to meet/fuck members of assorted subcultures (none while be referred to by name here. in fact, 'camden' gives away too much as is). call it my all-consuming cynical streak but it seems to me that it's all just image driven bullshit. i don't see much of a...
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