do you still have taste aside from a distaste for capitalism?

A look at ME, then and now.





Then: One of my favorite things in the world used to be Art. I used to like looking at pictures and going to museums, and I was up on all the latest developments of the 20th century!! I particularly liked Egon Schiele, because his art embodies everything meaningful in the experience of the seventeenyearold, such as mirrors



Now: I don't like going to galleries for fear of being mistaken as a pseudo-counter-cultural reactionary. Also everyone else knows more about it than me.




Then: Before I discovered radical feminism, I used to enjoy displaying my body to men because fulfilling their lame romantic-sexual fantasies was a cheap ticket to a MASSIVE EGO.




Now: My current boyfriend gave me a book called "Sex and Philosophy: Rethinking De Beauvoir and Sartre" as a Christmas present three months after we met. Around the same time he also explained to me that he was attempting to explode gender roles in cuddling. It looks like I'm projecting rather a different image. I do still enjoy being manipulative though.





Then: I used to buy "vintage clothing" because I thought it would make me cool.




Now: In pursuit of a minimalist lifestyle, and also in protest against poor working conditions, the death of craftsmanship in the face of mass production, and disposability culture, I tend to limit purchases to extremely expensive objects and old shit.





Then: I used to enjoy reading novels and short stories, partly because it's quite fun, but more importantly because because I was destined to be an artiste!! Poetry is kinda boring frankly, and I never really got the point, but I had to read a lot of that too, if only for appearances' sake.




Now: I don't really read anymore because fiction is self-indulgent, and often doesn't have enough transformative content. However, I read the Daily Mail's "Femail" section obsessively. N.B. for American viewers: this has nothing to do with feminism

In sum:
Then: dilettante
Now: hypocrite

WHICH DO YOU PREFER???

mostly so cool

SORRY NOT COOL, SO BORING
lilla, aka mon homeboy. lit hum 1st & 2nd semester. coined phrase "if you were achilles what would YOU do?" "well i wouldn't kill people if my friend died" "you dont believe you can love a friend that much? huh, interesting"


AND YOU?

recent

there was a dinner party. well that's a lie. there was dinner though. and a party, as in "party of five."
i also found out i had roof access.

my weekend went as so:

this weekend was fucking awesome.
i had a very difficult swim practice on friday then picked up adam at penn station. he got into risd the night before so it was time for a big celebration.
we met some chewonki friends and saw our friend merrick play at the knitting factory with his band, third nature. the theme of the night was uptight prep school kids in the city for a long weekend. his band was great live and for sweet dancin' jives.
gwennie slept over and in the morning we ate hot bagels.
i went down to canal and hopped on the fung wah. it was super speedy (those guys have moves!) and i was in boston with kate in no time.
we toured sweet brookline, and ate potato pancakes, and caught the midnight screening of danielson: a famile movie. i really do love danielson. the people at the theater were mad fringy and lame.
in the morning i helped kate and family make a superbowl cake.
then i hopped on the bus back, read sweet evolution book, listened to inane phone conversation about why is so pissed off he is missing the superbowl party and is stuck in traffic.
then i got up to columbia in 29 minutes (record!!! from canal + bowery, be impressed - ask hopstop how long it SHOULD take),
ate at the hungarian pastry shop and read shakespeare with brother and roommate,
ate dinner with parents, brother and roommate. fin

What is cool: Funny young gentlemen

artemisterious: i wish i were badass
weirdnat: why?
weirdnat: it'd take too much effort
weirdnat: also, I don't think the payoff is very rewarding


artemisterious: LISTEN TO THIS!
artemisterious: "daily worries include unused notebooks and global warming"
weirdnat: why unused notebooks?
weirdnat: and what about terrorism?