Feb '05 - Aug '06
LEAVE school
HANG OUT with gutterpunks in New Orleans
DISCUSS Deleuze and Guattari's take on Semiotics
RIDE a horse in a cirlce for thirty minutes
MOVE from the LES to Union Square (gross!)
REGISTER for Parsons SIS product design the day classes start
SEE Contempt, by Goddard
GET asked by roommate if Contempt is a porno
LISTEN to Balzac (that is, Rami Sharki)
BUY a new suit
EAT mussels at Jubilee on 51st
VISIT Lever House, Seagram Building, D+S Brasserie
GET confused phone call from mother regarding Credit Card bills
SMOKE a joint in the Dakota (72nd and Park Ave. West)
DRIVE to Cape Cod for wedding
DRIVE to Ithaca for GF's graduation
INCREASE the average
GO to Urban Center bookstore (Mason White = best young architect)
SEE Coco Chanel show at the Met
SEE Smithson's retrospective at the Whitney
EAT pastries at Payard's
RESEARCH the Situationist International
READ Society of the Spectacle
GET shat on by a pigeon
ENJOY the sunset from the top of the Gansevoort
EAT at Craftbar
TOUCH extreme textiles at Copper-Hewitt
PAY respects to the late Helmut Lang
PAY half price for a pair of Helmut Lang pants
FEEL awkward at birthday party for director of NYModels
MEET one of four of the once AsFour designers
BUILD a wall out of monofilament, canvas, eyehooks, and binder clips
SEE 2046, by Wong Kar Wai
SEE the Idiots, by Lars vonTrier
GET a manicure (first time)
GET free (random) horoscope reading by transexual named Simone
SEE My Summer of Love
SEE Kung Fu Hustle
SEE Rize, by David LaChappelle
SEE Batman
SEE Sixteen Candles (first time)
SEE 2001
SEE Primer
DISCUSS causality, the paradox of time travel, and bad screenplays
VISIT Eyebeam in Chelsea
VISIT Mary Boon
ADMIRE Shigeru Ban's moving museum
HEAR Umberto Ecco (Eco?) speak about his new book
DISCOVER Cocteau Twins
DISCOVER Dykehouse
VISIT Center for Architecture
TRY to define modernism and Modernism
TRY to define Postmodernism
DISCOVER LCD soundsystem
DISCOVER Architecture in Helsinki
VISIT girlfriend's brother in drug camp
GO to AA meeting, hear cross-addicted alcoholic speak
DISCUSS religion/sprirituality and the AA's addiction to God
DRINK a beer
SWIM at Lake Winola
ASK girl at dinner table if she's pregnant
GET yelled at by girlfriend about political correctness
LIGHT bottle rocket in hand
WATCH stunned as rocket flies from hand to nearby boathouse roof
GET yelled at by random guy for general correctness
EAT two chili-cheese hotdogs and large malt in five minutes
GET membership at Equinox
GET hit on by gay guys at Equinox (Greenwich Village)
GET ass kicked by girly aerobics class (Columbus Circle)
READ Mutations, Harvard's project on the city
READ Agency of Mappings, by James Corner
READ The Fold, by Deleuze
CHILL with fancy hipsters at Jenny Holzer's book-signing at Visionaire
GET tired of this list
3 Comments
dude, you are way too aware of what's going on for an undergrad. congrats for excluding ps1.
true Javier, so true.
I think everyone should record their urban experiences of 72 hrs like that. Might be rather revealing.
It's Eco.
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