Foolin' my own self

So I refrained from going to my architecture class today - about museums - just to work on a bibliography I was set to give to my teacher a couple of weeks ago. The irony of this is that... I didn't even work on the thing. I am trying real hard to, but it's kinda complicated to work with multiple windows with a Powerbook, with no "alt + tab" function to switch from page to page, and no printer to AT LEAST have paper by my side to help.

Fuckin' touch pad.

So while these retarded construction workers are making noise in my basement and listening to the radio as loud as they can, I'm listening to Matthew Dear's "Leave Luck to Heaven" and reflecting on the fate of mankind.



I am supposed to reflect on Zaha Hadid's Rosenthal Center for the Performing Arts, in Cincinnati, and the way it was perceived by the architectural media at the time (2003) of its inauguration. Sure sucks to be me. There are about 20 articles I have to read and so far, I didn't even put my hands on a single one.

C'est un bon début.

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Saw Gus Van Sant's LAST DAYS yesterday. Not much to say. Unpainfully slow. Michael Pitt mumbles for an hour and a half and then kills himself offscreen. After GERRY (which I haven't seen) and ELEPHANT (that I liked better) LAST DAYS is the closing point of a trilogy.



After an unnecessary PSYCHO remake, I wonder what Van Sant has in mind next.

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I also saw Robin Aubert's SAINT MARTYR DES DAMNÉS a couple of nights ago, and I have to say that I wasn't disappointed. Three persons out of three had told me that the last hour really sucked, and I don't consider it did.



Without giving too much away, let's just say that the explanations didn't appear too ridiculous to me, even tho I was really curious to see how Aubert would pull it. The mystery is constant, and the atmosphere is hard to beat. Plus, if you like rural Québec it's an extra fascination to see these weird landscapes and the sketchy bikers that populate them.

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I don't know if it's the weather or the 113 calls I answered during my shift yesterday, but I felt like shit all evening and got out of my course because I was fuckin' falling asleep ! My zoned out head must have felt weird to those sitting behind me.

Not that these courses are uninteresting, but after a full day of work, it's hard to sit through three hours of urban theory. Even if this is the kind of stuff I could be lectured about eternally, there are limits to what I can absorb. I don't think it's socially fair for me to have to work full time while studying, but I made my choices many years ago and I have to live with them.

Let's just say that being cut off 5000$ by the Ministère de l'Éducation for my loans this year didn't help. Because, of course, everything revolves around money these days. Work more to pay your stuff, even tho you will not enjoy this stuff because you're way too busy working.