All this girl wants is to be a prostitute and take drugs, and instead she gets lectured about nutrition and fitness. You can just see her dreams sink into the murk. ("Ich betäube mich" by Deichkind featuring Sarah Walker)
If you'd like to have your own meaningless noisy fitness experience, play a million simple video games at www.addictinggames.com. Be your own personal trainer and monitor your timewasting with rigor.
The disorders are all around us, and they are us. Look at these symptoms of two diagnosed mental wrongnesses, and ask yourself why it sounds so right. BECAUSE THIS IS YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY. THIS IS ME. THIS IS YOU.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder:
A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
(1) has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
(2) is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
(3) believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions)
(4) requires excessive admiration
(5) has a sense of entitlement, i.e., unreasonable expectations of especially favorable treatment or automatic compliance with his or her expectations
(6) is interpersonally exploitative, i.e., takes advantage of others to achieve his or her own ends
(7) lacks empathy: is unwilling to recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others
(8) is often envious of others or believes that others are envious of him or her
(9) shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes
Histrionic Personality Disorder:
A pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
(1) is uncomfortable in situations in which he or she is not the center of attention
(2) interaction with others is often characterized by inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior
(3) displays rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions
(4) consistently uses physical appearance to draw attention to self
(5) has a style of speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail
(6) shows self-dramatization, theatricality, and exaggerated expression of emotion
(7) is suggestible, i.e., easily influenced by others or circumstances
(8) considers relationships to be more intimate than they actually are
Don't fret! Tao demonstrates that all things are Cyclical, Progressive, and Exponential.
http://www.cfcl.com/ching/
We will all be better tomorrow. Or at least different.
At the band's first rehearsal in February 2007, Matt Cordier, now an indispensable partner, announced he'd bought a drumset especially for the Mysteriam project. He'd decided it would be very Mysteriam to put lights inside the drums. They make equipment for this, but it's all very manufactured, shiny, symmetrical; the Mysteriam aesthetic requires a certain amount of encrusted organic messiness.
We realized we needed to meet an electronics designer with a passion for pushing limits. Enter Charles J. Aldous, practically the next day, with a vision and the skills to pull off an efficient installation of some custom pieces of delicate equipment inside our transparent acrylic drumset, where it will be rattled and jogged mercilessly during performance. They are elegant and tough as nails, and they worked brilliantly the first go round!
The LEDs are from Hong Kong, and they are huge- like the last joint of your pinky finger. The circuitry they run through, magically, started interacting with itself, against the plans of any of us. Now we have a new toy to collaborate with.
