spring break + instructions for having fun

Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 10:58 AM
Subject: spring break + instructions for having fun

Studio,

I'll give you my thoughts first, followed by what needs to get done. You should keep up your push and energy and do the assignments today and finish up on Sunday. Then you can take the week off and think about all the other things that are architecture without being 'architecture' like study film noir, or learn how to make a cigar, drink 14 tequila shots, make a tomato-soup-snow-angel, build a soap-box and give a lecture on the sidewalk about how Peter Eisenman talks to god, watch all of Robert Altman's movies in a row, watch Easerhead by David Lynch, listen to the Pixies, go to a concert of a band that you don't know. Do everything! Be a flaneur for the week (see link below for directions on how to be a flaneur). Read Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin.

http://www.man.ac.uk/sociologyonline/vccc/1_2_Benjamin_Flanerie/flanerie3.htm

You don't want to be waking up each day during spring break thinking that you have to get something done. Do it now. You could be doing it now. Why aren't you doing it now? Give yourself a break. Do the work now so you can relax over the break. Christopher Walken would do it now! I heard no 2nd year students made it to history class on thursday. nice. And for the tenth time, it's COOPHIMMELB(L)AU.