Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 8

Monday, March 31, 2008

Taken throughout the day, (TL, TR, BL, BR).

"As a character disorder, narcissism is the very opposite of strong self-love. Self-absorption does not produce gratification, it produces injury to the self; erasing the line between self and other means that nothing new, nothing “other,” ever enters the self; it is devoured and transformed until one thinks one can see oneself in the other—and then it becomes meaningless. This is why the clinical profile of narcissism is not of a state of activity, but of a state of being. There are erased the demarcations, limits, and forms of time as well as relationship. The narcissist is not hungry for experiences, he is hungry for Experience. Looking for an expression or reflection of himself in Experience, he devalues each particular interaction or scene, because it is never enough to encompass who he is. The myth of Narcissus neatly captures this: one drowns in the self—it is an entropic state.”
-Richard Sennett

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 7

Sunday, March 30, 2008

From all the drinks I get drunk off music
From all the bitches the one I wannabe is music
From all the ladies the one I kiss is music
[ From all the jobs the one I choose is music ]

Music is my girlfriend
Music is my imaginary friend
Music is my favorite mistress
Music is my hot hot sex

My music is where I'd like you to touch

"It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love."
-Voltaire

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 6

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Here's me with someone I hadn't seen in something like seven years or so.

"Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference."
-Mason Cooley

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 5

Friday, March 28, 2008

"He always looks at the camera and then goes-"

"If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves."
-Michel de Montaigne

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 4

Thursday, March 27, 2008

There was a group of us. And don't make assumptions, this is my cousin.

"Everyone takin' their own." -Timmy C

"If anyone should want to know my name, I am called Leah. And I spend all my time weaving garlands of flowers with my fair hands, to please me when I stand before the mirror; my sister Rachel sits all the day long before her own, and never moves away. She loves to contemplate her lovely eyes; I love to use my hands to adorn myself: her joy is in reflection, mine in act."
-Dante Alighieri

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 3

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Intensely discussing The BLB's next album with John Hazen.

"I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious."
-Walt Whitman

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 2

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Tranquil.

"He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals."
-G. C. Lichtenberg

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 1

Monday, March 24, 2008

Welcome to The VBC, bitch.

"As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves."
-Daniel J. Boorstin