Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 38

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

You know that one movie, with Jim Carrey . . .

. . . yeah . . .

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 37

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Rock Star sponsored my class’ event. It’s no Monster, but after six of these I didn’t really care, (and you can see it in my tweaked-out smile).

"Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life."
-Benjamin Franklin

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 36

Monday, April 28, 2008

Taking the sparsely used back staircase. (Fourteen flights, twice a day, while carrying a computer is actually pretty easy. Elevators are for deadbeats).

[ A narcissist will often have a sense of time urgency or appear to be impatient. ]

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 35

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Finding books for a research paper with ease thanks to Melvil.

[ The narcissist often behaves very differently in public situations from private situations. ]

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 34

Saturday, April 26, 2008

Here I am praying to an oil-stain-false-idol on the wall of an underpass.

“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be either good or evil.”
-Hannah Arendt

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 33

Friday, April 25, 2008

Twenty years in the future: “Don’t give me that attitude. When I was your age I painted the walls of I.V. Lab Studios. And I was glad to do it.”

“If only I had a little humility, I’d be perfect.”

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 32

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Vanilla ice cream bubbles and popcorn butterflies!
“If it hadn’t been absurd it would have been quite romantic.”

[ A narcissist feels entitled to special privileges. ]

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 31

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

“Every now and then I get a little bit terrified, but then I see that fuckin look in your eyes!”

“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm – But the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
-T.S. Eliot

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 30

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The walls are closing in on me. The work just keeps building up. Did I graduate yet? Thirty days until homecoming.

“Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge.”
-Todd Solondz

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 29

Monday, April 21, 2008

Look at how cultured and collegiate I am as I study under a tree in the park.

“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”
- Gore Vidal

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 28

Sunday, April 20, 2008

“It says here that by the age of 21 he had already stabbed his girlfriend once in the abdomen, who bleed to death, and he then died of a heroin overdose when he was bailed out of jail.

. . . it really makes me wonder what I’m doing with my life.”

“Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object.”
-Sherry Turkle

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 27

Saturday, April 19, 2008

“This is like that time we were in Vienna, at the sausage festival. Except there’s no girls here.”

“I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.”
-Diana Vreeland

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 26

Friday, April 18, 2008

"I’m gonna steal your girlfriend."

“Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain; it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.”
-Leo Rosten

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 25

Thursday, April 17, 2008

Yeah, I know . . . I know.

“Self-love seems so often unrequited.”
-Anthony Powell

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 24

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

“I wrote a song about her. I bet that’s more than her boyfriend the drummer can say.”
“Yeah, what does he do? Keep time in honor of her?”

“Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.”
-Sigmund Freud

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 23

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

“Go to class, Tom!” -Chelsea

[ The narcissist is preoccupied with himself, his preferences, needs and aspirations and with his fantasies of unlimited success. ]

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 22

Monday, April 14, 2008

I didn’t take this of myself, nor did I ask anyone to photograph me sleeping.

[ The narcissist is inclined to lie or deceive. ]

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 21

Sunday, April 13, 2008

You can't really see the tears, but they're flowing, (because of the quote below).

"Narcissus weeps to find that his Image does not return his love.”
-Mason Cooley

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 20

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Meghan’s first birthday!!!

"Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people."
-Andre Dubus

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 19

Friday, April 11, 2008

Bouncing reference mixes for the new Umphrey’s McGee album.

"The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.”
-Bertrand Russell

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 18

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Singing/Playing a song of mine.

"Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.”
-Samuel Johnson

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 17

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Politics, Philosophy, Religion, Life, Love, and a 6 A.M. one-mile walk home east through the dawn mist as the sun rose.

"Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.”
-Thomas Szasz

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 16

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

"Why you at the bar if you aint poppin' the bottles?"

[ The narcissist appears to be devoid of empathy (although it is sometimes suggested that the narcissist can, to some extent, empathise with other narcissists). ]

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 15

Monday, April 7, 2008

Shot-gunning a Monster. It's probably not good to stay up all night . . . two nights in a row. But time will tell.

"Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge."
-Todd Solondz

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 14

Sunday, April 6, 2008

In the park having a picnic with Taylor, Timmy C, and Elliot.

"The narcissist enjoys being looked at and not looking back.”
-Mason Cooley

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 13

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Some say he’s nothing but a big teddy bear. I think some misspeak, and mean to say that he’s nothing but a big ferocious grizzly bear.

"It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one’s own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.”
-George Eliot

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 12

Firday, April 4, 2008

"I handled my charm with time and slight of hand."

"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
-Oscar Wilde

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 11

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Starting off the night, dancing to Girl Talk in my room.

"Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens . . . to stumble upon it.”
-George Gordon Noel Byron

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 10

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

"No, I hate roller coasters - AND FREEDOM!"

(We looked better 12 hours earlier).

"Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms."
-Elizabeth Bowen

Another Sixty Days of Tommy P: Day 9

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

This is where I spend three hours every Monday and Tuesday.

"Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing."
-Sally Kempton