Snow day

It snowed today. And when in snows in Portland (even if it's just an inch of snow) kids don't have to go to school and most adults don't have to go to work. I was one of those adults who found myself enjoying the comforts of my own home rather than a stuffy office. Here's what I did: Enjoyed a cup of coffee in bed thanks to my man

Ate a breakfast pile involving potatoes and a hen's egg thanks to my man

Repeatedly performed the first and second choreographed sequences of my average day musical

Designed a logo for my upcoming de-consume show

Looked online for various vessels that will contain feathers, mud, animal dung, hair, dried insects, flowers, urine, lake water, sludge and moss for the de-consume show

Made homemade popcorn with brewers yeast 

Chomped on a bite of salty dark chocolate

Witnessed and responded to various reactions to a Sontag quote (Art is seduction, not rape...art cannot seduce without the complicity of the experiencing subject) I posted on Facebook

Read Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" in its entirety (it's a bleak, existential and beautifully simple post-apocalyptic novel that made me think of what the khmer rouge did to Cambodia)

Ate mostly vegetable sushi and miso soup over a few small cups of hot sake

Watched "The Road" from bed (The movie does not do the book justice, but do films ever do books justice?) 

Wednesday hits

A mix for Wednesday: Honey Bane - Girl on the Run

Fatal Microbes - Violence Grows 

Yaz - Only You 

Rollins Band - Low Self Opinion 

Janes Addiction - Three Days

Sonic Youth - schizophrenia

Bow Wow Wow - Aphrodisiac 

Quotes

For inspirational whatnots, my dear bearded friend Steve and I have committed to sending each other daily quotes. Here are quotes from the first week: I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves. - Sartre

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard. - Helene Cixous

The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences.... The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience. - David Herbert Lawrence

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets. - David Herbert Lawrence

No matter what terror the earth could produce - winds, seas - a person could produce the same, lived with the same, lived with all that mixed-up nature swirling inside, every bit. There was nothing as complex in the world - no flower or stone - as a single hello from a human being - Lorrie Moore 

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying. - John Berger

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?" - Clarice Lispector 

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this. — Richard Brautigan

Facts are the enemy of truth. - Cervantes (Don Quixote)

...in matters of love, no affair is easier to conclude successfully than the one supported by the lady's desire. Cervantes (D. Quixote)

Sanity is a cozy lie - Susan Sontag