portland.michael.eden.and.aluminum.foil.art

so the plan was to head home this weekend but that didn't happen...plane ticket compications... work complications...my inability to think ahead complications...etc. Instead I went to Portland with Michael and Eden this weekend...what a blast. We talked of moo moo's and hit up the Montage for dinner...it was so cool...they wrap up your leftovers in aluminum foil turned into art...michael's leftovers looked just like this...


...except for it was aluminum foil and filled with biscuits, sausage and gravy...other than that...identical. Cathy's leftovers were an alligator and my leftovers turned into this giant sword, which was pretty cool...i wanted to challenge the guy whose leftovers were transformed into a life size battle axe...i so would have kicked his butt.

One of many of the highlights of the weekend though...perhaps my favorite was that we listened to Eden Smith's new cd before it hit the press. It is beautiful...we spent hours of our car ride enjoying her music, asking questions and listening to her heart as she shared her songs with us...it was priceless...Rest and Beauty.

disruption with a k otic twist

okay...so i'm getting called out by my sis...it's a good thing she's on the other side of the country...or we'd have serious beef. Anyway, it's been a wild couple of weeks over here...works been insane...school...insane (not bad insane...there can be insanity that leads to growth and good right?). For example, I wrote a research paper on adolescent female cutting. Somewhere in the process I spent about several hours watching youtube videos about the stories of different adolescent girls purposefully mutilated their own bodies and almost no one knew...it was so sad...i can't put words to what was stirred in me.

so as i sit here and gear up to write the final set of papers for the trimester i wanted to post another k os video...the dancing and choreography is pretty amazing. The song is called, Man I Used to Be. There is such a deep interplay of identity, victimization, story and aimlessness weaved throughout this video.