Sacks Sex

I read my first Oliver Sacks's book two years ago. It was An Anthropologist on Mars and he's prone to do it focused on the various mental disorders that baffle doctors to this day.

He's written a new book called Musicphilia and I can't wait to get my hands on it.

Wired did an interview with Sacks and have part of the interview here.

A great quote:

Sacks: Hume wondered whether one can imagine a color that one has never encountered. One day in 1964, I constructed a sort of pharmacological mountain, and at its peak, I said, "I want to see indigo, now!" As if thrown by a paintbrush, a huge, trembling drop of purest indigo appeared on the wall — the color of heaven. For months after that, I kept looking for that color. It was like the lost chord.

Then I went to a concert at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the first half, they played the Monteverdi Vespers, and I was transported. I felt a river of music 400 years long running from Monteverdi's mind into mine. Wandering around during the interval, I saw some lapis lazuli snuffboxes that were that same wonderful indigo, and I thought, "Good, the color exists in the external world." But in the second half I got restless, and when I saw the snuffboxes again, they were no longer indigo — they were blue, mauve, pink. I've never seen that color since.

It took a mountain of amphetamine, mescaline, and cannabis to launch me into that space. But Monteverdi did it too.

So very accurate. I have said ad naseum that performing a beautiful piece, Dvorak's New World Symphony for example, is better than sex.

Library Pattern Lust

Recently J. Crew has won my heart. Their new pattern is a library pattern which is found on dresses, capris, pants, bags, and scarves. On top of the pattern there are cardigans that are also associated with this library theme. Which has caused me great happiness and sorrow. Happiness because they're beautiful. Sorrow because it costs a pretty penny.

My two top choices for the library patterns from J.Crew:

This beautiful cardigan:



I'm so enamored by this beauty. I am almost tempted to purchase this gorgeous design. Its so perfect. Not only does it satisfy my library fixation but is also associated with other pseudo-intellectual images I apply to myself. For example, the cello/stringed instrument. Perfect for me (and for my orchestral tapestry on my armchair--you must match your clothes to your furniture)

The scarf:


This is the pattern that J. Crew has applied to their clothes. I like it most in a scarf because its most transferrable between different mediums.

I want these so much and I listed in on the new site: Kaboodle. Its a site that allows you to automatically add objects to your wishlist. You can access mine here:

http://www.kaboodle.com/tericarl/style-fashion.html

Also found on my kaboodle is this adorable shirt from the website www.lochers.com

I advise you check out all the cute shirts she has created. The one I lust for states "Will Fuck for Shoes."

The south

Last month I made two trips to Nashville, Tn. The first trip was a trip based completely around joy and laughter. I was going down to visit friends. The second was a weekend later and I had to pick up my car.

Despite the drama that ensued to create multiple trips, I honestly had a great time in Nashville. I'm at that "point in my life" where I've started considering all the different places I could live. You know, after I complete graduate school and have had a few years under my belt in a job that gives me cred.

So every city I visit I start writing the "reasons to live here" list in my head. And Nashville TN is, of course, a city that has begun accumulating that list.

This is of note because I am definitely a Yankee. I grew up in Indianapolis. My parents are from Ohio and New Jersey. My beliefs are fairly liberal and I believe the Civil War was not about independence but about slavery.

Yet a secret desire I've always had is to live in the South.

In my childhood I was fixated with all the novels that took place in the South. I read Gone with the Wind and Scarlett, other books that took place in Georgia and Albama during the Civil. I went to Savannah in seventh grade on a girl scout trip and decided I wanted to live there.

I was also a miniatrue of my father's beleifs so I was very traditional and conservative.

So this itch to be in the south has reformed anew and may lend itself to a move in the not so distant future.

Who wouldn't love honky tonks, talented people all over the streets, creative ventures, and a nice hot terrain?


well many people, but i do!

loveyounash.