TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Sunday, October 23, 2005

9:32 PM
Posted by jodi rose

ah dislocation it's a wonderful feeling
walking to the abc in the morning last week, magazine covers advising how to get the gypsy look, your sexy summer body and various other predictabilities. working up to christmas hype too - glad to be leaving for my second winter in a row. actually make that three. but a sydney winter is really no hardship. and I love being in that bubble where all the extraneous media noise is muffled by a language you don't speak.

can live without the bird flu hysteria too. I'm so tired of being told how unsafe the world is - life has always been a dangerous proposition, it's both incredibly resilient and amazing and completely fragile, tenuous and uncertain. working on ideas of protection and safety. that moloko song came into my head today, love and fear. love stops your fear, fear stops your love.
while sleeping in the black leather recliner chairs at ginseng bathouse - had the fabulous korean massage which involved oil, milk, honey and hot towels. magnificent. floating.

have been strangely unstressed by the whole packing scenario. concentrated few hours here and there, and it seems to have done itself. hemming all my trousers to keep them from soaking in the glasgow rain. imported thousands of songs into itunes for new ipod. yes, succumbed finally - am a little disgusted by the whole thing but it was very necessary. I need music on that bridge.

leave monday night for glasgow and meetings with city council, school of art, royal scottish academy of music and drama, designers, and even a circus freek masked party on saturday night. it's like I have a whole life there already. I love that. doesn't feel like I'm leaving home but going home. the notion of home is so transitory. in the quest to become grounded was recently advised to imagine tree-like roots growing out of my feet, and pat dogs frequently.

listening to electrofringe on the night air - reminscing about severed heads at the phoenician club. heard myself talking to people at the opening night when I turned it on - some nice vox pops.

ok really must go and see exactly how much will fit in that suitcase.