Update and Stuff

[moon_custafer]

Andrew and I have spent the past couple of weeks battling what’s either a bad cold or a mild case of ‘flu (it’s been worse for him than for me), so I’ve made it into work without coughing on everybody, but haven’t done much that’s exciting, nor have I made it out to any demos in support of the schoolteachers’ union or the land defenders, alas.


This morning, for some reason,
I followed a train of thought that led through discontinued Lush soaps; through scents and flavours like boxwood or cilantro that are perceived in two extremely different ways by different individuals; to looking up Malmaison carnations, which I heard about on the radio in the late ‘nineties and would like to smell one day.

It’s possible I’d be disappointed. My inner Goth was crushed the first time I went to a funeral and realized that to me, lilies smell like the interiors of new cars (and also make me sneeze). OTOH, I enjoy the clove-like smell of regular carnations, so maybe Malmaisons would work for me; also the person who wrote this article appears to compare them to those giant Japanese chrysanthemums, which I love.

Then I went and looked up Jean de Florette, because one of the commenters mentioned it, and now I kind of want an irrigation-themed film festival of Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources, Tank Girl, and possibly Bad Day at Black Rock

ETA -- Why had I never heard of Vulture's "Three-Sentence Rviews" of art shows: https://www.vulture.com/2017/09/three-sentence-reviews-peter-saul-trevor-paglen-and-7-more.html.

Comments

Smelly

[palain-7.livejournal.com]

They've discontinued 'boxwood"! And I missed it! I love boxwood. As scent is the doorway to memory this scent takes me back to our family trips to Disney World where I bought several fun puzzle boxes made of (what else?) boxwood.

Hate cilantro though.