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Surgeon Mama

Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse.

About Me

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hey hey, you me and guy debord.
The Parliament of Birds
All the birds of the world assemble, and wonder why they have no king. The Hoopoe presents herself as a messenger from the invisible world with knowledge of God and the secrets of creation. She tells them of the Simurgh, their true and distant king. Upon learning of this, the birds decide to seek him, and the hoopoe agrees to lead them. They know that his castle lies in the Kaf, the range of mountains that ring the earth. At the outset, some of the birds lose heart: the nightingale pleads his love for the rose; the parrot pleads his beauty, for which he lives caged; the partridge cannot do without his home in the hills, nor the heron without his marsh, nor the owl without his ruins. But finally, certain of them set out on the perilous venture; they cross seven valleys of Journey, Love, Understanding, Detachment, Unity, Bewilderment, and Annihilation. Only thirty, made pure by their sufferings reach the great peak of the Simurgh. At last they behold him; they realize that they are the Simurgh, and that the Simurgh is each of them and all of them.
"if you wish to find the ocean of your soul, then die to all your old life and then keep silent."
..paraphrased from the Mantiq al-tair by Farid al-Din Attar..

My Interests


yoga, radical parenting, motorcycles, 1983 amc spirits, cello, building, writing, performance art, fleshhooks, fire eating, latin america, organic food, sustainable agriculture, music, mud, revolution, evolution, cartography, psychogeography, religion, the politics of food, sex, and spirit, sex work, hooking, complexity...theory, the life of the mind, the church of reason.

currency, value, quantity, quality, shadow economies, the moral left, smart humans, horizontal distribution, destemporalizarse, idiom, dialect, tongue, pain, reflection and deflection.

tattoos. lots of tattoos.

I'd like to meet:

The spectacle obliterates the boundaries between self and world by crushing the self besieged by the presence-absence of the world and it obliterates the boundaries between true and false by driving all lived truth below the real presence of fraud ensured by the organization of appearance. One who passively accepts his alien daily fate is thus pushed toward a madness that reacts in an illusory way to this fate by resorting to magical techniques. The acceptance and consumption of commodities are at the heart of this pseudo-response to a communication without response. The need to imitate which is felt by the consumer is precisely the infantile need conditioned by all the aspects of his fundamental dispossession.-guy debord

Music:

kronos quartet, tom waits, nina simone, lhasa, pixies, astor piazzola, tigerlillies, phillip glass, steve reich, john zorn, john coltrane, michael franti n spearhead, freakwater, antony and the johnsons, devotchka, the end of the world, dead prez, mos def, the holmes brothers, muddy waters, candye kane, howlin wolf, rostrapovich, bartok, legeti, golgol bordello, shostakovich, yo-yo ma, nielson, arvo part, diamanda galas, outkast, wyclef jean, scriabin, miles davis, bill evans, cat power, pj, they might be giants, ween, manu chao, chico cesar, luna, galexie 500, marvin tate, d-settlement, 2 tongues, Magnetic Fields, men at work, 0-][..

Movies:

kung fu hustle, the pillow book, ZOO, (anything by peter greenaway really), PI, waking life, beautiful creatures, o brother where art thou, in this world, bollywood, documentaries, art flicks, fetish films, and good bad action movies. fast cheap and out of control, doe boy, the nowhere trilogy, red white and blue, koyannisquaatsi and the whole quaatsi trilogy. I like trilogies. and tryptics...

Television:

f**k tv.

Books:

hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world, culture jam, bomb the suburbs, recollections of my life as a woman, the temple of confessions, zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, notes from the underground, almanac of the dead, complexity, botany of desire, 100 years of solitude, oryx and crake, cat's eye, cat's cradle, catch me if you can, last chance to see, the kite runner, bailey's cafe, song of soloman, sula, the handmaid's tale, woman on the edge of time, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy series, goedel's proof, goedel escher bach, no exit, ts eliot, ee cummings, lorna d cervantes, li young lee, isabel allende, kurt vonnegut, haruki murakami, arundhati roy, roald dahl, toni morrison, and all my amazing friends who are brilliant writers.

Heroes:

Arhundati Roy, Janet Cardiff, Orlan, Phoolan Devi

My Blog

hilarious women for palin video

See more funny videos at Funny or Die...
Posted by Surgeon Mama on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:07:00 PST

the road, the practice, the words

I love words fabricated of two or more other words that perfectly describe a situation, feeling, or state of affairs. And my absolute favorites are the ones that are cleverly constructed by marketing ...
Posted by Surgeon Mama on Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:20:00 PST

raw food adventures, wild foraging, recipes, and sex worker rights conference in chicago.

I've been eating raw lately, and here's the thing, take one further foray down the slippery slope of vibrant consumption (my preferred epithet) and the distance to travel grows exponentially.  di...
Posted by Surgeon Mama on Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:34:00 PST

the lotus seed, the train, the water

Dearest,Has it really been so long? Have I let our correspondence go the way of all my good intentions? Baby, let's start all over again. Portland, where I am hanging my hat, and my mat, for the ne...
Posted by Surgeon Mama on Thu, 15 May 2008 04:36:00 PST

sex workers blow spitzer a farewell kiss

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts Madeleine Dash, Sex Workers Action New York (SWANK), 877-776-2004 x 2 [email protected] Audacia Ray, 718.554.1714 Sarah Bleviss, Sex Worke...
Posted by Surgeon Mama on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:22:00 PST

en movimiento, el muerto, y el barrio

We're moving. It's a pain in the ass. My old house with it's crazy landlady and lovely yard where I went into labor the day after arriving there is no longer home. The house where dangerbaby spent ...
Posted by Surgeon Mama on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:12:00 PST

en movimiento, el muerto, y el barrio

We're moving. It's a pain in the ass. My old house with it's crazy landlady and lovely yard where I went into labor the day after arriving there is no longer home. The house where dangerbaby spent ...
Posted by Surgeon Mama on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:12:00 PST

For immediate release: Ex-Midwesterner announces that Chicago is Cold

Seriously.  It's fucking cold here.  3 degrees F or something?  Why do I always come back in January?  Notes from the past few weeks:TransAtlantic travel with a toddler is challeng...
Posted by Surgeon Mama on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:30:00 PST

dominatrix seems preoccupied

Dominatrix Seems Preoccupied.onion_embed {background: rgb(256, 256, 256) !important;border: 4px solid rgb(65, 160, 65);border-width: 4px 0 1px 0;margin: 10px 30px !important;padding: 5px;overflow: hid...
Posted by Surgeon Mama on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:13:00 PST

coming to europe and fetish films

I will be traveling soon, and I want to see you, if we're in the same place.Here's my itinerary.  Come find me. Also, looking for possible places to crash in Dublin, London, and Paris.  If y...
Posted by Surgeon Mama on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:57:00 PST