Cincinnati Day ;)

I was picking up an asburian at the airport last night so I just decided to "make a day of it" up in Cincinnati. It was a wonderful, awesome, totally grand day - all to myself, which makes it even better! I have enjoyed being alone in the dorm this week, but alas everybody needed to come back eventually. Not as long as Summer break though - so I am not quite ready to give up my common areas again... oh well.

Moving back to center - okay, Cincinnati. I first was simply driving around to get a feel for the place, drove by their version of Coney Island and looked at run down houses....beautiful.

Then I parked in downtown and walked over to CAC - the contemporary art museum. They had very wonderful pieces on display. I do enjoy these sorts of places - if only to claim my own "un-modernness" :) I especially enjoy these shows because almost everything seems to be installations - not just flat pictures. Personally I think this says a lot about our lack of imagination these days. Yet, I'm not the artist displaying literal trash between plywood. I must have that part of my brain missing. Oh well - I'll get over it.

One piece that I had vaguely heard of was by James Yarnada, entitled Spiritual Self Help it is a photo composed of every book found on amazon using keywords "spiritual self help" Very interesting (and flat) were the covers of "Spiritual Sex", "365 nirvana" or Brad Gooch's "Dating the Greek Gods." Anyway - I enjoyed it.

After the museum I hit the shopping... oh my lands how this was fun. It wasn't very busy at Macy's or Saks. I won't bore you with details.

Then I drove across the river to Newport, KY and hung out at their little shopping area. Sort of like Fashion Island for any OCers out there. I ate at an Irish restuarant and had a splendid meal of stuffed pork chops and an "emerald island" wedge salad. Shortly thereafter I went to the airport to pick up this asburian and came back to campus.

Okay, one more piece from the CAC caught my eye. It was a full installation which included movie shorts. One of the shorts by Iris Bernblum entitled, The Meal had a very eerie and engrossing storyline. It is a couple at dinner that are politely hating each other. The (director?/artist?) uses both fierce language and cut aways to a hand fight going on under the table cushioned by this beautiful restaurant and couple. Anyway, I say all this to tell you the last line. The whole thing is about the couple desiring the other one dead so the context is odd - but the words are very interesting:

"I wonder how dinner would taste alone?"
"Alone, you wouldn't taste anything at all."

Okay sorry - that again was a very long walk for this but, whatever - if you had something else to do you wouldn't be reading this blog.

For the record however, I find this dialogue to be a false statement... I enjoy my meals the most when I am alone. Wow... that prolly says way too much!