Stay-At-Home-Disco, 2020

"We feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom."

― Slavoj Žižek, Welcome to the Desert of the Real: Five Essays on September 11 and Related Dates

"You won't belong to me, I let you down

I walk around'n' see your night skyline

I feel the light but you don't want to stay

So lonely now, just let me off downtown

Sad and free

Sad and free

Sad and free

Sad and free"

― Black Box, "Everybody Everybody" 1990

Hola Amigas! After five weeks, my rib is feeling better! I'm using less of the notorious cannabis cream, and the familiar outlines of reality are coming into focus, even as it is no longer my birthday month.

Four March highlights: Viewing The Time for Becoming by my favorite artist Alicia Eggert; Dancing at SPACE Gallery and The Jewel Box; visiting the new Prada store in Dallas; and procuring a copy of Black Box's 1990 single, "Everybody Everybody" at Moody Lords. The refrain of "Sad and free" encapsulating my emotional state at times this past month.

Through the waning cannabis cream stupor, I recalled an excellent DJ Ayres remix of the song I put on a dance mix at the start of the pandemic. Stay-At-Home-Disco was made during those scary yet hopeful days when it seemed our response to the crisis may also address larger injustices. Alas, but this mix is still the perfect living room or nightclub soundtrack to heal your body through dance! For fans of: Eris Drew, St. Vincent, Jayda G (congrats!), Erykah Badu, & DJ Koze.

Slavoj Zizek's quote encapsulates my March as well, not to mention our collective moment; one in which we experience blissful freedom that is so real, but only because we can't feel how trapped we are. Please hug someone on the dance floor! Our bodies are powerful!