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July 1, 2011:

THE FIREWORKS OF JULY

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Well, dear readers, I don’t know if any of you noticed that it is a brand new month but it is a brand new month – a little month I like to call July. April can have Paris, June can be busting out all over, but only July can have fireworks. So, I hope and pray that July will be a month filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful. And fireworks, pretty fireworks in the sky on the fourth of July. Can you believe it’s July already? That just boggles my already boggled mind. But actually, as I write these here notes it’s still June, which is the occasional conundrum of the notes. For me, the last day of June was both fine and dandy and dandy and fine. Nothing spectacular, but nothing bad and nothing bad is something good. I did have to get up early, and then CDs and helper arrived and we got everything shipped out. Then I made two count them two tuna sandwiches and ate them all up. Then I did some errands and whatnot and paid a REALLY obscene number of bills, and picked up no packages. I came back home, did a three and a half mile jog, and then got adventurous and did edit road maps for a double bill soundtrack CD we have coming in a couple of weeks. That took a bit of time, but it’s good to have it out of the way.

Then we had a little Juliana rehearsal and Marsha Kramer also came by just to get one extra rehearsal in with Boswell. After that, I listened to some music, then finally sat on my couch like so much fish.

Last night, I watched a motion picture entitled Black Moon, un film de Louis Malle. Earlier, I’d gotten halfway through Mr. Malle’s early film, Zazie Dans Le Metro, which I finally shut off because it was just a little too cute for me. Black Moon is something wholly other, an incomprehensible surrealist crazy thing that’s ultimately so weird I kind of enjoyed it in a perverse way. The film has lovely photography by Sven Nykvist, strange performances by Joe Dallesandro and Alexandra Stewart as brother and sister both named Lilly – they are also a little, how shall we say, close? Freud lovers will have a field day with some of the images. The lead is played by then-sixteen year old Cathryn Harrison, who comes from good stock – father is Noel and grandpa is Rex. She’s pretty game and they really couldn’t make this film today and that actually holds true for a couple of other Malle films, most notably Pretty Baby. Miss Harrison is asked to breast feed an old woman and does so. Today, no. But that’s only one of many outrĂ© sequences – in others, a snake slithers up Miss Harrison’s dress, an eagle is decapitated, a war of some sort is going on outside, and Miss Harrison is constantly chasing a talking but elusive unicorn. The transfer, off the camera negative, is great.

After the movie, I took a shower, listened to more music, and then it was time to write these here notes. Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because it’s July and I wish to start off our brand spanking new month by getting a very good night’s beauty sleep.

Today, I shall hopefully arise after a good night’s beauty sleep, and then I shall do a four-mile jog to usher in the new month. After that, I’ll do some errands and whatnot, hopefully pick up a package or three and an important envelope, after which we’ll have our second Gardenia rehearsal, which I’m very much looking forward to. Then I’ll be supping.

Tomorrow, she of the Evil Eye will be here and I won’t, and then I have lots o’ stuff to do and then I’m seeing Barry Pearl’s even-lovin’ Cindy in a play by Sam Bobrick. Sunday, we have a rehearsal with the thirteen-year-old after which I’m told we’ll have a little barbecue – if that actually happens it will be the first time the barbecue in the yard has been used since I moved in in 2004.

Not sure what’s happening on the fourth – normally there’s a little partay at neighbor Tony Slide’s but I have not heard word one about it, so maybe it’s not happening, or maybe they forgot about me. The rest of next week is very busy.

Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, do a long jog, do errands and whatnot, hopefully pick up packages and an important envelope, have a rehearsal, and sup. Today’s topic of discussion: It’s Friday – what is currently in your CD player and your DVD/video player? I’ll start – CD, trying to catch up on over sixty CDs that have piled up – so lots of soundtracks and a few shows. Blu and Ray, not sure what’s next up – lots to choose from. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst we say a prayer that July will be a month filled with health, wealth, happiness, creativity, and all things bright and beautiful.

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