Well, dear readers, I am sitting here like so much fish, STILL listening to the Mahler third symphony. It is long. But lovely. Lovely and long. It’s been fun doing my every three- or four-year traversal through the Mahler music – they guy could write music. The guy was a game changer. I was once a game changer, too – I went from Monopoly to Scrabble. I miss playing Scrabble – that was the Darling Daughter’s favorite game to play, and we played it a lot whilst stuffing our faces with Taco Bell. But enough about Taco Bell. I did manage to watch a documentary last night – all four hours’ worth. It was entitled In Restless Dreams and was about the life and music of Mr. Paul Simon. We see him now, working away on music, we see his friendship as a kid with Art Garfunkel, we see how they got where they got, we see how they finally broke up, we see their reunion years later, which also ended. We see his various marriages, including his six months marriage to Carrie Fisher, and we see the one that lasted, Edie Brickell. She seems to be the best thing that ever happened to him. I do have six degrees of something or other with Edie – she sang my song Heartbreaker, the James Bond parody song I wrote for Likely Stories. The documentary doesn’t waste time with inane talking heads from critics or musicologists and that’s a good thing. It was directed by Alex Gibney, who made the great documentary on Scientology, Going Clear, as well as lots of other interesting documentaries. I enjoyed this one very much. Now I want to listen to all my Simon and Garfunkel CDs – there is a newer set with all new remasterings that I’d like to get at some point. Prior to that, I’d have a very long and nice telephonic conversation with an old pal and that was fun. Earlier, I’d gotten seven hours of sleep, answered e-mails, had two tacos from the good Mexican jernt, ate those and they were excellent, did a brief ATM run, did some writing, then watched part one of the documentary. I boiled an artichoke, but then had the long conversation and it got overcooked – so, a little mushy but still edible. Then I watched part two and right after that I dozed off for two-and-a-half-hours. Once back up, I made scrambled eggs with cream cheese for my little snack and that was very good, too. I think all of that came to just over 1000 calories. And yes, the Mahler third is still playing, halfway through the final movement.
Today, I’ll be up when I’m up, I’ll do whatever needs doing, I’ll pick up batteries at the mail place, then I’m having an early supper with Robert Yacko somewhere – have to decide that part. Then I’ll come home and load the batteries into the various remotes, then I can watch, listen, and relax.
Tomorrow will be a ME day. Monday, I’m having an early dinner with Marshall Harvey, then the rest of the week is quite busy. I’ll have a work session with our musical director, write commentary, I have a telephonic call coming from Social Security, so I’m hoping I can get that finally started along with Medicare, and there’ll be some meetings and meals.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, be up when I’m up, do whatever needs doing, pick up batteries at the mail place, have an early supper, load batteries, and then watch, listen, and relax. Today’s topic of discussion: What were/are your all-time favorite songs of Paul Simon? Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst I hit the road to dreamland, happy to have watched a documentary on the not-so-simple Simon, namely Paul.