Friday, April 22, 2011

April 22 - Good Gates


Up early


and barely


out the


door in


time to


rendezvous


with


Crystal, despite our reasonably later hour of 8am.


Another lovely time in the open space with


Stanley


in tow


(or


us),


followed by Martin errands,


and over the Bay to Emeryville,


basically


stalling


for


time


with


another


stroll


along


the


waterfront, before the Berkeley / Oakland border


to


interview


Alden


Jenks


for Grove and 21st-Century Music.  A congenial and enlightening encounter,


followed by a reverse course to


Novato Toyota for standard maintenance,


a dalliance at Chevy's for paper evaluation,


then


a


slow


meandering


wander


through


Sonoma


and


Napa,


and the most-hurried-yet dash to the


library for videos plucked off the shelf two minutes before the last-call-for-checkout of the day -- including


The Other Boleyn Girl (2008),


Out of the Past (1947),


The Painted Veil (W. Somerset Maugham 1925/2006),


The Paper Chase (1973),


The Paris Express (The Man who Watched Trains Go By, 1938 / 1952), and


E.M. Forster's A Passage to India (1924, David Lean, 1984 -- including a lovely anachronistic usage of Vincent Youmans's Tea for Two, 1925).  Returning to share the cinematic wealth with Harriet, the evening also includes finishing Psalm 53, linking the next four Variations and Theme movements (three-quarters through), transferring Trumpet Concerto (Op. 40) from PC to Mac, and bringing the Camino Real: Block 7 video to 4:00.

47+ new pictures... sorta OK at 476 MB (46.5%) of 1024 -- so will have to go easy through Monday...