Wake up to bright sunshine,
but it is not to be for long,
changing impressively,
minute-by-minute until grayness falls once more, appropriately re-perusing
Samuel Beckett's How It Is (1964), pdf'ing Mary Variations: XIV. Minimal Mary, and composing ensuing pages of The Cop and the Anthem and Psalm 80 (54 and 8, finishing latter). After the daily update of 21st-Century Music, there's more New Years Concert/Party planning and email catch-ups to do, taking a break to play through the Edition Peters volume
John Cage - Works for Piano, Prepared Piano, and Toy Piano - Volume 4 (1933-1952).
A later break for supplies
(with the weather clearing up a bit,
again dramatically),
including video replentishment at the library,
yields
Annie Hall (Woody Allen, 1977),
Arsenic and Old Lace (Joseph Kesselring, 1939 / 1944), and
The Lord of the Rings (Peter Brook, 1963, after the 1954 William Golding novel),
The Man Who Would Be King (Rudyard Kipling, 1888 / 1975),
M.A.S.H. (1970),
Patton (1970)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972),
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (Neil Simon, 1971 / 1975),
Rio Grande (1950),
The Road to Bali (1952),
The Road to Zanzibar (1941),
The Roaring Twenties (1939),
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949),
THX-1138 (1971), and
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1949) -- watching the first two with Harriet in the evening, and somehow finishing up a re-reading of
Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape and Other Dramatic Pieces (1957, 1958-1960).
Bette and George call late, and always good to hear from them, but this time sad news as well: Aunt Caroline Stuart (who lived in Swarthmore for many years) has died, all of 96 years old. But, after several falls and realizing that life at this point would be in the confines of a nursing home (even after she could no longer drive, she souped up a golf cart to tool around her property) she basically took the situation into her own hands (pain was a definite factor), via fasting. Our thoughts go out to family and friends.
