We brought some Vietnamese food out to Peggi’s mom’s apartment. We call it “Chinese” and it seems to go down better with her mom but she is not eating all that much these days. I went down to get my mother-in-law’s mail and pick up a prescription that had been delivered to the front desk. I volunteered to do this since I hadn’t had any exercise all day. Plus the temperature in the apartment is in the eighties and it’s hard to think in there.
A woman with oxygen tubes in her nostrils was talking to herself at the mailbox. She looked up at me and said, “I look like I know you.'” I kind of knew what she meant and introduced myself. I said, “I’ve seen you around.”
We stopped in the Little Theater last night to see the new Leonard Cohen concert movie. I don’t know what it’s called. We were late and missed the credits. Oddly there were no credits at all at the end of the movie. People were complaining about it being too short but it felt too long to me. It seemed all the songs were in exactly the same mode.
Our friend and neighbor, Rick, does a show on WRUR from 6 til 8pm on Thursdays. He’s calling it “Gumbo Variations” and he told us he plans to play a wide variety of music. He played a Monk tune last week and apparently jazz is a little too wide. He got an email from the big cheese over there telling him the jazz tune seemed like it lasted an eternity. Speaking of music that is not jazzI love the video of Neil Young delivering the video of his new album on an iPad to the execs at YouTube. And I love the movie Rich Stim did for Angel Corpus Christi’s version of “Heaven“.
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I was reading your post and I misread “seemed like it tasted an eternity”. That seemed to flow and even make sense, in the context.. But I went back and read it again, and saw that it was “lasted an eternity”. Meanwhile, I was thinking, “why are all his sentences the same length?” It’s like machine gun fire. But, curiously, it doesn’t hurt. In fact, it is quite pleasant and informative. A publisher, in a rejection letter, once told me my writing was “dynamited with commas.” I never forget that, but it didn’t stop me, either.
There are a couple of really good Vietnamese restaurants here in KC. One has a fantastic build-your-own soup where they bring out a big pot of broth along with an assortment of veggies on the side. Meat is available as well. Another place over by KU Med Center has the best spring rolls w/tender greens and tiny shrimp, yum. Wish you were here…Joel