Up before 6, watched last night’s SNL. Took laundry down w/ Bree before 7. You’ve heard our every-3rd-Sunday routine before. Played “Stella by Starlight” again in between trips downstairs. Done around 9, 9:30; ran into our neighbor Christine while unloading the drying. Wrote a fairly long personal update for a listserv I’m on. Remembered to post about tomorrow’s radio show on Facebook and twitter.
Several online tasks I’d been putting off. Ordered a couple things for Bree from Bob Baker Marionette Theater, and wrote to our contact there about make an end-of-year contribution. Checked in on a record ordered from Holland - got a quick response, but the package showed up this morning. Couple of other things I’ve immediately forgotten, but they were on my mind. Played “Music w/ My Meals” a little more, called my dad about 1:45-2:30.
Worked on the song more w/ Bree; it’s wordy, so a slower tempo is easier for both of us. Recorded the piano part w/ metronome so she can work on it alone. Folded laundry. Napped for an hr. Got up and listened to last night’s Kenny Barron stream for the Vanguard while online. Immanuel Wilkins sax, Kiyoshi Kitagawa bass, Jonathan Blake drums. Largely originals, feels pretty different than the set I saw last year. Good bass solo on a fast salsa-ish tune; closed w/ “Footprints.”
Read first 10 p. of Fredric Beiser, Hegel, a Routledge introduction someone recommended on twitter. Starts w/ some biographical basics, and more polemical comments on the impossibility of turning Hegel into a non-metaphysician, and on the need to combine, somehow, “analytical” reconstruction with historical context. Seems pretty lucid. Later, read to p. 100 of the Blesh jazz book - gets into some very basic comments on AABA form re Lester Young. Opened a package I ordered from the Brooklyn museum - 3 Ideal brand notebooks, which for some ineffable reason have a vibe I like. Crossword, short walk outside. Lights out 11.
No writing today - always hard on laundry day. But I noticed tomorrow is winter solstice, which always makes me feel like things are on upswing (at least re season affect). Lights out 11. Sayers.