Up 9:30 - lost an hr. to Daylight Savings Time (which I’m otherwise happy about). SNL.
Farmer’s market. Signed a ballot position for a local Dem candidate.
Home, put on KSPC livestream for a while.
Worked through email, 1 hr., did various related tasks. E.g. paid Bob, downloaded concert tickets.
Talked w/ Bree about home projects, travel plans, hr.+. (“Family Meeting”) [Hired a housekeeper.]
Coffee (late), read:
Thomas McEvilley, “Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief” (famous negate review of MoMa’s 1984 primitivism show)
Richard A. Peterson, “Why 1955? Explaining the Advent of Rock Music”
Katherine Spring, “Pop Go the Warner Bros., et al.: Marketing Film Songs during the Coming of Sound.”
Bookstall across the street: Moravia, Contempt, CDs of Grace Jones, Pull Up to the Bumper and Ahmed El-Salamouny, Aquarela.
Form notes on The R&B Years 1946, v. 1, disc 1, 10 songs. Some interesting discoveries already, re compound forms: Gatemouth Brown’s “I Ain’t Mad At You, Pretty Baby” and “Did You Ever Love a Woman” seem to set some precent for “I Got a Woman.”
Worked on taxes.
Spent 30-45 min. or so starting to work on music for a lyric David Hadju sent me. Would like to finish this, then go on to lyrics for the Eyelashes tracks.
Headed down to the Jazz Gallery to hear Tyshawn Sorey Sextet - but I had the wrong night. Disappointing. Looked in the windows of Rizzoli (closed at 7). Could have gotten a coffee or a drink or a bite, but headed home, had a slice after I got off the train. Read quite a bit of Guibert on the train, both ways.
Home 8:30, wasted 90 min, then finished Guibert.
Lights out 11:30.
[Didn’t write or try to, read Brooks-Motl, listen to Miles Okzaki]