Up 7:15. Watched late night monologues.
Coffee. Exercised.
Form notes, 10 songs - end of 1948 set.
Breakfast. Therapy. Took out recycling.
Worked 11-1.
Called Dad, and my uncle Anthony.
Some office work.
Talked to Bree after she got off the phone with her mom, who tells her virus news that makes her anxious. That, in turn, throws me off.
Read 25 p. Adorno 4:30-6. End of main text, letters from A. to Bloch; and Horkheimer to A. — lengthy invective on his dislike of an early publication of Habermas’s, under the Institute’s aegis. Strangely, H. comes off, secondhand, as a “revolutionary” Marxist - one thinks of him as a softer, ‘liberal” version of first-gen Frankfurt School figures. And there is something defensive in H.’s response.
2nd walk.
Watched Elvis Costello’s livestream for the NHS, after the fact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfXyl0fBcTY&fbclid=IwAR2Mv53ViI3Mwxj6oIiHibYP6zXzoAVKIf55gNwDlhbJd8duq_NPCPx9Th8
And some of one with Mike Davis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOp9G5hoQnM
Finished Reines.
Turned a couple of the LEAR poems into a 100 wd prose piece, but didn’t type up anything new.
Watched a few more of Rob M’s videos - still haven’t made mine.
Finished the Adorno bio, finally. A couple more letters, and a rather long, discursive acknowledgements section - that is partly about food and coffee in Frankfurt. Substantial, and will be in my thoughts, but I’m looking forward to reading something lighter, which would be anything.
Finished watching Impact (Arthur Lubin 1949) w/ Brian Donleavy, Charles Coburn, and two underrated actresses of the period, Ella Raines and Helen Walker.
Managed a little more office cleanup.
Lights out 12:30. Put on a David Harvey podcast about neoliberalism, but fell asleep quickly.