Up 7:30. Slept through.
Went to E77 before 9 for coffee, ordered oatmeal for breakfast for a change. Read to p. 120 in Mehta, and about 15 p. of Mackey. (Sometimes it’s easier to read out, and on trains.)
Picked up some vegetables on the way home.
Listened to some of the first take of the podcast before we re-recorded at 1. Got going, but I didn’t feel like it was good - I was in my head, trying to remember and anticipate points. Perhaps fortunately, a very audible thunderstorm came up, so we stopped at about 2:30.
Dithered a bit, then spent 20 min. or so paging through one of 2 Lomax collections for songs he/they print w/ choruses. Took the other w/ me on the train to Brooklyn, went through that, listened to Wendy Eisenberg’s Bent Ring, and read another 50 or so p. of Mehta, also while waiting for her set to start at Public Records (fancy “listening room” vibe w/ restaurant attached, I hadn’t been before). Said hi, also chatted w/ Brendan Gilmartin, who’s doing publicity for the headliner, Patricia Brennan. Had one cider. Wendy was good - solo electric/vocal, so none of the banjo songs from the current record, but some new songs, particularly liked one w/ some Tarot imagery and a third verse beginning “AAA - that is the form you write.” Brennan is a vibes/marimba composer/improvisor w/ a solo record - sonorous, a lot of interesting extended technique. Four-mallet marimba and pedal steel are 2 instruments I can’t even imagine learning to play.
First notably cold night to be out walking. Read more Mackey on the train back. Thought about getting tacos, just made a couple eggs at home. Lights out midnight.