Up 8:30.
Watched new Kesha/Macklemore video (godawful), and John Oliver.
Put on Bree’s socks by mistake.
Left at 10:30.
Train, rain. Read ch. 2-3 RthR.
Biscuit and coffee. Daybook.
Worked at Schomburg 1-5. Wrote up a few elements of application, shortened statements, tinkered w/ sample chapters. Productive; very close.
Started listening to Mary Halvorson’s new Code Girl album, in prep for seeing her tomorrow, on the walk to a bar on Frederick Douglass to meet up for Katie Degentesh’s birthday. Drew, Bruce & Sally, Catherine Talese, a couple people I don’t know as well.
Dinner w/ same group nearby at Streetbird.
Rode partway home w/ Catherine and a friend (George?). Switched train, more Halvorson, read Levy.
Home by 11. Caught up w/ Bree.
Read last few p. of Levy. Paratactic, largely unlyrical, w/ found/overheard elements, dry in a way I like but not emotionless. Endnote on Davidsonian interpretation, which helps a little?
1 episode of Perry Mason
Lights out 12:30.
4.2.18
Up at 8.
Skimmed this.
Snowed overnight, but not that bad.
Madonna’s “Open Your Heart” stuck in my head.
Left at 10.
Listened to 5049 podcast w/ Rebekah Heller (new music bassoonist).
Coffee. Read introduction to Stephanie DeGooeyer, et. al. The Right to Have Rights (on Arendt).
Therapy.
Lunch. Saw someone working on a MS titled “Where Do Birds Go To Die?” though a cafe window.
To Lincoln Center Library; started working by 2.
Worked an hr. each on CV and statement.
Then I looked more closely at the application instructions, and both my statement and intended writing sample are much too long.
Changed gears and cut 3 sections, about 8K, out of the version of the introduction I mean to send; now 15,000 words.
Left at 7:45. Read Ch. 1 of RtHR, started Ch. 2.
Perry Mason.
Decided to use the inconveniently chunky notebook that I began and avoid for the next 3 months of poetry, to fill it up. Wrote a page.
Trips to laundry room for Bree.
More Mason, lights out 1:30.
4.1.18
Up at 8.
Watched a few Bangles videos.
Coffee.
Poetry daybook.
Farmer’s market w/ Bree.
Added Adorno footnote to intro.
Read Susan Fast’s 33 1/3 on Michael Jackson’s Dangerous on train.
Communitea closed for Easter; went to Sweetleaf
Added another footnote about Leonard Meyer.
Worked 1-5 on grant application.
Called parents for Easter.
Opened up my musty CV, which I have to revise for same grant.
Home on train; more Fast.
Dinner at Urumbaya w/ Bree.
Zoned out at home: card magic videos and 1 episode of Perry Mason.
Finished Fast. Disappointing; hasty and inconsistent.
Read 1/3 of Andrew Levy, Ashoka.
Lights out 1:30.
March 2018 reading
Sigmund Spaeth, The Art of Enjoying Music
Lucy Ives, The Worldkillers
Camara Laye, The Radiance of the King
Charles Mills, Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race
Percival Everett, God's Country
John Ashbery, Houseboat Days (re-read)
Edward E. Marks with A.J. Leibling, They All Sang: from Tony Pastor to Rudy Vallee
Carey Fleiner, The Kinks: A Thoroughly English Phenomenon
Emily Skillings, Fort Not
February 2018 reading
(I kept the list, but forgot to post it)
Francis Ponge, trans. Colombina Zamponi, The Table
Shake It Up!, ed. Jonathan Lethem and Kevin Dettmar
John Ash, To The City
Lee Ann Brown, Crowns of Charlotte: NC Ode
Heaton, A Brief History of Mathematical Thought
Burt, Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry
Max Kozloff, Vermeer
Anthea Kraut, Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender and Intellectual Property Right in American Dance
Rebecca Woolf, One Morning--
Nathalie Leger, Suite for Barbara Loden
Chuck Stebelton, The Platformist