Up 7.
Read Revise over coffee + a bagel in the morning, wrote a little bit in a notebook (not much).
Spent about 5 hrs. on podcast edit - exhausting, I don’t want to hear myself say “right?” anymore.
Talked to Bree and her family for her Mom’s birthday.
Cooked a piece of salmon, and later some turkey breast.
Tidied the apt. D/l’ed a bandcamp album of Veda Hille’s songs.
Lights out midnight.
11.19.21
Woke up, around 7, to an email from last night to the effect that EN couldn’t open the Audacity files. Neither could I. I don’t know if I or Dropbox fucked up, but I had to redo the edit of the 1st half of the interview so we could set a rough version to the series producers. So that derailed my writing plans. Did that until noon, showered.
Therapy, call to dad.
Listened to Late Style again on the way to Brooklyn. Left around 4 so I could go to the Center for Fiction. Literary publishing depresses me. Bought Tricia Low’s Socialist Realism, which I’ve almost picked up a couple of times.
Dinner w/ David Nagler.
Went to Roulette for Jessica Pavone’s record release; double string quartet + Nate Wooley (t) and Brian Chase (d). Good piece - a little Feldman in the there, but there was a tonal underpinning.
Got a car to Market Hotel in Bushwick, saw Dry Cleaning. First crowded rock show I’d been to in ages. Took a long time to start, like they hadn’t soundcheck. Vocals buried, not surprisingly, but I know the songs; big guitar outros were the strongest part. All released material, no encore. Briefly saw Colin, the guy who books Mama Tried, possibly the only person I knew there.
M train is right there but doesn’t run late nights; got an Uber. Home 12:30, went to bed quickly.
No reading.
11.18.21
Briefly up at 3:30, but not for long. Up at 7. Breakfast, coffee.
Read a few p. of Revise, got distracted by dumb stuff online.
Massage.
Had trouble getting up to much noon-2. Ordered a few things online - the new dB’s reissue, a Caetano Veloso tribute, stainless steel cleaner.
Had printer trouble, made me anxious about getting out of the apt.
Finally did some work at E77 3:30-5:30. Spinning my wheels.
Saw The Card Counter (2021 Paul Schrader) at MoMa. Dave Kehr interviewed Schrader and Oscar Isaac afterwards. Read Revise on the train.
Home around 10, don’t recall doing anything of note.
11.17.21
Up 6. Breakfast, coffee. Listened to a couple episodes of a podcast about the October Revolution.
Worked on audio 7:30-10:30.
Therapy.
Worked another hour, took a longish break to make lunch (had some salmon that needed to be cooked, roasted some prepped “harvest vegetables,” probably ate too much).
Kept editing, got rough cuts together around 3, Dropboxed to EN around 3.
Cleaned kitchen, tidied office, did other small tasks from general to-do list (while adding others as I thought of them). Put recent downloads I need to read on iPad.
Annoyingly, I’ve misplaced a copy of Marat/Sade I’ve had since high school. Also not sure where I set down the Chomsky/Foucault book.
Found the Lakatos book I hadn’t quite finished (there are appendixes); read 10 p., following the methodological points and history rather than the math about continuous functions.
Took out recycling, which I’d been avoiding, and set up massage table for tomorrow.
Made myself look at the chorus section for a scant 30 min. Messed w/ one graf, started another. Looked up a quote.
Listened to a podcast interview w/ Mitch Easter.
Read intro and 1st ch. of Gus Stadler’s Woody Guthrie book, and a bit of Revise.
Lights out 11.
11.16.21
[Writing this the next morning, and I’m busy, so this is a summary, not a blow-by-blow.
- Up 7:30. Slept through.
- Edited audio 5 hrs.
- Attempted to stream the doc I missed this weekend, but couldn’t figure out the festival interface.
- Read two essays from a book on Freudian transference. No special reason - I picked it up on the carts outside the Strand a couple weeks ago
- Finished Mackey, Tej Bet
- Needed an evening break, so went down to McNally-Jackson and bought myself 2 red pens and some books:
Pamela Haag, Revise
John Keane, Annotations
Adina Hoffman, Ben Heche: Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
Bertholt Brecht, Brecht and the Writer’s Workshop: Fetzer and Other Dramatic Projects
Eimar McBride, Mouthpieces
- Read some of the Haag before bed
- Lights out 11]