While I wait for some information from an expert on a “real” post in the works. I’ll share some highlights from the period during my little break from blogging.
- For some reason, I’ve been seeking out and enjoying all kinds of folk music, including what’s known as “folk rock”. I guess I’m craving purity. Something I never thought I’d say in a million years: I like Bob Dylan.
- I have been on a roller coaster ride surrounding the possibility of my working on a very exciting project. Details will appear in a future post if the outcome is positive.
- My ability to read Yiddish has improved, but it will now all go out the window, because suddenly I want to learn Finnish. (This is a 20-year-old pattern with me.)
- Don’t even get me started on foreign names for various rodents
- I have finished a small portion of a musical theater piece, which is the only way I can get permission to use this particular source material. As I lose hair, I gain humility.
- My recent piece Letter to Hungary has been programmed by the Mission Chamber Orchestra in San Jose for next January (details coming).
- Within a matter of a few days, all of the following items broke
- Sunglasses
- Shoes
- Internet connection
- VOIP phone service
- Drip coffee maker. (I’m now one of those annoying, self-righteous presspot people.)
- I “failed to appear” for jury duty. (No contest; I just plain forgot.) And now I must go brave San Francisco’s miserable public transportation system and the even more miserable “Hall of Justice”, and make it right.
One Response to “Since we last spoke.”
Aaron says:
Check out Good As I Been To You by Bob Dylan. It’s a great album of folk songs with an amazing sound.
It took me twenty years of my Mom playing Dylan every weekend for me to finally start enjoying his music. Welcome.
