flashback: september 29, 2007

i want to go inside, but i don't.

i still need to get into peoples homes on eldridge.

flashback: september 22, 2006

i left d-bayside in kl, malaysia -- not everyone travels the same way.

after one of the spiciest meals i had in my life, i took the bus to cameron highlands to get some cool weather and hiking in before heading to the jungle. the evening was quite nice, spent the time with some south africans learning zulu folk songs. i got jealous of the other travelers who were bouncing around s.e. asia for three months plus -- but i realized that i had already been away for over three months that calendar year.

in my journal i jot down the track that i would take the next day.

trail 8 -- 2 1/2 hours.
robinson falls. up sttep slop on the left a sign board shows the way. steep incline continues for 1/2 hr. down a valley. Bottom of the alley path to the right up a steep slope until ledge w/ electrical pylong. Fran(?) here slope increases quite drastically until it leads off and begins a more gradual clim. Just before the peak

trail 7
veers off left and down towards a town mardi(?)

trail 3
leads...(?)

i must have fallen asleep at that point.

tck tck tck

just 16 hours before i attend the taping of letterman show. it will be my third time there, averaging once per decade. normally they tape at 5pm, but tomorrow they moved it up to 3pm. i was all prepared to let go of the tickets until then i discovered who the guest would be -- barack obama.

for the most part being near fame and power doesn't affect me. as p-42eldridge would say "they're sh*t doesn't smell better than mine." but maybe the president's does.

i'm also faced with the jhs problem. what if he wants to talk to me? what would i say?

d-bsoft, has a friend with terminal cancer. given the opportunity he would use that to talk health care.

this afternoon i was part of a choreographed human sculpture for oxfam. the initiative was called "tck, tck, tck" -- to get awareness for the copenhagen conference on climate change in december. at the end of the program, we were influenced to call the white house to encourage president obama to take a lead in the meeting.

i can always talk about that with him. then again, there is the other jhs problem -- he doesn't even know i exist.

[note: i spent 20 minutes trying to figure out how to spell choreograph, going through pretty much every letter combination]

flashback: september 15, 2007

this was one of those huge days. i spent the majority of the saturday on eldridge snapping away with the rangefinder.

early that evening some of the locals started to get some drinks around the local cafe. the eldridge elite had, as always been drinking king cobras all day and have been long passed out.

the woodwards had an opening, there second since they opened earlier that year. it was richard hamilton. the artist mainly outside talking on his cell phone.

[picture from wedding... i have to find those.]

an old friend. p-42eldridge was getting married for the second time. two weeks earlier in bermuda. that was good fun, an entire resort full of people i grew up with. this was dubbed the "chinatown wedding." it took me off eldridge to jing fong. over 400 guests, some were people i knew who couldn't make it to bermuda, the vast majority were k-... village people. (there really is no better way to describe it).

back on eldridge, g and d- 18 eldridge threw a house party it ran until 4am.

i need to have one of these big days again

an offer i couldn't refuse

the sunshine played a midnight showing of the godfather, i knew today was going to be a grey day. so why not, it's a great movie.

it's odd to walk out of a movie theatre at 3am.

this was the first time i saw the movie in a theatre. the other times was on a small screen on dvd. it was great to see a non remastered print.

low latitude film. the intro wedding's highlights were all blown out -- but it gave the feeling of a summer wedding. if that was done today, some post production editor would probably broadened out the level and flattened the look of everything.

the plot is still solid. a hero's journey falling from grace into something different.

flashback: september 8, 2005

[image to come later, i hope; probably the cover of the playbill]

shakespeare in the park.

two gentlemen of verona, a musical production.

i needed to get it tickets then, the production would finish that weekend. (as per last flashback, i was in china during must of the summer). it was raining heavily all morning. but, i knew in the evening it would clear up. so during my lunch break i took a train down to the public theatre to pickup tickets.

what i learned that evening was rosario dawson can't sing and can barely act. dawson plays mimi in the movie rent later that year, i still have yet to see it because of her performance at the park.

the production was up to par though.

last year i was blown away by the public's production of hair. two gentlemen of verona and it share the same composer(?). hair still plays on broadway.

two weeks ago went to the production the bacchae. an old greek play with a musical greek chorus. that wasn't up to par.

flashback: september 1, 2005

forbidden city, beijing, china

at first it didn't seem so forboding with the droves of tourist, but then it became so because of the droves of tourist.

usually the week befor labor day is reserved for travel. the darkrooms are closed, there's an extra free day to tack onto. but not this year. work, work, work.