Some weeks are longer than others and this one felt like it had too much to do and little time to not do. My mind has been going in a zillion directions and at the end of the day I don’t feel wiser, I just feel exhausted. In New Orleans the pace is slower – Imagine! – if I was living in New York, I probably would have taken the poison pill by now just…
The sunset last night was so beautiful because there have been storms and there were big puffy clouds, and pink washes across the eastern sky. We went outside to sit on the porch early in the evening. Our neighbor was out with his little girl who just started walking at Jazz Fest, she was marching up and down the grass on the bayou. Amazing how time flies when you’re having fun.
I want to do everything and I will but I’m noticing that I can’t do it all, not just at the same time, but even in the same week. Last night, finally, we had no plans and were able to just take a bath (with Epson Salt, Baking Soda and some aromatherapy). I was looking forward to the bath all day long but when I got in it, I almost fell asleep. Don’t even ask…
We call Bam Bam, the rat bastard to his face. I’ve never seen the likes of a cat like this. He literally looks for situations to be a butt. Like he will wait till Wolfie is walking by and then strike her with his paw. Or he’ll purposefully claw out the screen on the door rather than just walk through. He’s having a fine time trying to ruin the Eames daybed and the Saarinen Womb…
David Carradine hung himself in a closet at the Bangkok Sofitel while filming a new movie today. I loved the Grasshopper! So sad. He was 72 years old. His television show, Kung Fu, like the Star Trek of old, was a great, inspired television series. I miss those kind. I think we’ve all become too jaded to experience them the say way we did then. Some dialogue from Kung Fu: “Deal with evil from strength,…
There is some tomato worm that is infiltrating the garden tomato plants in the area. Bugs me! Know what else bugs me – Swirl is trying to have a proviso changed to the current zoning law so that they could serve wine by the glass and stay open till 9PM. Most people support this change but there are few worms infiltrating the email list serve that make you just shake your head. It’s not that…
We’re getting to that point in the year in New Orleans where the heat makes you lazy and only hurricanes give you anxiety. So now it’s a matter of finding out how to enjoy the dog days. I envision more trips to the lake and maybe even the beach with the dogs. The Ogden Southern Museum has some wonderful line ups – Tim Gautreaux on the 13th and Ellen Gilchrist in July. We had friends…
I was listening to All Things Considered and there was a review of Magos Herrera and the writer was comparing her to Diana Krall who just recorded Brazilian tunes. He inferred and I’ve always felt that Diana Krall just lacks a certain fire inside of her. Whereas this Mexican singer songwriter has something really going on – here she is with her song about the waning moon:
Doc appointment this morning for mom and she agreed to the walker under his threat that she would fall and wind up in a nursing home. He said to her, “Pat, you’re healthy. No diabetes, no heart problem. But you are hurting yourself.”
I went to see and hear for the first time Bonnie Prince Billy. A guy there described him as the Gordon Lightfoot of this generation. I liken him almost to a lesser Tom Waits as a lyricist. Some of the songs were fantastic and some banal. A good time was had by all and he drew quite a strong crowd at One Eyed Jacks. Here is a sample of his lyrics: What are you waiting…