I had a Lou Reed perfect day. I will talk about it, but don't read if you don't care....
Wife and I went to the gym and I finally (this is not a joke) finished the procrastination podcast while on the eliptical thing. Some good advice and I will try using it on myself as I start working on the card game I'm developing. ( Yes it's about politics. ) Those self-help people all sound like they're from Michigan.
Next, the upstairs neighbour came downstairs. He's been depressed but he was happy because he had some romantic success with his friend's gal. This sounds weird, I know, but he's young and they're all open relationship people so apparently it's all cool. Wife made BLTs and we listened to a reissue of Zappa & The Mothers' Freak Out ! before heading down to the record store. ( I never got into Zappa except for a few well-known songs like Peaches Regalia, so I'm trying to education myself... ) At the record store, we bought St. Vincent, Donna Summer, Beggar's Banquet Records Compilation, Modern Lovers (A collector LP), and Kurt Vile/Courtney Barnett. (sp?) The later are young indie rock people, but when we got home just now and
**** open the record there was Lee Ann Womack (new country?!?) LP inside !
By the time we were done it was 3 pm, so we headed to a bar where I appear in a comedy show once a month. It is their 90th anniversary today ! So we wanted to come by for the party, which included recreating a famous picture they have on their wall (b&w) of a crowd outside on VE day in 1945. There was free beer ! We all went outside, which was good because it was warm, and this older 'regular' decides to climb a small tree out front. ( It was actually a tiny tree, and he was aping a kid who did the same thing in 1945. ) He got caught in the little tree about 6 feet off the ground. I think he was drunk, anyway, and eventually he was hanging upside down as people laughed at him.
We got the crowd picture from a photog on a roof across the street, then wife, myself and a local clown went to Chinatown for some great Vietnamese food. Then we headed down to TIFF to check out The Square - a Swedish surreal dramedy with Kate Moss. The film was almost 3 hours, and pretty dry stuff. We wanted a late dessert but the TIFF restaurant manager told us they were understaffed so they couldn't serve us even with open tables. We drove, almost running over 3 or 4 people in separate incidents (Saturday night young drunks walking in front of us, or biking in one case) to a restaurant in our hood and got the SAME line from the manager... ( Table for 18
) We were able to order draft beer and any ready-made desserts.
Perfect day and I am thankful it was warm enough to walk around and do all of this. I hear cold wind and rain now against the windows. Thanks for talking to me on here and have a warm and blessed night.