Wow, gang, did yesterday turn out different!
I was almost finished with my shift with my favorite 95-year-old Japanese man (and we had a great day yesterday — his focus and clarity were great and we had just really enjoyable conversations all day)– anyway, I was almost done there when I got a text from the Agency saying that my evening shift was cancelled!
(See yesterday’s post about how I was sort of dreading that evening shift.)
The client had just been sent to the hospital, which is of course, sort of terrible, but I was unbelievably happy for myself!
I was home yesterday by 3:15PM. Wow. I was even able to focus a little bit and get another chapter of The Curse of Our Profound Disorder proofed and done.
This leaves me with only FOUR more chapters to go! Almost there, gang.
I have some time today before my evening shift to get a little more done, and I have tomorrow off, so I should be absolutely done proofreading by tomorrow!
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Before I forget…
Curious, indeed.
From il donaldo trumpo last night:
“YOU DON’T HAVE ENOUGH POPCORN FOR THIS WEEK!!!😎🇺🇸🍿”
And Sara Hopps re-posted this Phil delta this morning:
So let’s just see what happens this week. Remember, gang. Popcorn means we’re watching a movie.
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I saw this online yesterday.
Apparently my hellhole apartment on E.12th Street in the East Village of NYC was recently for rent. (It is currently rented.)
I’d known it was “renovated” after I moved out in the fall of 1992, but this was the first time I saw photos of what it currently looks like and I think it’s awful! They’ve chopped it way down in size and it is now a studio apartment (meaning, no bedroom) for $1675 month.
When I lived there, it hadn’t been renovated in about 80 years, literally, but it was a 2-bedroom walk-through with 2 fireplaces — one in the living room and one in the kitchen. And the floor leaned way over to the east side of the building. But it was $475 a month.
Plus there was a glass block divider between the kitchen and bathroom. I had one of those very old, lead, clawfoot bathtubs and 2 big windows in the bathroom. (They’ve somehow managed to put a very small shower in the little closet where the toilet is and they did away with the bathroom completely…Amazing.)
There were also two big windows in the living room, and a closet. And there was a front door and a kitchen door. There is now only one door, entering into the “kitchen.”
You can see the whole apartment here. But here is a sample:
It’s all white, with a nice floor, but other than that, it is so narrow and SMALL!! And no character whatsoever. Unbelievable.
Considering all the songs I wrote while living there, and the short stories I wrote, and the intensely crazy and amazing relationships (and roommates) I had in there, I think it was much, much better as a hellhole apartment in the 1980s than its “renovated” version today.
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And sort of on a similar note–
I’m currently watching this film on Metrograph:
Mixed Blood.
It was made in 1984, in my old East Village neighborhood. So you get an actual feel of what is was like down there back then. (Violence and a lot of drugs. It was nearly impossible to get a cab to take you to the East Village after dark back then.)
The movie was written & directed by Paul Morrissey (who directed all those famous Warhol films).
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Okay!
Here’s this!
Tuning up backstage, during the European tour of 1970– Keith, Mick Taylor, and Bill Wyman:
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This was fun!!
A Tom Petty Rockumentary on MTV, 1991 (23 mins):
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From James Tabor — an interview about his new book, The Lost Mary.
James Tabor on The Lost Mary: Rediscovering the Mother of Jesus | Closer To Truth Chats (28 mins):
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I’m still loving the new glasses, gang. Wow, it is so cool to finally be able to SEE again!!
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Okay.
Oddly enough, I slept for NINE hours last night!! I can’t believe it. (I usually sleep about 6 hours.)
And for most of the night, I was having endless dreams about Nick Cave songs. It was a very complicated dream. A lot from Dig!! Lazarus! Dig!! and a lot of songs from Ghosteen.
But the minute I woke up, at 5:15AM, the fabulous chorus from “Balcony Man” was going full volume in my head!! (“This morning is amazing and so are you“)
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And I think that is it for now, gang.
I’m going to enjoy what’s left of this amazing morning (!!) and get some reading/editing done on the novel and then head out for my shift.
Have a great Sunday, wherever you are in the world.
Thanks for visiting.
I love you, guys. See ya!
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I leave you with this!!
Me, in that no-longer-existent bathtub/bathroom in the hellhole apartment on E.12th Street, back in 1984!!
Polaroid taken by my best friend, Paul Martin, who was visiting for Thanksgiving! He had bought me the camera as an early Christmas present that year. Okay, see ya!
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