nightfall diaries - the first of a series of reflective evening posts
well it is neither the first nor entirely original as a title (it is lifted from asimov via outlaw bookseller).
horsemouth has been enjoying a midsummer night's dream - well the middle bit after they become lost in the forest (lord knows what the rest of it will be like). it's the peter hall (1968) version. the helen mirren. diana rigg, david warner, michael jayston version with a young (and surprisingly gorgeous) judi dench as titania. ian richardson makes a great oberon.
ok horsemouth is enjoying the play within the play - it is engagingly homespun.
horsemouth imagines it filmed by pasolini (titania and oberon have already appeared in a pasolini - haven't they? yes. in his the canterbury tales).
'... from toronto, robbie took a bus to new york and spent three days and nights, sleepless, looking for a place to stay. finally, he was rescued by a fraction of french painters who traded him bed for board. robbie worked the basket houses in the village until he was fired for being non-commercial. at the same time he fell in with allain ribback who was working with paramusic. a short and perhaps unjust description of the idea behind the music is: a group of nonprofessional musicians intensively play together until they achieve a music which is expressive of the group as a whole. robbie did some work with allain and the black lotus - hymn to fugen was recorded during this period...'
today two zoom meetings and a phonecall. remind horsemouth to get out for a walk before he does the meetings.
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