Shaggy Hair

As barber shops have been closed since March, I have been without a haircut since the end of February. I am starting to look like a 70s baseball player when I wear a hat. No mustache though. Actually, my barber will be closed for awhile as he had some major medical issues two years ago.  I will need to go to his competitor until my guy is back, if he ever is. One of the problems I have with longer hair is that it falls down over my forehead and gives me a Ted Koppel look. I have dreams every once in awhile in which I have my college length long hair again. I am afraid that if I did that again all of the grey hair I have, which to this point has been restricted to parts of the body no one can see, will show up. The ravages of aging. 😢 

 

Funny new yorker cartoon

that expresses the way I am feeling. Ordinarily work slows down in May and I welcome the down time. But we have been slow since mid-March so days are basically the same. It's even getting so that weekends aren't that different. There is a question to whether we will even be able to go see customers in the fall as we usually do. 

I am still enjoying the stuff I am DVR'ing from Turner Classics though I wish I would have done more 30s musicals when they were on. I am not much of a Broadway show fan but I do enjoy the Busby Berkeley and the Astaire Rogers films. Shall We Dance had an amazing dance on roller skates in Central Park. And then of course there is this song . 

Solitary Confinement

Eight weeks as of this coming Friday. It's unfortunate that it's been both a rainy and a cooler spring as yard work or walks would be a pleasant diversion. I have given up on series on both Amazon and Netflix. I detest the character of Villanelle in Killing Eve. Since I realize she's going to be in it for the duration, I have stopped watching it. Money Heist is also going on way too long. I see that it in in three seasons. How can the seizure of the mint last for that amount of time?

So I started to DVR movies on Turner Classics instead. I recently watched My Man Godfrey with Carole Lombard and Melvyn Douglas, Ace in the Hole with Kirk Douglas,  42nd Street with Ruby Keeler, and Yankee Doodle Dandy with James Cagney. A few Spencer Tracy Katherine Hepburn comedies are next. Definitely escapism from the public health and political crises we are living through. I could never understand how the German public would follow Hitler, but watching the behavior of the MAGA crew, it seems dissimilar in degree, but not in kind.

It Happens Eventually to All of Us

Covid 19

Strange world. I keep wondering about the sort of anxiety people who lived in 1929 felt about what the future held. I am dealing with solitary confinement well enough. Once two weeks from my last interactions with people outside my household passed, I felt a lot safer. No fever or coughs to concern me. Runny nose is due to spring pollen.

So getting a lot of reading done and watching stuff on Amazon Prime and Netflix. I am not much of a binger. Two episodes is usually enough in one sitting. I watched Tiger King like a sizeable portion of the American public. I got to the end and felt like I had wasted 7 hours of my life. There is no need to watch the bonus episode as I had no interest in what any of them had to say. I felt almost the same about Giri Haji, the Japanese English detective series. Another 7 episodes with an unsatisfying ending that included the teen daughter incongruously choosing the song below on a jukebox in a cafe in London. Does "seem like a mighty long time." But on the positive side, Better Call Saul, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Plot Against America and Money Heist have all been very good. Also just started Killing Eve.

Live from Seattle

One of the benefits from all of the lockdowns is that there is a lot of live music online. Rhett Miller from Old 97s has done 2 live shows from his home and will do them Monday, Wednesday and Fridays. Ben Gibbard from Death Cab for Cutie is doing his sessions daily from his studio in Seattle. The one pasted below is especially good. His version of Waltz #2 by Elliott Smith is outstanding.

Paul Revere and The Raiders- I had a dream

I have just started to rediscover these guys. Unfortunately I couldn't find a live version of the band doing their choreography to this song. It is an appropriate one as I did have a dream last night that involved riding with someone on public transit in what seemed to be New York City. I woke up as a head was laid on my shoulder.