October News, Part One
It’s already October. That’s fine. October’s a good month. I just can’t help feeling that the older I get the faster time goes. When I was little I would think about how long it would take for, say, summer vacation to arrive. Now, it seems like it was just May the other day, and, meanwhile, all of summer has passed, and it’s autumn.
I know I have mentioned how much I have been liking ice cream cones. Let me just say that this was the summer that I rediscovered their goodness. For the longest time I had been eating my ice cream in a bowl like a fool. There’s so much more out there! Cones! What’s wrong with the above picture? Mint chocolate chip in a cone doesn’t work. It doesn’t taste bad, of course. But the texture is all wrong. It has the rough bits of chocolate that you can’t lick up. Ice cream in a cone should be smooth, which is why I choose French Vanilla. Simple, good. People who say that it’s boring can shove it. They obviously do not understand the subtleties of the ice cream experience. They are probably the same people who say that classical music is boring. Go to hell.
I took a trip back to the undisclosed bookstore where a few weeks ago I purchased thirty-five complete operas and ballets on Laserdisc for six dollars. At that time I had picked up the 1976 Bayreuth Festival Die Walküre conducted by Pierre Boulez on Philips. I was happy. When I returned last week I found they had added Das Rheingold, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. So, for practically no money, I have acquired the complete Chereau Ring on Laserdisc. (A couple years ago, I received the companion book to this series from Universal Classics after they found some extra copies lying around.) Plus, my new favorite little bookshop also had an Elektra, a Nozze di Figaro and a Madama Butterfly. Best of all: All the missing booklets from my first haul had turned up! I told the shopkeeper that they belonged with the other Laserdiscs I bought before, and she said to take them. So now all my discs have booklets, too. I’m telling you, I never got such a good deal.
Check the News page throughout the week, because lots of stuff is going on. Tonight: Hated filmmaker Michael Moore speaks at the University of Florida. Later in the week: New car purchase in Valdosta; Bruce Springsteen/REM in concert in Orlando.
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