herr I am....

in Brooklyn, just went to the BAM web site and saw that there are no tickets left (at least on the web site) for 6:30 movie at the BAM new film fest---was really looking forward to seeing it---excited after last night's film (of which more later)  and expected that to fill the time before the basketball game, which I will probably watch at La Flaca? But what until then...? Not sure.
     Yesterday, quite an amazing day---three different worlds to visit--first the sessions at the library at 145street, then off to Brooklyn and the BAN planning meeting at the Cortelyou Road Library. Was greeted warmly by Imani and the three other people there---more arrived later---then an incisive planning conversation for the protest March on the 13th of  August. I made some solid suggestions re the flyer and what it should represent---felt very much a part of this community--next meeting in three weeks, the very Saturday that I was pondering if I should visit Boston. Now that is out, I want to give what I can to this project. Possibly a trip to Boston in that week for only one day; really all that I need there (baseball game at Fenway, not much else) ---this also effects my vision of the other two planned trips that I expected to make. But back to the meeting---again, very intense, the leader has a very strong vision of what he feels is the wholesale "pushing out" of blacks and hispanic people who have lived in the rent stabilized apartments in the area for many years.
   Then, on the Q to BAM, tired but determined to see a "new" film if possible. To my surprise, tickets were still available for Goat---which was advertised as a very intense look at how fraternities treated their pledges (narrative fiction). Very true, the movie is an intense and sometimes frightening look at pledging and the degredation that the pledges are expected to experience. Felt like I was watching Ten Years a Slave---that is how open the brutality that the upper classmen forced on the pledges were. Movie should serve an a cautionary tale---much to think about and discuss.
   After the movie, went to Mullane's which was pretty quiet for a Saturday evening, had a beer as I relaxed and watched the Met game---which, by the time that I left looked like it would be an easy victory for the Mets. It wasn't---they lost it later. But as I returned on the subway, found myself amazed at the variety of experiences and milieus that I had traveled in during the day.
  As for today---pondering how to spend the time if I can't get into the movie---perhaps go to South Fourth (my usual Sunday trip) and wait till the game begins, at which time I can either watch it there or go to La Flaca---where it should be fun  to watch the game (Cavaliers--Warriors, in case you did not know). Will report on all of this tomorrow...