had my....

first lesson in a while---worked hard, glad I did it---had forgotten that this could be fulfilling---it was.

Today: first will try to go to the protest march in the heights---maybe give out a few flyers for Saturday's march in Brooklyn---after that come home and rest, and then go to see Men In Boats, a last minute decision that I made on Thursday night, but do want to touch base with my friend Kristen, who is in it, and look at the play again. First time I saw it as a kind of successful conceit---will be interesting to re-evaluate it and also see how an audience that is not mostly friends and comrades receives it. I will look for people that I know in the audience, but I have a feeling that most people are there to see the play, not to give support. Prices are far more expensive---should be good to observe all that is going on.
Yesterday: after library, went out to Brooklyn to flyer on the Newkirk Plaza for next Saturday's march. Very hot. With a flyer in my hand I immediately withdraw, but my partner was very assertive in a nice way, and she did most of the talking to the shop owners. Many requests to put flyers in the window were met with approval. Traversed the plaza (many small shops selling the same thing) and walked north to Cortelyou Road for a final run with a few stores, Saw people of all kinds there, from black jamaicans to hispanics to muslims (many) to what appeared to be white yuppie parents and established people to a group of white "artists" who appeared to have no money. They were all in the area. Had a fantasy about moving in there. Possible? Probably not.
Met my friend Katie, of BAN on the subway station on the way home, we had an interesting talk before she got off on Canal Street to return to her apartment in Bushwick. My original idea was to try to get into the 600 Highwaymen's project at the Public, but figured I was really too tired. Came home and slept--then ready to go out---most bars had the Olympics on, which I did not want to see. Settled on seeing the movie Indignation---I had wanted to see it before the Fringe began.
  I found the movie to be very interesting. It keeps the flavor and feeling of Roth's short novel, but actually expands on many issues in the book. The role of Olivia, the woman Mark goes out with in the book is much more in the forefront here. The more I think of it, the more away from Roth it moves. Well made with very good performances. Linda Emond has an incredible monologue where she insists that her son reject the girl he is dating. I wanted to boo; I hate that kind of pushiness---not clear how believable that was. The scenes that frame and end the movie are all James Schamus, not Roth in any way. Yet even if they out conceive Roth, you never feel that they are distorting his original vision. Would like to discuss this with someone who has seen the movie and read the book. Possible...? Not sure---see if it happens.
 That is all for now, getting a little fatigued, may ( I know this is superficial) miss the march--or just stay briefly to lend support. Would love to just head over to the neighborhood bar here, Wallace's and watch the Yankee game. But life is more complicated than that, isn't it? Stay tuned.