is the title of a movie at BAM showing today---I have tentative plans to go to the 4:30 showing---first movie in quite a while for cityboy---it is a "fifties" movie, made during the primacy of the Actors Studio, and indeed, most of the actors are "Studio" people, Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa---somehow, getting a whiff of the "fifties" vision seems very appealing to me at this moment. I woke up today feeling very emotionally exhausted---not surprising since I seem to have been "everywhere" in the past few days. It should be interesting to see the movie and examine a kind of fifties ethos that it is steeped in. Well, I will report on it tomorrow,
Yesterday's BAN meeting was quite busy and quite well attended---a great deal of the discussion did center around the proposed march on 9/9--the route decided on could be very long and circuitous---east on Fulton, then south on Frankllin to Ebbets Field houses (where, I understand, management is trying to evict many people) --then east to Nostrand, then the march north on Nostrand, through north and south Crown Heights, into Bed-Stuy, stopping at the Von King park, and then moving on into Bushwick for the final moments of the march. Wow! Quite a trip! I hope different groups of people can join the march at different points in the route, because it will be hard to make the whole trip.
A little lopsided, but that is what the group decided, and for this moment it stands.
The movie is scheduled to end at 6:45---there is a meeting regarding the conversion of the Union street armory scheduled for 7:00 at a school on Empire Boulevard, about 5 stops from BAM. Will I make it? Do I really want to go to this meeting, which is to fight the proposed plan to rebuild the armory with luxury condos and also offer a gym and some spaces for not for profits in the area? It is going to be very loud and raucus (and it probably should be) and those against it, like myself will be out in force to fight it? So do I have to go? I guess I will just play it by ear---and see how I feel at the time. There is also a reading on Manhattan Avenue that I could attend. Or maybe I should just find a sports bar and watch the Red Sox-Twin game, one that I find of interest. Or maybe--? Well just forget it.
Those are my options, who knows exactly how they will play out, will report tomorrow...
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