and so I did....

go to Sibyl's new music work reading after the library---and (thankfully), very few of the group that iI am friendly with was there (actually, I knew very few people there) so no one "bugged" me about seeing "everything". But in actuality, I figured it out, I must have seen 14 projects in June (including one possible one tonight at the Brick) and the cost was about $300.00. That is a lot of money for cityboy---still I plan to cut down in the next two months---what would I like to see..? Well, Oslo, for one, Fulfillment Center (I suppose) two, and Measure for Measure, three. Still fascinated by Shakespeare and his choices, actually I am now reading Edward II, by Marlowe--a really interesting play, with lots of echoes of the later Richard II. Very coherent dialogue, the plot is in two parts--the first detailing the King's infatuation with Gaveston, and the second, after the nobles have put to death Gaveston, the unraveling of his thrown. Lots of self awareness from Edward as he falls, but nowhere near the richness of Richard's pronouncements in Shakespeare's play bearing his name. Close to the end now, will probably also read the Massacre of Paris, another Marlowe play.
  I have just returned The Waves, the Virginia Woolf novel that I have finished half of. At some point I hope to complete the rest, but it was bogging down, I was feeling more obligated then anything else, to complete it. . I feel as if I almost need to disappear somewhere (like the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library) and simply demand that I focus on it for the next couple of hours, in order to complete it.
  Just got a text from Tyler, the campaign manager for Ede Fox in Brooklyn, they are expecting me to do some volunteer work this afternoon, and I will do that. Down in the trenches---why do I feel I do not want to go, yet understand, that not going and"indulging" myself in a play or a movie would be a cop out. So of course I will go---I am upset by what is going on; I want to be active.
  Some thoughts about going to Mayday at some point and suggesting a panel about the Mayoral re-election. So far---nothing---a total void---when it comes to feelings about the Mayor, while every day he distances himself from the people who elected him and hoped that he would create a more egalitarian New York. So what? Another four years in the trenches for the community activists. Would like to explore this. Anyway, time to go, will report on all these goings on, and the one woman show I expect to see at the Brick, tomorrow or Monday.