Had one session....

today, a lot of challenges in it, and somehow, it took me out of my "funk" that I was in yesterday. The problem came from the cold--it limited where I could go---maybe a lack of excitement of reading materials. The plan was to try to join a trivia game at South Fourth, but the cold made a trip to Williamsburg---with a long walk in addition to the subway ride to Bedford, pretty impossible. In the end, I opted for a movie at the soon to be closed, Lincoln Plaza cinema, and while I would have liked to have seen 1945---the movie about Poland right after the war ended, it was already on and so I opted for Happy End, the latest movie from the much respected Michael Hanneke.  Like most of his movies, it drips with interesting detail---about five interlocking stories of a connected family---found myself involved and feeling things for the characters most of the way, and the movie is certainly interesting to look at--no problem there--the ending, for me, was a little abrupt---ultimately he seems to be saying the same thing in many of his movies---there is rot at the center of the bourgeois experience. Is that anything new? Left the movie feeling a little disappointed, nevertheless, because the cold had made traveling so impractical, it filled up the time, and not in a bad way. Grabbed some chicken wings at Fairway before returning home.
  This evening I am going to the concert at Carnegie Hall. My friend Richard is playing the Mozart number 20, and the concert will also include the Scotch Symphony of Mendelsohn. The final three movements are very familiar to me since they are the ones that Balanchine used for his ballet, Scotch Symphony, which I have seen many times, but the first movement--one filled with passion, is the one that I am looking forward to hearing.
  That should do it for today---tomorrow I hope to attend a forum in Williamsburg on gentrification---should be interesting, and perhaps spend the whole day in Brooklyn. Will see, will report tomorrow...