need to clear my mind....

this Saturday morning. Woke up very tired, better now, no "must" plans for the day, but a lot of options. One of the most alluring: to be by myself and just wander through Brooklyn. Not even sure where. But just need to "clear my mind". So many options, so many ideas of what to do, so many choices, even as there are still six full weeks to Labor Day. But somehow, all I wish for now is some space.
Just got an e-mail from my actor friend Ben. He has been canvassing and phone banking for a progressive candidate for State Senate. He asked me if I wanted to join him. I e mailed him back that at this point I found it impossible, that my commitment to BAN was first and foremost---but that I might join him as we got closer to the primary on September 13. At the same time I received an e mail from the Julia Salazar campaign, urging me to help them. Would really like to---she is the Bushwick candidate against the "normal" democratic candidate and her voice is really needed in Albany. But will I have time, or energy?
Interesting movie choices today. I would really like to push myself to see Wanda---not sure how I can incorporate it into the rest of my day. I should visit South fourth---my friend Harlo is leaving on a business trip and will miss the final week. I would like to spend a little time with her before she goes---do not know where she (and other South fourth regulars) will re-locate after the bar closes on the 31st. Also, possible, but probably not what I will see is a movie of New York Export, Opus Jazz, the piece that has been in my mind since high school, you know what it is, a movie of the first project Jerome Robbins undertook after West Side Story. He got a group of young dancers together, including four dancers from West Side: Gene Gavin, Jay Norman, Wilma Curley and Tommy Abbot., and choreographed this forty minute piece for them. I have seen it many times, and also saw the movie earlier when it was shown in an independent movie festival in Brooklyn. It is a strange piece, after the intense physical passion of the musical, you never see men and women bonding in this piece. It creates a no feeling zone that I find off putting and disappointing. Nevertheless, feel attracted to this piece. But I probably won't go to the movie, or other movies, some that appear very interesting in the Dance on Camera festival that the Bunin is showing. Just another in one of the exhausting possibilities that today offers.
After this, what? A beautiful Saturday afternoon awaits cityboy. At this moment, simply can't conceive of a plan. I am reading a very interesting book (non-fiction) about the history of Cabrini Green, a project built in Chicago in the early fifties to alleviate the horrible conditions most black residents of Chicago lived in prior to that. Very intense, will continue reading this on my journey, don't get too wet this evening, ciyboy.