the weekend....

How did it go? Hard to say---two movies, a football game watching, a very angry meeting at Mayday, and today, have already renewed my driver's licence and filed for unemployment.
Where to begin:
After the library on Saturday, cityboy took the 3 and then the L to Mayday space, where an open house on the city's rezoning plan for Bushwick was being discussed, Actually shouted about was a better way to put it, for there were many fiery moments (I really don't do justice to those moments  by calling them "fiery' as if I were reviewing a movie or something like that; they came from the rage and frustration that the people of Bushwick feel because of the intense gentrification they have experienced and along with that the displacement of former Bushwick residents), as people from the neighborhood and around it expressed their concerns. Since I live on the West Side of Manhattan, I came as a supporter, but remember, that cityboy is safe from the horrors that people living in Bushwick, Crown Heights, Flatbush et. al are experiencing. It is still easy to detach. But I left feeling the frustration that this endless battle, dominated by the complicity of many city council members who are torn between the needs of their constituents, and the contributions of the real estate industry.
Stopped in Williamsburg for a nice slice of pizza and then returned to Manhattan and saw the John McEnroe documentary at the Film forum. My first time there since the renovation---seats are really comfortable and screens are large.The film is really a meditation on a tennis player---no interviews or talking heads to describe experiences with the subject, instead, it observes and follows his tennis skills, sometimes repeating them, so that, by the final moments of the film, which is about his major match with Ivan Lendl at the French Open, I was engrossed in the drama of the match.
 Sunday, went to Cobra where the Giant game was on---found myself really enjoying the vision of the football game---loved the movements, really relaxed me at the time, which was what I needed. Left right after the game ended, about 4, and then wondered what the plan would be. No South fourth to make my next stop---so time and place were open---decided to take the L to Myrtle Wycoff, then the Gates avenue bus into BAM country. That bus is an interesting trip---Gates is one of the few avenues in Bed-STuy that seems to be made up of more projects then brownstones. I saw very few brownstones until the bus reached Classon, which is essentially Clinton Hill. Felt good after the walk; happy that I had really exercised my imagination and seen some more of Brooklyn. On the spur of the moment decided to see Sorry to Bother You at BAM. Jewish Holiday--did not matter, the theater, for a 7:00 showing was filled. It is a very strong work, full of imaginative surprises--sometimes too cold and garish for me, but always inventive. Much stronger than the other Oakland made movie that I saw called Blindspotting. Anyway, left BAM feeling pretty tired and headed home on the 3.
  And that's it! BAN meeting tonight, final prep for Saturday's march, which I hope to be at. Will report tomorrow.