two days and much to report....

where to begin. Thursday evening opted to see Once Upon A Time in Hollywood at the Landmark 57, probably the most comfortable movie theater that I know in the city. It cost me 8 dollars more then if I had gone to the Village East, but the ambiance at Landmark is great! So was the movie---every frame decisive and brilliantly thought out. The ending is terribly ironic and sentimental (not something I would have expected from Tarantino) but it leaves the viewer in a strange place. The "bad guys" have been brutally destroyed by the two heroes, but we know that in real life, this did not happen. So Tarantino deliberately distorts reality so that for a moment we forget the horror of what really happened and live like children who have been delivered from a bad dream. Really good, very glad that I saw it. Ah, movies, movies. Tonight will go to Metrograph (in construction diametrically opposed to the landmark, but nevertheless a great place to see a movie) to see the last movie made by the late, great Diana Sands, perhaps my favorite actress of the late 50's and 60's. It is called Georgia, and written by Maya Angelou; really looking forward to seeing it.
  Yesterday, a "Brooklyn" day, at least for most of the morning and afternoon. Highlight was a walk from Flatbush and Myrtle Avenue to where Myrtle meets Broadway---the route of the proposed march against gentrification that BAN is planning in September. Had no trouble with the length, even in the heat--a fascinating trip that goes through several very different neighborhoods; I hope to report on this at the BAN meeting on Monday. As usual, fascinated with the worlds that I visited. But the result of this long trip is late afternoon exhaustion---and I was home and trying to rest by around 6. I don't like to sacrifice my evenings, must figure out another way of doing all this exploration. Meanwhile I long for other neighborhoods to visit: Park Slope, or Red Hook (very isolated by mass transit).Also, I should make one trip to the Bronx, perhaps to Pelham Parkway, the neighborhood in which I was raised. Have not seen the world that the 2 line crosses in the Bronx in many years.
  That is all for now---will report soon.