so its Friday...

and I am off after three days at Friends. Strange, I looked forward to this day off, but once it arrived, not having to go to Friends, only made me feel more restless. I did go there to pick up my check, but hurried out quickly (I usually do that when I simply come in to pick up my check). The coming afternoon and evening are free---and it is cold. This was what I wanted---but now that I have it...what? A movie perhaps this afternoon, and then a play this evening---possibly.
  Lots of movies to see that sound interesting, yet none that I really feel compelled to take in. Metrograph is showing Persona, a fascinating movie (at least that is how I remember it) by Ingmar Bergman. I saw it once, around October of 75, with the woman whom I was dating at the time, named Nancy. That was a relationship that lasted a few months---one of the few which I feel I terminated---she was a very stable and solid woman, about two years younger then I, and we loved going to see things--movies, plays, ballet etc. I look back on the relationship with some admiration for its solidity, but somehow, for me, I wanted out. What was to come after that....well, the end of what we will call "the first part of my adult life'...which perhaps I will talk about at another time. But Nancy was a good person---those five months we were basically a couple---from about July of 75 to early 76, remain in my mind as very solid ones.
  Getting back to the moment (is that possible) all these movies, and even the plays that I might check out tonight, seem like a vast collage of entertainment, all interesting, but I can't put one above the other. Tonight the Tank, a small "experimental" theater on 36th between 8th and 9th is showing a one person show about the Bronx. Not the Jewish Bronx that I grew up in, but this is about a hispanic young woman who gets admitted to a Private School. Sounds interesting and relatively inexpensive--I don't know the creative people involved, but that should not matter. Tonight will probably be my only time to see it, so I an geering towards checking it out. So the movie would be this afternoon, it at all.
  Of course, I could go to La Flaca this evening, or even to my bartender friends at the Gotham Market, opposite the Harvey, and just indulge in conversation. But I really should see something.
  I just found two articles about the four theaters on 42nd street that later became theater row. I told my friend Sarah, who is one of the leaders of the new Theater Row about them, hopefully she will check them out.
 Enough now---will report soon.