July 28, 1999

Not five minutes ago I announced to whomever was listening that there would be no journal entry today. At this very moment I am thinking about about a jog in the steamy evening; I'm also thinking about the dinner I just gobbled.

So I sit and type because I am indecisive. I didn't do much of anything today. Read bits of Heidegger and Koch. Tried to scan pictures for the web with small file sizes. Watched a guy wash my windows quickly with a squeegee. Listened to that Low album (stunningly low). Loaded Kai's Photo Soap and played with it for a while. Brushed the cat. Struggled to get my e-mail (something creepy was going on with AOL). And now I'm going to attempt some exercise....

.....which is now complete, and I feel like a better person (though not superior to you who prefer the gentler path). I did not puke.

About my scanning this afternoon: for years I've been carting around a folder stuffed with old sheet music. These are the tunes of Mom's golden youth. Many of them are torn and worn - if not from Mom's and Felicia's efforts sixty-some years ago, then from the mindless abuse of us kids back in our own wilder days. None of us played piano (I won't go into my aborted lessons now), but this music had been stuffed into the piano bench for so long that eventually it was bound to suffer at our hands.

At some point they fell into my adult hands. I like the way they sugggest a long-gone era. Right now I've got the elegantly dark art-deco cover of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" plastered across my desktop. And down on the floor I see the pretty, odd design for "The Night Is Young and You're So Beautiful", a fairly sexy young woman in a starry strapless swimsuit mounted firmly atop a bucking bronco. Safe to say that these covers display a level of style that was most attractive to their middle class market. (Something worth thinking about there.)

Well, I'm hoping to find a way to get some of these things into my Closet. (I wonder if copyright is still an issue here.) I want to share all this bourgeois beauty with my fans. Oh, you should see this cover for "Where The Shy Little Violets Grow"...and "We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye"....and "Snuggled on Your Shoulder (Cuddled in Your Arms)"....and.......