one thing today

One of my favorite all time things is seeing a photo from long ago that I didn’t know existed. A few days ago, my good friend mrs Johnson sent me a foto of four of us on a trip east from Ohio where we were college freshmen. At the time, I know I thought I was a gawky string bean who didn’t know his right from his left. And now, I look at the foto and think I look like Anthony Psycho Perkins' better looking younger brother. It’s funny how often Jonis line … don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you got till its gone … is apt. what’s that adage about youth is wasted on the young or something. Just writin’  

  I LISTENED TO THIS ON YOUTUBE TONIGHT AND A MAN WROTE THAT HE USED TO SING IT TO HIS DAUGHTER AND NOW HE SINGS IT TO HIS DOGS.  Many's the time I've been mistaken And many times confused Yes, and I've often felt forsaken And certainly misused Oh, but I'm alright, I'm alright I'm just weary to my bones Still, you don't expect to be bright and bon vivant So far away from home, so far away from home And I don't know a soul who's not been battered I don't have a friend who feels at ease I don't know a dream that's not been shattered Or driven to its knees But it's alright, it's alright For we lived so well so long Still, when I think of the Road we're traveling on I wonder what's gone wrong I can't help it, I wonder what has gone wrong And I dreamed I was dying I dreamed that my soul rose unexpectedly And looking back down at me Smiled reassuringly And I dreamed I was flying And high up above my eyes could clearly see Th...

  I feel so lucky lately it worries me some.   Frank Selak was a Croatian man who was known for his requent brushes with death. Selak's near-death experiences began in 1962 when he was riding a train through a cold, rainy canyon and the train flew off the tracks and crashed in a river. An unknown person pulled Selak to safety, while 17 other passengers drowned. Selak suffered a broken arm and hypothermia.  The next year, during his first and only plane ride, he was blown out of a malfunctioning plane door and landed in a haystack ; the plane crashed, killing 19 people.  Three years after that, in 1966, a bus that he was riding in skidded off the road and into a river, drowning four passengers. Selak swam to shore with a few cuts and bruises. I In 1970, his car caught fire as he was driving and he managed to escape before the fuel tank blew up.  Three years later, in another driving incident, the engine of his car was doused with hot oil from a malfunctioning fu...

  Jane Fonda was given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the SAG show last night. She gave the most beautiful, important acceptance speech I have ever heard.  Watch it on YT.

  There was an article about Lucas Samaras in the paper today - about his apt for sale. He died last year. My BFF Michael who died thirty five years ago loved him. He was his own art work always. Lots of self portrait Polaroids. I read his obit. One reader commented ... A nice reminder that besides the occasional slip-up like wrecking the planet, human beings are quite wonderful creatures.

  A cold cold afterenoon yesterday. Sak and I subway uptown to see a Wiseman doc from '69, Law and Order. He made more than thirty great great documentaries. I was reminded how wonderful it is to go to a movie with a friend and surrender to the dark theater and forget who and what you are and go where the screen takes you. Nothing like it. The power of light and dark and bodies surrounding while a story unfolds.