one thing today

...  our human fate, and the reality of war and disease, it is crucial that we keep the idea of pleasure in circulation. We are desiring animals who arouse one another through speech and touch. Our pleasures support our activity and imagination. Play sustains our lightness and curiosity; it is itself a therapy. And so we must, until the end, insist on our appetites and delights.                                                                   Hanif Kureishi - Dispatches From My Hospital Bed  

I have been obsessed with Beverly di Angelo of late - she of horse riding in Central Park Hair fame,   Patsy Cline in Coal Miners Daughter  and and and ... mother of twins at 49 with Serpico and sexy super sexy voice. She bought the Dan Akroyd haunted house who bought it from Ringo Starr who bought it from Mama Cass. It was built for Natalie Wood. In her prime, Bev left show biz for a decade and married a young blond Italian comely count … who told her Pacino was a fantastic actor … so go be with him. Her kids are another example of beautiful people having surprisingly less than the same looking dazzling offspring … like Bruce and Demi. I feel a little mean writing this but just sayin'  and nobody cares and life’s relatively short and ultimately tragic so … so what.  

Ti me was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending, but something that would go on forever, all rested and stopped in that moment.                                                                                                -Sebastian Barry

  From my good friend Paul ...  by Heather Cox Just after midnight on January 1, in a private ceremony in the long-closed former City Hall subway station in Manhattan, New York Attorney General Letitia James swore Zohran Mamdani into office as mayor of New York on a historic Quran. Hours later, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) swore Mamdani in publicly in a ceremony on the steps of City Hall. “My fellow New Yorkers—today begins a new era,” Mamdani said. The new mayor emphasized that he represents the everyday people of New York City, “construction workers in steel-toed boots and halal cart vendors whose knees ache from working all day” and “neighbors who carry a plate of food to the elderly couple down the hall, those in a rush who still lift strangers’ strollers up subway stairs.” “I stand alongside over one million New Yorkers who voted for this day nearly two months ago,” Mamdani said, ”and I stand just as resolutely alongside those who did not…. I promise you this: if you are...

  Network Notorious Sunday Bloody Sunday Holiday Godfather Tootsie Klute Hair Last Tango in Paris Mockingbird Taxi Driver Member of the Wedding Women in Love Rosemarys Baby A Special Day Looking for Mr. Goodbar My Beautiful Launderette Sweet smell of success Jean de Florette Dog Day Afternoon The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Giant East of Eden Manon of the Spring Breathless Day for Night Lion in Winter Petulia The Conformist Don’t Look Now Nashville Deer Hunter Shoot the Moon Night of the Hunter Sunset Blvd Once upon a time in America Hannah and her sisters Topkapi My Left Foot Far From the Madding Crowd Shampoo My next door neighbor texted me and said we should catch up. We have never caught up. It was a nice gesture. He came over with chocolates. We talked about the building, our neighbors, our nyc histories and both of us noted how fast time has  passed.  I sent him the above list of great films upon his request.  What are your fav movies?

  welcome Mr. Mayor  Foremost city to embrace lives, languages and dreams  songs at the inauguration  -  everyday people, here comes the sun, over the rainbow, Talking Heads, Times r a changin' …  And a poem titled Proof   …  New York, city of invention, Roiling town, refresher And re-newer, New York, city of the real, Where the canyons Whisper in a hundred Tongues, New York, Where your lucky self Waits for your Arrival, Where there is always soil For your root. This is our time.