strip mall

i spent a good part of the day on our local expanding strip mall, a piece of the universe that's definitely contributing to entropy. here i am at a light behind a support-our-troops flag adorned american car. it has lots of spirit and a burnt out tail light. seems emblematic. i picked up some posters i designed for our film festival from the printers, had a sandwich at panera (with chai latte), hung out at borders for a half hour, found a cool book on proportions, noticed how run down the place is starting to look and drank the borders version of chai latte (made-from-powder—you have to continually swirl the liquid to keep the powder from settling). got a call from a composer in new york who wants to use video that roger and i shot a couple summers ago in his most recent opera. he found the films on my website, unwatchable films. see for yourself! taught yoga at the health club. ate dinner with david in hanover. saw the tiger lillies, an irreverant uk band at dartmouth at 10pm. they sang a song about crucifying jesus titled pounding in the nails. lots of folks walked out but they missed the climax that followed in which the drummer pulls out jumbo plastic hammers and proceeds to pound his drum kit off the stage and into the audience who, very politely, handed pieces of it back up to him when he needed a few cymbals for the encore. thumbs up!