You can see your breath, cold today and requiring a sweatshirt. It all makes me rather introspective walking around campus on such a beautiful fall day. The leaves beginning to drop staining the pavement veridian with areas of raw umber, alizarin, and ochre -remnants of a summer now past. How simple and lovely life can be, mundane pleasures like the smell of the hotdog stand, coffee, little bits of a funny conversation picked up from a passerby. The joy of books and of being a little too sleepy.

How clearly brilliance transcends in lines like these;
How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face;…..Yeats.

10 Good Things About Living In A Really Bad Neighborhood.
1. Plenty of off street parking; no one really wants to steal your Ford Opal or Amc Pacer. (although these can be modified into KitCars)
2. Watching friends run from their cars to your apartment building, nervously waiting as you delay buzzing them into your place.
3. Psychotic homeless person provides cheap entertainment.
4. Graffiti that reads: ‘Paula is Truubel’
5. 24 hour beauty salon, should you need a triple process at 3 a.m.
6. Spotting Mick Jagger singing on stoop.
7. Funky fresh street level fashions.
8. Knowing the difference between an Afro-puff, Afro-pyramid, Micro braids and Bantu knots.
9. That middle-eastern restaurant on corner.
10. The ‘night/day lounge’ spotted in the film ‘Stranger Than Paradise’.

Trying to find…looking, playing Reference Librarian. What is the Diane Arbus Barbara Kruger connection….ummm thinking she was her teacher and mentor at Parsons. Where did I read that at….?

…Nina Simone…Nina Simone…Nina Simone…

Mais…non?! Oui! it’s official, he hates everything artificial; Philippe Starck threatening to call it quits for months, is declaring that he will no longer work in plastic, concentrating on aluminum instead. Very Moderne!

…coffee time my dreamy cup it’s coffee time… a steaming hot delicious cup of coffee….Annie Ross (Hendricks Lambert and Ross). Inner glow this morning, must remember to shine.

On an L.A. band kick tonight. Superstars Red Kross, possibly spurred on by their rabid fandom of one Linda Blair and this made for TV movie (which is a whole other topic altogether as it’s Linda B. before her sparkling appearance with roller-skating champion Jim Bray in Roller Boogie) the band created what was probably one of the best so-cal garage albums ever ‘Teen Babes From Monsanto’. The title alone! and such songs! It is a hard to come by, should not be missed, can’t find anywhere-so scour scour scour! Thankfully their low budget cult film ‘Desperate Teenage Lovedolls’; can still be had with some looking. You too will find yourself a ‘lovedoll’ like Bunny Kitty and Patch. I will now place this item here and why yes, that is Su Tissue as Peggy Dillman from the seminal punk band Suburban Lawns in the Jonathan Demme, Melanie Griffith, Jeff Daniels film Something Wild.

Early Evening Cocktail Lounge Song Of The Hour; Sarah Vaughan’s Key Largo. Stir and chew ferociously on swizzle stick. I like surprises, I mean, who doesn’t, but this is going too far! Imagine the following popping into my mail box from Shaftesbury Avenue London-UK WC2H 8AD Eastenders update:

“Frank has just announced to his ex-wife, Pat, that he still loves her (I am aghast at this-even though they have both remarried) and Ethel has died, leaving Dot feeling responsible for her death. I hope I haven’t just spoilt the whole of the US future story line for you! Kind regards, The Spoiler.”

Oh funny ha ha! You know who you are, so return whence you came! Damn you for mailing me this update! I’m not really a fan of anything except the BBC’s Eastenders, of which I am a devoted follower. Unfortunately we are a whole 20 months behind in episodes in the U.S.. I try to steer clear of the updates so that I might enjoy the show as it unfolds, People! Hell, Here in the states Bianca and Ricky are still together, Tiff and Grant are going strong and Pat and Peg are still shouldering the times in Walford, Eastend, London, U.K. Don’t even get me started on Dot, I miss her so, and look forward to her return. In the future please do not tease at me with little tid bits of goings on!

The Japanese foreign exchange students, a bevy of wildly fashionable girls, are taking the University Campus by storm. Instead of the diregueur campus going garments (you know: The Gag, Tommy This Tommy That, Abercrombie etc.) We are being treated to a virtual fashion breakdown of mixing and matching from the various collections of Jean Paul This, Jean Claude That with a little of Bennini for This thrown in. The Kooky Kabuki mix up is highlighted by rock-and-roll T-shirts: Kiss and AC/DC paired with giant platform wooden clogs! I think they are tripping on sunshine.

OH! This sounds soooo HOT : According to Paper Magazine must plan pilgrimage soon: SPECTRUM 802 64th St., (Bay Ridge) Brooklyn, NY, 11220; (718) 238-8213 This gay entertainment complex, home of the lighted dance floor featured in Saturday Night Fever, plays host to gaggles of hot gay Guidos and bevies of Brooklyn’s butchest babes. It’s so far out, it’s in!

Getting situated here. Much to add, much to take away, much to fix! Argh! Code Code Code Code Newness…

Gray today, rain rain rain rain rain. “Cyber Chinos” that’s stoopid, “Tuff-Skins”, now that’s cool! Halogen is a great name for a clothing line – still shopping at the Army Navy Surplus Store for basics. Listening to a copy of the new Sarah Cracknell Mini Cd “Kelly’s Locker”. Highlights are the two remixes of Home and Anymore, very very relaxing, why doesn’t she work with Burt Bacharach?

Mental Note: L’Ultima Cina, @ the Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan. The official order is as follows, left to right: Bartholomew, James the Lesser, Andrew, Judas, Peter (behind), John, (Christ), Thomas (behind), James the Greater, Philip, Matthew, Jude, Simon.

Wherever I go from here, is against my better judgment.