Lady on the Train and the Book of Revelation

The lady next to me was reading a book entitled, "How to Recognize the Final Days and How to Prepare."
How can you pad to book-length: "Face East and hope for the best"?
And, no illustrations! Rip--off.

Walking tour of Lincoln Square & Ravenswood

I believe the numbers speak for themselves:
2 microbreweries;
1 distillery (first legal one in chicago since Prohibition);
2 independent bookstores, 1 new, 1 used;
the Davis (live movie) theater;
1 gazillion cafes and restaurants.

And, of course:
Chicago Montessori and
AC Music.

Who says " I thought poverty was a suburb of Vienna so many composers died there..."

Dear Blog:

Yes, those days of dashing through the sewers of Chicago, manuscript
of my OPERA under my arm, may be GONE.
I have received word, through my RESPECTABLE brother, that I am
being considered for a most interesting commission: Composing music
for a replication of Da Vinci's water organ, to be built in the lobby of
a business combine of some sort.

Ha-ha! And, of course, the Autism Variations proceed apace...........

interesting background piece on TV music

http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=musicontele

sloganeering

HSBC, the Bank, has my favorite slogan these days: "HSBC, As Global As You Are."

I also enjoyed the Andean Craft store @ Old Orchard playing a pan flute version of Colors of the Wind as background shopping music.

Latest MASTERPIECE

I just wrote a song with no verse, no chorus, no rhymes, about nothing: Here it is--


She woke up today, the roofers still at it.
No coffee in the house, line too long at Starbucks.
She took an aimless walk downtown, to see if that DVD was at the library:
It wasn't.
You might expect a chorus here,
But I'm just not in the mood.
She stopped into a very badly named happy hour,
Where aggressive salesmen tried to please--
They didn't.
And appetizers, weren't.
She got home to find a note so boring I won't bore you with it.
La, la, la, la, la.

Fantasticks at the Porchlight

What a good show this is!
The performers are present, unlike many musicals where they seem to have gone on to the next project, or are musing on the last one, and let the very acts of singing and dancing be enuf.
And everybody cries.
(Runs thru Nov. 15th at the Theatre Building).