August 4 - Augeries of the Future

Out with John to Augie's for coffee, then, after a



petrol stop, across the Valleys to the



Verdugos



and



San Fernando, again



up



and



down Gavin, to Santa Clarita,



sinuous



Violin



Canyon,



Canton,



Paradise,



the



Ridge



Route



highlands,



Hungry



Valley,



Yucca



Canyon,



Gorman,



Tejon Pass,



Frazier



Park,



Castac,



Tejon Ranch,



Fort, and the



ever-



popular



Grapevine



descent.



99 for variety,



with continued scrimmy views of the



Sierra,



more fuelishness (the last $2.94/gal?),



adventures, and home to produce two more videos for Animal Farm, being



II. Flies and



III. Spiders.

August 2 - Forever in a Day

Takes a ridiculous amount of time to get on the open road, finishing up the reconstructed December 2005 21st-Century Music, mailing packages to Harriet,



stopping



to



pick



up



and


deposit



financial items, then down to



Berkeley's Copyworld to drop off the old Journal.



At last heading out of the local sphere via



580



and



80 to where the



Central Valley



rounds itself out



south,



then up and over



the



Grapevine



and



Tejon



Pass,



rollercoastering



down



the



Ridge Route



to



Paradise,



Violin



Canyon, and



Santa Clarita Valleys, then



up and



down Gavin,



to



San



Fernando,



and once more



via the



Verdugos



to



La Canada / Flintridge,



San



Gabriel,



and



beyond, towards the welcoming retreat of



John Browning's and family. Across the L.A. basin, tune into to Jim Svejda's Record Shelf on KUSC -- his memorial program to the late Mitch Miller, which includes

7:36 pm George Gershwin: An American in Paris
London Symphony / Mitch Miller
MM

7:57 pm Jean Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela
Philadelphia Orchestra / Leopold Stokowski
Mitch Miller, English horn

8:09 pm David Diamond: Symphony No. 4
Seattle Symphony Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz
Delos 3093

8:27 pm Charles Ives: String Quartet No. 1
Emerson String Quartet
DG 435864



Late work on videos for Animal Farm, as well, posting XXVIII. Elephants and



XXIX. Horses.