July 16 - Icumen In

There's finally enough order in the adjunct library that there are clear aisles north-south and east-west forming an L with respect to the access from the rest of the house. As for the rest... well, it's definitely still an ongoing project. And out the door, blazingly/sunnily toasty inland, we go to call San Anselmo postoffice to arrange for rendezvous next week, pick up the August 2010 issue of 21st-Century Music in Berkeley, review SFSound's solo/duo acoustic/electric concert in dramatically dreary/frigid



San Francisco (specifically the Community Music Center), with



Kyle Bruckman,



Matt Ingalls (Hadley evidently otherwise engaged),



John Ingle, et. al. (report in 21st-centurymusic.blogspot.com Monday, Commuter Times on Friday, and by September 1 at 21st-centurymusic.com and in print) -- sitting with Patti Deuter and friend, and chatting with Adam Broner and friend, returning through heavy 37 traffic, to do progressive-score videos for



San Rafael News: III. Death Catch and



X. Sylvia Dryer, posting on YouTube. Surely somewhere in there, do first two pages of publication-preparation of Symphony 2: II (part 2) -- a lot of twos... and make ready to post Antigone: XVIII. It's You on Facebook. Oh, yes, also check the Goat Hall mail for Harriet (brief hands-hands free call over the bridge, and some financial greetings upon arrival) and catch up with Miriam while her all-baroque internet radio station is playing an intriguing early-clarinet roccoco Stamitz piece).

July 5 - Time for This One to Go Home

Up early to the gold-gray of a marine layer penetrating far inland, so, after a congenial breakfast with John,



blitz up



Cajon



Canyon



past


Mormon


Rocks



to



the



Mojave, and --




after a




petrol stop



in



Pearblossom --



Little Rock



and



Palmdale sail by until the



Western



Mojave



pinches



closed



with the



Liebres



to the




south



and



Tehachapis



northwest.



Connecting back to



I-5



south



of



Gorman,



it's up and down



Tejon Pass into



Frazier



Park



and



Lebec, through the



Castac Valley and then



farther down from the



Fort into the



Grapevine



and



the



Central



Valley.



Post-holiday traffic is heavy, such that a detour west to



Route 33's



oil rigs,



orchards,



crossroads,



prisons,



and



pyramids



almost



makes sense.



North,



west past the outer Diablo Range with the



Mount



shining brightly, there are two more pages of the Symphony No. 2: I (5-6) to do and the edits for Cats, Dogs, and Divas:



VII. Crazy and



VIII. His Needs before falling into a comatose state.