Can I share this with you?

As we embark upon hotter months, I feel guilty for staying indoors on those bright, sunny days with nice cool breezes. Those days are numbered. When it is humid and cloudy, as it has been, I open the curtains and have no problem staying indoors and taking some time to enjoy the cool birthday gifts I received from Mr. C. We've been listening to a lot of Sammy Davis Jr and watching Rat Pack films. Sammy's version of This Guy's in Love with You is really dreamy. Happiness is box sets.

I also received Semina Culture:Wallace Berman and His Circle. I saw the Semina Journal displayed at the Beat exhibit last year (HRC, you know with the beautiful Kerouac Scroll?) and fell in love with it but good luck finding any to look at and possess. The book is great!

It's also been fun finding Nina Hagen clips on Youtube.com. Nina on the Merv Griffin show with Don Rickles, surreal. I think I understand German better than I thought. Watching the documentary on the Hagen women without subtitles, I manage to really understand it quite a bit, or so I think. All those years of listening to German on the shortwave or all those linguistics classes, paid off. I have an ear for languages, or so I think.

This video goes out to Del Rioans and their very special problem with the city council right now. Hope you guys win the fight and things return to the way they were!