At today's singing lesson with Giuseppe I started developing my first two songs.
Got a miscellaneous batch of comic strips I'd been waiting over a month for.
Dinner was the rest of the roast pork.
Started reading a new section of Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life dealing with early American politics.
Saw Torrent, a silent movie that was Greta Garbo's Hollywood debut, at the Cinematheque. It's the kind of movie where a dam breaks and the hero thinks Garbo's house is about to be swept away, so he hurries to her through the downpour only to find out that her house was never in danger after all (bait & switch). La Garbo looks rather conventional here: they made her smile too often.
Stayed for Hitler's Hitparade, a montage of German film footage from the Nazi era (when movies were tightly controlled for their propaganda value), set to contemporary popular German music. Telling.
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