June 26, 2010

Eddie Albert: "Charlie's my name, charm's my game!"--Carrie

    Dreamed of a non-existent slapstick comedy with pupils rebelling against an oppressive school, with a roller coaster climax; an actual incident where Jenny Lind gave a concert in 1850s Toronto and scalpers ended up having to resell tickets at a discount; Laurence Alma-Tadema's actual poem "If No-One Ever Marries Me."

    Dinner was pizza.

    I was going to attend a Karaoke Meetup at Bar Plus, but the whole downtown has become inaccessible because of the G-20 Conference!  I don't blame the anarchists; I'd rather blame the G20 for inconveniencing everyone with these big, pointless exercises.

    Saw the DVD of William Wyler's Carrie, from Theodore Dreiser's powerful novel Sister Carrie.  Wyler was an expert director.  Laurence Olivier is far sexier here than in Rebecca, and Jennifer Jones is better than usual.

June 25, 2010

    Dreamed of the SCTV sketch "The Sammy Maudlin Show"; a non-existent ribald exchange at the end of the movie The Candidate. (It actually ended with the line "What do we do now?")

    We ate out at the Red Lobster with Donald. (I was going to attend an Asperger's Meetup, but decided this was a higher priority.)

    In the evening I got sick again. (More phlegm, presumably.  I hope this is the turning point!)

June 24, 2010

    Went to see my shrink Dr. Hassan.

    Patron Tony Fusco treated the Coro Verdi committee to dinner at the Boccaccio restaurant in Columbus Centre. (I had minestrone soup, salmon and tiramisu.) We talked a lot about plans for the choir.

    On the bus on the way there, I stretched my fee and accidentally brushed against the foot of a woman sitting near me.  She yelled "Stop kicking my legs!" and made a big scene.