Tonight was the 10th Annual From the Top Gala, held this year at the incredible MIT Media Lab. First opportunity to take a complete staff photograph. What a great-looking bunch, the hardest-working and most congenial group I’ve been honoured to work with now these 15 years. Your soundtrack for perusing this panoramic sea of smiles …
Just finished reading Haruki Murakami‘s odyssey of the night, After Dark, a twilight time-scale similarly circumscribed by James Joyce in Finnegans Wake and Martin Scorsese in After Hours: minutes shy of Midnight to sunrise. It’s amazing how life-changing events take place in this book while so many millions sleep, and how sleep becomes the preferred …
Just finished reading a collection of short stories by Haruki Murakami, a Kundera-ean McGuffin, a bonfire, the search for rootedness, revenge/regret, a super-frog (easily the funniest/darkest of all Murakami’s tories, for me), storytelling/legendary friendships/loves, all under the shadow of the Kobe Earthquake (1995.01.16). Exquisite miniatures, all, from my favorite writer of the moment.
Had a great time, early last March, playing a private concert in honour of Andy Warhol muse (and companion of Salvador Dali) Ultra Violet, at the home of a friend of mine who’d introduced me to Andy at our weekly chamber music soirees at his balconied Central Park apartment. I performed my arrangements of Lou …
In my current Haruki Murakami binge, just finished reading this exquisite daPontean Romance, Sputnik Sweetheart, a book resplendent with troubled and fantastical relationships, interactions and friendships with metaphysical consequence and resonance; Murakami at his most unabashedly musical; an otherworldliness as a Philip K. Dick-style alternate reality (much akin to PKD’s Exegesis, in the falling cards …
Just finished reading the first book I ever felt compelled to finish at all costs, as it happened, during 2 1/2hrs of StairMaster reading (i’d started it yesterday, read a little more half-heartedly on my flights home after 2hrs sleep); couldn’t NOT finish it: Haruki Murakami‘s novel, South of the Border, West of the Sun. …