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Underrated. She had some amazing hits.

Packing for trip to Milan with Mary tomorrow. Google says the weather will average in the 38s so packing is easy, shorts tee shirts and dressy speedo. Our friends know a couple of winery and restaurant owners in the Amarone and Guarda Lake areas so I guess we will be drinking a little wine and eating small meals.

I'm a huge fan of Frank Lloyd Wright. I stumbled across this excellent program produced by KCET in LA and I thought it was awesome.

Saw Covet last night, they were awesome. Hot and sweaty sold out crowd, not so much, but I finally got to see Yvette Young live (and I even got to say, "hi", although not much more), and hearing this organic music live is so different from watching YouTube videos. Openers Holy Fawn (video below, sort of Sigur Ros, with the occasional Cradle of Filth "witchy poo" metal scream) and Vasudeva (whimsical math rock) were the perfect openers. I have a couple minutes of footage of sweaty backs while Covet is playing on my phone, so here's this instead:

So. That is Mr. Armstrong in the middle-stage-left. That is me, four youths over, wearing my Philmont belt. Some sort of Casio watch on my wrist.

I almost brought a third cat into the household. He was adopted before I could (his name was Hugo, he was 12, and had been at the SCPA for several months). Maybe I shouldn't bring a third cat in, but I love cats so much, and Hugo was so expressive, and I love old kitties.

Ian Boddy

https://youtu.be/z-KzGKoLHXk

Probably not a big surprise that the Pre-Moon has been on my wrist this week.

^FUCK OFF THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION

Happy Claire was happy and needed a short nap following the 3.5 hour lunch and a little buzzed shopping. Adam--yes, we are heading south on Tuesday and we will see two stages of the Tour in and near Pau. The last time we went to the Tour was Lance Armstrong's seventh "win"