January 4 - Grasping at Truth


Philip Glass's


still-amazing-in-


so-many-ways


(though, yes, a tad long/slow -- dare we say it?, overly repetitive! -- in the middle)


Satyagraha (1979 or 1980, depending on the reckonnin)g, late night PBS of this past November's artistic / Mummenshanzy / and, by-'n'-large excellently-performed Metropolitan Opera production,


as late counterpoint to a


night-


and-


day


of


errands


(libraric,


videographic,


scenic,


major-


yet-


minor


financial,


print-


supply,


and


comestible)


about the



local area, general catch-up, beginning composition of


Portraits of ___ (Some Multiple of Three) Women: II. Arizona Diva -- inspired, beyond the Rodie March Picasoesque visual,


by a concatenation of a Navajo Ribbon Dance and W.A. Mozart's Magic Flute: XIV. Hell's Vengeance Boils [Cooks!] in My Heart a.k.a. The Queen of the Night Aria... perhaps the definitive divaesque demeanor...