Hi, Chris!<br><br>Quiet indeed. As for
happiness-there was lots of it around last evening, when I went
to the Jonathan Richman/ RANDY NEWMAN!!! concert in
the park... Okay, so I'm inexpressibly weird-but I
simply love the man... He's old (he says, "dead"), he's
fat, he's funny... (Did I ever tell you I adore Leon
Redbone too? Don't run away...)<br><br>Speaking of the
hopelessly quirky, unabashedly old-fashioned music, if you
have an ear for early jazz/tin pan alley, you should
hear the New Leviathan Oriental Fox-Trot Orchestra.
Albums include: Old King Tut, Here comes the hot tamale
man!, I didn't mean good-bye...<br><br>I first heard
them in the St. Alphonsus Church in New Orleans' Irish
Channel. First time I ever saw people dancing in a church.
They are all amateurs, lawyers, cab-drivers,
physicians, led by the invincible, unfalsifiable George
Schmitt, painter, banjo player, bon vivant and wit. I miss
them...<br><br>What have you been up to? Any traveling? I itch to
hitch a ride somewhere...