Dear Bob,<\/p>\n
Hello. How are you doing? I was thinking of you last night when
\nI ordered a Cape Codder at Kennedy’s Restaurant & Bar on West
\n57th Street. They made it exceptionally strong, I think, which
\nmay have contributed to my falling head first into a pile of
\ngarbage bags outside the place afterwards. Otherwise, we had a
\nswell time.<\/p>\n
I’ve played your Valse Mirage a few more times, always to the
\ndelight of the audiences I am somehow able to gather at 3:00 on
\nweekday afternoons. I am planning more gigs sion, and I hope to
\ndo your Nocturne and Valse, along with Philip Glass, Kaikhosru
\nSorabji, David Lang (if I can get the score to While Nailing at
\nRandom), and heaven only knows what else.. I may actually rent
\nthe Bruno Walter at Lincoln Center and try to make money there
\nfor once. Money, of course, is the most important thing in the
\nworld. The Greenwich House gig would cost me considerably more
\nup-front than the Bruno Walter, so I’ll have to consider that in
\nmy plans. <\/p>\n
Have I told you I’m working at Avon Cosmetics as a word processor
\nand marketing trainee? It’s rather fun, and somehow, it’s what I
\nwanted when I moved here. I wanted to live a life like Robert
\nMiller did. Did you ever know him? He was a big wheel on Wall
\nStreet while recording all that Cowell and everything. I just
\nheard he died of liver pseurosis, though he was never an
\nalcoholic. Anyhow, the Avon gig is pretty soft, but the pay is
\ngrand, and the location is also great — 9 West 57th. It’s that
\nbig building with the huge orange number 9 in front of it. It’s
\nquite a facility, and I’m enjoying working my way up the
\ncorporate ladder, though I expect to bail out sooner or later.
\nIn the meantime, I’ve got babes galore, and all the lip balm I
\ncan carry out at one time. <\/p>\n
I’m restructuring my A to Z program to include taped confessions
\nreceived by the Apology Line in New York. Apology is this free
\ntelephone call where people call in to apologize for crimes and
\nmisdeeds they committed against other people. Sometimes muggers
\nwill call just to say they’re sorry for scaring all those
\npeople. Other times murderers will call and say they’re sorry
\nfor the shit they pulled. It’s way intense, and it has this cult
\nfollowing. It’s actually an art project, and “Mr. Apology,” as
\nhe’s called, uses the taped confessions as material for
\nperformance art pieces. Anyhow, I am thinking about making the
\ntapes from this project a central theme to my next gig. I am
\nhoping to get something on the Victory Music Series at the old
\nVictory Theatre in Times Square. It’s a converted pornograpic
\nmovie theatre that now has a pretty hot looking new music
\nseries. I only learned of it recently, so haven’t seen any of
\nthe performances, but it looks pretty strong. Have you heard
\nabout this? Have you heard of Apology? It’s not a pay service,
\nand it’s been going on since 1980. HBO made a movie about it in
\n1986.<\/p>\n
So what’s new with you? I hope all is well for you. I hope this
\nletter reaches you before you head out to San Francisco, assuming
\nthat’s what you planned for this summer. Perhaps you heard that
\nPhil McReynolds is getting married. Strangely enough, he asked
\nher to marry him while they were on the campus of my old high
\nschool, and one of the priests who I knew very well there will be
\nperforming the ceremony. Inky-dinky world, ain’t it?? Phil is
\ntalking about making his own CD. Maybe he did that since last we
\nspoke.<\/p>\n
Anyhow, just thought I’d say hello. Again, I hope all is well
\nand that you are getting life’s premium cable channels for free.
\nLet me know if you’ll be in town soon. I don’t keep up with the
\nconcert scene like I used to, so much of it is so boring and I
\nfinally gave up on it. Bye.<\/p>\n
Victoriously,
\n-mt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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