Alfred Brendel is Joe's Father

After feasting on much steak, creamed spinach, and dirty martini's while watching the older business set woo young college girls at The Palm Joe and I walked to the BSO where we saw Alfred Brendel perform Mozart's Piano concerto in D. It was beautiful accept for after each break in the music. The whole of the concert hall would breakout in a loud and continuous death rattle of coughing.
The T ride home of course proved tedious yet oddly entertaining, as rich BU girls scantily clad in 10 degree weather complained of how cold they were and all the different countries they were going to get their boyfriend's, girlfriend's, and parent's to pay for them to visit. Not quite sure who this behavior is cute too? But, it must work since she "Sarah of the T ride" is going to Prague, then D.C., and Chile, and had several avid listeners and a whole train load of forced listeners. My favorite statement of the night " it is so cold! Cold like hell, wow it is so cold like hell". Not sure what our country or our religious teachings are coming to if people now think hell is cold. Or maybe she is just suffering malapropism and has confused hell freezing over for the proverbial hell as being an inferno. Well what do you expect from BU? A student from BU once came to me asking what "Nazis" stood for, since she did not believe her professor. I asked her what her professor had told her. She said," He told me it was a term that Churchill used in a speech and it stuck." So maybe these students are not to blame.

The B-Side of things

Well I finally recovered from the month and a half long illness, no thanks to doctors, but to the glorious Alca Seltzer. Yes, the orange flavor really pulled me through. Since my illness though I have become a power house of productivity. I bought a house and got a new job. I am thinking this is the Spring of tiff. But some are saying the year. I am thinking I should start playing the lottery and go to Vegas before this streak ends. But it could possibly just be a trinity thing. Marriage, house, job and now there will be a long stretch of nothing. Off to the Symphony tonight to see James Levine. Very excited but wish we had an opera in town.