BOOKCELLAR NOTES (3/15/03 SAT):

CDs played today:
- Scelsi THE PIANO WORKS 1 (Mode)
- John Forté I, JOHN (Xgau: A minus)

---I didn’t mind watching the basketball games on TV this afternoon, with the Friday NY TIMES occupying 90 percent of my attention, but when Billy Packer came on it finally got to be too much. That guy maintaining with such vehemence things which are so obviously just plain wrong made me flip the TV off in disgust. Just as well--I have no business squandering my time witnessing what has got to be the biggest waste of time invented--these meaningless conference tournaments (unless for some unworthy team to get an automatic berth by beating teams which could care less because they know their cedings are secure). As a metaphor for life itself and its striving, the taking up of allegiances, the ritualized and controlled aggression and violence, sports maybe has a place. Better that than what it is a stand-in for. But I have work to do!
---Ran for third straight day. This time the regular five miles. Kind of plodding, but further along maybe my legs will come around. Can’t complain about the weather. The windows are open down here for the first time in months. Goodbye radon buildup. Hello fresh air--if the neighbor would eschew her smoky smolderer wafting all-too-frequently in our direction.