Summer reading: Glenn Gould

What are you reading this summer? I just tore through this terrific book in 2-3 sittings. It's a fast read, which is probably not what an author wants to hear, but a terrific book nonetheless. Her style of writing is such that you feel the anxiety, depression, obsessiveness and more of Gould as he relentlessly chases his ideal piano through the years of his career. All the meanwhile his addiction to drugs increases, his phobias increase, and his playing matures, even when his ideal mate, Steinway CD 318, is nearly demolishd and rendered unuseable. Made me pull out all my Glenn Gould recordings which I hadn't listened to in years and I'm reminded just how brilliant the man was, an artist sorely missed today.

Here's the author's website:

http://katiehafner.com/

Mmmm, can almost taste that tomato now...

Our City, Philly Early Morning Journal Part I

Got up really early this morning, Sunday, to wander about the city, see what's there--light was great, no shortage of "pretty" pics to take, but also no shortage of life on the streets in Philly...

Our City, Philly Journal Early Morning Part II

Let's face it, for many folks the economy has never been great, whether it's up or a down time, and there are a lot of folks on the street in Philly right now.

Wheat

Spring Garden

Building as Canvas

Downtown Camden, Part I, Hotel Plaza

BF Bridge Cables

BF Bridge

Both Directions

What's a Missing Window or Two

Always Look Behind You

At Rest after a Long Day at Work

The Words, not The Picture

Philly Evening Walkabout

Peeling

Dust on the sensor?

Is that what these spots are at the top of this shot? Ugh! How to clean???? Any advice out there????? Safest way to do it without ruining the sensor?

Minutiae

Amber Waves of Grain

Beautiful. Nice light, gorgeous setting...no? Soon to be an upscale apartment complex on this lot, a former farmfield, out in Cherry Hill. That is if the developer can certify it as being free of pcb's and other toxins left over from when it was a farm. Seems as the plot was graded the residents nearby were concerned about toxic runoff, EPA came in and stopped the development. And to think we used to eat the produce from such farm fields grown with the same fertilizer now poisoning nearby lawns...all just ironic...but hey, makes a pretty picture, no?