It doesn't really upset me, as it doesn't affect me (and it isn't as disastrous a choice as Driving Miss Daisy or The Green Book) but I am disappointed that One Battle After Another won best picture. I would really have liked to see The Secret Agent get it (which was then shut out of Best Foreign Film as well), though Sinners would have been an ok choice. This year I saw a surprising number of Best Picture films. In addition to OBAA and The Secret Agent, I also saw Hamnet and Marty Supreme. And I did manage to see the animated short films. I think The Girl Who Cried Pearls was probably the best of the bunch, but any of them (aside from this mawkish Christian fable about a bear and a pine tree) would have been fine. There's no point in belabouring it, but the only thing I liked about OBAA was Benicio del Toro (and certainly not Sean Penn's role, which lurches into Jason territory as the (almost) unkillable monster). Oh well.
The weekend was very mixed in terms of artistic positives and negatives. I managed to get to the gym early on Sat. and then took the cat over to the vet. Unfortunately, they want a follow-up visit and think the cone should stay on a few more days. Sigh. Then I had a fairly empty day, so I went around to a bunch of galleries. I probably shouldn't have bothered with Corkin and Thomas Landry as nothing had changed. I then dropped in at work and set off another long run (though I was extremely frustrated as the computer had crashed early into the Friday night run). Then I went up to Yorkville and saw a few things there before going up to Davenport to Gallery Gevik. I had sort of resolved in my mind to pick up one of the Letendre's that they had. Little did I know that they had a Letendre show in Dec. and the pieces I was considering had sold. (The newspapers do a terrible job in reporting on these smaller shows, and I generally don't check routinely, though after they moved from Yorkville I probably wouldn't have gone anyway, as I is pretty inconvenient to go except by bike.) Then I asked about another piece I had considered purchasing, coming back a few times to look at it. It also had sold. I guess it was just not meant to be. They do have some other Letendre pieces, though I wasn't crazy about the works on paper and the canvases were enormous and way outside my price range. Too bad.
There is a Yorkville gallery that has a couple of Letendre works for sale, including this one.
I had a bit of time, so I went to the original Bau-Xi gallery, though not the AGO. Then I made it to 401 Richmond. It was a few minutes before 5. Red Head Gallery was basically shut up, and I was very disappointed that another gallery I had planned to see (and which is supposed to stay open until 6 on Sat.) was closed! So I will have to try to hit 401 Richmond next Sat. I think all in all, I probably should have skipped the detour to the Distillery and then I would have had enough time at 401 Richmond, but the real disappointment was the pieces I was interested in at Gevik were gone.
I saw The Herald at Buddies in Bad Times. There was some elements in it that were interesting, but overall it didn't do a lot for me. That's pretty typical for the experimental stuff that gets put up at Buddies.
Sun. there was a bit too much snow, but it didn't stick. Still, I decided not to bike to the swimming pool, and I guess I'll try to go tonight and possibly Wed. I was a bit delayed by the St. Patrick's Day parade but managed to make it to a Bach concert at Mazzolini Hall. It was terrific.
Then I went back to work for a bit, though it was a fairly short trip before I had to head out for the cold read thing. I think they really should have picked a different night. There were few actors around, and I ended up reading some small roles. The guy I had hoped to tackle the Frederick role in my Fringe piece decided to pull out. I did get a bit of a lead on two other actors who might sign on and potentially a stage manager, though one with limited experience. And I think next Sun. I should round up a few more, and then we'll see how many parts remain. So on the whole, Sunday was a better day, artistically-speaking, and didn't have as many disappointments as Saturday held.
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