Thursday 04/16/2026
Spent most of the day in my room, reading or writing or practicing music. Reading the long (long!) New Yorker story about Sam Altman. So he’s a sleaze, fine, glad to have that established. Writing on my book talk for next month.
Practicing: I am trying to get my fingers to play the simple guitar accompaniment to Leonard Cohen, “You Got Me Singing“. It’s a simple pattern, “do do do BA de do do” over and over, but I want to get it nailed into my synapses so I can keep doing it while singing.
Finally at 5:30 Joanne and I headed out, to park the car at Town & Country village, where we had a quick simple supper. Then we walked 15 minutes onto the Stanford campus, to Frost Amphitheater, for the David Byrne concert.
The show was spectacular for the visuals and choreography, and I enjoyed the second half when he did the old songs, “Psycho Killer” and “Once in a Lifetime” and such. The sound was too loud and the lyrics were not understandable.
While fiddling with the phone I accidentally took a portrait of us two.
Codgerville 