We spent the day in Baltimore at the National Aquarium. It was loads of fun, especially for the niece. Stupid overheard conversation of the day:
(At the frog exhibit, a middle aged couple.)
Woman: They should play that song...Who was a bullfrog?
Man: Jeremiah.
Woman: Jeremiah. Jeremiah was a bullfrog.
When we got home this afternoon, I bummed around the house a bit, and skyped with mom again. After that I watched Impromptu for the fourth time but finally in its entirety. It is a great movie, and I am in love with Judy Davis. It is a wonderful, hilarious movie that is criminally overlooked. Judy Davis is a fabulous actress and Hugh Grant is absolutely brilliant as a valetudinarian Chopin. I can see an alarming lot of myself in Chopin, which can't be good, and, most unfortunately, our only dissimilarity seems to be musical genius.
I remember my piano lessons, me struggling to play this one Chopin prelude (in C, I believe it was) and yet no matter how poorly I played it, I could hear so much beauty in it. Yesterday in the library I found some Chopin records by Rubinstein, who is supposed to be the guy to play Chopin, but the records didn't look like they were in very good shape. I think when I take the car back to the mechanic on Monday I will go back and look for more Chopin. Impromptu really made me want to give Chopin a better listen. So long
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