Haikus: September 2016

HAIKUS: September 2016

By Peter Y. Chou
WisdomPortal.com

These haikus were written as exercises in mindfulness—
an attempt to catch the fleeting moment in my daily walks,
while reading, listening to music, and pondering about life.
(Underlined words are not for emphasis but to web links.)
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Thursday, September 1, 2016, 5:35-7:20 pm
Rudy met me at Chase and drove to see two films
at Stanford Theatre: John Cromwell directs
"Prisoner of Zenda" (1937) with Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.,
C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5);
(Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Englishman on vacation
helps defeat a rebel plot
by impersonating kidnapped king. Thursday, September 1, 2016, 7:30-9:35 pm
Stanford Theatre: George Cukor directs
"Romeo and Juliet" (1936) Norma Shearer,
Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith, Andy Devine
Conway Tearle, Ralph Forbes, Henry Kolker, Robert Warwick, Reginald Denny, Violet Kemble-Cooper;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Irving Thalberg spent two years
on lavish Shakespearean film
starring his wife Norma Shearer.

Friday, September 2, 2016, 1:00-3:01 pm
Mountain View Senior Center Movie Room
(266 Escuela Ave); Nancy Meyer directs "The Intern" (2015); with Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo, Anders Holm, Andrew Rannells, Adam DeVine, Zack Pearlman, Nat Wolff, Linda Lavin, Celia Weston, Steve Vinovich, Molly Bernard; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Entrepreneur Jules Ostin hires
a 70-year-old intern who brings
his savvy to her fashion enterprise. Friday, September 2, 2016, 7:30-9:00 pm
Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave,
Waverley Writers Open Poetry Reading: Despite the Labor Day Weekend, 20 poets showed up since we didn't meet in July & August during the summer

I read two alphabet poems—
"The Letter A" & "The Letter S";
Tom Digby gave me a ride home.

Tuesday, September 6, 2016, 9:21-9:29 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Gil Shaham plays violin, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Ludwig van Beethoven, Romance for Violin #2 in F Op 50 (1899); CD, (YouTube: Itzhak Perlman, Jascha Heifetz, Takako Nishizaki, Maxim Vengerov , Anne-Sophie Mutter, David Oistrakh, Yehudi Menuhin)

Accompaniment for flute
& pair of oboes, bassoons,
and horns, with strings. Tuesday, September 6, 2016, 4:30-7:30 pm
Kaiser Santa Clara (710 Lawrence Expressway)
My neighbor Don drives me to Kaiser after going to Public Storage to pay my September rental; Google Map Directions (15 minutes, 9.3 miles): Highway 101 South, Exit 394 for Lawrence Expwy, Turn right onto Lawrence Expwy, Turn right at Lehigh Dr., At traffic circle, take 1st exit, Turn left; Don found parking near Emergency Entrance; Sat on bench outside while I went to Room 3303 to check on Connie

She's off oxygen mask
& IV feeding, talking to me;
Told nurse: no wheat or GMO.

Friday, September 23, 2016, 7:30-9:55 pm
Stanford Theatre: G. W. Pabst directs Pandora's Box (1929) with Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Alice Roberts, Carl Goetz, Kraft-Raschig, Daisy D'ora, Gustav Diessl, Sig Arno; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Onstage: David Packard introduces David Thomson on Vienna films

Louisa Brooks as Lulu
plays femme fatale until
she meets Jack the Ripper. Friday, September 23, 2016, 9:55-11:30 pm
Stanford Theatre: Josef von Sternberg directs "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935) Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero, Sylvia Ashton, Wilson Benge, Sidney Bracey, Tully Marshall, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Wilhelm von Brincken, Gordon Westcott, Florence Gibson; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Lionel Atwll rebuffed by
Marlene Dietrich again & again
as Cesar Romero got surprise at end.

Saturday, September 24, 2016, 5:25-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Billy Wilder directs "Sunset Boulevard" (1950) with William Holde, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson,
Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Jack Webb;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond
Hollywood starlet living in the past—
"I am big. It's the pictures that's small." Saturday, September 24, 2016, 7:30-9:15 pm
Stanford Theatre: Erich von Stroheim directs Queen Kelly" (1929) Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen, Sylvia Ashton, Wilson Benge, Sidney Bracey, Tully Marshall Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Wilhelm von Brincken, Gordon Westcott, Florence Gibson, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Joseph Kennedy produced this film
of Gloria Swanson, his lover at the time
directed by von Stroheim filmed by Toland.

Sunday, September 25, 2016, 1:00-4:50 pm
Los Altos Library— J. Ruth Gendler, "Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at Essential Quality" (2007); $15.95 for $2; p. 220—

We find beauty in the garden
and the forest. Let us begin
to celebrate the beauty of the world. Sunday, September 25, 2016, 1:00-4:50 pm
Los Altos Library— Barbara Ehrenreich, "Living with a Wild God: Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything" (2015); $26 for $4; 813.54Ehrenre; 236:

To ask why is to ask for
a motive or a purpose. The question
why is always really the question who.

Sunday, September 25, 2016, 5:40-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Ernst Lubitsch directs "The Merry Widow " (1934) with Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel, George Barbier, Minna Gombell, Sterling Holloway; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Captain Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) ordered
to marry Mme Sonia (Jeanette MacDonald),
so her wealth would not leave the kingdom. Sunday, September 25, 2016, 7:30-9:55 pm
Stanford Theatre: Erich von Stroheim directs "The Merry Widow" (1925) Mae Murray, John Gilbert ,
Roy D'Arcy, Josephine Crowell, George Fawcett,
Tully Marshall, Edward Connelly, Clark Gable; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Based on the Franz Leh�r's opera
Merry Widow with John Gilbert and
Mae Murray dancing a long waltz sequence.

Monday, September 26, 2016, 9:47-9:57 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg plays violin and conducts New Century Chamber Orchestra in Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings (1936); CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Played at funerals of FDR,
Grace Kelly, Prince Rainier,
and in memory of Sept. 11, 2001. Monday, September 26, 2016, 10:08-10:13 am
KDFC 104.9 FM: John Fullam plays clarinet, JoAnn Falletta conducts Buffalo Philharmonic in George Gershwin (118th birthday), Promenade (Walking
the Dog) (1937); CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4)

Favorite scene in Shall We Dance
as Fred & Ginger walking their dogs
on the ship's deck to Gershwin's tune.

Monday, September 26, 2016, 6:00-7:55 pm
Los Altos Library— Anthony Holden & Ben Holden,
"Poems That Make Grown Women Cry" (2016); $26; 821.008Poems; p. 224-226: Mary Oliver's
"When Death Comes" (1992)—

When it's over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement.
I was the bridegroom, taking
the world into my arms. Monday, September 26, 2016, 6:00-7:55 pm
Los Altos Library— Doreen Virtue, "The Courage to Be Creative: How to Believe in Yourself, Your Dreams and Ideas, and Your Creative Career Path" (2016); $25; 153.35Virtue; p. 210: Musician friend told me:

Music, like life, is a series
of tension & release. All songs are a
buildup of tension, with a crescendo
at the end giving the ear relief.

Thursday, September 29, 2016, 2:45-2:57 pm
Mountain View: Milk Pail (2585 California St.)
Coupon for snow peas @ 59¢/lb (Sold Out);
Green onions 49¢; Organic baby carrots @ 49¢/lb;
one head of firm broccoli crown 72¢ @ $1.29/lb

Found three Daily Post papers
in bin near CVS on El Camino Real,
and made 3:18 pm Bus #40 to Krause Center. Thursday, September 29, 2016, 3:40-7:45 pm
Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center
"12 cool books in Stanford's Green Library"
John Mustain: John Milton's "Paradise Lost" (1751) signed by both Thomas Jefferson & James Madison

Professor Jay Fliegelman owned this book
saying Jefferson used Milton's recipe of Satan
rebelling against God to declare Independence.

Friday, September 30, 2016, 1:00-3:09 pm
Mountain View Senior Center (266 Escuela Ave)
Movie Room; Tom McCarthy directs "Spotlight" (2015); with Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Brian d'Arcy James, Stanley Tucci, Billy Crudup, Richard Jenkins, Len Cariou, Neal Huff, Laurie Heineman; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Boston Globe Story

Boston Globe reporters expose
Catholic Archdiocese's history
cover-up of child abuse by priests. Friday, September 30, 2016, 4:00-5:00 pm
Mountain View: Satsang with friend (Rengstorff Park):
BUSINESS: Zume Pizza— Made by robots, baked in delivery truck (Pizza-making robots programmed for applying pizza sauce and sliding pies into the oven; a delivery truck loaded with smart ovens that bake pies while they're en route to customers.) (By Marisa Kendall, SJ Mercury News, September 29, 2016)

Read my poem "Robo-Man"
written at 2003 Singularity Conference,
and Mary Oliver's "When Death Comes".

Friday, September 30, 2016, 5:30-7:20 pm
Stanford Theatre: Josef von Sternberg directs
"The Blue Angel" (1930) with Emil Jannings,
Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti,
Hans Albers, Reinhold Bernt, Eduard von Winterstein, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Roland Varno; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)

Tragic transformation of professor
to cabaret clown and descent into madness,
as Marlene Dietrich outshines Emil Jannings. Friday, September 30, 2016, 7:30-9:25 pm
Stanford Theatre: Fritz Lang directs "M" (1931)
with Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf Gründgens,
Inge Landgut, Theodor Loos, Friedrich Gnass, Edward Connelly, Fritz Odemar, Paul Kemp;
(YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4)
Prof. Dupuy showed film in Stanford class on "Evil"

Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert
stars in M, the child-murderer
in Fritz Lang's thriller classic.

Thursday, September 1, 2016, 5:35-7:20 pm Rudy met me at Chase and drove to see two films at Stanford Theatre: John Cromwell directs "Prisoner of Zenda" (1937) with Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., C. Aubrey Smith, Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Englishman on vacation helps defeat a rebel plot by impersonating kidnapped king.	Thursday, September 1, 2016, 7:30-9:35 pm Stanford Theatre: George Cukor directs "Romeo and Juliet" (1936) Norma Shearer, Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone, C. Aubrey Smith, Andy Devine Conway Tearle, Ralph Forbes, Henry Kolker, Robert Warwick, Reginald Denny, Violet Kemble-Cooper; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Irving Thalberg spent two years on lavish Shakespearean film starring his wife Norma Shearer.
Friday, September 2, 2016, 1:00-3:01 pm Mountain View Senior Center Movie Room (266 Escuela Ave); Nancy Meyer directs "The Intern" (2015); with Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo, Anders Holm, Andrew Rannells, Adam DeVine, Zack Pearlman, Nat Wolff, Linda Lavin, Celia Weston, Steve Vinovich, Molly Bernard; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Entrepreneur Jules Ostin hires a 70-year-old intern who brings his savvy to her fashion enterprise.	Friday, September 2, 2016, 7:30-9:00 pm Palo Alto: Friends' House, 957 Colorado Ave, Waverley Writers Open Poetry Reading: Despite the Labor Day Weekend, 20 poets showed up since we didn't meet in July & August during the summer I read two alphabet poems— "The Letter A" & "The Letter S"; Tom Digby gave me a ride home.
Tuesday, September 6, 2016, 9:21-9:29 am KDFC 104.9 FM: Gil Shaham plays violin, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Ludwig van Beethoven, Romance for Violin #2 in F Op 50 (1899); CD, (YouTube: Itzhak Perlman, Jascha Heifetz, Takako Nishizaki, Maxim Vengerov , Anne-Sophie Mutter, David Oistrakh, Yehudi Menuhin) Accompaniment for flute & pair of oboes, bassoons, and horns, with strings.	Tuesday, September 6, 2016, 4:30-7:30 pm Kaiser Santa Clara (710 Lawrence Expressway) My neighbor Don drives me to Kaiser after going to Public Storage to pay my September rental; Google Map Directions (15 minutes, 9.3 miles): Highway 101 South, Exit 394 for Lawrence Expwy, Turn right onto Lawrence Expwy, Turn right at Lehigh Dr., At traffic circle, take 1st exit, Turn left; Don found parking near Emergency Entrance; Sat on bench outside while I went to Room 3303 to check on Connie She's off oxygen mask & IV feeding, talking to me; Told nurse: no wheat or GMO.
Friday, September 23, 2016, 7:30-9:55 pm Stanford Theatre: G. W. Pabst directs Pandora's Box (1929) with Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Alice Roberts, Carl Goetz, Kraft-Raschig, Daisy D'ora, Gustav Diessl, Sig Arno; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Onstage: David Packard introduces David Thomson on Vienna films Louisa Brooks as Lulu plays femme fatale until she meets Jack the Ripper.	Friday, September 23, 2016, 9:55-11:30 pm Stanford Theatre: Josef von Sternberg directs "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935) Marlene Dietrich, Lionel Atwill, Cesar Romero, Sylvia Ashton, Wilson Benge, Sidney Bracey, Tully Marshall, Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Wilhelm von Brincken, Gordon Westcott, Florence Gibson; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Lionel Atwll rebuffed by Marlene Dietrich again & again as Cesar Romero got surprise at end.
Saturday, September 24, 2016, 5:25-7:20 pm Stanford Theatre: Billy Wilder directs "Sunset Boulevard" (1950) with William Holde, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Jack Webb; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond Hollywood starlet living in the past— "I am big. It's the pictures that's small."	Saturday, September 24, 2016, 7:30-9:15 pm Stanford Theatre: Erich von Stroheim directs Queen Kelly" (1929) Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen, Sylvia Ashton, Wilson Benge, Sidney Bracey, Tully Marshall Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Wilhelm von Brincken, Gordon Westcott, Florence Gibson, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Joseph Kennedy produced this film of Gloria Swanson, his lover at the time directed by von Stroheim filmed by Toland.
Sunday, September 25, 2016, 1:00-4:50 pm Los Altos Library— J. Ruth Gendler, "Notes on the Need for Beauty: An Intimate Look at Essential Quality" (2007); $15.95 for $2; p. 220— We find beauty in the garden and the forest. Let us begin to celebrate the beauty of the world.	Sunday, September 25, 2016, 1:00-4:50 pm Los Altos Library— Barbara Ehrenreich, "Living with a Wild God: Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything" (2015); $26 for $4; 813.54Ehrenre; 236: To ask why is to ask for a motive or a purpose. The question why is always really the question who.
Sunday, September 25, 2016, 5:40-7:20 pm Stanford Theatre: Ernst Lubitsch directs "The Merry Widow " (1934) with Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel, George Barbier, Minna Gombell, Sterling Holloway; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Captain Danilo (Maurice Chevalier) ordered to marry Mme Sonia (Jeanette MacDonald), so her wealth would not leave the kingdom.	Sunday, September 25, 2016, 7:30-9:55 pm Stanford Theatre: Erich von Stroheim directs "The Merry Widow" (1925) Mae Murray, John Gilbert , Roy D'Arcy, Josephine Crowell, George Fawcett, Tully Marshall, Edward Connelly, Clark Gable; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Based on the Franz Leh�r's opera Merry Widow with John Gilbert and Mae Murray dancing a long waltz sequence.
Monday, September 26, 2016, 9:47-9:57 am KDFC 104.9 FM: Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg plays violin and conducts New Century Chamber Orchestra in Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings (1936); CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Played at funerals of FDR, Grace Kelly, Prince Rainier, and in memory of Sept. 11, 2001.	Monday, September 26, 2016, 10:08-10:13 am KDFC 104.9 FM: John Fullam plays clarinet, JoAnn Falletta conducts Buffalo Philharmonic in George Gershwin (118th birthday), Promenade (Walking the Dog) (1937); CD, (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4) Favorite scene in Shall We Dance as Fred & Ginger walking their dogs on the ship's deck to Gershwin's tune.
Monday, September 26, 2016, 6:00-7:55 pm Los Altos Library— Anthony Holden & Ben Holden, "Poems That Make Grown Women Cry" (2016); $26; 821.008Poems; p. 224-226: Mary Oliver's "When Death Comes" (1992)— When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.	Monday, September 26, 2016, 6:00-7:55 pm Los Altos Library— Doreen Virtue, "The Courage to Be Creative: How to Believe in Yourself, Your Dreams and Ideas, and Your Creative Career Path" (2016); $25; 153.35Virtue; p. 210: Musician friend told me: Music, like life, is a series of tension & release. All songs are a buildup of tension, with a crescendo at the end giving the ear relief.
Thursday, September 29, 2016, 2:45-2:57 pm Mountain View: Milk Pail (2585 California St.) Coupon for snow peas @ 59¢/lb (Sold Out); Green onions 49¢; Organic baby carrots @ 49¢/lb; one head of firm broccoli crown 72¢ @ $1.29/lb Found three Daily Post papers in bin near CVS on El Camino Real, and made 3:18 pm Bus #40 to Krause Center.	Thursday, September 29, 2016, 3:40-7:45 pm Los Altos Hills: Foothill College Krause Center "12 cool books in Stanford's Green Library" John Mustain: John Milton's "Paradise Lost" (1751) signed by both Thomas Jefferson & James Madison Professor Jay Fliegelman owned this book saying Jefferson used Milton's recipe of Satan rebelling against God to declare Independence.
Friday, September 30, 2016, 1:00-3:09 pm Mountain View Senior Center (266 Escuela Ave) Movie Room; Tom McCarthy directs "Spotlight" (2015); with Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, John Slattery, Brian d'Arcy James, Stanley Tucci, Billy Crudup, Richard Jenkins, Len Cariou, Neal Huff, Laurie Heineman; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4); Boston Globe Story Boston Globe reporters expose Catholic Archdiocese's history cover-up of child abuse by priests.	Friday, September 30, 2016, 4:00-5:00 pm Mountain View: Satsang with friend (Rengstorff Park): BUSINESS: Zume Pizza— Made by robots, baked in delivery truck (Pizza-making robots programmed for applying pizza sauce and sliding pies into the oven; a delivery truck loaded with smart ovens that bake pies while they're en route to customers.) (By Marisa Kendall, SJ Mercury News, September 29, 2016) Read my poem "Robo-Man" written at 2003 Singularity Conference, and Mary Oliver's "When Death Comes".
Friday, September 30, 2016, 5:30-7:20 pm Stanford Theatre: Josef von Sternberg directs "The Blue Angel" (1930) with Emil Jannings, Marlene Dietrich, Kurt Gerron, Rosa Valetti, Hans Albers, Reinhold Bernt, Eduard von Winterstein, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Roland Varno; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Tragic transformation of professor to cabaret clown and descent into madness, as Marlene Dietrich outshines Emil Jannings.	Friday, September 30, 2016, 7:30-9:25 pm Stanford Theatre: Fritz Lang directs "M" (1931) with Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke, Gustaf Gründgens, Inge Landgut, Theodor Loos, Friedrich Gnass, Edward Connelly, Fritz Odemar, Paul Kemp; (YouTube: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5); (Film Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4) Prof. Dupuy showed film in Stanford class on "Evil" Peter Lorre as Hans Beckert stars in M, the child-murderer in Fritz Lang's thriller classic.