1/3 Alright- here we go- just a few ideas: I hope this can be about things we love. Not about things we hate or things we are weighed down about. We cannot answer questions out in the open but please read and respond to each other as much as possible.

We will be here a little bit and the first few questions are: What are you reading? What are you watching? What are you listening to? And How many days have you been indoors?

I have been indoors for over a month. Self-imposed. I have gone out only for primary needs: food, supplies, etc And I have been mostly rewatching and re-reading. But -as most people- I imagine that I wanted to read or learn or communicate in a way that made this worthwhile.

It's been an odd exercise: helping friends on the outside or strategizing to assist others while being indoors is in and of itself a strange moment. An important moment.

Been rewatching Mitchell Leisen: Easy Living, Death Takes a Holiday, Midnight, Hold back the Dawn, etc etc Leisen was (in his time) relegated as being a “Stylist” and unfavorably compared to Sturges or Wilder (sometimes by Wilder himself) with whom he collaborated.

But every time I rewatch (specially Easy Living or Dawn), it’s clearer and clearer just how precise and smart and complete it is. I think he needs to be reappraised. I love him!