Our Own Pop Culture

We try to create our own pop culture world. I bought three grapefruits and put one next to Zora, next to her Yoko Ono Grapfruit book. I'm discovering that she loves to follow certain instructions, such as those found in the pages of Ms. Ono's book. The overall result from having the actual grapefruits, though, is that I'm eating a grapefruit. Maira and Zora don't seem to be interested in them, certainly not without the extended preparation they often receive prior to being served. I haven't had a grapefruit in a long time. I do recommend pealing them and eating them, after enjoying the smell of the skin, which I understand can be tossed into the fire to enahnce the smell of its smoke. I guess my mother told me that and also enjoyed eating its white rind, suprisingly tasty overall, though the tradition of serving a carefully prepared grapefruit at a room service breakfast can be fun too. Of course it is not only simpler but also tastier to just peal it and separate the slices. This touches upon my preference for minimal food preparation (I used to cook that way for myself) though Maira does like eating what she cooks, meals which are always fun to eat. I still find Ms. Ono's recorded work a challenge and I'm not sure how well it goes over with Maira and Zora as I am often out walking Fancy while it plays. However, I could see from the Tate Modern Yoko exhibit that we got to see in the beginning of August that Zora had a good connection with the interactive work there (hammering nails, tracing sillouettes and sliding around in bags) and as well as finding fascination with some of Ms. Ono's collaborators (one who did the animation, and there was a Japanese documentary about its artists from the 60's which held her attention). We also saw the Maysle movie of her Charlotte Morman homage with people cutting off her clothing, and most memorably with great music too, The Fly. I'm confronted with the question of buying Ms. Ono's double album, The Fly. Speaking of the Maysles, on my bike ride home from the Street Theater performance at Jackie Robinson Park I passed by The Maysles Center. They were showing The (1973) Spook Who Sat by the Door, so now I know of that movie. I think we tried another one, from a "Black Cinema" category, the Sweet Badass? -- The 1971 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. The major monstor movie from that era for me is Cotton Comes to Harlem. We also heard the biggest number from Miriam Makeba thanks to Terry Lee King including it in the Street Theater Pre-Show dances. I had already bought one of her albums since I loved other material I had heard played on WKCR radio but the one I got was one of those RCA controlled recordings (I guess Harry Belefonte helped her get signed with RCA. He would often have these generic orchestra accompaniments too). Now at last we know, Pata Pata is hers! We get some pop culture from TCM which showed Jean Paul Belmondo movies, and as a result showed Truffaut's Mississippi Mermaid and Goddard's Pierrot La Fou, as well as the short Goddard made with Belmondo prior to Breathless. As a result we learned about the lovely south of france destination island, porquerolles. These are examples of our own pop culture.