Sunda, today, a day off, a whole day to cook, read, drink wine and read vogue. Homemade pasta, tuna with marsala and a nice rioja. making bread went well today, yesterday and the day before yesterday. The whole grain bread wasd good. The French baguettes, made for the first time, were a nice experiment, tasted almost like baguettes, but looked like something else.
It is the first time i am making baguettes. Possibly I am using the wrong ingredients, the wrong temperatures, the wrong rising periods. I should write down what i did, when and how and make more baguettes. I learnt that making bread is a matter of doing it again and again and again, each time with more precision and more experience and slowly things get easier and taste better. it almost seems similar to mountanyring or making long bicycle trips. In the beginning the work is so demanding that it is almost painful, later when you have done it again and again the necessary efforts seem easier, almost effortless and the resultt more agreeable.
Not much music today. Some Tex-Mex and Georgian Chants. Being younger i had many of the Beach Boys records and saw the group perform several times life in the Netherland and Finland: not so much because of the group but because of the Brian Wilson compositions, the multi layrered, almost pefect and timeless compositions. Now i am getting more and more interested in Brian Wilson' s work. I never spoke to him allthough I met some of the members of the group after the concerts. I am interested in his work, in what he does and has been doing and have been enjoying his music for many years now.