I Never Know What I Want Until I See What I Don’t Want

Ronnie and I had a flight.  He was upset when I said I didn’t want the Hammers & Sickles cut and stretched the way he’d done them while I was away, and he said that he’d done all the work for nothing.  I asked him what he would have been doing if he hadn’t been doing that, anyway, so what did it matter if it wasn’t necessary.  I said I never know what I want until I see what I don’t want, and then he said well then that was okay if I “bounced off that,” that it was worth the effort, that he just resented it if he’d done it for absolutely no reason.

Worked late, didn’t leave until around 7:30.  Talked to PH about Popism, she told me about her interviews with Jonas Mekas and Kenny Jay Lane the day before.  Jonas had been good, Kenny was lousy.