June 6ths

6/6/1944

(Diary of Anne Frank)

“This is D Day,” the BBC announced at twelve. “This is the day.” The invasion has begun!...BBC broadcast in English: “This is 0 Day.” General Eisenhower said to the French people: “Stiff fighting will come now, but after this the victory. The year 1944 is the year of complete victory. Good luck!””  

[18 years in the future in a postwar zeitgeist teens are playing amplified guitars in a new form of music based on a melange of (mostly American blues-based) influences, who will in the next few years set the world on fire in a new paradigm shift across the globe around 1966. In another 18 years the world will shift again in 1980, then 2001 with 9/11].

6/6/1962

(Beatles Studio Diary)

In studio recording “Love Me Do”, “P.S. I Love You”, “Ask Me Why”.     

Paul McCartney was just 2 years old on D-Day, but the postwar zeitgeist was full throttle 22 years later. (Tomorrow never knows but yesterday sometimes does)

6/6/1966

(Beatles Studio Diary)

Fourth anniversary of Beatles first visit to EMI. In studio for Revolver tracks, “I Want To Tell You”, “Tomorrow Never Knows”, “Eleanor Rigby”.

6/6/1989

(Keith Haring Journal)

“In Europe since last Thursday....Every time I come to Europe I think I’m going to live forever.”

A fast 4-on-the-floor groove chorus with 2 refrain lines:

Tomorrow never knows
But yesterday sometimes does
This is the day
After this the victory
Transitions from sea to land
One era to another
Think I’m going to live forever  

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Possible orch arrangement;

Tomorrow Never Knows (Orch) by meta4s 

6/6/1998

Film: Bulworth. Waste of time. Warren Beatty trying to be a “boy in the hood” plugged into a story involving the President. While it is inconceivable that such a thing happened, it is nevertheless interesting in that somehow it might be advantageous for a white president to have a bit more soul, but not to the point of snorting coke at a dance club. ( I should have walked out of this movie. Moreover, the bad sight lines gave me a stiff neck). [

6/6/2025: I still like my theory that cinema and TV have a huge impact on our psyches. Not that novels didn’t–or whatever was the vehicle for collective thought in any era or epoch. It’s a bug, not a feature, now depicted in a feature film. I probably saw this at the Three Penny, notorious for bad sight lines and lumpy seats. It’s also interesting that it was released right in the middle of the Clinton scandals, so the art-life continuum was hugely ironic–just when postmodernism was ramping up in the fin de siecle. I don’t recall why I didn’t like the film but one of the reasons might have been that its premise was too over the top. This is quaint compared to the world now with the Trump-Musk feud]. 

6/6/2002
  
By the Planetarium:  

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[6/6/2025: The skyline is tiny compared to now].

An excerpt from the handwritten diary, The Influence Contour, an augur of the Influencer.  

 

 

 

6/6/2010, Sunday

Did a 60 Minutes soundwalk: Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio, Grace Episcopal church bells, Scoville Park, resale shop, more bells, organ.

[Unfortunately this is a poor recording due to an undetected short in the mic cord. Great section beginning at 28:00 inside the bell tower with kids playing the bells: great poetic line: “Controlling the bells outside…that’s how the church works”].