Another personal post. I was visiting my friends Scott and Julie and telling them about how I put my high school music buddy, now of the Mexico State Orchestra, together with my cousin the violinist, and they're plotting a guest solo gig for her in Toluca, Mexico, to which I am invited.
"You know the most interesting people," Scott said. Well of course he too is an interesting person I know, so it takes one to know one.
Today my college friend Eva called, and we were reminiscing, and I brought up my ex-sister-in-law, Diane Pernet.
"I saw her wandering around Paris one day in 2002", Eva said. "She was being trailed by a video camera. I thought about saying hello but I skipped it.""Do you remember how she had that teased black hair," I said.
"She looks exactly the same," Eva said. "You'd never know twenty-five years have passed."
"The long dripping black lace?"
"Yes."
"Amy Winehouse," I said. "Amy Winehouse copied her look to the life."
"Amy Winehouse channels Diane Pernet," Eva said.
Diane Pernet was married to my first husband's brother. So she was my sister-in-law in the 1980s for about four years. It seemed improbable even then, and utterly so now. She has a well-regarded fashion blog and puts on a festival of short films about clothes and style. Nothing could be further from the world I live in, but I used to be a regular at her atelier in Greenwich Village, circa 1984.
Other interesting people I have known or still do: him, her, him, her, him, her, them, him , him and her. I left out a bunch more of my interesting friends who don't have websites... and the list of my teachers has to wait for another day.