The first place I found was the site of the police station where Hitchcock was locked in a cell for a few hours at the behest of his father, William. The lifelong impact of the trauma was an unwavering suspicion and fear of the police and judicial authorities reflected in his movies. Hitchcock at High Street. In when Alfred was born it looked something like this.
It was demolished in the 60s and the site is now occupied by a petrol station. I suspect he would have preferred Leytonstone. When I got home from the outing I stumbled across Vertigo on Netflix and hit play. It brought back memories of my last Hitchcock pilgrimage which was in San Francisco in August Vertigo trivia: The opening Paramount logo is in black and white while the rest of the film, including the closing Paramount logo, is in Technicolor.
Late last night β after returning home from my second viewing of the brilliant Joker at Warner Bros. So I shifted the Swiss francs to my Euro purse, a suede purse from California my grandmother gave me as a boy β it says something like Gold Nuggets on it, long since worn away.
I notice in Year of the Monkey how attached Patti Smith is to particular not monetarily valuable objects in her life, attributing meaning through memory to them. I decided to blow as much of my purseload as possible β this is what I spunked it onβ¦.
In Year of the Monkey Patti has chicken soup, decorated with egg yolks not sure which came first the chicken or the eggs , with her ailing friend Sam Shepherd on his ranch in Kentucky. I ate it outside Le Perron restaurant at the foot of the hill in the old town β I ate under the tree at that restaurant years ago with my younger brother. We did a sudoku outside another cafe in the old quarter that time too β I hate puzzles and crosswords but on that occasion it was fun.
