Yesterday was a long one. A road and train trip from Hoi An to Nha Trang from 7:30 am until just after 10 pm last night. I wanted to visit the My Lai massacre museum near Quang Ngai so we drove down early yesterday morning — a two-hour trek with all the rain and the traffic and road construction. I was told it would take another 11 or 12 hours to drive to Nha Trang so I bought a train ticket from Quang Ngai to Nha Trang, which would take about eight hours, I was told. It took ten. The down-at-the-heels, less-than-fully-hygienic train left at 1 pm and chugged along at a moderate pace for 400 kilometers, stopping for 10 or 12 minutes at each station. It was hellish, in a sense, but I didn’t want to be encased in a luxurious tourist cocoon. I wanted to feel and smell and taste the real Vietnam like an average local. Well, I got that.

I for one can’t wait to see the Showtime airing of “Another Day/Another Time: Celebrating the Music of Inside Llewyn Davis” on Friday, 12.13 at 10 pm eastern, 7 pm Pacific. The original taping was at Manhattan’s Town Hall on 9.29. Produced by T Bone Burnett, Inside Llewyn Davis director-writers Joel and Ethan Coen and producer Scott Rudin, the show will feature performances by Joan Baez, Patti Smith, Jack White, Marcus Mumford, the Avett Brothers, Rhiannon Giddens, Punch Brothers, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Willie Watson, The Milk Carton Kids, Colin Meloy, Lake Street Dive and Llewyn Davis star Oscar Isaac.