Last night in our typical multi-tasking way, the Oh So Feisty One dyed Easter eggs, I made a variation on Salad Nicoise in the kitchen and we watched "Gimme Shelter" in the Living Room.

It could be argued that "Gimme Shelter" is the greatest rock documentary ever made. I’ve
loved the film for a long time but find it very difficult to watch as it chronicles the Stones’ 1969 American tour, which began hopefully at Madison Square Garden on Thanksgiving and ended at a free concert at Altamont Speedway in Northern California, where four people died (one murdered practically on camera).

The Stones look so young at the beginning of the film. But as the film progresses they seem to lose whatever hint of innocence and hippie optimism they may have had.

A free concert. It was going to be like Woodstock. It was going to be "about people getting together, getting stoned and having sex," he told a reporter in the film.

The film is like watching the decline and fall of the counterculture in 90-minutes. Brilliantly filmed by the Albert and David Maysles, they catch on camera the mournful faces of Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts as they watch the violence that seemed to overwhelm that December day in 1969 on a 16mm editing screen not long after the show.

Sobering to say the least.

OSFO worked hard on her Easter eggs. At first the dye didn’t seem to take. But OSFO in her innovative way figured out a way to make the egg color as bold as possible.

And the salad: it was excellent. tunafish, onions, mescalin salad from Trader Joe’s, a tasty vinegrette with Dijon mustard. I should have added some hard boiled eggs to the mix.

But OSFO used up the more than one dozen we had in the fridge.