HEAVY LITTLE OBJECTS

#10 :: Gerber multi-tool

Pliers - cutters - file - small screwdriver - tweezers - big screwdriver - Phillips screwdriver - canopener - knife ... fetish object. It folds to a small, dense block of articulated titanium and clips to a keyring. It is a perfect machine. Okay, so it needs a serrated blade or a corkscrew. It is utility and adaptibility distilled to gemlike proportions. We visited Disney Hall for the first time tonight, waiting 90 minutes on line in its sheetsteel armpit for tickets to a youth concert. The teenaged orchestra of 36 15yearolds was heartfelt and accomplished, but shaky and a little lost in the grand acoustics of the place. Tickets in June to hear the Berlioz Requiem.