Louis…an iconic voice.
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Dark Lady was the first English 45 vinyl record that my dad brought home for me. I won’t post it here.
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Sorry I couldn’t resist:
Hope that you had an awesome evening,
Sorry couldn’t chat had a boring yet necessary Zoom Meeting.
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I was sooo mad when I heard the “jazzed up” version. No one outjazzes Louis. I even know my Uncle George’s favorite song. I want to be in that number: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17nXsv7o64k
That is the exact u tube I sent he you shall not be named when he got the news about the archives. A bit later I sent him Lucy and Charlie Brown and the football. His simple reply “thank you”
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Missed you too. I was at Wegmans using their wifi to down load that stupid picture. cdc and I split a good lamb gyro and I had a cold beer with. About the pic. This is as good as it gets for a gamer. My A game. hahahaha.
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I’ll look that one up. Going to the library tomorrow to administer a beating. Libraries can be such violent places. Conan is the one I love to beat. So very satisfying. Oh yeah gonna play some cards too. https://ok.ru/video/1002870671908
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My discord avatar from a mtg card natch Liliana Vess
Thank you. Watched part of it but I need to borrow cdc’s 'puter to hear it. Speakers some day. Done any summer reading? This book was very much on mind back in april. Why do they have school kids read it? The Lottery 1948 short story by Shirley Jackson. She also wrote The Haunting of Hill House. Love that movie even when they leave out that one scene with the statues. I read Hill House last month and what a great read. I got a little distracted by her descriptions of the meals. Go figure. Oddly I liked parts of the movie better. Oh yeah the original not that stupid remake. Ugh. But before that I read We Have Always Lived In The Castle too. It has been a good long time since I let a book have it’s way with me. It took a bit but I am trusting and patient with the storyteller. She got me. Got me good. I did not really understand what I was getting into until I read this line: “Sunday I go up into the attic and try on all their clothes”. Ulp. So frustrating yet so pleasurable. Like the dvds I watch I enjoy savoring my good books. Nope. Could not stop myself from devouring it and now I have to pick out a new book. Maybe McCall Smith or one of Rowlng’s adult fiction. Any recs?
Interesting fact about this song is it was never meant to be a swingy, upbeat jazz tune. In fact, it’s a moritat – a gruesome murder ballad by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill about a sinister and cruel criminal. Listen to a German recording sometimes, i.e. without the shmaltzy undertones. It’s supposed to be much darker than what it’s been turned into by American performers.
Funny side story: I performed it for Sinatra’s 100th birthday celebration at the State Theatre in my chosen hometown in 2015 in the original German. An audience member came down to the green room afterwards to congratulate me on my performance. She’d “never before heard the French version.” D’oh!
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Welcome to America.
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Thanks. I’ve lived there for a couple of decades now. It’s certainly been… interesting.
Oh, I know. But every so often it’s useful to be reminded where you are. As I am whenever I find myself on the 4 train an hour before a Yankee game. Oh, right - these people.
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This thread is the equivalent of the 4 train?
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It’s more like the westbound F at 1am on a Friday. If you must know.
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C++ is a better alternative to 4 Train.
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I get the picture
Hmmm…I feel lived on that train growing up. My stop was the first one in Queens. Trying to imagine going east at 1 AM.
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And my stop is the last one in Manhattan. Or the first, depending on which direction you’re going.
