Sopranos? Garden. Farrar. Muzio. Fleming. Milanov. Moffo.
Callas. Stella. Bayrakdarian. Scotto. Price. Etc.
Nice poem, though.
Not much of a TV watcher, but I read that Tony Soprano's son quotes
Yeats at a family gathering and pronounces the poet's name so it sounds
like "Keats." Kiss me, Keat. I wonder how many people over the years
have made *that* mistake.
I saw a tape of the first two Soprano seasons but then lost interest.
The fun part for me was seeing neighborhoods where I lived or that I at
least knew. Closest I got was a few years ago when the crew took over a
house about 1/2 mile from where I live now because one plot line had
Tony buying a house in Sea Bright. So we had lots of chances to watch
traffic jams and fender-benders as people ogled to catch a glimpse of
The Talent.
Sea Bright is one of those towns where a real version of Tony Soprano
would go unnoticed. The joke about it is that the Borough motto is
"Come on vacation, leave on probation." Given the number of bars
downtown, this is accurate.
Ken
Roger Day wrote:
> Turning and turning in the widening gyre
> The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
> Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
> Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
> The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
> The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
> The best lack all conviction, while the worst
> Are full of passionate intensity.
> Surely some revelation is at hand;
> Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
> The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
> When a vast image out of Spritus Mundi
> Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
> A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
> A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
> Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
> Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
> The darkness drops again; but now I know
> That twenty centuries of stony sleep
> were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
> And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
> Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
>
> W.B.Yeats
>
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Ken Wolman rainermaria.typepad.com
There's a lot of wisdom here among the employees,
Some of us have street smarts and some have Ph.Ds.
We're all bored and tired but we've all learned ways to cope
Some of us drink after work, the rest of us smoke dope.
--Austin Lounge Lizards, "Industrial Strength Tranquilizers"
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