We will never know the total truth of Vincent's "ear episode."
I sort of lean to Gauguin cutting him.
@edgarblythe,
Well, edgar, he was a genius and as we have often observed, they don't fit in the world.
Got Georgia on my mind 'cause I have heard nothing from the kids there. Really concerned as he is the one with lupus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzdHlN_eVSw&feature=related
There are several songs Ray did that for me are the definitive versions. Georgia is one of them.
Evening Ms Letty,Ed and all WA2K folks.It certainly is a Feel Good Friday....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX36mGEqfw4&feature=related
Stevie Wonder - If It's Magic
If it's magic...
Then why can't it be everlasting
Like the sun that always shines
Like the poets in this rhyme
Like the galaxies in time
If it's pleasing...
Then why can't it be never leaving
Like the day that never fails
Like on seashores there are shells
Like the time that always tells
It holds the key to every heart
Throughout the universe
It fills you up without a bite
And quenches every thirst
So...
If it's special
Then with it why aren't we as careful
As making sure we dress in style
Posing pictures with a smile
Keeping danger from a child
It holds the key to every heart
Throughout the universe
It fills you up without a bite
And quenches every thirst
So...
If it's magic...
Why can't we make it everlasting
Like the lifetime of the sun
It will leave no heart undone
For there's enough for everyone
@Barry The Mod,
Brit, Welcome back. Love that one by the wonder man. Yep, why can't we make it everlasting?
Harry has the answer, methinks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bdF_psD55E&feature=related
I love that Stevie song. And I have loved Belafonte's songs since 1957. The oldest two albums in my record collection are by him (bought in 1958) A Woman is a Sometime Thing appeared on an album he recorded with Lena Horne: Porgy and Bess.
@edgarblythe,
edgar, Peggy Lee was fantastic on Johnny Guitar. Checked out the trailer, but I didn't see the movie, Texas.
And one to match by George (RIP)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7qpfGVUd8c
While my Guitar Gently Weeps (I used to call it, While My Cigar Slowly Stinks) is one of my favorites by George.
@edgarblythe,
Funny what you used to do to the tune of that guitar, edgar.
Jerry Lee does a funny job on Carry Me Back to Old Virginia. Made me smile.
Thanks, Texas.
Time for me to say goodnight, and I think that I shall do so with two songs
First a big surprise. Here is an Oriental guy singing Dear Hearts and Gentle People.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neqPWjpz9x0&feature=related
And now one by Glen Campbell that I love, y'all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9noq5P5jYU&feature=related
From Letty with love to all
I love the way that guy sings about the Dear Hearts and Gentle People. Reminds me of when I went to Japan. I saw enough TV over there to know that American songs, mostly sung in English, were very popular. The TV show, Rawhide, with Clint Eastwood, Sheb Wooley and others, was entirely in Japanese. Instead of calling out, "Head 'em up, move 'em out," Gil Favor would say, "Hyakko."
The World I used to Know is another of my favorite songs.
@edgarblythe,
Love your goodnight song, edgar. I really smiled at that one.
The full moon setting over the Intra Costal waterway awakened me again. I have never seen so many full moons of late. Is that unusual?
Today is Alexander Dumas' birthday. I have always been fascinated with ancient stories. I guess it's the "dream tree" effect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHMQnMaC0Tc&feature=related
Switzerland evoked old WWII bunkers. Another fascinating topic for me.
This one isn't Swiss, however.
test;
Well, I'll be. It worked. This is to go with Dear Hearts and Gentle People.
Alexandre Dumas, père, wrote stories and historical chronicles of high adventure that captured the imagination of the French public, who eagerly waited to purchase the continuing sagas. A few of these works:
Charles VII at the Homes of His Great Vassals (Charles VII chez ses grands vassaux, 1831) - drama, adapted for the opera The Saracen by Russian composer César Cui
Othon l’archer
The Fencing Master (Le Maître d'armes, 1840)
Castle Eppstein; The Specter Mother (Chateau d'Eppstein; Albine, 1843)
Georges (1843): The protagonist of this novel is a man of mixed race, a rare allusion to Dumas' own African ancestry.
The Nutcracker (Histoire d'un casse-noisette, 1844): a revision of Hoffmann's story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, later adapted by Tchaikovsky as a ballet
the D'Artagnan Romances:
The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires, 1844)
Twenty Years After (Vingt ans après, 1845)
The Vicomte de Bragelonne, sometimes called "Ten Years Later", (Le Vicomte de Bragelonne, ou Dix ans plus tard, 1847): When published in English, it was usually split into three parts: The Vicomte de Bragelonne, Louise de la Valliere, and The Man in the Iron Mask, of which the last part is the best known. (A third sequel, The Son of Porthos, 1883 (a.k.a. The Death of Aramis) was published under the name of Alexandre Dumas; however, the real author was Paul Mahalin.)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, 1845–1846)
The Regent's Daughter (Une Fille du régent, 1845)
The Two Dianas (Les Deux Diane, 1846)
the Valois romances
La Reine Margot (1845)
La Dame de Monsoreau (1846) (a.k.a. Chicot the Jester)
The Forty-Five Guardsmen (1847) (Les Quarante-cinq)
the Marie Antoinette romances:
Joseph Balsamo (Mémoires d'un médecin: Joseph Balsamo, 1846–1848) (a.k.a. Memoirs of a Physician, Cagliostro, Madame Dubarry, The Countess Dubarry, or The Elixir of Life)(Joseph Balsamo has a length of about 1000 pages, and is usually separated into 2 volumes in English translations: Vol 1. Joseph Balsamo and Vol 2. Memoirs of a Physician.)
The Queen's Necklace (Le Collier de la Reine, 1849–1850)
Ange Pitou (1853) (a.k.a. Storming the Bastille or Six Years Later)
The Countess de Charny (La Comtesse de Charny, 1853–1855) (a.k.a. Andrée de Taverney, or The Mesmerist's Victim)
Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge (1845) (a.k.a. The Knight of the Red House, or The Knight of Maison-Rouge)
The Black Tulip (La Tulipe noire, 1850)
The Page of the Duke of Savoy (Catherine Blum, 1853-4)
The Wolf-Leader (Le Meneur de loups, 1857)
The Gold Thieves (after 1857): a play that was lost but rediscovered by the Canadian Reginald Hamel, researcher in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in 2004
The Companions of Jehu (Les Compagnons de Jehu, 1857)
Robin Hood (Robin Hood le proscrit, 1863)
The Whites and the Blues (Les Blancs et les Bleus, 1867)
The Last Cavalier (Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine, 1869): This nearly completed novel was his last major work and was lost until its rediscovery by Claude Schopp in 1988 and subsequent release in 2005.
The Women's War: follows Baron des Canolles, a naive Gascon soldier who falls in love with two women.
[edit] Drama
Although best known now as a novelist, Dumas first earned fame as a dramatist. His Henri III et sa cour (1829) was the first of the great Romantic historical dramas produced on the Paris stage, preceding Victor Hugo's more famous Hernani (1830). Produced at the Comédie-Française, and starring the famous Mademoiselle Mars, Dumas' play was an enormous success, launching him on his career. It had fifty performances over the next year, extraordinary at the time.
Other hits followed. For example, Antony (1831) — a drama with a contemporary Byronic hero — is considered the first non-historical Romantic drama. It starred Mars' great rival Marie Dorval. There were also La Tour de Nesle — 1832, another historical melodrama, and Kean — 1836, based on the life of the great, and recently deceased, English actor Edmund Kean, played in turn by the great French actor Frédérick Lemaître. Dumas wrote many more plays and dramatized several of his own novels.
It is worthwhile to note that Dumas founded Théâtre Historique at the Boulevard du Temple in Paris, which later became Opéra National (established by Adolphe Adam in 1847). That in turn became Théâtre Lyrique in 1851.
@edgarblythe,
Wow! I know that great song, edgar. Love Grows where my Rosemary Goes is another "I don't know why I know it" experience.
Also appreciate your observations about Dumas's achievements. Read some of his stuff in French 101.
Inspired by Jefferson's "Color of Love" , here is one by Phil Collins.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmfqLOLCNi8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcUnFL1AhPw
Thanks for the Phil Collins.
Here is Beautiful.
@edgarblythe,
Beautiful is such a multi-faceted word, edgar, and that song by Christina explores the meaning quite well. Thanks, buddy.
Well, here's a couple of the rat pack members exploring every inch of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ7CvY-o8VE
