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I never would have crossed this salt sea so wide if I'd have been ruled by you
Rabbit, rabbit! It is as coolly sunny outside as autumn. I do not expect it to last, but it looks nice. It brings all the usual ghosts.
I did not after all attend more than the first film of last night's marathon; we watched The African Queen (1952) and then we ran out for dinner at Saloniki and I looked seriously at my exhaustion levels and the fact that the movies I most wanted to see were not going on until midnight and three in the morning and we came home. I regret not seeing that much sea on a big screen, but I do not regret not feeling worse. I still didn't fall asleep until well after dawn, but at least I was in bed and not wrestling with the MBTA to get home to it. Have some links.
1. The original cast recording of the NYTF's Fidler afn dakh is now available and so are the lyrics in two languages and three versions. I will want that posthaste.
2. This comic about patriotism vs. nationalism is not recent, but I had not seen it before and it is relevant. See also Boston's "straight pride" parade.
3. In self-promoting news, my still-sole Lovecraftian story "All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts" has been positively reviewed by Bobby Derie at Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein: "It is wonderful in its way: bleak and unsparing as the love between distant cousins, tied together in the loose-knit way of diaspora, like seeking like, and yet feeling distant and alienated from their own kin. Because not everyone belongs. Not everyone can . . . and it isn't their fault. Isn't anyone's fault."
I forgot until I was reading someone else's social media that my high school graduation was twenty years ago this spring. I wonder if I missed a reunion.
I did not after all attend more than the first film of last night's marathon; we watched The African Queen (1952) and then we ran out for dinner at Saloniki and I looked seriously at my exhaustion levels and the fact that the movies I most wanted to see were not going on until midnight and three in the morning and we came home. I regret not seeing that much sea on a big screen, but I do not regret not feeling worse. I still didn't fall asleep until well after dawn, but at least I was in bed and not wrestling with the MBTA to get home to it. Have some links.
1. The original cast recording of the NYTF's Fidler afn dakh is now available and so are the lyrics in two languages and three versions. I will want that posthaste.
2. This comic about patriotism vs. nationalism is not recent, but I had not seen it before and it is relevant. See also Boston's "straight pride" parade.
3. In self-promoting news, my still-sole Lovecraftian story "All Our Salt-Bottled Hearts" has been positively reviewed by Bobby Derie at Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein: "It is wonderful in its way: bleak and unsparing as the love between distant cousins, tied together in the loose-knit way of diaspora, like seeking like, and yet feeling distant and alienated from their own kin. Because not everyone belongs. Not everyone can . . . and it isn't their fault. Isn't anyone's fault."
I forgot until I was reading someone else's social media that my high school graduation was twenty years ago this spring. I wonder if I missed a reunion.
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Thank you! I'm really pleased stories of mine don't just disappear.
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I bet The African Queen was great on a big screen. (I saw The Poseidon Adventure in a theater when it came out, which was fun.)
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I have no idea; we were watching a Technicolor 35 mm print from the Harvard Film Archive itself. Why do you ask?
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I'm hearing a lot about that because of the Somerville Theatre (and I think Disney is on absolutely the wrong track), but I don't see why it should have affected The African Queen: I do not believe it was either produced or distributed by Fox.
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Thank you!
I bet The African Queen was great on a big screen. (I saw The Poseidon Adventure in a theater when it came out, which was fun.)
It was fantastic! I had seen it before, but could not remember doing so in a theater. (I had never seen The Poseidon Adventure, but I am sure I will catch it again.)
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One of my all time favourites! :o)
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I recommend this version. It comes from the anthology Shirley Inspired . . . (2015)
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Thank you! (I would read both of those anthologies, yes.)
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That Fiddler sounds terrific and looks familiar.
Nine
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Thank you!
That Fiddler sounds terrific and looks familiar. negothick once clothed half of Anatevka in my cast-offs.
I loved it when I saw it last October. I wanted to be able to read the lyrics then!
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Prrrrrrrrrrrrrt.