![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
You be well for me
Well, the weeping cherry decided to bloom. I even managed to get to it before it all fell onto the sidewalk like a cartoon.
There's just a lot of blossom going on there.
I don't the regular cherry has a bad angle on it.
I am not entirely sure what the interweave of Psycho (1960) is doing on the soundtrack, but otherwise I am a simple person of simple tastes who enjoys a well-made vid for the 1938 Pygmalion: "No Scrubs."
There's just a lot of blossom going on there.
I don't the regular cherry has a bad angle on it.
I am not entirely sure what the interweave of Psycho (1960) is doing on the soundtrack, but otherwise I am a simple person of simple tastes who enjoys a well-made vid for the 1938 Pygmalion: "No Scrubs."
no subject
Nine
no subject
The overcast hit just as I got to the trees and I decided I didn't care.
no subject
P.
no subject
Thank you!
no subject
no subject
I need to range farther afield in search of more flowering trees. My mother said there's a spectacular one at the corner of Howe and School.
no subject
Our own flowering cherry has pretty much set now so nearly all the blossom has gone, although living where we do, it always reminds me of 'loveliest of trees'.
'About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow'
no subject
To see the cherry hung with snow'
no subject
no subject
I am glad to be able to provide.
no subject
no subject
I ran across it while looking for a photo (which I still can't find) and I love it.
no subject
no subject
Me neither!
no subject
no subject
Yay.
no subject
no subject
They really make me happy to visit and share.
no subject
no subject
You're welcome!
The video's great too; I had no idea Leslie Howard had been in Pygmalion!
He's so good! I grew up on My Fair Lady, both original cast recording and 1964 film, but Howard and Wendy Hiller became my definitive Higgins and Eliza almost as soon as I'd seen them. I have an antique post about the 1938 Pygmalion which I keep meaning to revisit, both because it was early in my adult rediscovery of Howard and could have been better-written and also because some of my opinions have changed—my tolerance for Rex Harrison's Higgins seems to have dropped with the years, for one—but my affection for Howard and Hiller remains unaltered and I stand by the paradoxically more believable romantic potential of trash fire dork Henry Higgins. I shortchanged Hiller, but what she communicates effortlessly is that her Eliza's as smart as Higgins and far less afraid of people, which is why he doesn't know what to do with her or his feelings about her or the fact that he has feelings, really, phonetics are so much easier. The line about the Shavian irony of the casting is referring once again to half-immigrant Jewish Howard embodying quintessential, unassailable Englishness, like the flawlessness of Eliza's diction and accent giving away that she's an—aristocratic, romantic, thanks to Karpathy's Hungarian interpretation—impostor after all, because the people who are born on the outside of something are the ones who have to learn to perform it perfectly. Look, find the film wherever you can and watch it. I'll try to rewrite/re-review it someday.
no subject
* With occasional breaks for "(Don't Fear) the Reaper".
no subject
I had not been mainlining the original for a week and I still love the vid, so I think you're safe.
no subject
no subject
no subject
I like the things that grow on my street!
no subject
no subject
And I caught it just before it started to shed, too.
no subject
no subject
I've seen surprisingly few. There is obviously an untapped market.