This evening, I had dinner with my dad at On The Border, because Randy LOVES HIM A CHAIN RESTAURANT. This was our first face-to-face since my frog-throated, “Hey, Dad? I kind of don’t have a job anymore” phone call. Like most only children, I have this crippling fear of letting my parents down. I had protected them from my general unhappiness at my place of employment, so when the agency and I decided to break up, their reaction was more or less, “Wha happon?” But, you know, more articulate, and peppered with Michigan accents. Dinner tonight was nice. He could tell I was happy, that I had slept peacefully for the first time in a while.
However, the siren song of Half-Price Books was ringing out across 86th street - more specifically, their used vinyl section. I have found some GEMS. One of my favorite LPs I own — Judy Garland Live at Carnegie Hall (1961) — I purchased for 50 cents. So despite the necessary penny-pinching that will inevitably take over my life for the next however-long, I scoured the dusty sleeves and came up with these…
Neil Diamond: THE JAZZ SINGER
WHICH WAS OBVIOUSLY USED AS A COASTER AT SOME POINT. How DARE you use the Jewish Elvis’ art to protect your coffee table from leaky beverages! Don’t you worry, Jazz Singer LP. You’re in a good home now. PS. There might be a soul-defining, fist-pumping sing-along to “America” tonight.
Not pictured, because I’m lazy: the soundtrack to “My Fair Lady” with Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison. Is there anything more delicious than ol’ Rex’s melodic ramblings on, “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face”? I think not.
Bravo Pavarotti!
I’ve been getting back into opera lately (a bit of a revival from the Post-Break-Up Renaissance of this summer) so in addition to this Pavarotti Greatest Hits JAM I bought a recording of La Boheme at the Met. I’m pretty sure La Boheme is the Sgt. Pepper of operas, am I right? My knowledge is so basic, I get the impression that to the seasoned opera fan I’m basically saying, “HEY, HEY YOU GUYS - have you ever heard this song, ‘Satisfaction,’ by The Rolling Stones? It’s gonna blow your mind.” Still, you gotta start somewhere. I think a wise men once said, “People’s reactions to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic; they either love it or they hate it. If they love it, they will always love it. If they don’t, they may learn to appreciate it, but it will never become part of their soul.”
That wise man was Richard Gere, in the film, Pretty Woman.
January 27th, 2010 at 6:08 am
my sister works at that bookstore! she was off last night, however. also, i think la boheme would be more like revolver and turandot is the sgt. peppers of operas. heads are getting cut off all over the place, but there’s the awesome tenor aria up in the third act (with this sentence, i establish myself as king of all the douchebags).
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