Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for February 15, 2010

Petey melts with relief….

You should have said something to her! You have much more restraint than I do, Petey.

Petey looks like he’s about to faint from relief!

…change is over rated anyway. overrated. overated. where’s my dictionary.

luezer……. hahaha

He’ll soon discover that change is the one constant that never changes.

Told you she’d still use Petey Potterpoop. She’s just a female bully.

You really really really lucked out, Petey.

it’s not over yet petey, waituntil alice tells everyone at your school that you indirectly gave it to her.

bwahahahahahaha

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Petey’s interactions with Viola have been ill-defined, ambiguous, confusing, contradictory, and otherwise higgledy-piggledy all along, so what does a return to status quo really mean?

La donna è mobile Qual piuma al vento, Muta d’accento — E di pensiero.

Don’t let your guard down, Petey… she’s full of it.

She hung it on her backpack with the rest of her PRIZED possessions. Actions speak louder than words, lad.

“Petey melts with relief”

More like relieves himself in his pants.

Caught my eye again, fritzoid - I have the recording by Mario Lanza…

Ushindi Yesterday I saw “The Lady Eve” (Stanwyck, Fonda & great supporting cast) on TCM. Another one for my wish-list.

Actually, I don’t have much patience for opera, particularly if it’s not in English. The only one I’ve ever seen is Carmen, and that was recommended by an opera-loving aunt because it has a juicy plot and catchy (and familiar) tunes. But I got frustrated because the whole medium seems like a really inefficient way to tell a story.

Him: O woe is me, for I have killed your bro-o-other! Her: It’s true, I see, that you have killed my bro-o-other! All: What shall they do, for he has killed her bro-o-other!

Him: I must away, for I have killed your bro-o-other! Her: You cannot stay, for you have killed my bro-o-other! All: If we were you, we’d not have killed her bro-o-other!

Him: Here come the guards, I must be gone! Her: Those rotten guards, it’s not yet dawn! All: So long! So long! (We mean THIS SONG!) If he is caught, it is just wrong! He cannot stay, he must away, without delay, for HE HAS KILLED HER BROTHER!!!!!

Me: “Just GO already!”

The only opera I like is from “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen.

Actually, fritzoid, I don’t have an opera (not a fan, either), but a 2 disc collection of Mario Lanza singing various songs (used to have some 78s by him but they’ve bitten the dust over the years - still have some Al Jolson 78s, though, as well as others, like Ruth Etting - before your time, of course)

BC13: You’re going to think bad things about me again, but I avoid anything with Barbara Stanwyck as much as I avoid Joan Crawford. We just have different tastes (but both love old movies). Henry Fonda? Yes!

Ushindi Diffrerent taste indeed. I was not a big fan of Fonda or Sinatra or cooler king McQueen. Fonda was bearable in Fort Apache, but John Wayne stole the show in my opinion. And I liked the Lady Eve because of Stanwyck and the strong supporting cast. In My Darling, Clementine, I cheered for the Clantons.

Of the female leads, my favorites are, of course, Stanwyck, Katherine Hepburn, Lauren Bacall, Gene Tierney and Doris Day (Yes I do have Marilyn flicks). Of the male leads, Bogy, Cagney, The Duke, Gable & Cooper with special mention to Tracy and Eastwood.

I don’t know if this has anything to do with what you guys are talking about, but I recently saw Fonda in “Twelve Angry Men” incredible! And Rod Steiger in “Heat Of The Night” with Sidney Poitier (sp?)… freaking riveting!!

BC13, if you like “Bohemian Rhapsody” (well, who doesn’t?), you should check out “March of the Black Queen” on Queen II. Also their first album (Queen) pretty much in its entirety plays with that operatic-glam-prog-metal synthesis (with no synthesizers!) that reached its peak (at least in the public consciousness) with “BohoRhap”. I don’t currently own a copy of A Night at the Opera, but those first two albums are the ones I consider essential.

Bistow I admit to liking 12 Angry Men, though I do not own it. But I also loved Witness for the Prosecution (Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone Power), which I must* own some day.

Ther is one Fonda flick I feel I must own, which is The Oxbow Incident, with Harry Morgan as Fonda’s side-kick.

Fritzoid You are talking to one of the biggest pre-synth Queen fans. I have Queen, Queen ll, Shear Heart Attack (My Fav) Night At the Opera, Day At the Races, News Of the World, Jazz and Live Killers. I stopped there as they were getting far too commercial beyond that point, but my favorites were the first 4 as they slowly started going downhill from there. For a time, my anthem was Keep Yourself Alive. I loved March of the Black Queen and Roger Taylor’s Loser In the End, Tenement Funster and Drowse.

Fritzoid I might also add Death On Two Legs in honor of their ex-manager at the time.

Harry Morgan is cool.

My favorite: What’s Opera, Doc?

I was never a big fan of Day at the Races, but I think we became disenchanted at more or less the same point. I bought The Game, but that album kept me from buying any more. (Except the Flash Gordon soundtrack. I know they started with synths on that one, but I still love it.) I still can’t stand the idea that “Another One Bites the Dust” was a hit. Terrible, terrible song… (In general, I think John Deacon was expendable. But while I think that Brian and Freddie more or less were the band, I liked Roger’s tracks even though they kinda stuck out…)

Fritzoid Day at the Races (like News of World, etc) had its moments. If it weren’t so late, I’d want to put on Brighton Rock right now.

Say, “You’re welcome, Nellie No-Knockers”!