Christmas Eve

[poliphilo]

1. We've treated ourselves to a Scrabble set.this Christmas. A sign of advancing age, I guess- wanting  to play board games.  I haven't played in 20 years, but it's like riding a bicycle, innit? On one of my turns I used all the letters in my rack and copped the 50 point bonus. Tee-hee! The word I scored with was DANGEROUS.

2. I've borrowed Joe's Hair CD. Turns out it's the soundtrack of the not very good Milos Forman film. Ah well, it'll do. Now to relive my youth!

3. We watched a documentary about Piaf last night. She was another like Lautrec who drove herself into an early grave with all the fun she had. Menandboozeandpills. And workworkwork. She signed off at 48 whereas Lautrec only got to 36. This particular film must have been made with the US market in mind because it gave far too much time to her transatlantic career. Did you know that at her peak only Sinatra and Crosby were selling more records? But  that's irrelevant. Piaf is Paris as Paris is Piaf. Her rather sweet, little, final husband drove her corpse up over night from the South of France so that the legend could be rounded off with the fiction that she'd died in her native city.

4. Thank you for the mistletoe, mam_adar

Comments

Re: Hair!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Here in Britain we were expecting the Lord Chamberlain to either close Hair down or insist on cuts. When he didn't do either we knew that the old order had passed away...

Re: Hair!

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

That was an amazing time - wasn't it? For all our problems life had a buzz, an edge that I don't think the suceeding genrations experienced. I don't know about in England, but in the US many of us really believed that we WERE changing the world. Maybe some of the changes we set in motion were not always so good - but we did it.

Re: Hair!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The Age of Aquarius was dawning.

Then something went wrong...

Re: Hair today - what tomorrow?

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

In America: Jack was shot; then Martin, then Bobby. My husband and I were campaining in NYC during the last 2. That war ended - finally, but something did happen then. As Clinton says in his autobiography, the extreme right / moral majority came to believe that any means justified their end - the control of power in the USA and through that - control of the developed west. So.....today we have Iraq ....and then what? I'm too old for this Shit!