#243 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Saturday January 8)
Good morning,
Following up on last year’s Halloween selection of “spooky” songs, here are others that should have been on the list:
“Suddenly Seymour,” a duet that definitively demonstrates that musical theatre can find beauty and emotion in the most unlikely of situations:
How this tune brings a smile and a tear—on so many levels. A wonderful commentary was posted on-line regarding on this clip:
“I absolutely LOVE this scene and song, for both its musical and metaphorical greatness. Before this scene, Audrey was this dainty little flower, easily crushed by the boots of her abusive boyfriend. She was extremely shy and timid, never raising her voice above a whisper, but in this scene, she realizes that she doesn't have to be that way. She realizes that she is greater than what her old boyfriend said she was, and that she can be.”
“Toxic,” by Britney Spears:
“Theme from The Munsters”:
And because Cindy Kohlbry asked for it, let’s do the “Time Warp,” again:
POETRY
MY LIFE WOULD BE A POEM
By Henry David Thoreau
My life has been the poem I would have writ
But I could not both live and utter it.
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY
By Billy Collins
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide
or press an ear against its hive.
I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,
or walk inside the poem’s room
and feel the walls for a light switch.
I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author’s name on the shore.
But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.
They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.
Have a great day,
Glenn
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