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I wombat - 2004-09-01 09:13:47
What an amazing, lucid, dream! it sounds like a metaphor for your yoga teaching.
I was feeling sad enough without reading the lyrics to September Song, although it's a good tune the lyrics seem more effective on thier own.
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Paula - 2004-09-01 09:38:31
Hi Wombat. Hmm, harkening back to the sad song discussion: yeah, the song is certainly wistful, but thankfully not altogether a downer. "These precious days I'll spend with you," is kind of a happy ending. At least he's not saying, "these precious days, I'll die lying in a puddle of my own urine, alone with no heirs."
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I wombat - 2004-09-01 09:44:36
Yes it's true, but it still makes me feel sad, but not bad.
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Tom Ronca - 2004-09-01 10:19:35
Paula, you actually have heard the word "indefatigable" spoken aloud -- and just not realized it -- assuming of course that you've seen "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". It's spoken quite clearly (although the overemphasis on certain syllables is probably what threw you off . . .) in the Camelot Song-and-Dance number that occurs about a third of the way through the film. You know the one, "We're the Knights of the Round Table, we dance whenever we're able . . ." and so on.
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Tom Ronca - 2004-09-01 10:26:19
Just to make sure this is completely run into the ground . . . The complete lyrics to the Python "Camelot Song" (please note third paragraph) --
We're Knights of the Round Table.
We dance whene'er we're able.
We do routines and chorus scenes
With footwork impeccable.
We dine well here in Camelot.
We eat ham and jam and spam a lot.
We're Knights of the Round Table.
Our shows are formidable,
But many times we're given rhymes
That are quite unsingable.
We're opera mad in Camelot.
We sing from the diaphragm a lot.
In war we're tough and able,
Quite indefatigable.
Between our quests we sequin vests and impersonate Clark Gable.
It's a busy life in Camelot.
I have to push the pram a lot.
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Paula - 2004-09-01 10:33:47
Um...I've never seen this movie. I'm a disgrace to the geek clan, I know.
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Erica - 2004-09-01 10:52:20
Do you have a favorite version of the song? Mine is Sarah Vaughan, I think; or Ella Fitzgerald on "The Intimate Ella."
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Paula - 2004-09-01 11:02:09
Sarah Vaughn sings the Monty Python song? Oh, wait.
Well, my favorite version of "September Song" is my mom's, sung over the phone at 6:00 in the morning while I have a hangover.
This is the family tradition I alluded to--Mom would sing the song every Sept 1. After we'd all grown up and flown the coop, she'd call us up individually and sing it over the phone, usually at some ungodly hour.
The one time that then-boyfriend Dave ever had contact with my mom before she died was hearing her sing that song over the phone.
A year later, at my September wedding, Dave secretly arranged to have his friends perform the song during dinner. It is one of my favorite surprises ever, and of course it made us all cry, and I'm getting a little teary now just thinking about all the diaphanous layers of sadness this recalls.
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amatt - 2004-09-01 12:07:02
Paula, your wonderful.
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I wombat - 2004-09-01 12:50:34
hey Andy, I think we all agree with your sentiment, but please, use your apostrophes, it's "Paula you're wonderful".
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E - 2004-09-01 13:51:55
How bittersweet -- like September itself. And although I've never used the word 'diaphanous' in conversation or in writing, I no longer need to; you created the most perfect phrase.
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Vile aficionado - 2004-09-01 14:34:20
My father, who was a Weill aficionado, preferred the Lotte Lenya version of "September Song." He played Lenya a lot and I was quite shocked years later to see her as one of the vile villians in "From Russia With Love."
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amatt - 2004-09-01 15:24:29
Gee Wombat, what about
"Paula, your ummm...wonderful."
or
"Paula, you be wonderful...and so am I."
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I wombat - 2004-09-01 15:35:41
andy, well, I think the "you be" formation is fine, the other is still a little confusing.
I didn't much like a Lou Reed version I heard, but reading the text makes me see the urge to just speak the words, which is pretty much what he did.
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Paula - 2004-09-01 15:45:51
I didn't much like a Lou Reed version I heard
I think I can apply this to pretty much any Lou Reed version of anything. But I still love his songs.
As for Lotte Lenya, I would have to agree. She was his muse, no?
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WeillBodies - 2004-09-01 16:20:55
Lotte was indeed his hottie (and wife I believe)
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Trixter (with a WaughWaugh pedal) - 2004-09-02 09:04:46
"WeillBodies" -- hah!
Embarrassing admission (but if one can't be truthfull in Paula's comments space, where can one?): When you first mentioned "September Song," my short-circuiting brain started up Neil Diamond singing, "September morn, we danced until the night became a brand new day," etc. ad nauseum.
Then I smacked my brain back into shape and remembered "September Song." Anyway, thank you for sharing your mother's tradition -- that's truly lovely.
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