Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

Gran Vals - Francisco  Tarrega Best remembered now because of your old phone.

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven William Butler Yeats Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

RIP Dr. Jane Fortune Historian, philanthropist, art collector, author Warrior for the  recognition of women in art

While at Cambridge, Sam Mendes directed Cyrano de Bergerac starring the amazing Tom Hollander! Oh for a time machine!

I always confuse explorers Burke & Wills with bodysnatchers Burke & Hare. My apologies to Australia,

                                                          MINT                                                                         CARAWAY The molecules that make up the scents of spearmint and caraway are identical, but with opposite orientation. They are mirror images of the chemical carvone. Mint is oriented to the left, caraway to the right.

"A writer's flaws are what he has to work with." - George Saunders

Derek Jarman designed the set for the Rik Mayall/Ade Edmonsen Waiting for Godot in 1991.

As far as the people who went down with the Titanic knew, the Mona Lisa was lost forever...

1980. I was 15 years old. Sitting on the couch with my Dad watching Derek Jacobi in the BBC Hamlet on PBS. My Riverside open on my lap. And every once in a while my Dad, recognizing a phrase, would say "Wait a minute! THAT'S from Hamlet?" One of my greatest memories!

With Voyager 1, the music of Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Stravinsky, Chuck Berry, Blind Willie Johnson and many others has gone beyond the edge of the solar system and the reach of the solar wind. Carl Sagan wanted to include Here Comes the Sun. The Beatles liked the idea. The execs at EMI, in their wisdom, said no.

Rococo TAKE HANDS  and part with laughter;     Touch lips and part with tears; Once more and no more after,     Whatever comes with years. We twain shall not remeasure     The ways that left us twain; Nor crush the lees of pleasure     From sanguine grapes of pain. We twain once well in sunder,     What will the mad gods do For hate with me, I wonder,     Or what for love with you? Forget them till November,     And dream there’s April yet; Forget that I remember,     And dream that I forget. Time found our tired love sleeping,     And kissed away his breath; But what should we do weeping,     Though light love sleep to death? We have drained his lips at leisure,     Till there’s not left to drain A single sob of pleasure,     A single pulse of pain. Dream that the lips once breathless     Might quicken if they would; Say that the soul is deathless;     Dream that the gods are good; Say March may wed September,     And time divorce regret; But n

Wendy and Susannah Melvoin (of Prince and the Revolution) and Jonathan Melvoin (of The Smashing Pumpkins) were all the children of Wrecking Crew pianist Mike Melvoin.

Watching The Pearl of Death (1944) A gift is delivered for Holmes of a "1757 Folio first edition of Johnson's dictionary." Holmes GUESSES that the book is booby trapped, based on the restriction that only he open it. He never mentions the two obvious flaws in the courier's description of the gift. First Johnson's Dictionary was first published in 1755, not 1757. Second, the volume provided by the props master was not a Folio.  It is, maybe, Quarto. Holmes missed these details, but I didn't. I didn't! "Nobody's smart but me!"

"Feeling Good" is by Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse? And is from The Roar of the Greasepaint -- The Smell of the Crowd??