Good morning, may the Force be with you as the new week gets underway.
Today was the day that Live Aid happened back in 1985 – which may or may not have been the 80’s Woodstock, or so said Joan Baez. Wordsworth visited Tintern Abbey in 1798. It is also the day of the very first World Cup back in 1930.
Over in Poland, I see that the Princess is back to being a two-jar cat.
Hili: Do you see reproach in my eyes?
A: I do.
Hili: And?
A: Nothing. Destiny.
In Polish:
Hili: Czy widzisz wyrzut w moich oczach?
Ja: Widzę.
Hili: I co?
Ja: Nic, przeznaczenie.
And we get a bonus Leon monologue:
Leon: Could this be a Sisyphus’ stone?
See? It was just winter padding! oh … I still have mine 🙁
PS the first FIFA world cup was 1930…
The actual first world cup was in Italy in 1909 –
http://www.westauckland.plus.com/westaucklandweb/worldcup.html
A two jar cat trumps a three dog night by a significant margin.
Congrats to Hili for being back to 2 jars! And she has the art of looking reproachful down to a T. On the other hand… I’ve yet to meet a cat who hasn’t.
Leon sure has fun, is there a mouse involved?
Any stone can be pushed uphill forever, whether successfully or not…so, yes. And that particular stone would appear to be suitably Leon-sized….
b&
It would of course wear away eventually – an example of erosion & gradualism!
🙂
Yes, it would. And the burden would, of course, therefore lighten.
The true horror of Sisyphus’s punishment is realized when you recognize that such would make no difference. Imagine when it’s his burden to push a single atom up the hill….
b&
I need to lose a few more atoms!
It’s also Patrick Stewart’s 75th birthday, and the day Jean-Paul Marat was killed by Charlotte Corday.
Make it so!
Jean-Luc to Jean-Paul. Nicely done!
Yes, it’s unnecessarily churlish and ultra-left to criticize Live Aid but for me it rang the death knell of rock ‘n’ roll, the day the music died – Don McLean was a tad premature.
It celebrated, although few spotted it at the time, the wedding of pop’s youthful, chain-breaking freedom with the turn-key privatized prison of global media capitalists. Cool Hand Luke loves Big Brother.
Consider one of the earliest pop videos. Elvis’ performance of Jailhouse Rock. A set inspired, probably, by the staging of Miller’s ‘Death of a Salesman’ – tenements imprisoning the small man. And you have the play’s theme of working man’s story, the despair of hope and a kind of American response to Camus’ quasi-Buddhist Sisyphean interpretation that the struggle in life makes you happy.
Now the cutest jailbird you ever did see is Taylor Swift examining her uninteresting inner voice. x
Wow, I never knew Elvis was so deep!