News from Spokane!
Zamboni Flambé
Since we started with the Eurythmics, we may as well end with them.
Song of 2020
Corporate Strategy
Ruby Bridges/Kamala Harris – nicely done
Meanwhile..Anarchy!
Today’s musical selection, also from ‘Cabaret’ is almost the anti-2020 song. With half the world, it seems, in lockdown most of us can only fantasize about this kind of thing. But we can look forward to its return! Liza Minnelli won an Academy Award for this show as did Joel Grey.
Street Art
You have been warned!
We’ve been watching ‘Babylon Berlin’ on Netflix. It’s set in Berlin around 1920 and watching it reminded me of Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories around which the show ‘Cabaret’ is loosely based. So here is the fabulous Joel Grey singing ‘Willkommen’ in the opening of the 1972 adaptation of Cabaret. It’s an amazing scene!
I have some reactions to the presidential election results…
And over at CNN…
Today is the birthday (in 1936) of Mary Travers. She, along with Peter Yarrow and Paul Stuckey were ‘Peter, Paul and Mary’ one of the most successful groups of the folk revival of the sixties. One of their biggest hits was Bob Dylan’s ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ which they sang at the 1963 March on Washington.
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