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artaxastra, of Mystique, Magneto and Nightcrawler.
Went and saw an Arthur Miller play called Broken Glass (well, that was the German title - not sure whether it's also the English one) . The theatre - the Rennaissance theatre in the Hardenberger Straße - was fascinating, an old art deco building with beautiful wood carvings by Cesar Klein, in the Chinese style popular during the fin du siècle. Alas, the play was not, though the actors gave their all. It's just that Miller is treading old ground here, and one he trod better before, plus with its earnest belief in the powers of psychoanalysis, it really could be from the early 50s. And then there's the fact that while it supposedly centers around a woman, the character who's really getting all the authorial attention in terms of character development is her husband, angsting about being impotent, being less intelligent than his wife and being Jewish. Ah, well. A mediocre play by Arthur Miller is still better than a lot of the stuff one otherwise gets to see in the theatre, and given its setting in 1938, passing several monuments dedicated to the victims of the Third Reich was even more resonant than usual.
On my way here to Berlin, in the air plane, I got frivolous and gave in to the temptation to do filk again, this time for Babylon 5. I still blameandrastewhite, however; if I had not done the Trio musical with her back then, I never would have done this. With all due apologies to Paul McCartney and the late John Lennon (given the Centauri fondness for women, wine and song, I have a feeling Londo wouldn't mind), I present a B5 filk set in the first season
LONDO'S LAMENT
Yesterday
all our enemies were so far away.
Now they're here and make a great display -
oh, I believe in yesterday.
Why not let it go?
I don't know, I couldn't say.
This is just so wrong -
how I long
for yesterday.
Certainly
the Centauri are not what they used to be:.
look, G'Kar's lording all over me!
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
Why not let it go?
I don't know, I couldn't say.
This is just so wrong -
how I long
for yesterday.
I'm a fool.
Once the stars were ours to rule!
What this Morden offers does look cool -
yes, I'll accept this shiny tool!
Why not let it go?
I don't know, I couldn't say.
This is just so wrong -
how I long
for yesterday.
artaxastra, of Mystique, Magneto and Nightcrawler. Went and saw an Arthur Miller play called Broken Glass (well, that was the German title - not sure whether it's also the English one) . The theatre - the Rennaissance theatre in the Hardenberger Straße - was fascinating, an old art deco building with beautiful wood carvings by Cesar Klein, in the Chinese style popular during the fin du siècle. Alas, the play was not, though the actors gave their all. It's just that Miller is treading old ground here, and one he trod better before, plus with its earnest belief in the powers of psychoanalysis, it really could be from the early 50s. And then there's the fact that while it supposedly centers around a woman, the character who's really getting all the authorial attention in terms of character development is her husband, angsting about being impotent, being less intelligent than his wife and being Jewish. Ah, well. A mediocre play by Arthur Miller is still better than a lot of the stuff one otherwise gets to see in the theatre, and given its setting in 1938, passing several monuments dedicated to the victims of the Third Reich was even more resonant than usual.
On my way here to Berlin, in the air plane, I got frivolous and gave in to the temptation to do filk again, this time for Babylon 5. I still blame
andrastewhite, however; if I had not done the Trio musical with her back then, I never would have done this. With all due apologies to Paul McCartney and the late John Lennon (given the Centauri fondness for women, wine and song, I have a feeling Londo wouldn't mind), I present a B5 filk set in the first seasonLONDO'S LAMENT
Yesterday
all our enemies were so far away.
Now they're here and make a great display -
oh, I believe in yesterday.
Why not let it go?
I don't know, I couldn't say.
This is just so wrong -
how I long
for yesterday.
Certainly
the Centauri are not what they used to be:.
look, G'Kar's lording all over me!
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
Why not let it go?
I don't know, I couldn't say.
This is just so wrong -
how I long
for yesterday.
I'm a fool.
Once the stars were ours to rule!
What this Morden offers does look cool -
yes, I'll accept this shiny tool!
Why not let it go?
I don't know, I couldn't say.
This is just so wrong -
how I long
for yesterday.
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Ah, ins Berlin, ins Berlin...
Date: 2003-12-12 12:24 am (UTC)And yes, this comment is mostly me tsaying in touch (waves)
humming Marlene tunes myself here...
Date: 2003-12-12 12:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-12 02:19 am (UTC)you better run!
Date: 2003-12-12 04:00 am (UTC)Re: you better run!
Date: 2003-12-12 07:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-12 02:28 am (UTC)I will....
Date: 2003-12-12 02:23 pm (UTC)filk
Date: 2003-12-12 03:52 am (UTC)F.
a recording, please!
Date: 2003-12-12 03:59 am (UTC)And isn't it just the song for Londo, even in the original text?
filk
Date: 2003-12-12 06:02 am (UTC)my abilities as a guitar player are good for the campfire, but for little else. Never having heard bimo sing is a greater loss, to mind ;-). She will not agree, though ;-))
But if I can still find a mic that works (that might be difficult) and can talk bimo into recording the thing (likely to be even more difficult), I'll do a recording.
>And isn't it just the song for Londo, even in the original text
Yes and no. ;-)
Seeing Londo as emperor with almost everything gone wrong that could go wrong, a definite yes.
But if you have him looking back on his life, what time would he choose to long for? (Apart, maybe, from the few happy moments with Adira or other brief glimpses of happiness?) Was there really a time when his troubles seemed far to him? Not his youth nor his childhood, definitively. And the times that we know of? Maybe, in retrospect, his first year on B5.
Still the feeling of the song is right for him. I see him longing for a life in the good old days of the Centary republic. Being emperor back then, I am sure he would have liked that.
But looking for a "perfect" text for him is a nice idea. It led my thoghts here:
http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem1451.html
He is the perfect an for an Altersklage wouldn't you agree?
F.
no subject
Date: 2003-12-12 09:29 am (UTC)This is particularly funny since just a couple of days ago my sister and I were filking the very same song in the vein of the VSDs ("Yesterday/Gandalf told everyone he was gay/But he didn't really have to say/That he slept with Elrond that day....")
I like it! :D :D
thank you!
Date: 2003-12-12 02:21 pm (UTC)*g*
Date: 2003-12-12 12:39 pm (UTC)thank you!
Date: 2003-12-12 02:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-12-12 09:32 pm (UTC)I'm accepting no responsibility if it ever leads to Babylon 5: The Musical, though ...
we established no such thing!
Date: 2003-12-12 10:39 pm (UTC)