We watched Breakfast at Tiffany's for the first time after work on Friday. That's a good way to end a week, by the way. Just ordering food for delivery and immediately putting on a movie. Within no time I had shifted out of work gear which is pretty hard for me to do sometimes.
But I gotta say, while the movie was pretty and all, I found that Holly Golightly character to be just dispicable. I don't care how beautiful she might be. I found her to be gross and totally unlikable. I don't know if she deserved a happy ending. So I don't think I will be watching it again soon.
But, one good thing that came of it is that I found a song to sing to the baby when it's 3am and I can't think of anything else to sing. I will be prepared. The words won't mean squat to the baby, but that's okay. It won't care. Babies just want you to sing at them sometimes, from what I understand. And this is a nice sleepy song with a melody that's interesting and strange enough that I won't get too tired of it too fast.
Just up to about a minute 20. After that you'd wake the baby. So I'd just sing this stretch over and over until I start to go insane, and then I'll switch to some Magnetic Fields song most likely. And now I feel just a little more prepared.
As a child, Mercer picked huckleberries (like wild blueberries) in the summer. To him, the berries had a personal connection with a carefree boyhood, strengthened by association with Mark Twain's character Huckleberry Finn.
ReplyDeleteThe implication was that Holly Golightly, who was actually of hillbilly stock, and Huckleberry Finn might well have been friends, if ever they had met.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3561782/The-story-behind-the-song-Moon-River.html
ReplyDeleteFantastic research, Mothra!
Delete"In the first flush of its release, more than a million copies of the sheet music were sold."
Don't you wish that kind of thing still happened today? I do. sheet music!! Today we're lucky if our lazy asses download an mp3