Monday, July 6, 2009

Moonlight


Clair de Lune by Claude Debussy, especially as played by Van Cliburn.
The life in this song is so present that sometimes I can't listen to it.
Not tonight.
Over and over, it's playing. I have no intention to stop it.

And it makes me think of Papa.

He loved to record the most oddly random movies off of the television and onto VHS tapes.
He never wrote the actual names of the movies on the tapes. No. It was always some descriptive noun or adjective, followed by "movie," and written in all capital letters.

The titles were pretty straightforward, like


"PAVAROTTI MOVIE"

or

"CAR MOVIE"

There was this one we used to watch all the time about a few hapless bums and their racetrack dog. Papa entitled this one,

"GOOD MOVIE"

...and that's what we all called it. And it was.

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