SOME people refuse to pop their YouTube cherries, which I understand, but c'mon. It's freaking Donna Summer! How can you say no?
I had no idea how absurd the lyrics to MacArthur Park actually were until digging up this version with karaoke subtitles. Nor did I know that it had so much history until this moment right here when I felt driven to publicly shame Ms. Amy Ross into watching it so she could be like "Oh riiiight I totally know that song." Because she so totally does. You all do, right?
Note: If someone can find me a modern day version of Donna's jumpsuit, I will don it and make my karaoke debut. (We all have our own shameful pop culture deficits, do we not? What's yours?)
Bach's Suite No. 1 for Cello, performed by Pablo Casals (Part I)
The future version of myself who wears vintage couture for all special events is also a woman who has taken up the cello again.
I studied cello in junior high and part of high school before my attention wandered to boys, truancy and clove cigarettes. I can still play scales in my head and the horsehair bow is tucked away somewhere in its padded leather case.
Personal aspirations and disappointments aside, listening to music played on the cello, especially Bach as played by Casals: sublime.
