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We spent our weekend watching baseball games. Four on Saturday and three on Sunday. Our friend Ernie's High School team won both of their games on Saturday. The Vipers won two on Saturday themselves. Then they came back and won two on Sunday bringing them to the Championship game.
Unfortunately, they ran into a buzz-saw. This team had held out their ace, a 6' - 13 year old with a little peach fuzz on his chin. In tournaments like this, it always comes down to which team has the most depth in pitching.
Our friend Peter did well the entire weekend, pitching, playing short stop and even catching. He had a great relay throw from the center fielder and throwing out a runner going into third base.
Sunny and beautiful both days, today had to be about 80 degrees. Nice to have the warm weather again. I know...it never gets real cold here in Memphis, but it is all relative when you acclimate to a new climate.
Missed "Dexter" tonight...Arg... I know, I know...I should go rent the DVD's...the shows on CBS are edited... no showing of the cool stuff, like when Dexter repays the serial killers he hunts for their crimes...
HEY SHOW US SOME BLOOD & GUTS AND BODY PARTS!... hehehehehe
No, no...not letting him out tonight...
How about some music to sooth the savage beast?
Wow, I just thought of that line.
Didn't I? What?
The line is actually, "Music has charms to sooth a savage beast".
OH!
What? Oh, I didn't just think of it?
The phrase comes from the play "The Mourning Bride" written in 1697 by William Congreve It appears in Act 1, scene 1, actually opening the play,
OH!
Musick has Charms to sooth a savage Breast,
To soften Rocks, or bend a knotted Oak.
I've read, that things inanimate have mov'd,
And, as with living Souls, have been inform'd,
By Magick Numbers and persuasive Sound.
What then am I? Am I more senseless grown
Than Trees, or Flint? O force of constant Woe!
'Tis not in Harmony to calm my Griefs.
Anselmo sleeps, and is at Peace; last Night
The silent Tomb receiv'd the good Old King;
He and his Sorrows now are safely lodg'd
Within its cold, but hospitable Bosom.
Why am not I at Peace?
Congreve only wrote 5 plays in his career, but two phrases used to this day both come from this one play. The other phrase?
Well it is, "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned"
Act 3, Scene 2 ends with those word:
As you'll answer it, take heed
This Slave commit no Violence upon
Himself. I've been deceiv'd. The Publick Safety
Requires he should be more confin'd; and none,
No not the Princes self, permitted to
Confer with him. I'll quit you to the King.
Vile and ingrate! too late thou shalt repent
The base Injustice thou hast done my Love:
Yes, thou shalt know, spite of thy past Distress,
And all those Ills which thou so long hast mourn'd;
Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd
OK, not really sure where all that came from...buut I was really talking about THIS kind of music...
"Seven Bridges Road" was written by Steve Young. He recorded in 1969 for his Rock Salt & Nails album. The definitive version is the cover recorded by The Eagles in 1980.
Eagles Live was released on November 7th, 1980. "Seven Bridges Road" was recorded on July 28, 1980, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
ENJOY.....(I hope this is working...it is late again...)- Well lifelogger does not like this song, giving us error message upon uploading.....arg!
