Word: somehow
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...move to NYC - I was looking for anything else by this guy Scorsese. Sitting there in the dark as the typewritten credits flashed on the screen, there was this SOUND. The main title for "Mean Streets" was, of course, "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes, which I had somehow slept through on its first appearance...
...Masters." To an obsessive, of course, the words "rare master" are Pavlovian triggers like "never released", "obscure B-side" and "the Beatles butcher-cover." That it turned out to be a great record was irrelevant - I had no choice. I was Ahab, the white whale was off the starboard. Somehow I got the money (probably around six or seven dollars) and "Rare Masters" was in my hands...
...Somehow I have a ticket to the RSC production of "Liaisons Dangereuses" on Broadway. I have a box seat, looking almost straight down on the heads of the players on the stage. I don't know the book - I read a rave review in the Times and wanted to see something "classy." I'm enjoying the Christopher Hampton dialogue very much, very clever, deliciously malicious. Suddenly, Madame de Tourvel collapses at the feet of Allan Rickman's Valmont. A shiver like a drug rush runs down my spine...
...record up to that time (I've paid more since). It was an anti-climax, of course - all the really great tunes were on the first one. Maybe I'd changed in the meantime, and was no longer open to the intensity I'd experienced with the original. Somehow Phil Spector had lost the ability to get me there, to put me in the flow, to peak me out. Who knows why? But for 20 years I had an obsession, a comforting, distracting, and consuming passion. The object of the hunt had not been the point, anyway - the hunt...
...Gore the environmentalist also got in a few good shots (attacking Texas? grim air quality and somehow getting Bush to assert "we don?t know the whole cause behind" global warming) before he went totally off-track and used a passage from the New Testament to defend his tree-hugger status. Bush came back with his usual line: "This is not a matter for federal jurisdiction...