Sunday, 4/8/12

by musicclipoftheday

Aretha testifies

Aretha Franklin, “Surely God Is Able,” live, Detroit, 1990

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random thoughts: Marcel Proust (or is it Samuel Beckett?) on Opening Day

You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

Actually, it’s Joe DiMaggio. But for Joltin’ Joe, like Marvelous Marcel and Slammin’ Sammy, life consists largely of “look[ing] forward” to things, “wonderful” things—things that seldom, if ever, actually “happen.” Just ask the Cubs: going into the eighth inning of Thursday’s opener, they were winning 1-0; they lost 2-1.