Showing posts with label blues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blues. Show all posts

Nov 3, 2009

On Being Post-Revolutionary Aristocrat






















"...There's more. Blue is also the color of the wall paint, the velvet mantle-cover she leans against, its fringe and a tassel, the Sèvres and other porcelains on the mantle, assorted flowers, the pouch for her fan, the bell-rope to call servants, the paisley-like pattern on the gold and red cashmere shawl draped over a chair, gemstones in her jewelry, Louise's limpid eyes, even the pale shadows beneath her eyes and along the hand she holds at her chin."--The L.A. Times' Christopher Knight (?) writes the Frick's first loan of Louise de'Haussonville to a SoCal museum

Jul 17, 2009

Verses

"Death Sting Me Blues"
Sara Martin

I want all you women
to listen to my tale of woe
I want all you women
to listen to my tale of woe
I've got consumption of the heart
I feel myself sinking so

Oh my heart is aching
and the blues are all around my room
Oh my heart is aching
and the blues are all around my room
Blues is like the devil
they'll have me hell-bound soon

Blues, you make me roll and tumble
you make me weep and sigh
Lordy lordy lordy
blues you make me roll and tumble
you make me weep and sigh
Made me use cocaine and whiskey
but you wouldn't let me die

Blues: blues: blues
why did you bring trouble to me?
Blues: blues: blues
why did you bring trouble to me?
Oh death please sting me,
and take me out of my misery