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Young Frankenstein, at the Carmel Golden Bough PacRep theater
6/18 - 7/26
We saw this incredible musical production Thursday evening and would highly recommend it. The cast was first rate and the staging and overall production was amazing.
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The Golden Bough is a fantastical object in the Aeneid, an epic poem by the 1st century BCE Roman poet Virgil. The Trojan hero Aeneas is tasked to find the bough and remove it from its host tree to prove his divine favour before his journey into the Underworld. It briefly resists as he does so β the implications of...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Bough_(Aeneid)
I will get the #goldenbough citation if I have to, but oh, the Other Things I have to attempt to day...
Did we soften up too much on term limits for kings?
Remember how we used to do annual term limits with 0 messing around?
A fascinating interpretation of the 1979 film, APOCALYPSE NOW.
#film #movies #cinema #Coppola #GoldenBough #myth #mythology
Musical Interlude: I was really into the folk group Golden Bough for a while, until I came to feel their work was a bit uneven and sometimes rather...watery? I guess? But when they're good, they're GOOD, like in this touching version of a traditional carol that's one of my favorites. This can really move me if I'm in the right mood...
"It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," performed by Golden Bough.
Riddle 44
King of the wood, and priest am I,
With dear-bought freedom, doomed to die.
To gain my post, I killed the last,
As he before me. I forecast
That my successor, younger, stronger,
Will come when I can fight no longer
To keep my name. Perhaps itβs nowβ
I see youβve plucked the golden bough.
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