Music…

Don’t Look Back In Anger

(What’s The Story) Morning Glory?

Oasis
and Words

Slip inside the eye of your mind
Don’t you know you might find
A better place to play
You said that you’d never been
But all the things that you’ve seen
Will slowly fade away

Lyric excerpts from Musixmatch.


As I watched the Academy Awards a few weeks ago, the movie “Everything Everywhere All at Once” won most of the awards for which it was nominated.  I celebrated in stoic Asian pride as I watched people who looked like me shuffle onto the stage.  I watched the film only a few days preceding the Academy Awards, and to be perfectly honest it took more brain power for my state of inebriation at that moment.

Naturally, many of the faces on the stage were familiar.  However, there was one face, both on the stage and in the film that I was familiar, but I couldn’t quite place.  I scrolled through the cast listed in IMDB.  It was there that I got my answer, the actor was Harry Shum Jr.  Though now that I have a name to go with the face, the question was…  “Where have I seen him before?”

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Music…

We Go Together

Grease Soundtrack

Grease, Cast of
and Words

We go together like
Ra ma la ma la ma ka dinga kading a dong
Remember forever, as
Shoo wop shoo waddy waddy yippity boom de boom
Chang chang changity chang shoo bop
That’s the way it should be
Wahoo yeah

Lyric excerpts from Musixmatch.


I wore a toga in high school once.  Our high school ran a series of skits during my senior year.  Different groups would plan and perform small skits.  Our small modest club for Latin decided to put together a skit.  Honestly, it was scripted together hastily, almost as one may scribble something in the back of a napkin.  Our school, the South Plantation Paladins, faced the Dragons (possibly from Stranahan high school) in a football game.

The story in the skit was simple.  A number of us donned togas, as we represented the Latin Club.  The soldiers and paladin all wore traditional white togas, and the dragon wore a green toga with the sign ‘dragon’ on it.  The soldiers and the dragon battled across the stage with either plastic or cardboard swords.  Eventually the paladin joins the battle and slays the dragon in a single stroke.  There was really not much else to the skit.  I played the part of the dragon in a green toga.  I got cheers as I entered the stage.  Upon meeting my end in the skit, I drop to the wooden floor with a loud resounding thump.  The audience was in stitches.

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