I've been thinking about this post below, and have decided that I need to take some time off from posting on this list. I'd like to thank you all for listening to my no doubt misdirected rants and I'd like to wish you all a nice summer. I just thought I'd mention that the Seekers took their melody for the Carnival is Over from the song Stenka Rasin. I've pasted the only link Youtube seems to have. The fact that it's from their farewell concert is sheer coincidence. The words from S.R. superimpose perfectly but needless to say the Carnival is Over is not S.R. I listened today to, talk about a rant, Marshall Goldman carrying on about Petrostate Russia. The U.S. does exactly the same things they do (our Veep is straight out of industry, etc. etc.), but that's different. It's so sad that he spends his life studying something that he can't find one good thing to say about. Why not find another country to study? Anyway, no Persian princesses being thrown overboard here (BTW, Iranian beluga caviar is golden today because beluga sturgeons rescued the princess and brought her home): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nze8B39OB0k Here is a musical tango version of S.R., put your dancing shoes on; the writing on the record is Polish from what I can tell: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN-tNwcJosg&NR=1 Then pour a nice drink and try a jazzy, pretty version of Dark Eyes (Ochi Chernye): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itbJkf74z24 And with that, have a nice summer all. --- On Sun, 6/1/08, Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Here's a new spin on preventative medicine To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Sunday, June 1, 2008, 2:21 AM Robert Paul wrote, in response to someone's little rant: "Noted." Someone is doing their 'Andy' routine again. I think of it as watching a psychodrama. Sometimes farce, sometimes tragic, always pathological. Sincerely, Phil Enns Yogyakarta, Indonesia ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html