Monday, January 19, 2009

Ode To Those Who've Heard The Barmaids Singing*




Fig. 1. Édouard Manet - Un bar aux Folies Bergère, 1881-2



Fig. 2. John Brack - The Bar, 1954



Fig. 3. Yasumasa Morimura - Daughter of Art History: Theatre B, 1998


'An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.'

Dylan Thomas


* 'I have heard the mermaids singing each to each / I do not think that they will sing to me.' The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1917) by T.S. Eliot


Addendum:



Leonard Cohen - Closing Time (click image to access clip on YouTube)





Fig. 2. The Lost in Space (1965-68) cast: Mark Goddard, June Lockhart, Guy Williams, Billy Mumy, Angela Cartwright, Jonathan Harris, Marta Kristen and Bob May (as "The Robot").