Everyone has heard “Girl From Ipanema”; it’s one of the most popular songs in the world, after “Happy Birthday,” “Yesterday,” and “White Christmas.” It has become a bit of a lounge cliché, but try playing it using the original Jobim chords — it’ll kick your ass.
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In one strip, he is trying to wheedle Lucy into reading a story to him. Exasperated, she grabs a book at random from the shelf - “A man was born, he lived and he died. The End!” she says and tosses the book aside. Linus picks it up reverently. “What a fascinating account,” he says. “It almost makes you wish you had known the fellow.”
Gilbert and George reiterated their manifesto from 1969, the “Laws of Sculptors”, which includes the rules: “Always be smartly dressed, well groomed, relaxed and friendly, polite and in complete control”; “Make the world to believe in you and to pay heavily for this privilege”; “Never worry, assess, discuss or criticise, but remain quiet, respectful and calm”; and, “The Lord chisels still, so don’t leave your bench for long”. “Ban religion,” they added for good measure.
“I often characterize my days as: I get up and I get to work and I run as fast as I can all day long—and about 10 times a day I run smack into a brick wall, and it knocks me down on my rear end,” Platt says. “But every so often when I hit the wall, there’s a door there. And I get to run through the door. It only happens infrequently, but once you run through that door, it’s quite glorious.”
