More Music/Prayers For An Old Storyteller
Sep. 9th, 2009 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinI was going to use an entirely different recording of this song, but after getting back to my room and reading that Garrison Keillor has suffered a "minor stroke", this just jumped into my head:
It's from Robert Altman's lovely swan song, A Prairie Home Companion, a fictionalized film account of the end of Garrison Keillor's signature radio show with his whole cast of personae brought to life as separate members of a radio repertory company. A lot of people felt the movie was a big talkie mess, with plot threads brought up and dropped seemingly at random, with none of the expected morals or messages, and a lot of unnecessary ambiguity, especially at the end.
So of course, I loved it.
But then, I also loved Altman's other underrated musical treasure, Popeye.
Anyway, my thoughts go out to Mr. Keillor.
It's from Robert Altman's lovely swan song, A Prairie Home Companion, a fictionalized film account of the end of Garrison Keillor's signature radio show with his whole cast of personae brought to life as separate members of a radio repertory company. A lot of people felt the movie was a big talkie mess, with plot threads brought up and dropped seemingly at random, with none of the expected morals or messages, and a lot of unnecessary ambiguity, especially at the end.
So of course, I loved it.
But then, I also loved Altman's other underrated musical treasure, Popeye.
Anyway, my thoughts go out to Mr. Keillor.