CURRENT MISSION

We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

ABOUT ME

Jazz clarinetist,
Historian
free Poetry reader.

Lester’s speech was always obtuse:
-- he called everybody “Lady” this and “Lady” that; its how Billie Holiday came to be called “Lady Day.”

-- taking his sax to a repair shop he complained of trouble with the keys by saying “my people won’t play”

-- if something was a drag to Lester, it was “von Hangman”

-- he referred to a female as a “hat”, “homburg” or “mexican hat”, an attractive young female was “poundcake.”

-- if he sensed bigotry he’d say “I feel a draft.”

-- “can madame burn?” was asking if your wife could cook and so on.

PHILOSOPHY

As much as you can

Even if you cannot shape your life as you want it,
at least try this
as much as you can; do not debase it
in excessive contact with the world,
in the excessive movements and talk.

Do not debase it by taking it,
dragging it often and exposing it
to the daily folly
of relationships and associations,
until it becomes burdensome as an alien life.
Constantinos Kavafis

Interests

Excerpts of my Music:
http://www.myspace.com/lorenzosantoro

• poetry
• cooking
• shopping
• music
• jazz
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong

Celine,
Kafavis,
Carla Bley, Braxton,

Thou hast nor youth nor age,
But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep,
Dreaming on both; for all thy blessed youth
Becomes as aged, and doth beg the alms
Of palsied eld; and when thou art old and rich,
Thou hast neither heat, affection, limb, nor beauty,
To make thy riches pleasant.

Measure for Measure

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

morning very early

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