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A song about singing off key.

"Desafinado":



There are many, many versions of that song, which has been around since 1959. I embedded that one because no ad came up and because it sounds (and looks) beautiful. I love the idea of a song about singing off key and a beautiful melody expressing being off key (though I don't know enough about music to speak about whether the music actually is off key).

You might also like this Julie London version (which plays over photos of the very lovely Julie London, my father's favorite singer):



I went searching for the song — which I remembered by title but couldn't connect to what turned out to be a very familiar melody — because it came up in a book I was reading:

“What were you talking about so long over there?” I asked, munching on a cracker.

“You, of course,” said Reiko, cradling the cat and rubbing her cheek against it. “He says you’re a very proper young man, a serious student.”

“Are you sure he was talking about me?”

“There is not the slightest doubt in my mind that he was talking about you,” she said with a laugh. Then, noticing my guitar, she picked it up, adjusted the tuning, and played Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Desafinado.”

The book is "Norwegian Wood," by Haruki Murakami.

A great read. Why was I reading that? In the course of haphazard clicking the other day, I got to "15 sights that make Tokyo so fascinating" (HuffPo), and it was weird to find one of the things on the list wasn't a sight in Tokyo: "7. Norwegian Wood":

Not exactly a sight in the sense that you can visit it or spot it on a busy street.... "Norwegian Wood" is a coming-of-age story where the city of Tokyo is a backdrop that tends to fade into the background of Murakami's masterful storytelling. For millions of readers around the world who've never been to Japan, it's been a way for them to experience in some small way, Japan's capital of the past.

I watched the movie too. The book is much better than the movie, but the movie has some great visuals of 1960s Japanese interiors and Japanese timeless landscapes. It also has lots of close-ups of beautiful male and female Japanese faces speaking in very quiet voices.  

Back to the book, here's a quote about writing a book:

Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?

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