Bad loser –
When you’re playing pool with your friends a big part of
the game is getting your pals so upset they don’t play their
best game.
Once when things hadn’t been going my way for a while
someone asked me if I was a bad loser.
No, I said, I’m not a bad loser, I’m just not familiar with
losing.
Don’t stop -
My friend Yngve asked me if I ever have problems
breathing while sleeping. I did check this once and
the doctor said I had sleep apnia but it was not alarming.
Apparently my friend is suffering from these problems
and I recommended that he take a test as well and
I even volunteered to talk to my doctor to get him
a referral.
Yngve said he has problems also when awake;
once in a while he stops breathing when he is
working hard and is really concentrating.
We agreed that this seemed strange and I said
it sounded more like he was trying to kill himself
but in a really stupid way.
Maybe this is rather a case for
Dr Freud or Dr Kevorkian.
Or both.
Lorin Maazel at La Scala–
My first visit to Milan was in 1991 and I was there for a meeting
with the music publisher Dischi Riccordi - the old Italian music
publisher that used to publish Puccini.
The day before I arrived I had called their office to ask if they
could help me with tickets to La Scala and they almost laughed:
it’s impossible and it’s always sold out many months in
advance.
Anyway, when arriving in Milan I walked the area of La Scala
and had dinner at Biffi Scala nearby. After dinner I went back to
the theatre and it looked like they were recording the
evening concert for TV. I walked up to the entrance and
the lobby was full of production people and runners and I just
strolled by everyone and suddenly there I was in the main hall of the
La Scala Theatre and I just stayed and listened to the whole
concert.
Lorin Maazel was directing The Scala Philharmonic Orchestra with
Ingolf Turban on the solo violin. They were playing Mussorgsky and
Stravinsky.
The next day at the meeting I tell my friend the publisher that
I had been to La Scala last night and that it had been a
really nice concert.
-Problem? No, I just walked in there. No problem at all, I didn’t
even have to pay.
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HENRY DENANDER lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his wife and young son and he just turned fifty and he works in the daytime with contracts and negotiations and financial stuff for entertainment people but he is also writing and drawing and painting and his book "I Know What She Will Say" with poetry and artwork is available now through BOS Press.
He has illustrated a new Gerry Locklin chapbook and his poems and artwork can be seen in Chiron Review, Nerve Cowboy, Bukowski Review, remark, Thunder Sandwich.
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