Take This Tune
Posted: Monday, August 17, 2009 by Travis Cody in
Take This Tune is a new meme hosted by my pal Jamie at Duward Discussion. Jamie puts up a video prompt complete with lyrics to the song, and the task is to write something inspired by the title of the song or something in the lyrics.
This week's prompt through me just a bit. It's an aria found in a scene in the movie Shawshank Redemption. As part of the prompt this week, Jamie quotes the character Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding...
"I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don't want to know. Some things are better left unsaid. I'd like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can't be expressed in words, and it makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a grey place dares to dream. It was as if some beautiful bird had flapped into our drab little cage and made these walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free."
My first thought when I read the quote was how a well danced Waltz makes me feel. I had an incredible conversation with my dear friend Anndi yesterday. It was the kind of conversation where you feel like you've gone completely around the world and solved every kind of problem there is. One of the things we definitely agreed on was that I am an incurable romantic.
A well danced Waltz takes me to a completely free place where there is no hatred or fear, no intolerance or disrespect...a place where you can be whatever makes you happy. A fairy tale place, if you will.
That was Marcus and Karen Hilton, from 1998. I have used their clips before. And why? Because they are 9 time professional international standard world champions, and have also been 10-dance world champions. That means they were deemed best at all 10 competition ballroom styles.
Guess what? The cast for season 9 of Dancing with the Stars was announced this morning on Good Morning America! It looks like there will be 16 celebrities this time around
When I was a young girl, in my young girl dreams, I would dream my One True Love would scoop me into his arms for a beautiful waltz. Not that I can waltz or he ever arrived... But I can still dream!