"It's Over"
About midway through the debate last night, I began to hear Michael Caine's great, drunken take on this song in "Little Voice."
But here's a version by the original, Roy Orbison.
posted by greg rappleye at 6:29 AM
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
About midway through the debate last night, I began to hear Michael Caine's great, drunken take on this song in "Little Voice."
But here's a version by the original, Roy Orbison.
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- Name: greg rappleye
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I am a writer who lives and works in West Michigan. I am a graduate of Albion College, the University of Michigan Law School, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. I have published three full-length collections of poetry: Holding Down the Earth (Sky Books, 1995), A Path Between Houses (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) which won the Brittingham Prize, and Figured Dark (University of Arkansas Press, 2007), which won the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series. I have also published three chapbooks: Eros, Psyche and the Death of Narrative (Candle Creek Press, 2006), The Afterlight (WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2006), and The Divisible Field ( WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2008), and have completed a fourth manuscript, Tropical Landscape with Ten Hummingbirds. I am working on a novel. My work has received a Pushcart Prize, the Mississippi Review Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Prize, the Greensboro Review Literary Award in Poetry, and the Arts & Letters Prize. I was a Bread Loaf Fellow in 2002. When not writing, I work full-time as corporation counsel for a local government and also teach part-time in the English Department at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
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2 Comments:
Thanks for the Roy fix this morning!
I hope your are right.
Haha! Did you see where they had to tell him to move because he was getting airtime when the other was speaking? He acted like, what the bid deal? What a joke he is.
I think it is easy for me to say I am voting for "that one."
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