The Run of Play is a blog about
the wonder and terror of soccer.
We left the window open during a match in October 2007 and a strange wind blew into the room.
Now we walk the forgotten byways of football with a lonely tread, searching for the beautiful, the bewildering, the haunting, and the absurd.
Your better half found that photo in Schlesinger, didn’t she?
Actually it’s from my current favorite photoset on that virtual Schlesinger known as Flickr:
Odd, Rare, Strange or Unusual Japan
(NSFW, if you work in a place where ancient photos of topless geishas are considered inappropriate.)
My favorites:
The Octopus
The Pack Horse
The Umbrella Fort
Geisha Shooting Pool
The Flood
The Sea Monster
Etc.
A-ha.
She looks a dead ringer for the featured performer in an entracte during the Class of 1934 tea dance.
Could you share the song please?
I’m going crazy about it!
I know it’s “Manha de carnaval by Elizete Cardoso” but I don’t to seem to find it anywhere.
The song is from the soundtrack to Black Orpheus (Orfeu Negro). There’s a Caetano Veloso version as well from the remake called just Orfeu.
ilias, here’s a clip of the song with some stills from the film. There are a million cover versions, too—there’s one on YouTube of Ray Brown playing it on solo bass.
I love this. Could I request Alessandro Del Piero for a future tuesday portrait?
This is what he’s humming and tra-la-la-ing as he picks those mushrooms. Alone. On a sunny Tuesday afternoon.