Wow

[trinityofone]

I was doing a random search, looking for Prufrock-themed desktops (though I don't actually know what that would be), when I found this site which, as you'll see, at the top of the page has what they say is an mp3 of T.S. Eliot reading "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." I don't know if it's the genuine thing--how can I know what he sounded like?--but it's certainly strange and odd and evocative, and very worth listening to.

So yeah...listen to it. I have nothing else to say.

Comments

Re: WOW

[ilgattopardo.livejournal.com]

Milton is always appreciated; thank you for that! I was going to say (in hommage to Mr. Joyce) that Prufrock is a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but given what happens in the poem itself when human voices wake us, it's perhaps not the happiest metaphor.

As for your pics, someone made a movie a year or two ago that was inspired by "Prufrock" (fanart of a sort, then)? I didn't see it (no Greek release, alas), but I remember reading about it in the NY Times.

[a few moments of searching later] It was called "Till Human Voices Wake Us", no less! And here are the specs:
http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=272745

Re: WOW

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I never saw that movie, either. I remember seeing the previews and thinking "Oooh! Prufrock ref! Must see! (Plus Guy Pearce is kinda hot...)" But then it got really bad reviews and I never got around to it. But good idea, image-wise--I shall do a Google search! Thanks!