A Love Struck Romeo …
The torrid love affair of S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford and his Latin lover Maria Belen Chapur has been forever immortalized by a Columbia artist.
This little gem was picked up Charleston Post and Courier reporter Yvonne Wenger – who happens to be the political beat writer for the state’s largest newspaper, in case you hadn’t heard.
From Wenger’s blog, The Political Briefing:
I was talking to Brett Bursey with the S.C. Progressive Network this afternoon for a story about unemployment benefits when he mentioned to me an oil painting that Columbia’s Alejandro Garcia-Lemos made for the network’s silent auction.
Garcia-Lemos is obviously talented. Notice the details: The script on the bottom of the wine label comes from a 1936 Argentine tango Nostalgias. Transcribed in English, it says “I want to drown my heart with wine … to extinguish a crazy love … that more than love, is pain.”
Wow. Profound. And here’s the painting …
First of all, that’s awesome. Nice “attention to detail.”
Second of all … to recap … the Charleston Post and Courier is doing a story on unemployment and they’re talking to Brett Bursey of the Progressive Network?
Good God, girl. That’s like doing a story on NASCAR and interviewing a couple North Chuck gangbangers.
Meanwhile, back on the streets of Buenos Aires, a love struck Romeo, sings the streets a serenade …
Comments
By BIN News Editorial Staff on November 4th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
This mercy post is just to ask sic(k) willie what he was thinking when he posted this cr@p. Who cares? Certainly not our Funding Editor.
Gee, even sic(k) willie’s manufactured scoops (of kitty litter) are more interesting even when we all know he’s paid to make things up.
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By tamu88 on November 4th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
Only Dire Straits can do justise to that song!
By tamu88 on November 4th, 2009 at 9:04 pm
Sorry, I graduated from Texas A&M; spelling is not a requirement. To correct: Only Dire Straits can do JUSTICE to that song! The version on Alchemy is particularly fine.
By SnakeMD on November 4th, 2009 at 9:51 pm
Maybe we can get Blue Sky to get permission and blow this thing up mural size and display it for all its worth!
Such angst…I feel the pain. Somebody pour me a drink. OOH RAH!
By I Would Buy It, but... on November 4th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
I would buy that, but the money would go to Bursey and the clowns at the Progressive Network. Bums…
By Jonny D on November 5th, 2009 at 9:55 am
This torrid love affair really needs a theme song (contest, Fits?), and there are many great possibilities, but I keep on coming back to Alicia Keys and “No One”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iWHqjRuCI8
But if you are going to go with “Romeo and Juliet”, as good as The Killers are, tamu had it right, nothing touches the original…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZW-ZbcY1Yc&feature=related
By Biggie Tea on November 5th, 2009 at 9:59 am
I’d never heard this version of the song, but I like it. There is also a version I really like by the Indigo Girls on their Rites of Passage album from the early 90s.
By Jonny D on November 5th, 2009 at 10:02 am
This torrid love affair needs a theme song (contest, Fits?), and while there are many great possibilities, I keep on coming back to Alicia Keys and “No One”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iWHqjRuCI8
But if you are going to go with “Romeo and Juliet”, as good as The Killers are, tamu had it right, nothing touches the original.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZW-ZbcY1Yc&feature=related
By scooter on November 5th, 2009 at 10:07 am
I will buy that, and the folks at the Progress Network are not bums. They work hard for their beliefs and for the good of others.
By SnakeMD on November 6th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
I write my own music. My buddy, Kris Kristofferson really likes this one, but he says it can only be sung in biker bars. I want bore you with all the lyrics, but here is the title: (sung moderately, with a twang)
“How Can I Get You Offa My Mind, When You Are Always Sittin On My Face…”