March 3rd, 2009

Sweet and Lowdown

by Woody Allen

"Emmet Ray is the world's second greatest guitar player. He treats women like dogs, and is damn proud of it. His idea of the perfect date is taking a girl to shoot rats or look at trains at the train station. In fact he was a pimp on the side at one time, or as he likes to call it a "manager". He has a mild case of kleptomania and is an alcoholic. He has no respect whatsoever for his employers. To top all that off he has an ego the size of Denver. Everyone he comes across he let's them know that he is Emmet Ray, the world's greatest guitar player. Well unless you count that gypsy jazz player in Paris, Django Reinhardt. Emmet idolizes Django Reinhardt. When ever he hears his music he goes into tears. Rumor has it that once Emmet was in Europe and saw Django playing at a club, he fainted."

"If you are a student of jazz history, you are aware that Emmet Ray, the subject of Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown, really didn’t exist. But he could have."
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and I thought Emmet really did exist.
I want Hattie's clothes.
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I put in my deposit tonight for Tyler. It's official, I'll be there next fall!