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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.
–Twyla Tharp

performed by Bailey Coppola

It was on a night like this
a little babe was born

the Shepards gathered ’round
to guard him ’til the dawn

Above them shown a star
A star so wondrous light

that never since in all these years
have we seen one half so bright

shining so truly
shining so brightly
guiding their footsteps
from above

It lead them through the night

a path to love and brotherhood
by following it’s light

Oh come with us tonight
and join us on our way

for we have found again that star
to greet a better day

For though throughout our land
men search the skies in vain

yet tender glance within in their heart
they would fine that star again

Shining so truly
Shining so brightly
Guiding their footsteps
from above

It lead them through the night

A path to love and brotherhood
By following it’s light

English translation as sung by
PETE SEEGER

Can’t do it…I lost my voice. I am thinking about how I need to conserve my energy so I don’t burnout…I am thinking how we all need to do that for ourselves and our planet. But that’s obvious, right?

A southern Italian Christmas Eve meal.

THE MENU

This is the meal I make every year…I do mix up the 13 seafoods depending on what I can get fresh…for example, no periwinkles then I will do green mussels in a sake dill broth.

1st Course:

Calamari, black mussels, conch, eel, monkfish, blue crab, giant prawns, fennel smothered in a thick Sicilian style red wine sauce, then baked.

Steamed whole octopus with white wine and garlic

Whole medium size prawns in Italian beer and butter.

Periwinkles in garlic and oil.

Plenty of sour dough bread for dipping in sauces etc.

Cipollini onions boiled with sea salt and balsamic vinegar.

Broccoli rabe fried with Italian sausage.

2nd Course:

Linguine with little necks, cockles, pignoli nuts, Italian parsley in a white wine sauce.

3rd Course:

Whole lobsters on a bed of large spring onions slowly smoked over chunks of Mesquite wood.

Asparagus with lemon, butter and parmesan cheese

4th Course:

Radicchio, endive, arugula, pomegranate seed, caper, escarole salad with tarragon champagne dressing.

Desert:

Italian lemon ice with fresh mint and cassis.

WINES:

Coppola Pinot Noir
Coppola Chardonney
Davinci Chianti

Millikan Middle School Senoir Band.

Deadfall was not a film making experience I care to remember, but I do enjoy seeing these foreign posters occasionally popping up. This one looks like I did some sort of Russian Svengali Mafia picture. Cool.