Prompt: "Chekov's song"
Selected by Allison
"The Art Teacher"
Rufus Wainwright
Want Two, 2004
Well, this was certainly a head-scratcher. Very curious to see what everyone else picks. I was looking for a song with a lyrical callback that pays off. That's Chekov's gun, right? I almost went with "Albuquerque" by Weird Al (Chekov's... sauerkraut?), but I'll spare you that eleven-minute rambling magnum opus on a Saturday morning. Instead, here's a lovely bit of melancholy from Rufus Wainwright (they're all melancholy, aren't they?). You can decide if the reference to a uniform or the Turner is the gun. Last year, Stephan and I went to the Art Institute of Chicago. We got lost in the wrong section of the "Art of the Americas" exhibit for too long—just a ton of uncomfortable turn-of-the-century furniture and portraits of the most dour and stuffy white folks. I don't recall seeing any Turners, but I saw a ton of John Singer Sargents. Not for me!
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