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Married Life (PIANO) Who knows how long I've loved you For if I ever saw you Love you forever and forever And when at last I find you La la la la la la la la la SS: Why don't we get a new car? A nice one. With leather seats.
GK: Why leather? SS: I just like it. GK: Why? SS: Why does a person need a reason to like something? GK: Leather doesn't hold up in the winter. It freezes, it cracks----
SS: Not if you keep it oiled. GK: And it's expensive. SS: We can afford it. What's wrong with enjoying a little luxury?
GK: You ever look at the stock market? SS: You ever look at our living room? It looks like a Dorothea
Lange photograph of a sharecroppers cabin, 1935. Where'd you get this
fear of spending money? GK: What if the kids want to go to college? One that charges tuition?
You want to take their college money and sit on it? SS: I love that leather smell. GK: I could buy you a baseball mitt. SS: You know, it's like talking to a child. Love you forever and forever SS: Really----- GK: You remember that car. SS: I never rode in that car. GK: I know. SS: But I remember the front seat of Jimmy Frederickson's Oldsmobile. GK: That was a wonderful soup you made tonight. I meant to tell
you---- SS: He had those shearling seat covers. That was so soft. GK: I'm sorry, I didn't hear you---- SS: Let's get a nice car. A BMW or something. GK: Ours is barely eight years old. SS: At your age, you shouldn't postpone. GK: I didn't hear that, sorry. SS: I ran into Jimmy and Camille the other day at Lund's and they're
driving a Lexus. GK: So he's a lawyer. That Lexus probably has a dead body in the
trunk. SS: It has cowskin seat covers. I love that smell. GK: They're nice for about two months and then they smell like
you're sitting inside a pair of old golf shoes. SS: It's a wonderful smell. And it feels so good to sit on it. GK: Where did this leather obsession come from? SS: It's not an obsession. GK: How about I buy some gold chains and hang them around my neck.
SS: Listen. It's not that complicated. Why can't we enjoy our
money? GK: Don't you think with all the poverty around, it's a little
selfish to have a giant wallet for a car seat? SS: Never mind. I'm sorry I brought it up. GK: Quite all right. Any time. SS: Would you mind turning your light out so I can go to sleep?
GK: Soon as I'm done reading, I will. SS: Goodnight. GK: Maybe we could buy leather sheets. SS: Just read your book. GK: They sell leather underwear, you know. SS: I can't hear you. I'm asleep. GK: Would you like to hold my belt? SS: I want a divorce. GK: If I still had that Pontiac I'd buy leather seat covers for
it. I'm sorry I didn't hang on to it. SS: I forgive you. GK: Okay. Good night. SS: Night. And when at last I find you La la la la la la la la la © Garrison Keillor 2002 |
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