Mixtapes

Audio / Video files of songs mentioned in this story

... I shall be careful what I eat, go to bed early and generally prepare myself to enjoy an evening of Wein, Weib, und Gesang.

A three-man band was playing: Gruss' mir mein Hawai, ich blieb' Dir treu, ich hab' Dich gerne.  The dancers, locked frigidly together, swayed in partial-paralytic rhythms under a huge sunshade suspended from the ceiling 
and oscillating gently through cigarette smoke and hot rising air.

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