SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT (WALL STREET VERSION)

NYT--Jozef Juck figured he would get lots of applications from people wanting to work at his new restaurant, Montenapo, which will be opening right here in The New York Times Building in the coming days.

But not 700. And not from so many former bankers, commercial real estate brokers and professors who, until recently, had pretty illustrious careers.



SCENES FROM AN ITALIAN RESTAURANT (WALL STREET VERSION)
(Billy Joel)
WilliamBanzai7

Sing along link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDvytBCh3

A bottle of white, a bottle of red
Perhaps a bottle of rosé instead
We'll work a table near Wall Street
Near our old familiar place
Pie in the sky-what a disgrace hm, hm
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
It all depends upon your appetite
I'll meet you any time you want
Busing dishes in an Italian Restaurant.
Things are okay with me these days
I got a real job, without a downtown address
I got a new wife, got a new life
And the family is fine
Oh we lost touch long ago
You lost weight - I did not know
you could ever look so nice after so much time.
Do you remember those days hanging out on the high finance scene?
Ferragamo boots, Versace jackets and Escada blue jeans
Oh you drop a dime in the box play a song about pre-Katrina New Orleans
Cold Clicquot, hot lights, sweet romantic banker nights ooh, ooh
Oh, oh, oh, oh…..
Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies
And the king and the queen of the Banker Ball
Riding around with the Ferrari top down and the satellite radio on
Nobody looked any finer
Or was more of a hit as they sped past the Hampton Bays Diner
We never knew we could want more than that out of life
Surely Brenda and Eddie would always know how to survive.
Oh, oh, oh, oh…..
Brenda and Eddie were still going steady in the securitised subprime summer of '2005
When they decided the marriage would be at the end of July
Everyone said they were crazy
"Brenda you know that you think life's much too easy
and Eddie thought he could afford to live that kind of life."
Oh, but there we were wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye.
Oh, oh, oh
Well they got a Park Avenue apartment with over priced Persian rugs
And a collection of Post Modernist paintings from Sotheby's and Christies
A faux King Louis bed that they bought with the bonus bread
They had saved since the end of last year
but they started to fight when the bonus money got tight
And they just thought it would reappear.
Oh, oh yeah rock 'n roll
Oh, oh, oh
Well, they lived for a while in Madison Avenue style
But it's always the same in the end
They got an uptown divorce as a matter of course
And they parted the closest of friends
Then the king and the queen went back to GAP blue jeans
But you could never go back there again
Oh, oh
Brenda and Eddie had had it already by the securitised subprime summer of '2005
From the high to the low to the end of the show
For the rest of their lives
They couldn't go back to being leveraged Wall Street fleecers
The best they could do was pick up their pieces
We always knew they would both find a way to get by
Oh and that's all I heard about Brenda and Eddie
Can't tell you more 'cause I've told you already
And here we are wavin' Brenda and Eddie goodbye
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh
Yeah
A bottle of red, a bottle of white
It all depends upon your appetite
We'll meet you any time you want
Bankers busing in an Italian Restaurant.

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WilliamBanzai7, excellent rendition of Billy Joel’s Scenes From an Italian Restarant!!
I love that song and keep reminding people of that song everytime I want to teach them lessons of this massive credit bust.
As a management consultant, I saw this crisis coming and kept telling people about it. Of course not enough people listened, but hey, I can always keep quoting this!
Qaiser Crackerjack

— Posted by Qaiser Crackerjack