“The saving grace of New Orleans is its poverty”
This provocative quote is from Harry Shearer, the actor who is behind the voices of a lot of The Simpsons characters (Ned Flanders, Seymour Skinner, Mr. Burns…). In fact it is a compliment to his favourite city, New Orleans.
The saving grace of New Orleans is its poverty. There’s never been enough money in New Orleans to destroy either the architecture or the music scene. People don’t play music in New Orleans for the reasons they do in Nashville or LA - to become stars or to get rich - they play because they’ve got to.
It certainly sound like a great place to visit and listen to some good jazz!
Harry has said that in an interview for one of my favourite series of the Guardian’s Travel section: Me and my travels, where famous people are asked interesting questions about their travels, favourite cities and memorable trip stories.
In fact, I like so much these interviews, that I was thinking on adding similar personal questions about general travel experiences in Wolpy profiles. It would be like having your own interview in your profile.
I was even thinking on adopting the “I only can see the amount of information that I’m willing to share” game that our friends of Tagueame added to their application (you only can read others people’s answers if you also answer some of the questions). It can be fun and can motivate people to share their experiences :)