>gleeful spectacle of myself in the Silver Cloud Room, loved it so visibly,
>an alarmed security guard asked me to leave.
>
>And isn't orange the color of madness?
Maybe I'm mad, but I'm not the one being ousted by security guards, am I?
Yahahhahhahahahahaaa....
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Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 17:09:25 +0100
From: "ZuZu" <zuzu@dangermedia.org>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Jane Fondle's swank pad
cheryl wrote:
> The quote, I believe is, "Pablo Picasso never got called an asshole" -
> and that would be from the great Jonathan Richman!
But I thought it was "Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole" from the
song Pablo Picasso by the Burning Sensations. If Richman said it before the
film Repo Man was released, it's probably his though. (The song was on the
soundtrack).
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Date: 7 Jul 2000 09:15:02 -0700
From: mkg@calle22.com
Subject: (exotica) Vallenato
> > - Maybe someone can tell me more about this album
> > (released on
> > Tropical LD-1340) -- it's got a bootleggy cover, by
> > someone named
> > Alejandro Duran y sus Mejores Cantos Vallenatos. Not
> > much more
> > written
> > on it, except "Festival Vallenato 1968 Primer
> > Premio." Wonderful,
> > wonderful stuff.
Vallenato is a musical genre from Colombia, developed near the Atlantic coast on a region called Valledupar (it is in the valley of a river called Upar, hence the name) that spread all over the country becoming the most popular genre all over the country. The record you have corresponds to the first Festival they did in (obviously) 1968. They still do those festivals today, at the end of April, and every year they crown a Vallenato King which usually is the guy who can do the most amazing things with his accordion.
The gravitational center of Vallenato groups is the accordion, an instrument that came into Valledupar along with some German immigrants. The usual way of playing the accordion was enriched with black and native musical forms, giving origin to this very unique music. It wouldn't be far fetched to compare it to the blues, they are both rural genres, both take european instruments and make them sound the way they are not supposed to sound, and both have a strong rhythmic (black) component.
There is a page about Vallenato in
http://www.uic.edu/~lmoya/vallenato.html
Nowadays there are several Vallenato group that have added synthesizers to the mix with horrible results IMO. But there has also been a tendency to mix it with rock and other latin rhythms and to turn it into something more easy to digest by a bourgeois audience. Gloria Stefan, has some traces of Vallenato in that album in Spanish she made, and she is a good example of this trend. There is also Carlos Vives, who is Colombian, and has had quite a successful international career.
I am really not an expert on this, but I am Colombian. So I know this music because it's the kind of thing that bus drivers like to play in those long, long, long traffic jams during the rush hour. I would be interested to know if anyone else has come across this kind of music, and their reactions. For me it is impossible to hear Vallenatos as just music (that is without a context). It has an emotional charge (not positive, I'm afraid) that just doesn't let me do that.
Cheers,
Manuel
P.S. Has anyone come across a soundtrack of a film called The Shatterer? Is it any good?
And has anyone heard a group called The Stairs? They have an album called 'Mexican Rn'B' with a really funny cover. BYe.
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Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:30:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <sophisticatedsavage@yahoo.com>
Subject: (exotica) Modern Lovers
Richman 1st and both variants used. Gotta love a guy
who can write lines like the girls would turn the
color of an avacado (portugese attorney?)when he drove
down the streets in his El Dorado...
And it seems only recently that he rescinded his early
80s statement that he would no longer play music that
would hurt a baby's ears (loud/electric VU-ish...
speaking of Warhol)
- --- ZuZu <zuzu@dangermedia.org> wrote:
> But I thought it was "Pablo Picasso was never called
> an asshole" from the
> song Pablo Picasso by the Burning Sensations. If
> Richman said it before the
> film Repo Man was released, it's probably his
> though. (The song was on the
> soundtrack).
=====
"But I revolted; esteeming it apt and proper rabidly to inveigh against these heterodoxies...".
>And isn't orange the color of madness (no offense to the Dutch, Ton)? Just
>take it easy with the orange, pad padders,
This is too fine a coincidence to pass by.
July 8-15 is World Mad Pride Week:
http://www.madpride.net/
they're coming to etc, etc...
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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 15:38:58 -0700
From: "paul thomas" <hepcatpaul@mailcity.com>
Subject: (exotica) Pad, yet more
I want to know who this 'Aunt Miller' is ... not _Mrs. Miller_? Any end table she would give away would be endlessly cool.
I didn't see any mention of the Eameses, Russell Wright, Eero Saarinen or any other ultra swanky designers so I'm guessing this is a jetset-Martha-Stewart-do-it-yourself book. H'mmmm...
