Ok the solution of the enigmatic translation is this:
Pata is what the cucaracha is lacking, which can be translated as a foot (I don't know if that's the word for insect's legs). But then again pata is what people call the last tiny bit a joint, as when they have to hold it with some kind of specialized instrument in order to not burn their fingers (those who haven't got used to burning them, at least). Why? I have no idea. Maybe because they are small and smelly.
But if you are looking for second meanings a more obvious one, and working fine in Spanish, is sexual. Cucaracha is a very common slang word for female genitalia.
And that part where the cucaracha (it's a feminine word in Spanish) kneels down and shows her 'cucaracha' makes it quite obvious.
Cheers,
Manuel
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Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 23:24:12 -0400
From: Lou Smith <lousmith@pipeline.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bozo Ends Its 40 Year Run
At 02:03 PM 5/30/01 -0700, bigshot wrote:
>For those who might not be aware of it, the local WGN Bozo
>Show has been on the air for forty years. It's the second
>longest running show on TV. On July 14th, they'll be airing
>the very last episode, which is going to be a prime time
>special. Those of you with access to WGN, make sure to set
>your VCR timers. WGN has done a ton of research on the
>history of "the world's most famous clown" and has created
>a website worthy of him. There are sound and movie clips,
>and photos going all the way back to when Bozo was known as
>"the Capitol Clown". The URL is...
>
>http://www.wgntv.com/station/bozotime/
>
I guess my earliest Philip K Dick moment came when my family drove down to
Miami from New York in 1960 (I was 5 or so at the time). We stopped at a
motel in Georgia (I think) overnite. I'm watching TV, Bozo comes on, and
IT'S A DIFFERENT BOZO than the one in NY! With a bizarre accent!!! And
different outfit & makeup! Freaked me out good and the world hasn't been as
simple or innocent since.
Lou
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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 13:57:18 +1000
From: Philip Jackson <pdj@mpx.com.au>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Bozo Ends Its 40 Year Run
on 1/6/01 10:31 AM, Matt Marchese at mjmarch@charter.net wrote:
> Just a few weeks ago, they had an incredible bio
> of the autistic slaughterhouse designer, Temple Grandin. As an outgrowth of
> her
> truly strange abattoir schemes, she also designs gentle restraint devices for
> autism sufferers. I visited an art museum a few months ago that had a special
> exhibit of Temple's restraint devices. I sat in a giant leather lounge chair
> that has inflatable arms and legs that hold you in place. Very weird!
They just aired that last week in Australia. Fascinating woman -
"Anthropologist from Mars" I think it was called.
Philip
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Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:17:30 -0700
From: "Benito Vergara" <bvergara@sfsu.edu>
Subject: RE: (exotica) jewel box alternatives
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com
> [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of alan zweig
> Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 3:55 PM
> For
> >instance, I have a "groove" binder and an "exotica" binder, but
> then I get a
> >CD that's a groovy exotica soundtrack, and I end up agonizing
> for about half
> >a minute wondering where it's going to go. =)
>
> Please, pretty please, give examples.
Well, I should elaborate: it's not exotica in the usual sense of the word,
but exotica in terms of what usually gets discussed in this list. Take those
Easy Tempo CDs, for instance -- groovy but exotica-list exotic as well. Or
Raymond Scott -- the electronic binder? The experimental binder? The exotica
binder?
So Alan, how about that 68-72 list?
Later,
Ben
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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 01:23:48 -0400
From: Irwin Chusid/Raymond Scott Archives <ghostown@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: (exotica) Raymond Scott update June 2001
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
RAYMOND SCOTT NEWS UPDATE
-- JUNE 2001 --
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
# RAYMOND SCOTT ORCHESTRETTE
Brooklyn Children's Museum, June 15
# SCOTT MUSIC ON 'THIS AMERICAN LIFE'
# HOLLAND'S METROPOLE ORCHESTRA
TO RECORD SCOTT LARGE ENSEMBLE WORKS
# SCOTT Choice Quote
* * * * * * *
# RAYMOND SCOTT ORCHESTRETTE
at Brooklyn Children's Museum, June 15
The Raymond Scott Orchestrette will perform at the Brooklyn Children's
Museum on Friday June 15, from 6:30 to 7:30, as part of Arts at St. Ann's
"World's In Tune" series. Admission is FREE, and the performance takes plac=
e
on the roof of the BCM.
In addition to well-known works from Scott's legendary Quintette period, th=
e
7-piece Orchestrette performs acoustic arrangements of Scott's electronic
works. The RSO consists of Brian Dewan (electric zither, piano, accordion,
koto, vocals, arrangements); Michael Hashim (saxes); Will Holshouser
(accordion, arrangements); Deidre Rodman (piano); George Rush (bass and
tuba); Rob Thomas (violin); and Clem Waldmann (drums).
David Garland will guest reprise his for-children-of-all-ages performance o=
f
Scott's "And the Cow Jumped Over the Moon."
The Brooklyn Children's Museum:
http://www.bchildmus.org/
Visit the RSO info page:
http://RaymondScott.com/orchette.html
includes two audio files
- - - - - - - -
RAYMOND SCOTT ORCHESTRETTE STUDIO DEMO
The RSO has an 8-tune demo and is seeking
interested record labels.
Inquiries: <RSO@RaymondScott.com>
* * * * * * *
=20
# SCOTT HEARD ON 'THIS AMERICAN LIFE'
At the following page:
http://www.thislife.org/pages/scoring.html
the producers of the popular public radio series 'This American Life'
provide info and mini-RealAudio files of some of their "Scoring Greatest
Hits" (recordings used as soundtracks in the programs). Raymond Scott seems
to be among their favorites, as they note:
"Tracks from [Raymond Scott] show up on quite a few segments, most notably
under Ira Glass' piece in our Get Over It! show, last broadcast in August
1998. [Scott's Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights is] an amazing, fun
record, full of cartooony pieces from the 40's (Scott was a bandleader, a
strange, brilliant, ahead-of-his-time sorta guy). Many of the songs on his
CD were used in Warner Bros. cartoons and are today being reappropriated by
bands like Soul Coughing and Radiohead [sic?]. He's also got some other nea=
t
stuff, sort of early electronica that he wrote to nurture infants in their
first months/years. The three records are called Soothing Sounds For Baby
and are each set for a different age (0-6 months for volume one, for
example). They're totally different from his jazzier early stuff, really a
predecessor to much of the music you hear today."
* * * * * * *
# HOLLAND'S METROPOLE ORCHESTRA
TO RECORD SCOTT LARGE ENSEMBLE WORKS
The Netherlands-based Metropole Orchestra will record a new album of Raymon=
d
Scott titles -- only one of which has been previously issued on CD -- for
future release by Basta. Sessions take place from June 18 to 22, and will b=
e
conducted by Jan Stulen, who conducted THE CHESTERFIELD ARRANGEMENTS (Basta
309097). Artwork will be designed by Chesterfield cover artist Kellie Strom=
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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 09:05:51
From: "Robert McKenna" <rmckenna@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) La cucaracha
>
>Ok the solution of the enigmatic translation is this:
>
>Pata is what the cucaracha is lacking, which can be translated as a foot (I
>don't know if that's the word for insect's legs). But then again pata is
>what people call the last tiny bit a joint,
like a roach?
>But if you are looking for second meanings a more obvious one, and working
fine in Spanish, is sexual. Cucaracha is a very common slang word for female
genitalia.
>
>And that part where the cucaracha (it's a feminine word in Spanish)
but the words for male and female genitalia in most English languages
(following the practice of Romanian, and therefore most probably
proto-indoeuropean) are reversed eg. pollo - chicken polla (pola (rom.))-
penis, le cons (fr)- um, twat actually is probably the best translation. And
you can keep on going. Are you Spanish? As I was saying in an earlier post
the common version in Spanish refers to missing a leg rather than marijuana.
However I love the leg/roach/marijuana slippage. Quite beautiful. Should
make it into an instrumental.
kneels down and shows her 'cucaracha' makes it quite obvious.
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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 12:14:11 +0200
From: Moritz R <tiki@netsurf.de>
Subject: Re: (exotica) James Last and beautiful instrumentals
alan zweig schrieb:
> At 12:48 AM 6/1/01 +0200, Moritz R wrote:
> >
> >This "other list" shit is beginning to make me sick.
>
> This "other country" shit makes me sick but if I can tolerate all you
> non-Canadians, certainly you can tolerate references to other lists. Of
> course I sympathize with you on some level given that those other lists
> have all banned you from their ranks. I know that you said "I don't want
> to be on those lists anyway" but still it must have hurt when they told you
> that you're just not "beautiful instrumental material".
> I'll try to avoid references to them in the future.
Nationalism remains a mystery to me, but what made me sick was this pretentious mystery-mongering of referring to an "other list" and never saying which list exactely this was, as if it was some oh-so-important secret thing that bad boys like you are into, contrary to the other slowpokes from the exotica list who will never be able to catch up with it. And your comment only confirms it. Maybe you are just bored and try to beat out some revolutionary content out of a dullhead like James Hanswurst Last. Yeah, bad music is successful, how enlightening!
TONY ASHTON PASSED AWAY PEACEFULLY THIS MORNING (MONDAY 28TH MAY 2001) AT HOME. HIS WIFE SANDRA AND DAUGHTER INDIRA WERE AT HIS SIDE.British keyboard player and singer Tony Ashton was born in Blackburn, Lancashire, and first gained notice when he replaced Don Andrews in The Remo Four, a Liverpool Mersey Beat group. They played on George Harrison's Wonderwall soundtrack, then Ashton and drummer Roy Dyke quit to form Ashton, Gardner & Dyke in 1968, and the trio scored a hit with "Resurrection Shuffle" in 1971, then split up in 1972. Ashton joined Family for a year, and in 1976 was a member of Paice, Ashton And Lord, after which he went into production.
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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 14:30:49 -0500
From: Clayton Black <clayton.black@washcoll.edu>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Mas Que Nada (sp?)
"Boring" and "cool jazz" are redundant in my mind, and it pains me to hear
that one of my all-time favorite tunes is being handled this way, but then
again I like the Hollyridge Strings versions of Beatles tunes, so I
shouldn't complain.
If this tune's on an album I'll buy it without knowing a thing about the
artist. My hands down favorite version is Warren Kime's, and it's one of
the few tunes I like on Chris Waxman's "Organized" album. And, as I've
mentioned before, Lawrence Welk even does a mean version. It's one of those
songs everybody (in the world beyond this list) knows but nobody seems to
remember the name to.
By the way, is there a "correct" spelling of this title? I've seen it
spelled "Mas" and "Mais." Is there some peculiarity of Portuguese we should
know about?
Clayton
> Anybody else heard the (boring) new "cool jazz" version of this?
>
> I thought they said it was Hancock but I missed the announcement.....
>
> - Nate
>
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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2001 19:48:54 +0100
From: Michael Jemmeson <michael@moreover.com>
Subject: (exotica) Leo Muller
I was clearing out old mails, and spotted this:
delicado@cheerful.com wrote:
>
> D.L. Miller productions-
>
> I have a couple of interesting UK issue LPs by 'the super guitar of lightnin red' which are DL Miller productions. They are from the early 70s, and are self-conciously funky and twangy. They can get a bit much, but there are some great cuts ('caravan', 'america'). Some have a very vinnie-bell type sound, but I don't think the playing is good enough to be him.
...and interestingly these have come up on another list (no, not *that*
other list), so i thought i'd pass on a bit of info.
firstly:
The UK budget lable Gold Award has some cool Exploit records with breaks
and grooves. I have had 4 diffrent ones; Big Jim H, Purple Fox,
Lightnin' Red and Funky Junction. Mostly the records consist of covers
but there is almost always a groovin' cut or two by Leo Muller. All 4
records have the same studio band, the artists names are just made up.
and also:
Hi - yes, there's a small article on him inthe latest Mojo "collections"
due to the fact he is featured on "a break from the Norm" comp.
Apparantly he recorded as DL Miller and Betty George too. He recorded
countless albums in almost as many styles. Sadly, he passed away in
1985.
I can add that there's about 4 Big Jim H ones, the best track by far
being the cover of 'Jungle Fever', proper sleazy stuff, with moaning
etc, and he also recorded hawaiian albums, western themes etc under the
his real name (Leo Muller).
I think the Duke Grant hammond lps could also be him.
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Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 11:55:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ben Waugh <sophisticatedsavage@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: (exotica) Salvation Army, the reprieve
Dear Alan, et al, thanks for your kind words.
Yes - I was quite excited & guarded the boxes as I
searched like an ill tempered feeding dog. Though it
has been awhile since my last, I have had several
hauls of this blend and magnitude (best was once when
Sun and early Columbia Johnny cash lps turned up with
some obscure rockabilly 45s. Last winter a found a
boxload of old Verve and Blue Note Jazz lps - but
these were not in flawless shape). I think it has much
to do with the area where I live: the Virginia suburbs
of Washington, DC. In addition to a dusting of Old
Dominion aborigines, such as myself, the area is
swelling day-by-day with New Yorkers, eh, Canadians,
Latin Americans, Asians, etc - bringing with them a
variety of tastes and, fortunately for me, excess
vinyl. It's a bedouin camp: people moving in and
upgrading out by the hour. Factor in an apparently low
hipster content and you have an an obsessive's land of
the blessed (we will gloss over the scads of strip
malls, "townhomes" and pompously ugly McMansions that
blot the shining path to the second hand shops).
Nearly all these finds are courtesy of the Salvation
Army (I forego the pleasure of telling about the
silk/rayon deco ties, the 60s Aloha shirts, books...).
When the SA cuts out the vinyl - or prices it out of
my range (and, by the way, where do they get price
guides for the likes of Futura or Mmm Nice?)- I will
be cut off, rootless, inconsolable. Most of the
smaller thrifts in the area, when they have anything,
carry banged up items (most donating people have heard
of the Salvation Army, but who has heard of "Millies
Treasure Nook, with proceeds going to The Stamp-Out
Scrofula Now Society?" Not many, it seems).
Another land of milk and records is Littleton,
Colorado. Ugly as hell (sorry if any locals are
lurking. The Platte River area is beautiful this time
of year), but that seems to be part of the magic.
Now I have other copies of the Bond, Rugolo and
Coltrane stuff - so if anyone wants to swap....
- --- alan zweig <azed@pathcom.com> wrote:
> But no, I cannot accept this. It's not that I don't
> believe you. I just
> have to believe that it was such an anomaly that it
> will never be repeated
> again.
> Not that I particularly want any of those records at
> this moment but if I
> saw them in a thrift store, I would certainly buy
> them anyway.
> Where do you live again???
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