The Best Entertainment from Far Corners, Nooks and Crannies...
Friday, September 25, 2015
Shake It Off
Remember the old Taylor Swift classic from a few months ago? Brilliant exercise in musical relativity, what goes around, comes around...
Thursday, September 24, 2015
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Terakaft: New Album 'Alone', Still Second Best, and that's good...
Any discussion of the musical genre 'Tuareg Desert Blues” starts and
ends with one word: Tinariwen. They basically invented the genre,
built the playbook and have since spawned dozens of friends, fans,
and imitators from all adjacent regions, from Libya to Burkina Faso,
from Bombino to Tamikrest, usually with native costume, always with
jangly guitars. I've even considered learning the language myself
just to get some lyrical insight...
built the playbook and have since spawned dozens of friends, fans,
and imitators from all adjacent regions, from Libya to Burkina Faso,
from Bombino to Tamikrest, usually with native costume, always with
jangly guitars. I've even considered learning the language myself
just to get some lyrical insight...
Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Allah Las - Tell Me (What's On Your Mind) (Official Video)
Song with a certain 'tude, no religion required إن شاء الله
Monday, September 21, 2015
New Order - Restless (Official Video)
New tunes from old masters are always welcome, especially when they're good...
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Khruangbin - A Calf Born In Winter - Official Video
เครื่องบิน = Airplane
Sunday Serenity: Sometimes the best things from Thailand are not Thai at all...
Saturday, September 19, 2015
DVD review: Rosewater and Julep, Movies and Reality, USA and Aryan Iran...
Imagine
a place out on the steppes of Asia, the stepping stones to Europe,
maybe the Caucasus, or somewhere farther east, out on the outskirts of
the civvies and the cities, say maybe 5-6000 years ago, with the climes
warming up and paths leading north, where a group of people probably
only a few thousand strong, not so urban, but not so stupid, playing
around with wheels and ales and axles and weapons, found a will and a
way in this world, spreading outward until they gradually lost contact
with each other and their languages became harder to understand,
eventually to become the Celts of Europe and the Persians of Asia and
the Greeks of the Mediterranean, and the Hittites who never really left,
now North Europeans, South Europeans, Indians, Iranians, and...
Armenians, who never really left...
...speaking related Indo-Aryan-European languages, Aryan the same word as Iran, long before it meant 'Nordic', swastika a Hindu symbol, Persian sharing words with English and Spanish, “Swas Ti Ka” meaning “hello” in Thai via Sanskrit, long before Hitler crapped on us all, long before Muslims felt like they had to fight for their lives to survive Western colonization, long before Jews decided they weren't really Middle Easterners at all, more like Europeans in fact, with all that represents...
Labels:
film,
John Stewart,
Rosewater
Friday, September 18, 2015
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