April 2012
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quartertonebloom:
John Zorn | Prelude 3: Prelude...
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lexeter asked: Hi, I'm doing a project that involves the song Carmela Dame La Llave and I noticed you have mentioned it, I was wondering if you could possibly tell me the lyrics because I can't seem to find them online? I would be very grateful.
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“Kein Steinkoloß
blindlings
vom Gravitationsgesetz
getrieben,
unsere Erde...”
– Mater Terra, Hanns Cibulka
No longer Earth day in my timezone, but who cares, this is cosmic.
A literal translation below:
No mere stone colossus propelled blindly by gravitational pull, our Earth ranges far out into space, encircled by the sun’s breath. I may not betray the Earth, for to...
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Not one post about Hanns Cibulka on tumblr
I can’t find anything of his on the internet either, I only know two poems from an old anthology and they got me hooked.
Do you know about Hanns Cibulka?
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WatchLast but not least, yet another scene from Hugo Santiago’s Invasión (Invasion, 1969, tag).
Silva (Roberto Villanueva), at this point drunk and about to be tortured, hums and says a few verses from Jorge Luis Borges’ Milonga de Manuel Flores, which he plays in this previous scene.
Photography by Ricardo Aronovich.
Y sin embargo me cuesta Decirle adiós a la vida, Esa cosa tan de...
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WatchAlmost forgot about this one, this is a simple, cool shot from Hugo Santiago’s Invasión (Invasion, 1969, tag).
Herrera (Lautaro Murúa) arrives at the stadium where he will be murdered.
Photography by Ricardo Aronovich.
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WatchThe final scene from Hugo Santiago’s Invasión (Invasion, 1969), co-written by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares, a very powerful one if I may add.
Resistance leader Don Porfirio (played by composer Juan Carlos Paz) finds Herrera’s (Lautaro Murúa) body in the stadium and decides to take their struggle to a new level, arming his youngest collaborators.
In the very end,...
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WatchIn this other scene from Hugo Santiago’s Invasión (Invasion, 1969), perhaps not as subtle as the one I just posted, Resistance fighter Herrera (Lautaro Murúa) is literally beaten to death by the invaders.
Shot in Buenos Aires, at the Boca Juniors’ stadium, La Bombonera.
Photography by Ricardo Aronovich.
Again, mind that this film precedes and oddly enough predicts some of the...
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WatchIn this subtle scene from Hugo Santiago’s Invasión (Invasion, 1969), Resistance fighter Herrera (Lautaro Murúa) is overpowered by a group of invaders, and lays his weapon.
Shot in Buenos Aires, at the Boca Juniors’ stadium, La Bombonera.
Photography by Ricardo Aronovich.
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blogthoven asked: I thoroughly enjoyed that keychain video.
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WatchA different scene from Hugo Santiago’s Invasión (Invasion, 1969), depicting the antecipated invasion of Aquilea (Buenos Aires was renamed in the movie after the Roman city that withstood the fiercest Barbarian invasions) by these foreign agents in matching suits.
Concrete music by Edgardo Canton.
This scene reminds me of the music video to Counting Bodies Like Sheep to The Rhythm of The...
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WatchThis is a short musical scene from Hugo Santiago’s Invasión (Invasion, 1969), co-written by Jorge Luis Borges, which has been through this blog before, as the mellow Milonga de Manuel Flores.
I might post a few more since this is a relatively obscure flick, although considered by some the best Argentinian film ever made.
Music here by tango musician Aníbal Troilo, although concrete music...
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How dare I ignore this jewel for so long?
Lines...
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Socialism: You have 2 cows and you give one to your neighbour.
Communism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and gives you some milk.
Fascism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and sells you some milk.
Nazism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both and shoots you.
Bureaucratism: You have 2 cows; the Government takes both, shoots one, milks the other and throws the milk away..
Traditional Capitalism: You have 2 cows. You sell one and buy a bull. You herd multiplies, and the economy grows. You sell them and retire on the income.
An American Corporation: You have 2 cows. You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows. Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow dropped dead.
A French Corporation: You have 2 cows. You go on strike because you want three cows.
Japanese Corporation: You have 2 cows. You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk. You then create a clever cow cartoon image called Cowkimon and market them Worldwide.
An Italian Corporation: You have 2 cows, but you don't know where they are. You break for lunch.
A Swiss Corporation: You have 5000 cows. None of which belong to you. You charge others for storing them.
Chinese Corporation: You have 2 cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.
An Iraqi Corporation: Everyone thinks you have lots of cows. You tell them that you have none. No one believes you and they bomb your arse. You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy.......
Counter Culture: 'Wow, dig it, like there's these 2 cows, man, grazing in the hemp field. You gotta have some of this milk!'
Surrealism: You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
Fatalist: You have 2 doomed cows...
A West-Country Corporation: You have 2 cows. That one on the left is kinda cute.
A Brazilian Corporation: You have 2 cows. You pay taxes for 6 cows. You have to sell one cow in order to pay the taxes. Your remaining cow gets sick and dies while waiting for availability in the public vet hospital.
Anarchism: You have a cow, a bull, a lion and a lizard. Your neighbor has some emus.
A Portuguese Corporation: You paid yourself for the 2 cows, but the government took them and granted them in a likely corrupt concession to one private company, a monopoly. Their cows are not producing milk because that company set a price too high for anyone to afford it. Now the same company is demanding indemnities for not being able to sell any milk. In order to pay them, your government incurs in debt. An American credit rating agency decides to rate your country's credit as "trash". Now all the credit given to your country must come through your central bank to private banks. Since there is no milk being produced, you are forced to import it, thus unbalancing the balance of payments. Meanwhile, your own company is unable to compete internationally, and you become unemployed. Now you cannot afford to pay your obligations to the bank. As you, so is one of your neighbors. National banks decide therefore to retain the credit they obtain through the central bank, instead of passing it on to investors. Austerity ensues. No cows, no house, no credit, no development, no job, no retirement, no subsidies, no milk. But at least you've got Fado.
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