razor-sharp space-cadet
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DOPE MUSIC HISTORY FACTOID!
Ike Turner is credited with the first rock&roll song ever recorded, "Rocket 88." Years before that day in 1951, rhythm&blues had been evolving and many records came out with a hard, uptempo boogie-woogie piano and other similarities to Turner's "Rocket 88," but for one distinction - the night before, as Turner drove to the studio, his amp fell off his car and was damaged - resulting in (the now INDISPENSABLE) distortion!!!!
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I've come up with a term for my preferred type of comedy: 'Sentimentalist Sarcasm' - in response to the styles of Denis Leary, Janeane Garofalo, and others we have adored, all the way through the Seinfeld era - a sort of post-sarcasm, with such shining reps as Jon Stewart and Tina Fey...They've shown us you don't have to be a cynic to be a smart-ass!
a related quote:
"Even many of the smartest among us seem to have lost their vision. Cynicism has become a supreme sign of intelligence. Compulsive skepticism masquerades as perceptiveness. Mean-spirited irony is chic. Beautiful truths are suspect and ugly truths are popular....Love desperately needs your imagination. As psychologist James Hillman says, 'For a relationship to stay alive, love alone is not enough. Without imagination, love stales into sentiment, duty, and boredom. Intimacy fails not because we have stopped loving but because we first stopped imagining.'...
"Too many of our brothers and sisters... have been cruelly fooled into acting as if their deepest desires are impossible lies. As a result they live incoherent lives corroded by chronic anxiety."
~ Rob Brezny
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Below, a twilight snippet of carnaval 2008 in Salvador, Bahia(i missed it)- right in my old neighborhood... my favorite group TIMBALADA, as their truck hugs a hill around a seaside curve
And here's what it's like in the mix - insanity. (btw, sound quality is excellent in person!) This is actually the same crowd, a couple of hours earlier. It gets a little blurry when the camera person can't resist participating in the rhythmic stampede as dictated by the traditional fanfare you're hearing, which is more than a hundred years old. We used to stay in that white building you see on the right. FUN!
if you can't get enough here's a highlight reel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZB-LnSBAxR4
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"Society is the biggest competitor for Hollywood, for the music industry, for the publishing industry. So you have this new competitor that is, 'everyone else.' So the law has been consistently changed, in the past, say, 12 years, in order to protect certain very specific interests-- specially for the North-American cultural industry-- in order to prevent society from becoming the producer of culture, in itself, and for itself."
Ronaldo Lemos, Brazilian Law Prof.
"57% of teenagers have created and shared content on the internet..not file-sharing... people actually creating material and making it available.
"To us, the couch potato generation, this is bizarre, can't imagine doing that, but to them, it's the natural way for them to understand the world and create. Now, you can either call them criminals, call them pirates, and use all the tools of the law and technology to block them from this creativity; or, we can begin to encourage them, by making a wide range of material available, [that gives] them a much better understanding of their past, and a much better opportunity to say something about the future."
Lawrence Lessig, pioneer of Creative Commons, an alternative licensing approach
~ both from the documentary "Good Copy, Bad Copy" about piracy and copyright laws. Very interesting!
