Yesterday with the D’s was a blast, as always. I am becoming more & more grateful that my messed up work schedule allows me these pregnant pauses to hook up with all the interesting GTA friends that I’ve had a tough time staying connected with.
Mrs. D & I enjoyed Red Hot Ballroom a great deal - the similiarities to Spellbound go beyond the subject matter. It seemed like from the very beginning musical strains that there were many parallels & links to be made, the NYC atmosphere, wide variety of kids (less in-depth about their backgrounds, but playing up the Bad News Bears angle of heir upbringing..)
Today I’m in Newmarket living a vida local with a post-shower tour from Annie on her high school scene.
Last night’s nei-boor-ish interaction was the last goddamn straw…no more passive-aggressive WASPy subtley from moi…After unwillingly overhearing hours upon hours of this tortured relationship between two morons, I tossed masself over in bed to wail - in what I hoped to be a tougie Brooklynitie accent, but probably emerged as a Sylverster the Cat wail - Shaddup Goddammit! - So it worked well enough - I had a whole ‘zing’ mentally prepared & was nerdily rehearsing it over & over as the hours progressed…but alas, when I’m irked & ired, that’s the best that I can come up with…need to work on that…more ‘zing’ & less Looney Tunes
In odd record release news, it seems like the Lomax estate is taking its cues from the prolific post-humous Tupac empire. An exhaustive (how else did good ol’ Alan do’em? - This one runs the gamut from Boy Scout choirs to Vodou ceremonies. Over 1,500 performances in total) 15 CD set of his recordings from Haiti in 1936 are hitting shelves of better record stores in 2008.
Tho he gets a bad rap in circles that pepper their language with different combinations of post- ‘colonialism’, ‘Westernised,’ & ‘hegemonic’…you can’t look back on the history of creating the history the word’s indigenous music & not respect the man for his precise attention to detail. Not only was Lomax a stickler for documenting the whos, whats, whens, wheres, hows & whys of the recordings, but his contribution of photography & diagrams help us visualize the act of creating music that much better than with his capable prose alone. Kudos to Rounder for picking up the project & having enough faith in the non-Rutamaya-crowd to support this in 2008. Hopefully more than the Anthropology prof fanclub will recognize the merits of series - which will probably be evenly spilt between French, English & dialectical langues (Latin counts as a local dialect, right? Catholic liturgies were part of his 5 month tour, too….)
Enough nerdy music talk,
meegs
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