chrryblssmninja

meme
1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter. just ask me for a letter if you want one
2. List (and upload) 5-10 songs you love that begin with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.


mc_valya gave me the letter E.

1) "Ekimae (In front of the station)" - Tokyo Jihen

2) "Earth Angel"

3) "El Andén (Con Mala Rodriguez)" - Bajofondo

4) "El Justiciero" - Os Mutantes

5) "Eriatarka" - The Mars Volta

6) "Exo-Politics" - Muse
I've exercised to this song so many times

7) "Ecstasy of Gold (Ennio Morricone vs. Nas)" - DJ Erb

8) "The End of You" - Sleater-Kinney

9) "The End of You Too" - Metronomy

10) "“Echigo Tsutsuishi Oyashirazu” - J.A. Seazer, from Kokkyou Jyunreika, 1973



yay for Misfits coming back soon

Also, this Sunday is the US public television premiere of Sherlock, so I'll see what you all have been spamming about.


Finally,



Stole this from tumblr, where I also got the idea to name the file, "MENACING HAIRCUT."

So, late Thanksgiving night, I was looking up Bai Juyi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow" (also known as "Tale of Unending Pain") for my Tale of Genji paper.
Two translations here; the second one's just selections from the poem.
silverence posted another translation in the comments here a while ago, but I think a forum posting would look less acceptable in the bibliography than actual sites devoted to the poem, though I can't find much on those site authors.

So while I was starting my paper, I felt like just having softer music playing. So I started off my media player with "Mon Coeur S'ouvre à Ta Voix" from a recording of the opera "Samson and Dalila." Sometime in the middle of my writing/research session, there was my favorite Astor Piazzolla piece, "Luna."

Since I was at the same time looking up info on the poem, which is based on the history/story of an Emperor searching for the soul of his love after being forced to have her strangled...all this music seemed so sad!

After Cibelle's cover of "Inútil paisagem (Useless Path)," played, I turned off the media player and was inspired to write this poem.

( cut to save flisters from my feeble attempts at poetry )


alright, now I better flist and tumblr and do happy things now
oh, and eat flan. yes.

I am reposting these poems I found.

both found in the CD Astor Piazolla: El Tango conducted by Gidon Kremer


The song’s in Italian, the poem is in Spanish. I’ll just put down the English translations provided.

Preludio para el año 3001 (Rinascero)
By Angela Denia Tarenzi after original Spanish text by Horacio Ferrer
Translated by Robert Cowart
You should really hear the song- so forceful and strong and stirring and wow.

I shall be reborn a fine evening,
With this desire to love and to live stronger still
I’ll be reborn (it is destiny) in the year 3001,
My lovely city will be a festival of color.

The stray dogs will bark at my shadow…
With my modest baggage I’ll arrive from the Great Beyond
And kneeling at the edge of the transparent sea
I shall shape for myself a new heart from salt and mud.

A vagabond, a clown, and a magician will come;
My immortal comrades, shouting “Courage…arise.
“That’s the way! Take heart, be born! Courage, brother,
‘For the work of death and rebirth is beautiful but hard.”

I shall be reborn! Reborn! Reborn!
And an unearthly voice will give to me
The great and pure faith that will serve me…
I shall return…again I shall believe…and struggle!
I’ll wear a red flower in my button-hold
And I shall be reborn whether anyone else ever has!
My country- 30th century- you will see:
I shall be reborn! Reborn! Reborn!

I shall be revorn from the things I have loved so deeply…
When the shadows of the house say softly “He is here!”
I shall kiss the memory of your quiet eyes,
To complete the poem I left half-done.

I shall be reborn from the fruit of a village market
And the grimy ambience of a romantic café,
From the ruined village that crumbled in an earthquake
And from the rage of the Southern people, I shall be born.

You see, I’ll be born in the year 3001
And with the people who never were, but will be then;
We will bless the earth, our earth…and I swear to you
That this country shall come into being once again

I shall be reborn! Reborn! Reborn!
And an unearthly voice shall give to me
My country…30th century…you will see…
I shall be reborn! Reborn! Reborn!

- - -

El Tango, by Jorge Luis Borges
Translation by Anthony Kerrigan

“Where are they now?” elegies ask
About those who are no longer, as if there were
A region where Yesterday could be
Today, the Still and Not Yet.

Where (I echo) can that malevolence be,
The malignity founded in dusty dirt
Lanes or in lost towns,
By the sect of defiance and the knife?

Where are they now, those who passed on,
Leaving an episode to Epic
A fable to Time, men who knifed each other
Without hate or lucre or passion in love?

I look for them in legend, in the final
Ember that like a vague rose
Holds something of that brave crew,
Of men named Corrales or Balvanera.

What obscure alleyways or wasteland
Of heaven is darkened by the hard
Shad of the men who was shadow,
Muraña, that Knife of Palermo?

Where the deadly Ibarra (may the saints
Forgive him!) who killed his brother
On a railroad overpass, because the other’s
Dead were more, and thus he evened the score?

A mythology of knife thrusts
Slowly dying in oblivion
A chanson de geste lost
In sordid police reports

There is another ember, another burning rose
In the ash that keeps them whole:
And these the haughty knifers live on
And the silent dagger’s bulk.

Though the facitious dagger or that other dagger,
Time, sink them into the mire,
Today, beyond time and misshapen
Death, these dead men live on in the tango.

They are in the music, in the strings
Of an obstinate and elaborate guitar,
Which weaves a fiesta and the innocence
Of courage into a fortuitous milonga.

The yellow carousel of horse and lion
Whirls in the hollow while I hear the echo
Of those tangos of Arolas and Greco
I watched danced on the pavement

Or an instant that today stands out alone,
Without before or after, against oblivion,
And has the taste of everything lost,
Everything lost and recovered.

There is nostalgia in every chord:
The other patio and the half-seen vine,
(The South, behind suspicious walls,
Keeps a knife and a guitar.)

This burst of sound, the tango, this
Wantoness defies the routine years:
Made of time and dust, man lasts
Less long than the libidinous melody,

Which is only time. The tango spawns a turbid
Unread past in certain measure true:
An impossible recollection of having died
Fighting, on some corner of a suburb.

Here's audio of Caetano Veloso reading the poem in its original Spanish.

news links saved in my Yahoo!Notepad:

6 die in bomb outside Danish Embassy in Pakistan
Isolated tribe spotted in Brazil
Whenever they say "lost to civilization" or something like that, it irks me. My modern Anthro training makes me go grr at all the cultural arrogance implied in the headlines...
from a while back: Nepal abolishes monarchy

- - -
and now, a music meme I couldn't resist, via realproof:

( here )

ETA: JOSE'S AT INTER?!!!!

ack you threthiel9 this is too addictive

Halloween Meme

bananadetective haunts your Wings Greatest Hits

canadian_turtle TPs your cutlery

claennis creates an unholy monstrosity from kiwimangoodness, rondaview and desrosiers_sp

cobaltcrafter puts fake eyeballs in your brains

croakvegas devours the entire neighbourhood's Bank Manager's lunchbox

desrosiers_sp swoops on bananadetective and drains their candy

drowningduckie TPs pablo___

gossy16 gives you a toothbrush

kiwimangoodness sacrifices drowningduckie's pumpkin

pablo___ carves croakvegas's effigy in the medium of socks

rebelstrike21 runs around screaming for hours until abruptly silenced by cobaltcrafter, wielding a sharpened brain

rondaview tries to pick up Phantom Hitchhikers

sharkina calls theblended to let them know the psycho killer's in the dashboard

theblended puts real eyeballs in your gerbils

threthiel9 summons the undead armies of sharkina to steal your candy

LJ Name

Halloween Meme

bink eats novafairy's spicy, spicy brains.

damaged_lilacs TPs your Bank Manager's lunchbox

decadentdream runs around screaming for hours until abruptly silenced by padfootie, wielding a sharpened gerbil

der_schnix creates an unholy monstrosity from padfootie, devilintraining and decadentdream

devilintraining haunts your pumpkin

glorfindelghost devours the entire neighbourhood's cutlery

jaune buries orang3ling at the crossroads with a axe through their heart

jetaimerai puts apples in your razorblades

novafairy puts fake eyeballs in your gerbils

orang3ling shows up with burning torches, pitchforks and dip

padfootie TPs bink

rennylyleanna gives you a toothbrush

silverence dresses up as jaune

subtle__sarcasm calls jetaimerai to let them know the psycho killer's in the State Penitentiary

teaglass tries to pick up Phantom Hitchhikers

LJ Name

Halloween Meme

_kruemel_ calls never_evil to let them know the psycho killer's in the mood for chicken

claraious TPs your brains

faito_oh shows up with burning torches, pitchforks and dip

lamisantropa puts real eyeballs in your socks

lessthan3stars tries to pick up Phantom Hitchhikers

logic_less sacrifices _kruemel_'s cutlery

louis_quatorze haunts your candy

magic_beans buries pippopippo at the crossroads with a Bank Manager's lunchbox through their heart

nekare swoops on weirdofromafar and drains their Wings Greatest Hits

never_evil summons the undead armies of magic_beans to steal your candy

pippopippo puts fake eyeballs in your Bank Manager's lunchbox

point_earedpain dresses up as lamisantropa

supersyncspaz7 puts apples in your razorblades

weirdofromafar runs around screaming for hours until abruptly silenced by supersyncspaz7, wielding a sharpened Wings album

yaiyah devours the entire neighbourhood's gerbils

LJ Name

Hope that amused you.

Bonus Crack!vid of the day.
an explanation for the video.

Halloween is awesome.

So is the latest Bajofondo Tango Club album. (Thanks, nekare!)

Hi people. It‘s Linkspam Weekend!!!
As always, not LJ-cutting in case anything catches your interest.

Messthrough ‘07
The revised letter to LJ/Six Apart that you can sign with a comment.
Via logovo1: What! Links aren’t safe either? You’re going back on your word, LJ.
Also from logovo: A different view on the matter.

Heroes
Season 2 preview! Guaranteed to elicit reactions of “wow” and “what?”
Hints on new villains
Hey, it’s Sark n’ Sylar! Hey, David Anders, smile better! You’ve just been promoted to series regular!
On a different tangent, Spock meets Spock!
Masi Oka: ''When Zach and I would hang out, he'd have a rubber band over his fingers, practicing his muscle. We've come up with ways to practice — wiggle the fingers, doing yoga for the hand.... He's been practicing for about a month. I'm betting on him. He'll get it down.''
Quinto will go MIA during a chunk of the upcoming season to film Star Trek (the logistics were hammered out between Lindelof and Heroes creator Tim Kring, who are old friends)
Meanwhile Milo’s in “A Mall World”, doing his best Conor Oberst impression to date.

TARDISverse
Snatched from miladygrey: Doctor Who macros sing Buffy’s “I Have a Theory.”
For more macro fun, here’s one from colonials, the best macro site in the 13 colonies.
Lego Torchwood?
John Barrowman’s Scottish accent

Leftover TV Dinner
Vote in Kristen’s Tater Top awards!
Interview with Jack McBrayer, who plays Kenneth (!) on 30 Rock.
Buffy’s Jonathan is now a screenwriter!
John Krasinski as a kid
Spy on Chuck

Soccer
Becks makes respectable debut, but Galaxy still lose
Is it weird that when I see the headline “Beckham makes MLS debut as Galaxy fall to United,” I think Man United first?
Oh, and Becks vs. Zidane in Sydney game?
Volzy stuck in the toilet?
Footballers when they were young (hee Iker) and more fun footballer pics.
LolKakas!
And via der_schnix: Great Bundesliga article
Best player
Diego: 13 goals, 100 assists (roughly), a bit of magic and spades of imagination. Yay!
Best form of dissent
Willy Sagnol to referee Markus Merk: "Ref, we'll substitute."
Merk: "I don't see your sub."
Sagnol: "No, we're substituting you." Great job, Surly Sagnol!
The Ashley Cole Award for super secretive contract negotiations: Miroslav Klose
Waaaah…I shall get over this. See my icon? That is my coping icon. I AM COPING!
Unfortunately, his young and inexperienced agent couldn't get the phone to ring so in the end the only option was to look south. Interesting…
From nolwe: Arsenal posing with white kit, interviews with Tomas and Theo.

Music
Amy Winehouse rushed to hospital and now sent to rehab, while Lily Allen is detained at airport and and needs chicken soup. Oh, and Keith Richards really did snort his dad’s ashes.
Via Buzzgrinder: “Jamgate is live; a web-based app for musicians to manage, sell and distro their music without the commission that is usually charged on other sites.”
Free Flight of the Conchords MP3: Business Time. Through that link you can also listen to their new EP, The Distant Future.
La Blogotheque made Sufjan Stevens perform on a roof.
The Arctic Monkeys perform dressed as clowns.
Make sure your stomach’s strong before you watch this super weird vid for Klaxon’s “Magick.” Seriously, green stuff spurts from their eyes.
Treasure Island gets its own music festival! Ooh, look at Saturday…Gotan Project, DJ Shadow, MIA, Dengue Fever, Honeycut…On Sunday they’ve got Modest Mouse and Spoon. I’d want to go Saturday, but tix are expensive. But their green measures seem sound…
In October, there’s Vegoose in Vegas. Set to play are: Queens of the Stone Age, Muse, the Shins, UNKLE, Gogol Bordello, Battles, Iggy & The Stooges to offer up a track-by-track retelling of Fun House, and more
Speaking of Battles, check out the cool vid for Atlas. They just might make Math Rock accessible to the masses! Or at least the indie masses. Download “Leyendecker” here.
You must watch these Cold War Kids performances. In the second one just watch where they end up. Wow. I hope those people weren’t in a rush to go anywhere. Also, the video for "Hospital Beds". Editing is fast but not dizzy, some cheesy shots but overall alright. Wow, Nathan Willett is buff.
The Section Quartet: A violin quartet that plays versions of The Strokes, “London Calling,” Radiohead, and more. Download their cover of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Phenomena” here.
Daytrotter has new sessions by Sondre Lerche and White Rabbits. White Rabbits White Rabbits yay yay oh my gosh my fave White Rabbits song just started to play on my media player how awesome how freaky but song’s still awesome
Also great: bittersweet_bun has uploaded both Sakuran, the film that Shiina Ringo scored, and Heisei Fuuzoku, a new album “inspired by” the film. Check them out here. Heisei Fuuzoku consists mainly of orchestral/jazz covers of older Shiina songs, but in “Karisome Otome” she incorporates tango in way reminiscent of one song from Moulin Rouge (same message, too). But it is so much better and less gimmicky and -faints- Just when I thought I couldn’t appreciate Shiina more, she makes a tango song. -stands up, sighs, faints again-
More apple goodness via shiinaringo_: Tokyo Jihen- Killer Tune Now that’s what happy chipmunk-voiced J-pop should sound like!
And if you’re looking for a nice, soft summer song, listen to Melody Day by Caribou (formerly known as Manitoba).

Dispatches from Cloverfield
more news
From cleolinda: New Cloverfield trailer?
Video and photos from the set

Movies
Carla Gugino in Watchmen
Trailer for We Own the Night, which features Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg as brothers on opposite sides of the law.
Becoming Jane’s historical merit
Ridley Scott talks Monopoly movie
Lego Indiana Jones?
Via foresthouse: Light Fantastic and Color of Magic to be movies? I only found about the Hogfather movie when I was walking and talking around Palo Alto with point_earedpain. Pratchett talks about the projects.
And yes, there really is a movie called The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? Yup, you read that punctuation right.
Clip from the Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There leaked: Watch Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan meeting Allen Ginsberg.
Trailer for Wes Anderson’s latest: Darjeeling Limited, starring Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzbaum, and Adrien Brody as brothers.

Science and its fictional counterpart
Quadruple sunsets are possible!
How to sell Sci-Fi, according to Buffy writer Jane Espenson.
While, via officialgaiman, an article on SF in China: part 1, pt 2 (In the early eighties, the Party considered Sci-fi an evil, which could lead the public astray. All sci-fi writing across China ceased), pt 3.
"Sci-Fi writing is now supported by Chinese government as it is considered to be a genre that can inspire the whole nation's ability to think imaginatively and popularizes science nationwide, "
Does time exist?
Via anthropologist: The truth about The Donner Party

Random
Are Canadians just smarter than us?
Universal’s Back to the Future ride is closed
At least the LJ main page is still recommending great comms. Really, awesome_places post some really awesome places.
Beijing’s eco-experiment
Christopher Walken cooks.
"It is not proper to sell soft drinks or snacks right at the toilets"
Those two last links have nothing to do with each other.
Secret of levitation revealed?
Bad Thai cops to wear Hello Kitty armbands
Xkcd strikes gold again: Aeris Dies.
Edgar Simic new US poet laureate

And finally, from logovo1 (again): Slaughter Your World, the best Little Mermaid parody ever. From the gamer webcomic Looking for Group. The clip premiered in this post. I really want to read the comic from the beginning now.

So… 3 Buffy mentions, 3 British musicians in trouble, 2 Lego mentions, 2 articles on China, 3 macro links (two for Doctor Who), 2 trailers for movies centered on brothers, 2 articles about food, and 1 article on legendary cannibals.
Have a great weekend. Sorry if I hurt your flist-scanning eyes.

I had to tell my mother today who Jimi Hendrix was. Oh dear.

Upfronts! Today’s network: ABC.
Story + lineup
"Big Shots," which stars Michael Vartan,
Hey, nice to see he’s found work again. His guest spot as a snooty French chef on Kitchen Confidential was fun. It seems like ABC is treating its actors better this past one or two years; a lot of the good actors from canceled shows (some of “The Nine,” for example) have found new jobs at the same network.

At midseason, ABC will bring back "Lost" -- most likely on Wednesdays -- for an uninterrupted run.
Please make it Wednesday. Seeing Lost on some other day will mess with my mind.

What are “Cashmere Mafia” and “Women’s Murder Club?”

Lost cast pics from upfronts!

Some other upfront buzz: Seems like CBS picks vampires over zombies. Aww, that show sounded cool. And Amber Tamblyn is in it! Hope it still makes the schedule.

Since this is the ABC post, how about some Lost links?
Ooh cool Lost clock
Josh Holloway in talks to play Gambit. Awesome.
You can see Jacob in the slowed down video here.
Take the Lost course at Tufts University!
Wait a second…the actress who played Ben’s mother is Michael Emerson’s wife? That’s…odd.
Some interesting Lost thoughts. An excerpt: "In Jewish history, the tribe of Benjamin's women and children were all killed, and the remaining members of the tribe could not longer PROLIFERATE. The historical solution they came up with was to KILL THE MEN from another SUB-TRIBE and TAKE their WOMEN AND CHILDREN."
About Mascara Man: “He is not advancing in time. Ben said to him "you remember "birthdays', don't you Richard" sarcastically.”
( Just some more Lost thoughts )

Okay, now I have to get this ton of music links out of the way:
Lily Allen had a mini-meltdown about her image, which is kind of sad, because she‘s cool with her fun lyrics and bright dresses, and she sounds pretty sincere about her insecurities. But she’s feeling better now,
If you’re wondering about what Cheryl Tweedy comment really affected her, or who Tweedy is, well…she’s part of a pop girl group, doesn’t wear much, and is married to Ashley Cole. Grr, Ashley Cole. As an Arsenal fan, I kind of want to blame the whole thing on Cashley.
Check out the Beastie Boys’s new instrumental direction. It sounds alright, but it’s like leading up to something, or serving as a soundtrack, more than an actual song.
Myspacers trash Annie Lennox’s mansion
Spinner’s 3X3 feature is pretty cool. If you can make it through the 15 second ads, you can watch live performances by Mew, Paolo Nutini, Rodrigo y Gabriela, TV on the Radio, Amy Winehouse, and more…
Also, live performances from Amoeba.
Members of the crew of Muse and My Chemical Romance, as well as some MCR members, get food poisoning in Virginia; fans respond with death threats
The Austin City Limits lineup looks pretty varied and pretty cool. Muse? Bjork? Arctic Monkeys? Bob Dylan? The White Stripes? Reverend Horton Heat? Queens of the Stone Age? Gotan Project? Paolo Nutini? Regina Spektor? DeVotchKa? M.I.A.? Andrew Bird? Yo La Tengo? I'm running out of question marks here. Hope that some of these acts get shown on PBS's show.
Check this out- type in the name of song, and it finds the music video for you.
And, coming back to TV: John Krasinski (Jim on “The Office”) plays guitar in Ben Gibbard show

And now, I end with a little chant I made up in Japanese for my favorite Scottish soccer club, Celtic.
Ichi, ni, san, shi
Celtic ni kachite imasu!
Go, roku, shichi, hachi
Shunsuke wa ganbarimasu!

Basically, it’s “1, 2, 3,4, Celtic is winning! 5, 6, 7, 8, Shunsuke (Nakamura) will succeed!” hee.

I will never post my thoughts on yesterday’s Heroes or today’s Arsenal game or the movies I watched on President’s Day. Because MIDTERMS MUST NOT POST AAGH MIDTERMS. I probably won’t be able to comment like I used to on your posts either, although I will be still reading them and I might drop a thought or two. So, for now, enjoy a link and a music meme.
Karaoke night for Liverpool ends with a golf club brawl

Stolen from starlitexwish:
Pick 10 bands/artists you like, no particular order:
1. Muse
2. Astor Piazzolla
3. Gnarls Barkley
4. Shiina Ringo
5. Os Mutantes
6. The Mars Volta
7. Yoko Kanno
8. Antonio Carlos Jobim
9. Stray Cats
10. Camille Saint-Saens

( short bunch of questions under here )
Now, off to study.
Oh, and here’s a tongue-twister: Roll the r’s in “Raúl y Ruud por Réal.” Try it. It’s fun.