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Thanks! I never really listened to Saint Etienne, ...

2008-07-10T15:22:00.000-07:00

Thanks! I never really listened to Saint Etienne, because they seemed to disappear before I got a chance to. I'm going to download this tune at some point though.

Fortunately, my boys managed to arrest all of thos...

2008-07-09T16:09:00.000-07:00

Fortunately, my boys managed to arrest all of those dilly-dallying singles before they indulged in further licentious Reiki and Shiatsu on their longly underperforming chakras.

Now, although we haven't been able to discover yet who actually authored the despicably mystic "com menjar" instead of the down-to-earth "què menjar", we suspect of a jaundiced, ullerapastista, bearded inquisitor smelling like millet with algae and baked turnip with hazelnut sauce without salt or sugar.

Dispatch: Can Masdéu Powwow Intellectually Neutralized.

Regards,

alcinous

"Gypsies keep out of my farm"

Well, as for the reason of the block, it must be t...

2008-07-08T13:14:00.000-07:00

Well, as for the reason of the block, it must be the frequent and steaming wild intercourse between Alcinous and myself..... I meant THOUGHTS intercourse, Alcinous...

No need to mention that we need you, BNS along la bête to keep the whole thing steaming...

Anyway, good to see you on board again...however, I guess I know now how a squatter feels, at least when when it comes to blogging...you may want to keep an eye open for your property rights over here or the next generation of blog squatters (the ultraconservative one) will evict you under unlikely and ill-sustained provisos such as "propietat social"

If you keep your hacienda vacant, I may have to implement a reverse ultraconservative worklist at your blog, exactly reverse of that currently displayed at Can Masdeu, as follows

http://www.canmasdeu.net/cat/pic.php

"22 de Juny

Al llarg de tot el dia (12-20h), pots estar l'estona que vulguis:
JAM DE MASSATGES
Vine a donar i rebre!"
(call me pervy, call me nasty, but this is suspected wording)

"12:00 Xerrada
Nutricio i salut: com menjar per estar sa, alegre i net per dins
En aquesta xerrada explicarem com la nutricio influeix sobre aspectes claus per al nostre benestar. Entendre com afecta al nostre sistema immune, al nostre estat anímic o al nostre proces desintoxicatiu ens ajudara a donar una nova perspectiva a tot el que mengem"
(I have already enrolled Alcinous for this one, I'm sure he will enjoy the latest news and add his own bit to the menjar sa quirk...the part I am not getting is the detox one...what for if they are going to get heavily intoxicated right after they close the shop? ¿?)

"16:00 a 20:00 ART EN SAMARRETES I CARTELLS
Taller de serigrafia sense llum i gravat de linolium"
(it was high time for someone to explain us how to make serigrafia without power)

"I practicarem sobre tela i paper

18:00 CORRILLO FLAMENCO
Despres de la digestio musiketa per moure el cos..."

(so this is when the drugs part starts?)

Ok, we had enough of the joke...let's get serious now: we are just looking forward to your comments on ODP, boy!!

De Jong, aka 'il compagno Javier'

Hi, sorry for wisdom tooth induced hiatus. I will ...

2008-07-08T12:15:00.000-07:00

Hi, sorry for wisdom tooth induced hiatus. I will be back to posting when my face returns to its normal proportions.

We may even see some ODP.

BTW Does anyone have any idea why this comments page is blocked by my work as porn?

What have you two been up to?

Dear BNSdont you think people that people around h...

2008-07-08T09:39:00.000-07:00

Dear BNS

dont you think people that people around here would like to hear some Italian stuff?

In this regard, I just wonder....are we going to discuss about lefty starlettes à la Carmen Consoli (I told you I do have a regrettable crush with Italian sinistra arcobaleno cuties, didnt I?). If you dont feel like taking for lunch the habitual lefty girl gone rich and her troupe of bongo bangers, then we could move to less cute but much more deep, patriarchal, disturbing and even respectable Offlaga Disco Pax.

Looking forward to hear from you.

Dear Alcinous,Excuse me, but this time I dont get ...

2008-07-08T09:27:00.000-07:00

Dear Alcinous,

Excuse me, but this time I dont get your point. Are you vindicating regional languages (Swedish, Portuguese, Catalan and the like)? I have no problem with that.

Actually, despite Sweden offering glorious stuff to the anglophone/international community and notwithstanding your well known musical shortcomings, you can still find good local bands.

I'm thinking Kent, for example. Their "Om du var här" was even a minor indie hit in its English "if you were here" version, other minor hits like "Kärleken Väntar" can be found (I had a crush with their 'Livräddaren' tune "jag bromsar på is" -I break on ice'- being a nice mellow sung line very reminiscent of Scandinavian tales, isnt it?).

As for Scandinavian bands, even if they sing in English, a mention must urgently be done for Laakso.

A whole new post should be opened (BNS, when are you handing me the passwords to post freely here?) for Sadly Denied International Massive Hit Singles regarding Laakso's "Drama Queen".

This is, no doubt, to be included in the top 5 of your "How to Create Musical OverTheTop Climax" handbook

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Yxs77G8SQ

after you hit min. 2:00 if you dont find yourself, by the end of the song, invading Poland, raiding the offices of any given Italian 'alternativo dei miei coglioni' shack or any other given favourites, then there is something wrong with you.

(As a side note, by the lines
"but I'm not in love, I'm just obsessed, with hearing you say 'please Alcinous, come to me'"
please correct me if I am wrong, but I just can't help to picture Alcinous in front of a portrait showing Xx Xxxx in an adamant pose, Alcinous sighing or singing on the top of his voice, possibly in a Jordi Pujol mask...)

De Jong
"The Worst Combination of Addictions".

Oh, but De Jong... I don’t have time to take tutor...

2008-07-07T13:22:00.000-07:00

Oh, but De Jong... I don’t have time to take tutorials on how to become a downloader, man...

As a matter of fact, I’ve been busy lately with other 3D applications, namely a taboulé update, fideuà 2.0 and sushi 101.

Besides, I don’t understand that mania with canned tuna, la dieta del cucurucho, that monolingual, monofood chimera among Fernando Savater and akin global music coolies.

That attitude’s creating a lot of pain in allophone speakers who see their favourite music fall into oblivion, wondering whether they speak a doomed language or what.

And then they commit glossocides of the English language like GusGus.

That needs to be addressed without complexes with a honest ‘I am as I am, I speak what I speak’ manifesto.

See, for instance, Familjen singing in Swedish –a foolish rarity in our days.

So, even if my Swedish ain’t good enough to understand most of the lyrics, I can still appreciate the psychic tension of Det snurrar i min skalle, It whirls / twirls in my skull.

These guys are so dark, so mørk, compared to the rest of Europeans, I sorta incorporate all this inflow as naïf art, somehow.

Enjoy,

alcinous

BNS,De Jong salutes you.Well, let's face the bad n...

2008-07-05T13:46:00.000-07:00

BNS,

De Jong salutes you.

Well, let's face the bad news first and then we'll go on to the sunnier side. If by 1993 BNS was 14 years old, then you look older than you should.

It doesnt take much analysis to realize that it must be you Che Guevara hunchback. Remove it and, along the Argentinean crook, you will take five years off you. That's a real friend advice.

Besides, a tattoo of a bearded military crank doesn't go well with fine velvet bourgeois gloves axing people's head in Ms. Cracknell's way. And I guess we all agree in that the latter character is far more intriguing than the former, isnt she?

About St. Etienne....I never really got into this band. I heard 'she's on the phone' and probably this one tune you are mentioning. I found them musically too bland for my by then young man testosterone levels.

However, your post has made me remind that St. Etienne song which mesmerized me for a week or two. I have hastily pulled it up, played it again and, luckily, I am glad to announce it does preserve its original qualities.

I am talking, of course, of 'Heart failed (in the back of a taxi)'.

This song has that sort of -slightly distorted, slightly discording- moody synths like worms carving wood; all punctuated with that heavily treated guitar-like reverbing strike, like a submarine sonar.
All in all presenting a decadent, nocturnal, splendid defeat scene which obviously pleases the ears of ultraconservatives in De Jong's fashion.

As for the lyrics, they do fit in.

And so, the opening lines (as retrieved from any given website)

"Took a trip down Anita Way
had to go on the 1st of May
didnt have much to celebrate...

Heart failed in the back of a taxi"

are certainly a thing of beauty (which the bearded defunct crashing bore wouldnt approve).

The song goes on in decadent style and, then, all of a sudden, that line carelessly arises at ease

"sod the fans and their families"

I am immediately ranking this as one of the best lines I have heard from a synth-pop band (I guess this one line could have been approved, though, by the Argentinean military icon for rebel youngsters).

It's a shame that this song is not at youtube. You guys (namely Alcinous, who is well known for his post-Nova Cançó musical illiteracy, among others) should download it at once and get back to us with your applause.

De Jong.