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Decidido a hacer uso de mis privilegios de ciudadano de Castellón, y para encontrar una alternativa de entretenimiento al internet (ya que ademas de ser rancio y vicioso, no me funciona muy bien jo jo), me saco mi carnet de la biblioteca. El plan es ir de cuando en vez y echarme un saqueo para culturizarme un poco. Inesperadamente ¡tienen un pocote de películas!, lamentablemente muchas estan en españoleto, y como con VHS no hay opcion de subtitulos me jodo con varias, pero bueno igual no tengo ni reproductor de VHS asi que ni importa. Y ademas de libros, que obviamente deben tener siempre, tienen cds de música  y hasta videojuegos en gran cantidad, pero me abstendré de éstos últimos. Como hay que devolverlos periódicamente, cuando regrese lo que tomé la última vez, tomaré material nuevo. Y escribiré aquí un poco acerca de todo lo que saque para tenerlo de registro.

Películas:

-Taxi Driver

.     Hollywood

.          Estado: Espero verla hoy.

-La guerra Civil Española 1, El preludio de la tragedia (1931-36)

.     Documental Español

.          Estado: La vi una vez prestandole atención y de fondo en el ordenador otra. Al comienzo me cabreé cuando no me funcionó, pero luego instalé el AnyDVD y todo de maravilla. ¡Gracias Zorro Pirata! Estuvo educativa, ahora, me falta ver las otras 14 o 40 entregas que son para estar mas claro, y luego un poco de lectura de refuerzo para poder afirmar que soy ducho en el genocidio español. Muchas entrevistas de gente interesante (incluyendo a una familiar gilipollas de Drimo de Rivera) y buenas imágenes, sorprendentemente menos aburrida de lo esperado. Con calidad comercial History Channel, pero contenido mas desarrollado.

Música:

-Fred Astaire, El Momento

.     Compilación de grandes éxitos

.     Colección de Jazz por el periodico el País

.          Estado: Lo he escuchado más de un par de veces, pero siempre por supuesto le presto más atención a las primeras pistas que a las últimas. Lo cual hace que ésas me cansen un poco, y no conozca bien las otras. Me falta sacarle más la chicha, así que ya lo ripié. Trae un libraco pequeño que ya leí encolado a la caja, pero está como mal escrito. Lo bueno es que trae fotos divertidas. El pana era un superbailarín y le metía a la interpretación de canto muy bien. En esas épocas no se preocupaban por empaquetar los productos de tal manera que la gente exigiera que el artista hiciera todo, así que cada uno se dedicaba a lo suyo y había mejor calidad. Le escribían que si George Gershwin y Cole Porter, que eran unos duros del reggaetón lírico.

Lectura:

-George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four

.     Literatura Inglesa en inglés

.     Prólogo de Bernard Crick (quién coño es, no sé)

.          Estado: En dos o tres sentadas he logrado avanzar a travéz de aproximadamente 40 páginas de una inextrincable introducción de como 100 páginas, solo para descubrir que fucking Bernard Crick me acaba de cagar la Historia de probablemente uno de los libros más importantes en la literatura popular moderna. Aparte de que te echa el cuento completo a lo chepina (tomando tecito con el meñique erecto), destruyendo así gran parte de tu motivación, escribe hasta el cansancio de una manera confusa, destruyendo otra gran parte de tu motivación, ¡por que nunca acaba! La próxima vez que abra el libro empezaré la historia de una vez, no me importa que traicionen a la pareja de amantes al final y los torturen AJA TE JODÍ A TÍ TAMBIÉN. Luego termino de leer al zoquete Crick.

Singin' in the Rain

Anchors Aweigh

American in Paris

there are so many more fantastic numbers that it might be impossible to limit it to the best. some of my other favorite of his movies are brigadoon, summer stock, take me out to the ball game, and a wonderful duet with fred astaire in ziegfeld follies:

There are things we wonder, though.  I mean, at least I do.  Will my puppy, Mindy, be there?  Will I be able to breathe underwater?  Am I really going to be expected to play a harp?  In all seriousness, is everyone really gonna know everything about everyone else; good and bad? 

More than anything else, however, I would like to know if there will be dancing in heaven.  I mean, I expect that there will be some dancing as part of praise.  But I'm talking about beautiful dresses, long white gloves, tuxedos, and people suddenly being so overcome that they begin singing and dancing.  And everyone knows all the steps.  Do you think we'll do that in heaven?

There are many things to make me think I was born in the wrong decade.  One of which is my desire to go to parties where people dance.  I mean REALLY dance.  Not get drunk, grind against a stranger, and then hook up.  I mean, old-fashioned Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire dancing.  It's so beautiful and so romantic and SO innocent!  Oh, it looks like so much fun.  Do you think God will throw parties to watch us ballroom dance in heaven?  I dearly hope so.

this is the socalld veeeneez waltz altho i dont see enny of those littel sawsajes in it so i dont think its reely frum vienna at all:
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this is a chacha that just goze on and on and on until sumbuddy turns off the myoozik:
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i dont no i supoze this sort of thing is ok for peepul but i wood rather play a gud gaym of fetch ha ha ok bye

Hollywood's greatest dancer in four stand-out features. An American in Paris; Gene Kelly: Anatomy of a Dancer; On the Town; Singin' in the Rain

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at first i thawt maybe dada goes to fred astaire and dresses up like mama but no it terns owt this is a farely reglar mens lattin shoo that yoo wood ware wen dooing danses from the mithical land of latin america like the samba the chacha and the rumba however i herd mama and dada tawking and dada sed he is having a shoo emerjensy evedently the heel part of the shoo is not suppozed to rotayt arownd like this:

and it most sertinly is not suppozed to pop rite off like that:

so today dada has to try to get his shoo fiksd or replaysd becuz tomorro he and mama ar suppozd to perform a chacha at the big fred astaire party at the stoodyo dada sez he can do the chacha in his smooth shoos if he has to but he duznt reely want to i am not shoor wot mayks them smooth shoos they luk pretty bumpy to me

ennyway i hav an aretite alibi i wuz lokd in the krate at home wile all this wuz going on so i had nuthing to do with this shoo damaj in fakt how do we no it wuznt dada destroying mamas shoos all along????? now we see ware the finger of blaym shood poynt!!!!!

ok bye

Fred Astaire e Ginger Rogers em Top Hat
ao som de Isn't a Lovely Day

Isn't it a Lovely Day é a música ideal pra melhorar qualquer humor, e se vier com Fred Astair e Ginger Rogers de brinde, aí então nem se fala... Mas se ainda assim isso não melhorar o humor do caboclo, basta ouvir Ella Fitzgerald e Louis Armstrong cantando Cheek to Cheek -- é bom lembrar, que essa mesma música também faz parte da genial trilha sonora do Top Hat, do não menos genial Irving Berlin.

Mas já vou avisando que se nenhuma das duas músicas acertarem o humor do caboclo, aí só bebendo -- eu, particularmente, recomendo destilados de baixa qualidade mas de procedência razoável ;-)

Aproveitando o gancho, baixei hoje cedo no excelente site do JazzMan, o disco "Ella and Louis". Definitivamente é um dos melhores discos que eu já ouvi nos últimos anos. Já fazem horas que eu estou ouvindo sem parar, e ja me flagrei sorrindo igual um imbecil umas duas vezes enquanto tocava Moonlight in Vermont ou April in Paris... Nem me pergunte porquê ?!

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog about trying to get a copy of my pink slip from when I was fired at my job at a record label. The reason for trying to get a copy was because of what was written under "Reason for Termination": No radio experience. (For those of you who didn't bother to read the other blog, I had just finished a 3-year stint in radio before coming on board.)

My pal Brad put me in touch with Sara at Gotee Records to see about getting a copy of my paperwork and she was really cool about it. Alas, I heard back from her today and although they did indeed find my file, my pink slip is nowhere to be found inside.

I have to admit, I'm a little depressed about it. Why? I'll explain by giving you some true stories:

• Walt Disney was once fired by a newspaper editor because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas."
• After Harrison Ford's first performance in movies, the studio vice-president called him into his office and said, "You ain't got it kid , you ain't got it ... now get out of here."
• Charles Schultz had every one of the comics he submitted to his high school newspaper rejected .
• A memo written in 1933 by an MGM testing director after Fred Astaire's first screen test said, "Can't act. Can't sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little." Astaire actually had the memo framed and placed over his fireplace.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying I'm better than or even nearly as good as any of the people I mentioned above but man, I really wanted my own little piece of irony to hang on the wall.

I watched some Frank Sinatra and Fred Astaire - more Fred Astaire tho. I love Frank Sinatra's singing but I love Fred Astaires singing and dancing.

It was a time when tap dancing and ball room danging was cool!

Cheek to Cheek from the movie "Top Hat" became a favourite song of mine when i saw it on the movie "The Green Mile". The dancing and singing is brilliant. That was when I discovered this era where there were some actors that could sing and dance. It's fascinating watching some of the clips from the movies and seeing how cheesy they were but it was the 40's..they were allowed to be!

For those of you who would like to see what I've been watching go to this link: frgt10kyur

For those who are lazy, here is one clip...

Oh, and this clip I found when searching "Dean Martin"...it's just really funny!! A must watch =)

Goldie Hawn on the Dean Martin Show (1969)

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cd 1: goldfrapp-seventh tree

è davvero un cd magico.
rievoca quelle atmosfere, come si dice in giro, bucoliche, come il primo album, così soft, così nature.
poetico nei suoni, si sentono riverberi di natura, di pioggia, di aria tra le melodie.
e la voce da fata di allison rende il tutto ancora più astratto, più piacevole.

cd2: carla bruni-comme si de rien n'etait (l'immagine è una mia orribile scansione)

come se niente fosse successo.
e le sonorità non cambiano, ciò nonostante il mio debole per il francese e per la vocina così doux della carlà mi fanno piacere questo cd.
non ha delle melodie trascinanti e uno che non è abituato rischia di addormentrsi.
ma è un disco poetico e dalle atmosfere suggestive..

cd3: fred astaire-finest hour

sì, è il mio amato fred, con la sua voce lieve e cremosa (lo so è strano ma mi fa pensare ad una cascata di caramello *_*).
questo è il cd perfetto da mettere durante una cena. accompagna splendidamente ogni momento.
raccoglie tutti i successi più grandi di fred (manca shall we dance, peccato) e riascoltarli, per gli appassionati,è sempre stupendo.
-stupendo..di solito nel bel mezzo di they can't take that away from me mi viene da piangere. una delle più belle canzoni d'amore-

°o.

fred astaire e ginger rogers.
credetemi, questi due fanno vibrare la tv.
e non solo per il tip tap superbo, ma anche per i loro sguardi.
approfondisco. shall we dance, 1937, titolo italiano voglio danzare con te.
ok, le critiche danno una trama scontata al servizio dei numeri musicali, insomma farebbe da contorno ai due attori-ballerini. posso essere d’accordo per molti dei loro film, ma questo..non lo so, la trama è allegra, i dialoghi scoppiettanti e strappano delle risate; certo non è un capolavoro come cappello a cilindro o cantando sotto la pioggia, ma è comunque molto piacevole da vedere.

passiamo ai numeri musicali.
i loro, valgono sempre la pene d’essere visti.
in shall we dance amo letteralmente il tip tap sui pattini,sui pattini! ci vuole un equilibrio da funamboli credetemi…sono serviti 6 giorni di riprese per questa scena, che è assolutamente divina.

e gli sguardi?? gli sguardi, le occhiate tra ginger e fred sono intensi. per usare un termine inglese hhhhhot. lo so, che quei due non hanno avuto una storia insieme e che entrambi erano sposati con persone diverse, ma a guardare i loro film c’è un’intesa che poche coppie hanno;
è come se la telecamera non ci fosse…quando ballano guardandosi negli occhi, o quando semplicemnte dialogano, traspare una scintilla così sontuosamente erotica che sembra davvero ci fosse stato di più tra loro.
è ovvio che questo impreziosisce i film.
ormai è quasi una caccia all’”intesa”.
e in shall we dance è palese.

oggi mi sono imbelletata.
pelle bianca. plastica.
i miei occhi verdiazzurrigrigi.con le ciglia lunghe ma tanto lunghe.
no, la bocca non è rossa. non sono in the mood of red.
mi sento la pelle di un’altro tempo.

sfregiata antica.
angusta porcellana-diafana luna-e poi? orchidea brillante.
ma va!
sono solo di nuovo nei golden years
-greta garbo-l’amore della mia vita-
e mi sono innamorata di fred e ginger- voglio ballare il tiptap anch’io-
-parlami di all about eve e ti svengo addosso. perchè, honey, se lo sai, sei il mio tipo-
e le vacanze romane- senza essere in vacanza- sono una princess anch’io!!

e tutto scorre amalgamandosi alle immagini.
ora sono in the red lips mood.

-glenn miller in the mood-

°o.

Fred Astaire. Need I say more?