vineri, 12 septembrie 2008
cand voi dormiti eu traiesc, cand voi munciti, eu dorm, ma odihnesc
Sentimentul asta ma anima si acum cand toata lumea va fi terminat concediile, vacantele si eu voi pleca iar in lume pentru vreo 2 saptamani. Am si cd-uri noi in masina, iata cateva muzici care ma vor insoti:
NEW ORDER 60 Miles per hour
ORBITAL Beach
UNDERWORLD Beautiful Burnout
BOB MARLEY Jammin'
ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION - Riddim I Like
joi, 11 septembrie 2008
Mike Patton e Metropole Orchestra
Iata dovada:
miercuri, 10 septembrie 2008
Ultima noapte de amor, prima noapte de apocalipsa
Marele experiment cu particule a creat isterie, nu stiu daca internationala, dar cu siguranta...nationala.
Aseara cand imi dadeam copilul in leagan in parcul de langa bloc, toti parinti si toti copii vorbeau de sfarsitul lumii.
Am fost placut surprins insa, induiosat chiar, cand in toata aceasta isterie am surprins un dialog intre niste copii cam la vreo 10 ani: un voinic si doua d-soare.
El le propune partenerelor de joaca sa-ti rememoreze tot ce a fost frumos in viata lor, daca tot bate la usa sfarsitul lumii. Si tot el vine cu prima, citez, “super amintire”, cand i-a gasit catelul uneia dintre d-soarele de fata si ea l-a imbratisat. Fetita cu pricina, bineinteles, nu a percutat la amintirea tanarului amorezat si a incercat o alta amintire de la scoala cu niste colege si doamna invatoare.
Indragostitul a insistat timid “propun sa rememoram chiar acum super amintirea mea” sperand la o imbratisare. Ce folos, fetitele trecusera la cea de a treia amintire.
marți, 9 septembrie 2008
Hector Zazou nu mai e
"Compozitorul şi producătorul Hector Zazou, adept al metisajului muzical care a colaborat, printre alţii, cu muzicieni precum Bjork şi Peter Gabriel, a încetat din viaţă, luni, la Paris, după o boală de lungă durată, informează AFP.Artist inoovator al carierei eclectice, Hector Zazou, născut la Sidi bel Abbès (Algeria) pe 11 iulie 1948, a fost un pionier francez al mariajului între muzica contemporană şi muzica lumii. În ultimul său album, "In The House Of Mirrors", înregistrat în India, va fi lansat pe 6 octombrie de către studiourile Crammed."
PS: Ar fi pacat sa treci prin viata fara sa asculti superbul sau disc Sahara Blue. Incercati sa o faceti.
wannabe
duminică, 7 septembrie 2008
Nagorny Karabach
un minitur european, putin de pofta
Ajunseseram in Praga dupa 3 zile de Sziget Festival in Budapesta unde ne-am bucurat de cateva muzici extraordinare. Am vazut in sfarsit Sex Pistols live si doua zile am vorbit numai despre asta. Nefericirea mea a fost ca am pierdut Transglobal Underground cu Natacha Atlas. Curat ghinion, dar drumul Bucuresti-Budapesta s-a dovedit a fi almost a never ending road. Si am prins eclipsa dansand pe Mesecina cu Bregovic. Nu am niciodata entuziasmul sa ma duc la o cantare cu d-nul Goran in Bucuresti, doar si pentru ca l-am mai vazut de 5-6 ori live. Insa la Sziget era un spell nene. Eram 15.000 de oameni care dansam muzica balcanilor si are eclipsa de luna din acea seara a facut acest moment sa fie magic si suprarealist. Ajunsesem la Brecovic mai mult in virtutea inertiei. Doar nu era sa stau la REM care performau la aceeasi ora.
vineri, 8 august 2008
Concediu
Imi doresc ca in fiecare zi sa am parte de extaz. Si...o sa am.
Europa asteapta sa fie cucerita...de mine, de noi, cei cativa...din linia intai.
Ne recitim peste cateva saptamani.
Opriti planeta, vreau sa cobor
MAE rus a dezmintit informatiile potrivit carora avioane rusesti au bombardat, in cursul diminetii de vineri, tinte de pe teritoriul georgian. Diferite surse anuntasera ca un avion rusesc a lansat 2 bombe langa o sectie de politie din Georgia, iar alte trei avioane au bombardat diferite tinte de pe teritoriul georgian.
9.30 Soldatii georgieni au deschis focul asupra trupelor ruse de mentinere a pacii.
9.45 Vladimir Putin si George W. Bush s-au intalnit la Beijing.
10.00 Putin: Agresiunea Georgiei impotriva Osetiei de Sud va primi replica.
10.15 Presedintele de la Tbilisi, Mikhail Saakasvili, a anuntat mobilizarea rezervistilor
10.25 Ambasada Georgiei din Moscova a fost pusa sub protectia fortelor OMON
10.30 Avioane rusesti au atacat orasul georgian Gori, a anuntat agentia Novosti-Gruzia, citand surse ale televiziunii georgiene. Potrivit acestora, unu dintre avioane a fost doborat de trupele georgiene insa MAE rus a calificat informatiile drept "aiureli"
10.50 Flota rusa din Marea Neagra a anuntat ca este gata sa ajute refugiatii din Osetia de Sud
11.00 Presedintele american George W. Bush a cerut incetarea imediata a conflictului din Caucaz.
11.10 Reuters anunta ca mai multi soldati rusi din trupele de mentinere a pacii au fost ucisi in timpul luptelor
11.20 Consiliul de Securitate al ONU nu a reusit sa adopte o declaratie comuna privind conflictul din Caucaz.
11.50 MAE rus a dezmintit informatiile potrivit carora avioanele sale au atacat Georgia.
12.15 NATO a cerut incetarea violentelor din Osetia de Sud
George W. Bush: Cer incetarea imediata a conflictului din Caucaz
Presedintele american George W. Bush a solicitat incetarea "imediata" a conflictului din Caucaz. Declaratia sefului Administratiei americane a fost facuta dupa o intrevedere cu premierul rus Vladimir Putin in capitala chineza, unde cei doi lideri participa la ceremonia de deschidere a Jocurilor Olimpice de vara.
Victime in randul fortelor de pace ruse din Osetia de Sud
Cazarmele fortelor de pace din Thnivali au fost atacate cu proiectile de artilerie si rachete, care au provocat deja morti si raniti in randul fortelor de pace ruse, informeaza Eho Moskvi, citat de Rador.
ANM: Cod galben de ploi
Meteorologii au emis o avertizare cod galben de ploi pentru ziua de sambata, 9 august. In Maramures, Crisana, nordul Transilvaniei si al Moldovei vor fi ploi ce vor avea si caracter torential, iar cantitatile de apa vor depasi local 25...30 l/mp si izolat 40 l/mp. Se vor semnala frecvente descarcari electrice, intensificari de scurta durata ale vantului, care trecator pot lua aspect de vijelie si vor fi condtii de grindina.
Avertizarea este valabila sambata, intre orele 03-22.00.
Accident de tren in Cehia: 100 de raniti
Un trenul EuroCity s-a lovit vineri de fragmentele unui pod care s-au prabusit peste calea ferata in zona Studenka din nord-estul Cehiei, informeaza AFP. Cel putin 100 de persoane au fost ranite, au anuntat autoritatile locale.
Trenul circula pe ruta Cracovia - Praga.
Comitetul International Olimpic a decis: e doar ceata, aerul in China nu este poluat!
Desi jurnalistii de la BBC si AP se intrec in a da publicitatii grafice cu nivelul poluarii inainte de Olimpiada, oficialii CIO considera ca aerul este respirabil iar sportivii nu vor avea de suferit, desi Beijingul este invaluit in smog, temperatura este ridicata iar cladirile abia se zaresc.
O grupare terorista ameninta din nou cu atentate la Beijing, in timpul Jocurilor Olimpice
O grupare terorista islamica (ETIM) a revendicat toate atentatele produse in China inaintea Jocurilor Olimpice si ameninta ca va proceda la fel si in perioada Olimpiadei. Musulmanii sunt rugati sa nu fie prin locurile unde se va disputa competitia, intrucat se va lasa cu varsari de sange.
Si ziua abia a inceput !
marți, 5 august 2008
Fecioara de tinichea la Bucuresti
Am ajuns si m-au apucat toti nervii din lume, cu cozile inumane la bere. Si ce bere...Ursus, berea numarul 1 in Romania la greata. [Tocmai mi-a povestit un prieten care acum e in Berlin cum a intrat intr-un magazin cu zeci de feluri de bere in care avea si Ursus si l-a intrebat pe proprietarul magazinului care era si vanzator ce parere are de bere. Neamtul a fost franc si a respuns in momentul doi...pisswasser].
Si a inceput si show-ul. Ce sa zic, am cam imbatranit. Mi s-a parut tot ambalajul maxim de pueril si Bruce Dickinson nimic altceva decat un bufon. Cand vocea nu-l mai tinea era data de la mixer mai incet, cam la nivelul chitarilor. In loc de doua chitare si un bass, erau trei..mult prea mult pentru Iron Maiden. Iar aparitiile mascotei Eddie, nimic altceva decat numere de circ.
Fecioara de fier mi-a parut de tabla, de tinichea. Dar la ce ma asteptam pana la urma.
Una peste alta...a fost ok.
duminică, 3 august 2008
Si a fost Massive Attack la Bucuresti
Massive Attack - Safe From Harm (Live in Bucharest)
Bineinteles ca publicul a fost plin de cele mai sofisticate personaje din publicitate, presa s.a.m.d. Dar cel mai important, imi place sa cred ca a fost pentru omul simplu care a fost acolo si a vazut cum se poate transforma o simpla cantare intr-o opera de arta. Acest tip de om cu siguranta nu cred ca va mai inghiti vreodata prostii gen Voltaj, Vama Veche, Directia 5, fufe cate isi arata nurii pe prima pagina a tabloidelor si alte braile de genul asta.
Massive Attack - Karmacoma (Live in Bucharest 2008)
O sa-i las pe altii sa va povesteasca show-ul. Personal nu gasesc nimic de povestit.
Massive Attack e de vazut si de ascultat cu mintea, cu trupul, cu sufletul.
Massive Attack - Teardrop (Live in Bucharest 2008)
vineri, 1 august 2008
Wristcutters - film de vazut
Si daca tot o sa va placa filmul, cautati pe net Through The Roof'n'Underground cu Gogol Bordello. O sa aflati astfel ca Eugene din film e personajul inspirat din realul Eugene Hutz si ca intr-o ierarhie pe verticala de la pamant la cer, Tom Waits ocupa un loc important.
Anima Sound System...Gratis
Se vede treaba, oamenii au inteles perfect faptul ca este infinit mai important ca muzica sa ajunga la oameni, decat banii in conturile caselor de discuri:
"One thing is sure: The days of record companies and copyrights are numbered. And we are all going straight back to hell via the internet, faster then the flying arrow"
Asadar, gasiti aici www.animasoundsystem.com doua discuri, live-ul de care vorbeam Munity On The Ship si inca un disc cu remixuri Upload_Download...GRATIS.
BIO Anima Sound System
Dub and Hungarian folk-music with break and gipsy roots, traditions of Bartók and rock arena feeling: fascinating, political and radical dance music. “The racial impurity is definitely beneficial.” – for more than a decade the Anima Sound System has been promulgating this on records, on Europe-wide concerts together with musicians, bands and producers such as JC001, the Asian Dub Foundation, Jeremy Thompson, Heidi Levo, Yonderboi, Terry Lee Brown Junior, the Transglobal Underground, the De Phazz, Kim Cascone and Noam Chomsky who have joined us for gigs, for doing remixes and records. The last record ‘We Strike’ released in 2006, in 2007 a remix album, a concert record and a special ass-shaking live-act-program will be brought out by the hyperactive central Europeans. The world of folk songs and the voices of nature with the radical verbalism of the Rage Against The Machine - guaranteed party-bomb and responsible hip-hop talking politics in an East and Central European way. We strike! Peace and Love.
joi, 31 iulie 2008
Burgas vs Stufstock
Acum eu o sa plec intr-un miniturneu european care o sa ma poarte si la niste mari concerte cum ar fi Sex Pistols si Transglobal Underground. Insa daca nu as fi plecat intre vest, ma gandeam sa ma duc la Stufstock, asa for fun, caci pe Deus i-am mai vazut si m-a cam plictisit show-ul. Valabil si pentru Apocalyptica.
Bulgarii insa, m-ar fi convins sa ma lipsesc de Stufstock si de minunatele servicii din Vama Veche, pentru ca la Burgas, exact in acelasi timp cu festivalul din Vama Veche se intampla un alt festival cu un line up muuuult mai interesant, si anume:
- 15 august Sisters Of Mercy + Pendulum DJ Set
- 16 august Asian Dub Foundation
- 17 august Bonomo + Groove Armada DJ Set + si pentru pasionatii de maciuleishan metal Cradle Of Filth.
Click aici pentru mai multe detalii: http://www.spiritofburgas.com/
Va las pe voi sa decideti unde o sa va simtiti mai bine...apropo...pe aceeasi bani, poate chiar ceva mai ieftin in Bulgaria.
marți, 29 iulie 2008
Massive Attack la Bucuresti
Massive Attack e o treaba serioasa. Massive Attack live este un happening si am convingerea ca va fi concertul anului in Romania. Si din acest motiv nu se face sa lipsiti sambata de la cantare.
Save From Harm [Live 2008]
Rising Son [Live 2008]
All I Want [Live 2008]
Si nici ex.Tricky wife, Martina Topley Bird nu e de ratat.
luni, 28 iulie 2008
Sziget Festival 2008 - recomandari
Daca nu va ajung evenimentele rock ale sezonului din Bucuresti sau Sibiu si v-ati hotarat sa vedeti toata vara cat mai multe concerte, merita un drum pana la Budapesta pentru o saptamana de Sziget Festival, intre 12 si 17 august. Desi lineup-ul de la Sziget din acest an a fost votat ca fiind mediocru de peste 50% din vizitatorii site-ului festivalului, iar multi dintre participanti au putut fi vazuti deja si la noi, sunt numeroase trupe pentru care merita sa petrecem o saptamana pe insula Obudai.
Pasionatii de heavy metal pot revedea Iron Maiden chiar in ziua zero a festivalului, pentru ca in ziua unu la scena World Music se poate servi cu niste palinca - in loc de vodca - niste ska rusesc din Sankt Petersburg: o trupa care se numeste, cum altfel, Leningrad. Cat despre palinca, pe insula exista cateva locuri unde se servesc 14 tipuri de "apa de foc".
Punk rock irlandez din L.A., gypsy metal din Balcani, brit-pop si alte metale
Daca nu aveti somn, tot in prima seara de Sziget, nu se face sa pierdeti Zagar & The Underground Divas la Wan2 Stage, un proiect unguresc care combina magistral electro-jazz cu indierock, creand astfel o atmosfera care ne muta in dimensiuni paralele. Si tot in prima seara avem Kultur Shock, mai exact "balkanic punk rock gypsy metal", o formatie formata din sase muzicieni din diferita colturi ale lumii - Bulgaria, Statele Unite, Japonia si Bosnia.
Cu bere ungureasca se poate servi punk rock irlandez, dar din Los Angeles, cu Flogging Molly, iar pentru pasionatii de hituri, exista posibilitatea de a o revedea Alanis Morissette. La scena muzicilor tiganesti avem proiectul romanesc Kaliakra - putin probabil sa se numeasca asa din motive geopolitice (cadrilater s.a.).
Joi, 14 august cu siguranta va veti fi acomodat cu festivalul si va veti fi facut prieteni din mai toata Europa. Este ziua in care la Main Stage va performa Jamiroquai si, pentru pasionatii de brit-pop, Kaiser Chiefs, iar metalistii isi pot scutura "pletanele” cu americanii Iced Earth la Hammer Stage, in timp ce la Carl Cox va invarti platanele la Party Arena.
Si tot in primele zile nu sunt nicicum de ratat doua dj seturi cu dj-ii Transglobal Underground care se vor intampla la Ambient Tent.
Here are the Sex Pistols
Ziua de vineri e de departe cea mai interesanta, doar si prin simpla prezenta a veteranilor Sex Pistols, care vor inchide cantarile la Main Stage pe aceasta zi. Este obligatoriu de vazut Transglobal Underground ft. Natacha Atlas, unul din cele mai interesante proiecte world music, iar pentru cine i-a ratat in Romania si nu merge la Stufstock la Hammer Stage avem Apocalyptica. Toate aceste 3 concerte sunt programate la ore diferite si putem avea acces la toate.
Sambata, 16 august, penultima zi a festivalului, printre carnati unguresti si beri cel mai interesant show de vazut pare sa fie al lui Serj Tankian, vocalul celebrei trupe americane cu radacini armenesti System Of A Down. Pentru cei care prefera muzici mai domestice, capul de afis al acestei zile este REM care vor performa la Main Stage, timp in care la World Music Stage se va intampla Goran Bregovic Wedding & Funeral Band care va pune in scena noul sau proiect "Alcohol".
Daca ati ratat B'estfest-ul de la Bucuresti o puteti vedea la Sziget pe ex. vocalista irlandeza a Moloko, Roisin Murphy. Si pentru ce miezul noptii va fi trecut la scena A38 trebuie neaparat vazut show-ul Anima Sound System, unul din cele mai bune proiecte unguresti etno-electro. In deschiderea lor vor canta romanii de la Kumm.
Ultima zi a festivalului se anunta a fi cea mai rock. La Main Stage si-au anuntat prezenta americanii The Killers, care au inchis festivalul si anul trecut. In deschiderea acestora vor canta Tankcsapda, iar scena metalistilor are nu mai putin de 4 nume mari, respectiv canadienii 3 Inches Of Blood, americanii Pro-Pain si mai batranii concetateni Exodus si britanicii Carcass.
Tot in acesta ultima zi a festivalului din Budapesta se va pregati o portie sanatoasa de live drum'n'base cu Pendulum, DJ seturi la ceas de noapte Justice, Anima Sound System si DJ Palotai. La scena world music Besh O Drom vor canta muzica balcanilor presarata cu elemente electronice, iar seara va fi inchisa cu un show magistral reggae dub pus in scena de parintele dub-ului, jamaicanul Lee "Scratch" Perry.
de Silviu Munteanu HotNews.ro
Joi, 17 iulie 2008
vineri, 25 iulie 2008
joi, 24 iulie 2008
A plouat de au ruginit metalistii
marți, 22 iulie 2008
Fur TV
Asta am facut ieri toata ziua, am ras cu lacrimi de Lapeno, latino loverul care aduce a nepotul lui Kermit si fute tot, Ed The Fat, looser metalist care se hraneste doar cu pizza si bere, si incredibilul Mervin, care atunci cand nu mananca bataie de la Ed, se masturbeaza.
Mai multe episoade gasiti pe youtube sau chiar pe site-ul mtv uk.
Enjoy ! [si daca aveti chef spuneti-mi care v-a placut mai mult...preferatul meu este Fur & Loathing]
Ed's Furry Fucking Guide to Metal
Fur & Loathing [o sa va bucurati mai mult de el daca ati vazut Fear & Loathing of Las Vegas]
Fur TV Cribs
Ladies Love Lapeno
Arse Of Darkness part.1 [aici avem o parodie la Apocalypse Now]
Arse Of Darkness part.2
Rent Boys
luni, 21 iulie 2008
marți, 15 iulie 2008
Concertele mele
Auzisem ca James Lavelle foloseste o formatie de rock in toata regula pe scena, insa nu ma asteptam la 2 chitaristi, plus basist, plus tobar. Asta si probabil si ca noul disc al Unchiesului “War Stories” este foarte rock si are, cum m-a obisnuit, colaborari interesante, cum ar fi Ian Astbury care, altfel, a cantat si acum proiectat pe ecranul din spatele formatiei. Una peste alta UNKLE a sunat incredibil de heavy electro-rock si a fost singura trupa care m-a convins sa-mi cumpar bilet pentru prima zi a festivalului. As fi vazut si Cypress Hill, for fun, dar din nefericire au fost la aceeasi ora si James Lavelle e unchiesu’ meu, ceea ce va doresc si d-voastra.
Am stat langa boxa din stanga si incasat fiecare beat, fiecare bass fiecare acord care din urechi s-a dus in hipotalamus si de acolo direct in suflet.
Altfel, nu mi-a displacut Apollo 440 si m-am foarte plictisit la Alanis Morissette.
Pentru ca pentru a doua zi de B’estfest nu mi-a oferit decat Nouvelle Vague am dat skip si am ajuns la a treia pentru, vai, doar doua cantari: Stereophonics si prietenul Manu [Chao]. Stereophonics au cantat absolut corect insa nu m-a atins nicicum. Exista o anumita maniera de a canta britanic, corect 100%, dar cand se termina concertul parca nu ramai cu mare lucru. Maniera pe care am intalnit-o la alte trupe. Si vorba unui bun prieten, baiatul ala de la Stereophonics cu vocea lui cu coaie si cu chitara lui de cucerit inimile d-soarelor arata ca intr-un film cu mafioti, doar ca era pizza guy.
Dar ce mai conta Stereophonics cand seara a fost salvata de Manu.
Nu sunt multe trupe, nu sunt multi artisti care se bucura atat de mult de viata cand sunt pe scena si canta. Parca la uitam la niste baieti de liceu ce vroiau sa cucereasca lumea cu muzica lor. Si, le-a reusit. Si am dansat si am ragusit. Si i-am aratat degetul mijlociu lui Bush, first terrorist of the world, impreuna cu Manu. Si cand s-a cantat Santa Maradona, strigam cat ma tineau plamanii, “aparaaa Dukadaaaaaaaam”.
Si e o treaba cand publicul te cheama la bis, si, desi contractul tau de artist nu prevede si a treia iesire pe scena, o faci...pentru ca esti una cu toti cei prezenti care au venit sa te vada. Concluzionand, cantarea cu Manu Chao a fost una din cele mai cele, care personal m-a emotionat si, de cateva ori mi s-a facut pielea ca de gaina, cum se spune in popor.
Si, amuzant a fost ca desi aici Manu a transformat o cantare intr-un happening, unii au preferat sa o vada pe Nutzy Furtado. In fine, cum ar fi spus Mitica “lasa-i sa moara prosti ”.
Aveam 18 ani, eram rocker, aveam parul pana la cur si alte griji nu aveam decat sa-mi gasesc iubirea vietii mele si ceva de futut. Le-am gasit pe toate. Si atat cautarile cat si ce a urmat contineau in soundtrack si formatia Whitenake. Si pentru ca in ’97 am fost foarte incantat de show-ul de la Sala Palatului a Sarpelui alb mi-am zis sa ma mai duc odata, asa, de dragul amintirilor. Si nu mi-a placut. Pe Covardale, nu-l mai tinea vocea. Daca s-ar calcula posesia vocii, cum se calculeaza la fotbal posesia mingii, as putea spune ca publicul si formatia au cantat mai mult decat Coverdale insusi. Mai mult, a confundat, cum se intampla, Budapesta cu Bucurestiul. Cu toate astea a reusit sa-si duca cateva piese remarcabil pana la capat, cum ar fi Still of The Night. La Def Leppard m-am plictisit, iar organizatorii lui Ciubuc sunt lamentabili...am stat 45 de min sa-mi cumpar 2 beri.
A urmat niste Jack Daniels pe baza de invitatie la Hard Rock. Se tot zvonea ca fie Def Leppard, fie Whitesnake vor mai trage o cantare mica acolo. Ne-am ales doar cu baiatul ala...Berti Barbera, care, sa-mi fie cu iertare, nu merge cu Jack.
A venit insa si ziua cu Judas Priest. Dupa Coverdale ma asteptam sa aud gherle si de batranul Halford. Nu a fost sa fie. Judas Priest au fost in mare forma, Halford a fost la inaltime. Dupa ce am ras de toate formatiile din deschidere, ultimele doua pe care le-am prins...Os Da Ros [a se citi Ross The Boss] si Primal Fear, kings of heavy metal Judas Priest chiar au salvat situatia. Desi noul disc Judas Priest, Nostradamus, mi se pare o prostie, au avut bunul simt si nu m-au agresat cu foarte multe piese de pe el.
Si da, Judas Priest a fost o cantare care m-a incantat atat de tare, caci multe beri am baut dupa cu prietenii mei de bucurie.
Astept cu nerabdare sa-i revad pe Massive Attack, acum si la Bucuresti. Urmeaza apoi Sex Pistols si Transglobal Underground la Sziget.
Si cu foarte mare bucurie o sa-i ratez pe impostorii de la Metallica, si as fi onorat sa fim mai multi. Si cred ca si pe Iron Maiden, ca m-ar apuca nervii sa vad cum pe banii mei ar certa vreun fan ca fumeaza.
joi, 10 iulie 2008
Dialog in aceasta dimineata la Iancului.
Si ce replica primesc:
-Dimineata, nu?
vineri, 27 iunie 2008
James Joyce Dirty Letters
1909. James Joyce lives in Trieste (Italy) with his family. End of October, he leaves alone for Dublin on a business trip, and stays there until the end of December. He makes a pact with his wife to write to each other erotic letters. The letters of his wife disappeared, but the ones he wrote were published in 1975, the "dirty" letters of Joyce to her wife. Transcribing from Richard Ellmann, Selected Letters of James Joyce, Introduction, Faber & Faber, London, 1975:
To NORA
Dublin 2 December 1909
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My love for you allows me to pray to the spirit of eternal beauty and tenderness mirrored in your eyes or fling you down under me on that softy belly of yours and fuck you up behind, like a hog riding a sow, glorying in the very stink and sweat that rises from your arse, glorying in the open shape of your upturned dress and white girlish drawers and in the confusion of your flushed cheeks and tangled hair. It allows me to burst into tears of pity and love at some slight word, to tremble with love for you at the sounding of some chord or cadence of music or to lie heads and tails with you feeling your fingers fondling and tickling my ballocks or stuck up in me behind and your hot lips sucking off my cock while my head is wedged in between your fat thighs, my hands clutching the round cushions of your bum and my tongue licking ravenously up your rank red cunt. I have taught you almost to swoon at the hearing of my voice singing or murmuring to your soul the passion and sorrow and mystery of life and at the same time have taught you to make filthy signs to me with your lips and tongue, to provoke me by obscene touches and noises, and even to do in my presence the most shameful and filthy act of the body. You remember the day you pulled up your clothes and let me lie under you looking up at you while you did it? Then you were ashamed even to meet my eyes.
You are mine, darling, mine! I love you. All I have written above is only a moment or two of brutal madness. The last drop of seed has hardly been squirted up your cunt before it is over and my true love for you, the love of my verses, the love of my eyes for your strange luring eyes, comes blowing over my soul like a wind of spices. My prick is still hot and stiff and quivering from the last brutal drive it has given you when a faint hymn is heard rising in tender pitiful worship of you from the dim cloisters of my heart.
Nora, my faithful darling, my seet-eyed blackguard schoolgirl, be my whore, my mistress, as much as you like (my little frigging mistress! My little fucking whore!) you are always my beautiful wild flower of the hedges, my dark-blue rain-drenched flower.
JIM
To NORA
Dublin 3 December 1909
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……., you seem to turn me into a beast. It was you yourself, you naughty shameless girl who first led the way. It was not I who first touched you long ago down at Ringsend. It was you who slid your hand down down inside my trousers and pulled my shirt softly aside and touched my prick with your long tickling fingers and gradually took it all, fat and stiff as it was, into your hand and frigged me slowly until I came off through your fingers, all the time bending over me and gazing at me out of your quiet saintlike eyes. It was your lips too which first uttered an obscene word. I remember well that night in bed in Pola.
Tired of lying under a man one night you tore off your chemise violently and got on top of me to ride me naked. You stuck my prick into your cunt and began to ride me up and down. Perhaps the horn I had was not big enough for you for I remember that you bent down to me face and murmured tenderly "Fuck up, love! Fuck up, love!"
Nora dear, I am dying all day to ask you one or two questions. Let me, dear, for I have told you everything I ever did and so I can ask you in turn. When that person (Vincent Cosgrave) whose heart I long to stop with the click of a revolver put his hand or hands under your skirts did he only tickle you outside or did he put his finger or fingers up into you? If he did, did they go up far enough to touch that little cock at the end of your cunt? Did he touch you behind? Was he a long time tickling you and did you come? Did he ask you to touch him and did you do so? If you did not touch him did he come against you and did you feel it?
Another question, Nora. I know that I was the first man that blocked you but did any man ever frig you? Did that boy (Michael Bodkin) you were fond of ever do it? Tell me now, Nora, truth for truth, honesty for honesty. When you were with him in the dark at night did your fingers never, never unbutton his trousers and slip inside like mice? Did you ever frig him, dear, tell me truly or anyone else? Did you never, never, never feel a man's or a boy's prick in your fingers until you unbuttoned me? If you are not offended do not be afraid to tell me the truth. Darling, darling, tonight I have such a wild lust for your body that if you were here beside me and even if you told me with your lips that half the redheaded louts in the county Galway had had a fuck at you before me I would still rush at you with desire.
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To NORA
Dublin 6 December 1909
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I would like you to wear drawers with three or four frills one over the other at the knees and up the thighs and great crimson bows in them, I mean not schoolgirls' drawers with a thin shabby lace border, thigh round the legs and so thin that the flesh shows with a full loose bottom and wide legs, all frills and lace and ribbons, and heavy with perfume so that whenever you show them, whether in pulling up your clothes hastily to do something or cuddling yourself up prettily to be blocked, I can see only a swelling mass of white stuff and frills and so that when I bend down over you to open them and give you a burning lustful kiss on your naughty bare bum I can smell the perfume of your drawers as well as the warm odour of your cunt and the heavy smell of your behind.
Have I shocked you by the dirty things I wrote to you? You think perhaps that my love is a filthy thing. It is, darling, at some moments. I dream of you in filthy poses sometimes. I imagine things so very dirty that I will not write them until I see how you write yourself. The smallest things give me a great cockstand - a whorish movement of your mouth, a little brown stain on the seat of your white drawers, a sudden dirty word spluttered out by your wet lips, a sudden immodest noise made by you behind and then a bad smell slowly curling up out of your backside. At such moments I feel mad to do it in some filthy way, to feel your hot lecherous lips sucking away at me, to fuck between your two rosy-tipped bubbies, to come on your face and squirt it over your hot cheeks and eyes, to stick it between the cheeks of your rump and bugger you.
Basta per stasera!
I hope you got my telegram and understood it.
Goodbye, my darling whom I am trying to degrade and deprave. How on God's earth can you possibly love a thing like me?
O, I am anxious to get your reply, darling!
JIM
To NORA
Dublin 8 December 1909
My sweet little whorish Nora I did as you told me, you dirty little girl, and pulled myself off twice when I read your letter. I am delighted to see that you do like being fucked arseways. Yes, now I can remember that night when I fucked you for so long backwards. It was the dirtiest fucking I ever gave you, darling. My prick was stuck in you for hours, fucking in and out under your upturned rump. I felt your fat sweaty buttocks under my belly and saw your flushed face and mad eyes. At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora's fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also.
You say when I go back you will suck me off and you want me to lick your cunt, you little depraved blackguard. I hope you will surprise me some time when I am asleep dressed, steal over to me with a whore's glow in your slumberous eyes, gently undo button after button in the fly of my trousers and gently take out your lover's fat mickey, lap it up in your moist mouth and suck away at it till it gets fatter and stiffer and comes off in your mouth. Sometimes too I shall surprise you asleep, lift up your skirts and open your drawers gently, then lie down gently by you and begin to lick lazily round your bush. You will begin to stir uneasily then I will lick the lips of my darling's cunt. You will begin to groan and grunt and sigh and fart with lust in your sleep. Then I will lick up faster and faster like a ravenous dog until your cunt is a mass of slime and your body wriggling wildly.
Goodnight, my little farting Nora, my dirty little fuckbird! There is one lovely word, darling, you have underlined to make me pull myself off better. Write me more about that and yourself, sweetly, dirtier, dirtier.
JIM
To NORA
Dublin 9 December 1909
My sweet naughty little fuckbird, Here is another note to buy pretty drawers or stockings or garters. Buy whorish drawers, love, and be sure you sprinkle the legs of them with some nice sent and also discolour them just a little behind.
You seem anxious to know how I received your letter which you say is worse than mine. How is it worse than mine, love? Yes, it is worse in one part or two. I mean the part where you say what you will do with your tongue (I don't mean sucking me off) and in that lovely word you write so big and underline, you little blackguard. It is thrilling to hear that word (and one or two others you have not written) on a girl's lips. But I wish you spoke of yourself and not of me. Write me a long long letter , full of that and other things, about yourself, darling. You know now how to give me a cockstand. Tell me the smallest things about yourself so long as they are obscene and secret and filthy. Write nothing else. Let every sentence be full of dirty immodest words and sounds. They are all lovely to hear and to see on paper even but the dirtiest are the most beautiful.
The two parts of your body which do dirty things are the loveliest to me. I prefer your arse, darling, to your bubbies because it does such a dirty thing. I love your cunt not so much because it is the part I block but because it does another dirty thing. I could lie frigging all day looking at the divine word you wrote and at the thing you said you would do with your tongue. I wish I could hear your lips spluttering those heavenly exciting filthy words, see your mouth making dirty sounds and noises, feel your body wriggling under me, hear and smell the dirty fat girlish farts going pop pop out of your pretty bare girlish bum and fuck fuck fuck fuck my naughty little hot fuckbird's cunt for ever.
I am happy now, because my little whore tells me she wants me to roger her arseways and wants me to fuck her mouth and wants to unbutton me and pull out my mickey and suck it off like a teat. More and dirtier than this she wants to do, my little naked fucker, my naughty wriggling little frigger, my sweet dirty little farter.
Goodnight, my little cuntie I am going to lie down and pull at myself until I come. Write more and dirtier, darling. Tickle your little cockey while you write to make you say worse and worse. Write the dirty words big and underline them and kiss them and hold them for a moment to your sweet hot cunt, darling, and also pull up your dress a moment and hold them under your dear little farting bum. Do more if you wish and send the letter then to me, my darling brown-arsed fuckbird.
JIM
To NORA
Dublin (?) 13 December 1909
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I would be delighted to feel my flesh tingling under your hand . Do you know what I mean, Nora dear? I wish you would smack me or flog me even. Not in play, dear, in earnest and on my naked flesh. I wish you were strong, strong, dear, and had a big full proud bosom and big fat thighs. I would love to be whipped by you, Nora love! I would love to have done something to displease you, something trivial even, perhaps one of my rather dirty habits that make you laugh: and then to hear you call me into your room and then to find you sitting in an armchair with your fat thighs far apart and your face deep red with anger and a cane in your hand. To see you point to what I had done and then with a movement of rage pull me towards you and throw me face downwards across your lap. Then to feel your hands tearing down my trousers and inside clothes and turning up my shirt, to be struggling in your strong arms and in your lap, to feel you bending down (like an angry nurse whipping a child's bottom) until your big full bubbies almost touched me and to feel you flog, flog, flog me viciously on my naked quivering flesh!!
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To NORA
Dublin 15 December 1909
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No letter! Now I am sure my girlie is offended at my filthy words. Are you offended, dear, as what I said about your drawers? That is all nonsense, darling. I know they are spotless as your hearth. I know I could lick them all over, frills, legs and bottom. Only I love in my dirty way to think that in a certain part they are soiled. It is all nonsense, too, dear, about buggering you. It is only the dirty sound of the word I like, the idea if a shy beautiful young girl like Nora pulling up her clothes behind and revealing her sweet white girlish drawers in order to excite the dirty fellow she is so fond of; and then letting him stick his dirty red lumpy pole in through the split of her drawers and up up up in the darling little hole between her plump fresh buttocks.
Darling, I came off just now in my trousers so that I am utterly played out. I cannot go to the G.P.O. though I have three letters to post.
To bed - to bed!
Goodnight, Nora mia!
JIM
To NORA
Dublin 16 December 1909
My sweet darling girl At last you write to me! You must have given that naughty little cunt of yours a most ferocious frigging to write me such a disjointed letter. As for me, darling, I am so played out that you would have to lick me for a good hour before I could get a horn stiff enough even to put into you, to say nothing of blocking you. I have done so much and so often that I am afraid to look to see how that thing I had is after all I have done to myself. Darling, please don't fuck me too much when I go back. Fuck all you can out of me for the first night or so but make me get myself cured. The fucking must all be done by you, darling as I am so small and soft now that no girl in Europe except yourself would waste her time trying the job. Fuck me, darling, in as many new ways as your lust will suggest. Fuck me dressed in your full outdoor costume with your hat and veil on, your face flushed with the cold and wind and rain and your boots muddy, either straddling across my legs when I am sitting in a chair and riding me up and down with the frills of your drawers showing and my cock sticking up stiff in your cunt or riding me over the back of the sofa. Fuck me naked with your hat and stockings on only flat on the floor with a crimson flower in your hole behind, riding me like a man with your thighs between mine and your rump very fat. Fuck me in your dressing gown (I hope you have that nice one) with nothing on under it, opening it suddenly and showing me your belly and thighs and back an pulling me on top of you on the kitchen table. Fuck me into you arseways, lying on your face on the bed, with your hair flying loose naked but with a lovely scented pair of pink drawers opened shamelessly behind and half sleeping down over your peeping bum. Fuck me on the stairs in the dark, like a nursery-maid fucking her soldier, unbuttoning his trousers gently and slipping her hand in his fly and fiddling with his shirt and feeling it getting wet and then pulling it gently up and fiddling with his two bursting balls and at last pulling out boldly the mickey she loves to handle and frigging it for him softly, murmuring into his ear dirty words and dirty stories that other girls told her and dirty things she said, and all the time pissing her drawers with pleasure and letting off soft warm quiet little farts behind until her own girlish cockey is as stiff as his and suddenly sticking him up in her and riding him.
Basta! Basta per Dio!
I have come now and the foolery is over. Now for your questions!
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Get ready. Put some warm-brown-linoleum on the kitchen and hang a pair of red common curtains on the windows at night. Get some kind of a cheap common comfortable armchair for your lazy lover. Do this above all, darling, as I shall not quit that kitchen for a whole week after I arrive, reading, lolling, smoking, and watching you get ready the meals and talking, talking, talking, talking to you. O how supremely happy I shall be! God in heaven, I shall be happy there! I figlioli, il fuoco, una buona mangiata, un caffè nero, un Brasil (charuto), il Piccolo della Sera, e Nora, Nora mia, Norina, Noretta, Noruccia ecc ecc...
Eva and Eileen must sleep together. Get some place for Georgie. I wish Nora and I had two beds for night-work. I am keeping and shall keep my promise, love. Time fly on quickly! I want to go back to my love, my life, my star, my little strange-eyed Ireland!
A hundred thousand kisses, darling!
JIM
To NORA
Dublin 20 December 1909
My sweet naughty girl I got your hot letter tonight and have been trying to picture you frigging your cunt in the closet. How do you do it? Do you stand against the wall with your hand tickling up under your clothes or do you squat down on the hole with your skirts up and your hand hard at work in through the slit of your drawers? Does it give you the horn now to shit? I wonder how you can do it. Do you come in the act of shitting or do you frig yourself off first and then shit? It must be a fearfully lecherous thing to see a girl with her clothes up frigging furiously at her cunt, to see her pretty white drawers pulled open behind and her bum sticking out and a fat brown thing stuck half-way out of her hole. You say you will shit your drawers, dear, and let me fuck you then. I would like to hear you shit them, dear, first and then fuck you. Some night when we are somewhere in the dark and talking dirty and you feel your shite ready to fall put your arms round my neck in shame and shit it down softly. The sound will madden me and when I pull up your dress
No use continuing! You can guess why!
marți, 17 iunie 2008
Massive Attack & Air la Bucuresti
Informatie de gaseste atat pe my space-ul vocalistei Stephanie Dosen, insotita de TBC [to be confirmed], cat si Cotidianul.
MASSIVE ATTACK - Live With Me
AIR - Cherry Blossom Girl
sâmbătă, 7 iunie 2008
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Suna murdar, suna dirty, suna filthy. Suna atat de bine, caci am crezut ca sunt britanici. Gresit. Sunt din Brooklyn, New York. So, this is rock*n*roll.
Ladies and gents I present you Yeah Yeah Yeahs !
IsIs
Y Control
Pin
Turn Into
Rich
Golden Lion
joi, 5 iunie 2008
It's a sad and beautiful world
Scena din Down By Law de Jim Jarmush cu Tom Waits si Roberto Beningni. [Thanks Rocco]
Becks-ul de joi
Doar si pentru ca a aparut discul asta [in 2001], voi fi diseara prezent la Polivalenta la Becksperience, ceea ce va doresc si voua. Cat despre celelalte trupe, Goldfrapp, Vive La Fete, Kraak & Smaak, Addictive TV si Suie Paparude....va priveste.
21:00 Suie Paparude
21:45 Addictive TV
23:00 Goldfrapp
00:30 Stereo Mc's
01:45 Kraak and Smaak
03:00 Vive la fete
We Belong In This World Together
Deep, Down & Dirty
vineri, 30 mai 2008
Nevermind The Bollocks...Here Come Sex Pistols [Exit Festival]
Noua generatie a respins cu dispret idealismul politic si prosteala flower-power californianã a mitului hippie. Societatea britanica nu le oferea nimic, motiv pentru care tinerii se vedeau indreptatiti sa nu ofere nimic societatii.
Muzica acelor vremuri nu avea cum sa scape de influentele societatii si, folosind un ambalaj nu tocmai radio-friendly, mai toate formatiile aparute la acea vreme oglindeau situatia societatii britanice. „Fãrã Elvis, Beatles sau Rolling Stones în 1977”, au declarat cei de la The Clash. Asa s-a nascut miscarea punk, iar varful de lance al acesteaia au fost fara indoiala Sex Pistols.
Discul lor din 1977, Nevermind The Bollocks...Here Comes The Sex Pistols, a fost ca un cap in gura dat autoritatilor, show-biz-ului acelor vremuri si prejudecatilor sociale, un tratat de mentalitate anti-establishment. Dupa cum insusi Johnny [Rotten] Lydon spunea, discul nu a fost doar un singur deget ridicat autoritatilor, ci doua.
Single-ul God Save The Queen este lansat printr-un concert Sex Pistols chiar de ziua reginei. Eveniment s-a intamplat la Londra pe un vapor care traversa Tamisa, a dus la arestarea managerului formatiei Malcolm McLaren.
Fara indoiala, piesa Anarchy In The UK este brand-ul Sex Pistols.
“Anarhia este un joc al mintii pentru clasa de mijloc. Un termen pe care l-am folosit sarcastic.” sustine Rotten.
Opinia publica se radicalizeaza ajungandu-se astfel pana la cererea oficiala de desfintare a grupului facuta de parlamentul conservator Marcus Lipton. Interzisi tot mai mult in Anglia, Sex Pistols sustin un turneu in Scandinavia, iar la intoarcerea in tara concerteaza sub nume false, precum SPOTS [Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly] sau Tax Exiles.
Povestea Sex Pistols nu a tinut mult. Sid Vicious [The Fabulous Disaster], basistul formatiei, avea mari probleme cu drogurile, ceea ce a dus la moartea iubitei lui injunghiate la o petrecere de care Sid a sustinut ca nu-si aduce aminte ce s-a intamplat. Nu dupa mult timp, acesta moare de supradoza. Pe patul de moarte in 1996, mama lui Sid, si ea dependenta de droguri, recunoaste ca ea insasi i-a facut doza finala pentru ca nu mai suporta sa-l vada dependent de droguri si cu procesul asasinarii iubitei lui, Nancy pe cap.
Dupa controversatul concert american formatii se destrama din cauza conflictelot interne. La finalul concertului de la San Francisco, ce a incheiat turneul, Johnny Rotten isi anunta retragerea.
Managerul lor, Malcolm McLaren incearca revitalizarea Sex Pistols, fara Lydon anuntand o excursie in Brazilia pt a inregistra alaturi de Ronald Biggs - infractor celebru implicat in ‘jaful secolului’. Sid Vicious se retrage din cauza abuzului de heroina, in Brazilia ajungand doar ceilalti doi membri Jones si Cook.
John Lydon isi continua cu succes cariera muzicala cu noul lui proiect Public Image Ltd, iar in 1996 Sex Pistols se reuneste pentru turneul Filth Lucre Live, care apare si pe disc.
In 1997 Lydon scoate un disc pop, incredibil de bine lucrat Psycho Path, unde se bucura de colaborarea unor nume mari precum Moby sau Leftfield pentru remixuri.
In 2007 Johnny Lydon a refuzat ca Sex Pistols sa apara in Rock'N'Roll Hall Of Fame trimitandu-le acestora un bilet cu injuraturi.
In 2008, probabil ca sa-si consolideze apartenenta la proletariatul britanic, si cu siguranta, sa mai castige niste bani Sex Pistols sunt din nou in turneu. Acesta se numeste Sex Pistols Combine Harvester Tour.
Din nefericire nu ajung in Romania, dar pot fi vazuti la vecinii nostri sarbi la Novi Sad in 13 iulie sau o luna mai tarziu in Budapesta la Sziget Festival pe 15 august.