Quintal Brazil 2011 Newsletter
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Month: October 2011
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PANDA!
My Halloween costume: a furry panda hat I bought from a street vendor in SoHo, and my plush velvet suit I bought in ReykjavÃk way back in 2000.
Nicholas DiBiase and I perform an acoustic cover of REM’s “Fall on Me”.
Also check out Scott Korb’s NY Times article “The Right Moves,” about Michael Stipe’s signature moves.
This track is like Monteverdi meets Massive Attack. Opera meets trip hop and makes a hot atmospheric mess. This is my first foray in recording vocals in Italian.
lyrics
Lasciatemi morire,
Lasciatemi morire;
E che volete voi che mi conforte
In così dura sorte,
In così gran martire?
Lasciatemi morire.
Let me die,
Let me die;
And what you would think could comfort me
In such a harsh fate,
In such a great martyrdom?
Let me die.
My additions to Clay’s commentary:
“Coherence” as a concept has inherent class and cultural biases skewed in favor of those in with more power in the social and economic hierarchy.
Our socio-economic operating system doesn’t exactly making any f@#$ing sense to a many people in the 99% either.
#OWS is hardly radical. It is inherently a conservative response to the loss of a social contract from the 20th century. It seems like a call to return to the spirit of that post WWII-1980s social contract.