April 24, 2009
February 25, 2008
"Side effects include...
head-aches, drowsiness, diarrhea, swollen feet, and a strong desire to gamble". "Four hour erection", wow. "Glaucoma", really? Sometimes even, "driving while asleep" or "not recalling making a porno". Those are actual friend stories. (You know who you are.) So any bets on when they will draw the line? One night, I think I even heard "occurrence of diabetes may occur". I wish I were joking.
What ever happened to the "War on Drugs"?
Well anyway, 'daddy needs a new pair of Kenneth Coles', my money's on "possible manslaughter".
What ever happened to the "War on Drugs"?
Well anyway, 'daddy needs a new pair of Kenneth Coles', my money's on "possible manslaughter".
February 10, 2008
el duende
"Duende" derives from the original Spanish word meaning a ghost or an evil spirit. It also refers to someone having a certain type of charm or magnetism. It is closely tied to the arts greatly due to the Spanish poet, Federico García Lorca, who first introduced the concept of "Duende" in his famous lecture on 'La Teoria y Juego del Duende' (The Theory and Passion of Duende).
Given in La Habana in 1930, he stated:
"In all Andalusia...people constantly speak of the duende and find it in everything that springs out of energetic instinct. That marvelous singer, "El Librijano," originator of the Debla, observed, "Whenever I am singing with duende, no one can come up to me"...Manuel Torres, a man with more culture in his veins than anybody I have known, when listening to Falla play his own ‘Nocturno del Genaralife', made his splendid pronouncement: ‘All that has dark sounds has duende.’ And there is no greater truth.
These "dark sounds" are the mystery, the roots fastened in the mire, that we all know and all ignore, the fertile silt that gives us the very substance of art...
The great artists of southern Spain, both gypsies and flamenco, whether singing or dancing or playing their instruments, know that no emotion is possible without the mediation of the duende. They may hoodwink the people, they may give the illusion of duende without really having it, just as writers and painters, and literary fashion-mongers, without duende, cheat you daily; but it needs only a little care and the will to resist one's own indifference, to discover the imposture and put it and its crude artifice to flight."
Later he expanded those thoughts into his book, "In Search of Duende".
Video Samples:
(Yucatan, Mexico 2002)
Given in La Habana in 1930, he stated:
"In all Andalusia...people constantly speak of the duende and find it in everything that springs out of energetic instinct. That marvelous singer, "El Librijano," originator of the Debla, observed, "Whenever I am singing with duende, no one can come up to me"...Manuel Torres, a man with more culture in his veins than anybody I have known, when listening to Falla play his own ‘Nocturno del Genaralife', made his splendid pronouncement: ‘All that has dark sounds has duende.’ And there is no greater truth.
These "dark sounds" are the mystery, the roots fastened in the mire, that we all know and all ignore, the fertile silt that gives us the very substance of art...
The great artists of southern Spain, both gypsies and flamenco, whether singing or dancing or playing their instruments, know that no emotion is possible without the mediation of the duende. They may hoodwink the people, they may give the illusion of duende without really having it, just as writers and painters, and literary fashion-mongers, without duende, cheat you daily; but it needs only a little care and the will to resist one's own indifference, to discover the imposture and put it and its crude artifice to flight."
Later he expanded those thoughts into his book, "In Search of Duende".
Video Samples:
(Yucatan, Mexico 2002)
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