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Check out ROCK against Reaganomics at: Theater X-Net
Starring: Ida Rubinstein Belle Epoch Russian/Parisian beauty.
Ida's Places in Paris -- from my first jet-lagged day by the Seine.
Read more about Ida in Sisters of Salome by Toni Bentley
Visit: Michael's Montana Web Archive
Theater, Art, Flash Gordon, Funky Music and MORE!
NEW --Launching NOW! Outre Space Cinema -- Featuring: 1930's Rocketry, Spitfires of the Spaceways and Cellulose to Celluloid, Flash Gordon in the Saturday Matinees and Sunday Comics.
Many thanks to Jim Keefe (Visit his Website) -- the LAST Flash Gordon illustrator of the 20th Century, and Flash's FIRST illustrator of the 21st, for including my efforts on his Flash Gordon Resources Page -- along with actual creators like Alex Raymond, Al Williamson, and others!
Charity Alert: Check into Terra Sigilata blog -- donate $$$ to cancer patients just by clicking onto the site. Keep that Resolution to click on The Hunger Site every day.
In The Community: The Hockaday Museum of Art's Autumn Salon, with 116 pieces on display. We also have Crown of the Continent and Ace of Diamonds gracing our walls.
Media Watch: Over the last two nights I watched 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later. I like dawg-assed movies as much as anyone, but these require too much STOOPID to make them work. There are more plot-holes than plot in the first flick, and Ultra-STOOPID actions by the characters are necessary to the plot of the second. There are many thefts from George Romero's original Dead trilogy, or rather variations on themes -- underwhelming.
Ch-Ch-Changes: Miriam Makeba, the great South African singer, and activist for social justice, died of a heart attack earlier today at the age of 76.
I remember seeing her on TV in the late 50's/early 60's on late-night shows, sunday morning shows, and other outliers like Hootenanny. Her short natural hairdo stood out in those white-bread times, and her beautiful voice cut through all barriers of race and language. Later in that decade, she ripped up Pop Radio with the abstract dance hit Pata Pata, sung in her native Xhosa:
Sat wuguga sat ju benga sat SEE pata pat
Sat wuguga sat ju benga sat SEE pata pat
Sat wuguga sat ju benga sat SEE pata pat
Sat wuguga sat ju benga sat SEE pata
Hihi ha mama, hi-a-ma sat SEE pata
Hihi ha mama, hi-a-ma sat SEE pat
A-hihi ha mama, hi-a-ma sat SEE pata pat
A-hihi ha mama, hi-a-ma sat SEE pat
Aya sat wuguga sat ju benga sat SEE pata
A sat wuguga sat ju benga sat SEE pat
A sat wuguga sat ju benga sat SEE pata
A sat wuguga sat ju benga sat SEE pata
Pata Pata is the name of a dance ... we do down Johannesburg way.
And everybody ... starts to move ... as soon as Pata Pata starts to play
Hoo, every Friday and Saturday night ... it's Pata Pata time.
The dance keeps going all night long ... till the morning sun begins to shine - wheee!
(Repeat and DANCE YOUR ASS OFF!)
I was frankly in tears this morning, thinking about her daughter who died young, and the fact that Mekeba was gone, but I tuned in to various versions of Pata Pata, and started laughing instead.
Here's a funky color version by Makeba herself, but the volume is low:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc61z9IFu4
Here's the international dance hit, with a slideshow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pygqt0uwnuc&NR=1
Makeba on South American TV, with a damn fine rhythm guitarist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-VrfadKbco&feature=related
Let's get silly with a Latin singer named Thalia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D4t4xCIKog&feature=related
Yamboo is even sillier, and a bit too voyeuristic for my taste:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki7CYME3O1A&feature=related
Silly to the MAX, and even sexist, Blue Monster gets DOWN:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNcJuOr8mXg&feature=related
This one by Daúde is a LOT better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SsF7odS80w&feature=related
Is Sugar Love a pro, an impersonator, karaoke, or all three?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fVIeIJF6aQ&feature=related
There are a lot of videos with young ladies just dancing to this fabulous song. Some are better at it than others, but that's all the comment you'll get from me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=689FQdxfc_I&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKpy-Rr2fW0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVV-Di1hyAM&feature=related
Couples doing a Salsa dance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQDbNNX-pCc&feature=related
Cute cats and excruciating Kitsch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtYjFD0jD78&feature=related
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