trivial things i learned in recent months
This was just now:
"Mang" is slang for "man." This word kept popping up in Sam's emails, in places where I would usually place "man", as in "hey, man[g]." At first I thought it was a slip of the finger, but that made less and less sense the more I thought about it: both the comma and period buttons fall not beneath the left index but 'neath the right ring.
I want to say I've never heard this said out loud, but maybe that's because I see it and imagine it's pronounced like "mango" (nasally) except without the oh sound. I'll have to watch Scarface again,
[1. "You should listen to your wife mang, you are an asshole!" 2. "Hey, fuck you mang!!! Who put dis ding together? Me, dat who!!!! Who do I trust? Me!"]
and listen to Nigga of the Century
[War & Peace, Vol II (The Peace Disc), by Ice Cube, released 2000].
Thanks Internet.
The next 2 things are pronunciations corrections:
Michael Gira's last name is not GEER-ah, but jher-AH.
And of course, Menomena rhymes with phenomena.
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2nd edit. This was also 'just now,' except, more recently:
It looks like Black Mountain was going to open for Coldplay's fall arena tour, how nuts is that?!??
APR 28: Spin reports Franz Ferdinand and Rilo Kiley are on the rumored list of possible opening bands.
MAY 10: Black Mountain announces dates for a tour running through early July, then a brief September 2-week stint, then a Pink Mountaintops -- same members of Black Mountain I think? -- US tour in November. Nothing about August, though, admittedly, August is a big space left wide open.
MAY 17: Coldplay officially announces dates, plus opening act, which will be Rilo Kiley.
??? ??: Google had Jagjaguwar's tour page cached with the dates listed, but now it's cleaned up.
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3rd edit. Back to the subject of Gira:
I was pronouncing it the Spanish way! Ah! Duh. Okay.
But then I heard a radio interview on WNYC [requires Real Player] where the announcer pronounced it jher-AH multiple times, and later that month whilst Miles was telling me about Mr Gira, he pronounced it jher-AH too. And, really, you'd think those Akron boys would know, right?
So even though I found this Swans FAQ,
["Q. How is 'Gira' pronounced?
A. The traditional (Bohemia, Eastern Europe) pronunciation is 'HEE-ra,' but Michael prefers 'JEE-ra'."]
I still think I win. Err, jher-AH wins. YES!
"Mang" is slang for "man." This word kept popping up in Sam's emails, in places where I would usually place "man", as in "hey, man[g]." At first I thought it was a slip of the finger, but that made less and less sense the more I thought about it: both the comma and period buttons fall not beneath the left index but 'neath the right ring.
I want to say I've never heard this said out loud, but maybe that's because I see it and imagine it's pronounced like "mango" (nasally) except without the oh sound. I'll have to watch Scarface again,
[1. "You should listen to your wife mang, you are an asshole!" 2. "Hey, fuck you mang!!! Who put dis ding together? Me, dat who!!!! Who do I trust? Me!"]
and listen to Nigga of the Century
[War & Peace, Vol II (The Peace Disc), by Ice Cube, released 2000].
Thanks Internet.
The next 2 things are pronunciations corrections:
Michael Gira's last name is not GEER-ah, but jher-AH.
And of course, Menomena rhymes with phenomena.
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2nd edit. This was also 'just now,' except, more recently:
It looks like Black Mountain was going to open for Coldplay's fall arena tour, how nuts is that?!??
APR 28: Spin reports Franz Ferdinand and Rilo Kiley are on the rumored list of possible opening bands.
MAY 10: Black Mountain announces dates for a tour running through early July, then a brief September 2-week stint, then a Pink Mountaintops -- same members of Black Mountain I think? -- US tour in November. Nothing about August, though, admittedly, August is a big space left wide open.
MAY 17: Coldplay officially announces dates, plus opening act, which will be Rilo Kiley.
??? ??: Google had Jagjaguwar's tour page cached with the dates listed, but now it's cleaned up.
-----
3rd edit. Back to the subject of Gira:
I was pronouncing it the Spanish way! Ah! Duh. Okay.
But then I heard a radio interview on WNYC [requires Real Player] where the announcer pronounced it jher-AH multiple times, and later that month whilst Miles was telling me about Mr Gira, he pronounced it jher-AH too. And, really, you'd think those Akron boys would know, right?
So even though I found this Swans FAQ,
["Q. How is 'Gira' pronounced?
A. The traditional (Bohemia, Eastern Europe) pronunciation is 'HEE-ra,' but Michael prefers 'JEE-ra'."]
I still think I win. Err, jher-AH wins. YES!