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russian animation
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travel
we had made it to florida. her laughter to an offhand joke about heidegger from a man at the US embassy and maite's visa was made good, she was traveling with me. it had been a year. the dogs had not forgotten me. conversations began with the fine art of catching up without the false notes of forced recollection. sliding into the current with as ( Read more... ) -
the devil probably
a month in florida for a bitter cold spring and back in argentine autumn. sending myself into the smaller things in life. keeping up with the latest dvd releases there is a magnificent print for robert bresson's 'le diable probablement' - how he retained the vibrancy in his work to such an old age still confounds me. here is a clip from ( Read more... ) -
from another generation
at the same time in Brazil that Veloso and others were pioneering a new sound a contemporary named Chico Buarque famed for Bossa-Nova stylings was creating a distinct and to my taste darker and more poetic voice. outside the bossa-nova workings here is a tune called 'Cálice' that uses a subtle homonym in Portuguese between "goblet" (cálice) and " ( Read more... ) -
from another generation
to write of the music history in latin america is nearly as complicated as the politics and to find a proper introduction is tricky seeing how the politics did often interplay with the music. a fine place to dive in is the sixties. it was in brazil that Tropicália began. so much lovely music that poured forth at times under such an increasingly ( Read more... ) -
las peliculas
while i am still madly in love with film as a medium i refrain from posting publicly about most of the new films i watch. at many points the feeling is too personal to subjugate it to a brief synopsis and impression or simple qualification of the experience. there is however an amazing list being put together by murnau that sparks my interest in ( Read more... ) -
amada mia
while Montevideo didn't work out for me (possibly due to legs not as shapely as Rita's) nonetheless here's a wonderful piece
and a passing snapshot from there ... (to my friends in california)
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