Monthly Archives: November 2008
caminito
deusa dos orixas,
o seu amor, preciso aprender a so ser
o leaonzinho, um canto de afoxé para o bloco do ilê (ilê ayê)
because it is rainy and dreary and already dark (pleh)
more Caetano. from the first Luaka Bop compilation of Brazilian music, Beleza Tropical
one o rio e mas baiano, minha vos minha vida
exploe coracao, sonho impossivel
Maria Bethania is one of the grande dames of Brazilian popular music. she has sang across styles and genres and made them her own.
this one will be familiar to fans of musical theater
ando meio desligado, panis et circenses, ave Genghis Khan
(NOW WITH HINTS) – because I’m a follower: The movie quote game
originally from Ginger Sister, via too many to list
DA RULEZ
1. Pick 30 of your favorite movies.
2. Find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them on your blog for everyone to guess.
NO CHEATING. Guess what you know, don't wikiquote/imdb them.
DA QUOTEZ
1. All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed WATERSHIP DOWN - Lurkertype
2. Can you believe it? We're in the middle of a drought, and the water commissioner drowns. Only in L.A. CHINATOWN – Lurkertype
3. On this very night, ten years ago, along this very stretch of road in a dense fog just like this. I saw the worst accident I ever seen. There was this sound, like a garbage truck dropped off the Empire State Building… And when they pulled the driver's body from the twisted, burning wreck. It looked like this.. PEEWEE's BIG ADVENTURE –
LeendaDLL
4. I want to be alone. I think I have never been so tired in my life. GRAND HOTEL – E2C
5. And that's how you play "Get the Guests". (1960's. literary. theatrical)
6. Do you believe that stuff the old man was saying the other night at the Oso Negro about gold changin' a man's soul so's he ain't the same sort of man as he was before findin' it? THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE – Crankypants
7. Bring me four fried chickens and a Coke. THE BLUES BROTHERS – Hotrod
8. We got a winner, I said we got a winner, we got a winner! Our next winner is that delightful personality, straight from Brighton beach Brooklyn, Please give a juicy welcome to Mrs. Sarah Goldfarb! (<10 years old. very disturbing/graphic scenes)
9. It's all a part of your sick Cynthia thing, man. Taking care of her fucking dog. Going to her fucking synagogue. You're living in the fucking past. THE BIG LEBOWSKI – Michellemabelle
10. I'm a writer, you monsters! I create! I create for a living! I'm a creator! I am a creator! BARTON FINK – Hotrod
11. Pino, fuck you, fuck your fuckin' pizza, and fuck Frank Sinatra. DO THE RIGHT THING – Crankypants
12. Y'all take it easy now. This isn't Dallas, it's Nashville! They can't do this to us here in Nashville! Let's show them what we're made of. Come on everybody, sing! Somebody, sing! NASHVILLE – E2C
13. Would you say that she was a moaner, Frank? Seriously Frank. I mean, does she go "ooooh" or does she lie there quiet and not do anything at all? M*A*S*H – ancora impara
14. The reality is we're still 11 year old boys locked in a cellar imagining what our lives would have been if we'd escaped. MYSTIC RIVER – niggytardust
15. This is Sparta! 300 – LeendaDLL
16. There are two kinds of people in the world, my friend: Those with a rope around the neck, and the people who have the job of doing the cutting. (1960's. created the genre)
17. I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies. THE GODFATHER PART II – Brown Amazon
18. Thirty-two hundred dollars he gave me. Thirty-two hundred dollars for a lifetime. It wasn't even enough to pay for the coffin. GOODFELLAS – Hotrod
19. I was sheriff of this county when I was twenty-five years old. Hard to believe. My grandfather was a lawman; father too. Me and him was sheriff's at the same time; him up in Plano and me out here. I think he's pretty proud of that. I know I was. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN – Crankypants
20. My country send me to United States to make movie-film. Please, come and see my film. If it not success, I will be execute. BORAT – LeendaDLL
21. Mustn't go that way! Mustn't hurt the Precious! LofR: THE RETURN OF THE KING – Tree Sweater
22. Thank God we live in this quiet, little pissant, redneck, podunk, jerkwater, greenhorn, one-horse, mudhole, peckerwood, right-wing, whistle-stop, hobnail, truck-driving, old-fashioned, hayseed, inbred, unkempt, out-of-date, white trash… SOUTH PARK: BIGGER, LONGER, AND UNCUT – Scott
23. When your head says one thing and your whole life says another, your head always loses. (1940s. film noir)
24. When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. And it happens we're in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed, it's-it's bad business to let the killer get away with it, bad all around, bad for every detective everywhere THE MALTESE FALCON – Lurkertype
25. You didn't get me down, Ray. (# 25 and # 26 are of the same genre, made a few years apart)
26. What is keeping him up Bill, I dont know (both #25 and #26 won Oscars but in different categories)
27. Gotham City. Always brings a smile to my face. BATMAN – LeendaDLL
28. I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters: not the mortgage, not the store, not my team and all their bullshit. For those ten seconds or less, I'm free. THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS – Bold as love
29. HA HA HA! How crazy is that! Darwin thought we came from MONKEYS! THE PROPOSITION – Crankypants
30. Christmas! Christmas dinner, yeah. Dinner means death. Death means carnage! Christmas means carnage!! BABE – Hotrod
my apologies in advance for the lame hints. I know they are lame. I have no experience/practice doing them
Tropicalia, Bat macumba
the fourth week of NaBloPoMo is dedicated to Brazilian music. as today is cloudy and cold, we'll start with some bouncy tunes from the Tropicalia movement of the late 1960s.
a couple of versions of the traditional "bat macumba"
