music

the original occupy wall streeter: fela kuti authority stealing…

fela kuti – authority stealing (rehearsals with footage from lagos)

catch am! catch am! tief tief tief… talking about music greats… saw a nice doc. film on fela titled “fela kuti: music is the weapon” you can see parts on you tube or get the film on netflix. loved this one song which i did not have, it was released on fela’s own kalakuta label originally as no other label would touch it at the time. finally 20 years later, MCA records released it in the year 2000. i just got it and it’s been playing daily! here’s the clip from the docu and the song authority stealing. by xy

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no means no

while we’re on this tangent, let’s remember no means no. ya? i actually didn’t know how obscure they were as my teen years were spent in a small town canadian bubble. i held them in the same regard as the dead kennedy’s, and kmfdm. luvs. oh my goodness, nostalgia over machine, when do we learn our lessons?  by kl

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fugazi is for fake

no, not the f-ing amazing orson wells film ‘f is for fake’ exposed in an enlightening session with dd back in the day. but the definition.

according to my wiktionary…

Etymology

From Italian slang fugazi (“fake”); perhaps also slang version of fugacious derived from Latin fugac-, stem of fugāx (“ready to flee, flying”), hence, fleeting, transitory.

[edit] Adjective

fugazi (not generally comparable; )

  1. (slang) Artificial, fake, false. Can be in reference to a thing or a person. If a person it is usually in reference to a superficial person.
  2. (slang) Something that has no substance.

oh f.

by kl

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Elvis Presley at 21


a great portrait of elvis presley by alfred wertheimer. crazy enough i’ve been listening to elvis these last few days. the man did have a incredible voice… the saddest part was his stint in hollywood where he reinvented what bad acting was all about and lost his southern kindness and defiant attitude to the bright lights. this picture shows a sadness that was well kept to himself. by dd

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