Last night I experienced a new art form -- Sonata for Violin and Turntables performed by Daniel Bernard Roumain and DJ Scientific at the Institute for Contemporary Art (fast becoming my all-time favorite museum; trumping even the Cooper-Hewitt!).
As an aside: Daniel aka DBR reminded me so much of Miles -- the way he spoke and moved his body. It was freaky. I wonder if music might be a way to channel his restless spirit.
To the point: Am amazed that there are still so many new frontiers, forms of expression and unexpected intersections. DBR rocked it out on a souped up violin (at times plucking it like a guitar, channeling Jimi Hendrix, then giving us classical then hip-hop) while DJ Scientific spit beats on his laptop, turntable and synthesizer. Very cool! Experience them for yourselves: http://www.dbrmusic.com/eve/fayetteville.mp3
For more see: http://www.dbrmusic.com/ and http://www.elanvytal.com/
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damo, this wasn't easy, but glad you started this.
Hope this is the last time I have to type this.
Did my first bbq ever tonite just for me:grilled fish & squash 1st course, filet mignon & grilled tomates, entree.
Watched fascinating interview with Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan, 37 weeks on NYt best seller list; gotta add to my reading list.
Also watched The Crying Game for 1st time.
wow --
late to the party there carmen! i can't believe you're just seeing the crying game for the first time (you being such a worldly women about town and all... :-) were you at all surprised -- or have the times changed enough since the 90s that you wondered what all the fuss was about? or rather, are we all so used to the idea that there are people who live their lives quite convincingly as ... the gender they weren't necessarily born ... that seeing this movie now, it's all so ho-hum?
-pdw
There are so many movies I haven't seen because I'd gotten fed up with Hollywood for a long time.
Nonetheless, I thought this was a sensitive treatment of a social phenomenon, very well acted , particularly Del. I happened to see the British version which showed full frontal nudity to expose Del. That caught me off guard but not that Del was really a he. I'd suspected it early on, maybe it was the husky voice even tho he played a beautiful woman flawlessly. I am not so jaded that I did a ho hum afterwards. It was a good movie.
Oprah did a show last week on the intersex category(I think tht was what is was call; used to be hemorphodites). Tonight, I heard of 2-spirit folks added to the growing list of sexual types. hey, whatever...nothing shocks me any more. I'm here to learn.
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