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• Ain't Much F*ckin' with Jorge Ben

  ppadilha

  April 18
  Got sucked into a Jorge Ben rabbit hole for a bit, which happens from time to time, and stumbled onto this thread. The man's output is insane, and it's funny how I used to be all "I like his stuff up to A Banda do Zé Pretinho, then he got kinda lame like most Brazilian musicians in the 80s" and now I'll happily put on records like Bem Vinda Amizade or Alô Alô, Como Vai? He went on a 20-year run of relentlessly good music, even the filler tracks are fire on his LPs.
  

  
  

  As for the lyrics, I think every Brazilian knows you don't get into Jorge Ben for his lyricism. He's got the basic love songs, the rambling stories where he's trying to cram entire sentences into those bars, and some straight up unhinged stuff about alchemy or astronaut gods. Yet you can't hate him for it because the crazy stuff is just kinda funny, and the good vibes are always there anyway. Put on some Chico Buarque if you want to get all scholarly about the written word.

  
  

  At any rate, I used to go to Greg Caz's Brazilian Beats Brooklyn party at Black Betty's on an almost religious basis, and we all worshiped at the altar of Jorge Ben. Then one day I get there a little early and Greg just kinda whispers to me "I don't like to spread rumors, but I've been told there's a good chance that Jorge Ben is going to stop by tonight." I didn't know what to make of that, so I just assumed there was no chance in hell that it could happen. But a few hours later the man himself materialized inside the bar, just standing very chill at the edge of the dance floor in jeans and pretty basic brown sweater and baseball cap. There was no big commotion or anything, just half the crowd who knew who he was slowly losing their mind, while the other half were just regular hipsters who had no clue what was happening. Greg and Sean played a few of his tracks and he was just nodding and singing along to his own stuff. Then he proceeded to dance with every single girl in the bar over the next few hours.
  

  

• TAKE THAT SHIT TO THE-BRITS.COM

  ppadilha

  April 18
  Made the mistake of turning on the tv to watch the last 10 minutes of OT for Man Utd's game. Remembered why I had made it a point not to watch the Arsenal game live the previous day. THE GODS OF FOOTBALL DO NOT WANT ME TO EXPERIENCE JOY IN REAL TIME.

  

• homemade record cleaning devices...

  ppadilha

  March 27
  Frankensteamer sounds like something that would come out of my large intestine after eating a whole turducken

  

• current film strut

  ppadilha

  March 4
  I think I watched all of the animated features this year (daughter-related), I liked Wild Robot better than the others. I get why Flow won it, but to me it felt like I was watching an indie adventure quest video game from 15 years ago.
  

  

• Music that remind you of african patterns?

  ppadilha

  January 23

  alexdeeni said:

  Hi, I looked at african patterns recently and thought to myself that I want to listen to music that resembles those. So what I am searching for is traditional, vibrant, colourful, fast paced, extremely varied and complex music. Does anybody have reconmendations for what genres I could listen to?

  
  Victor Uwaifo fits the bill perfectly, lots of groovy West African guitar madness. More to the point, a lot of his compositions are based on the patterns and colors of traditional Nigerian tapestries. Makes for some excellent tripped-out highlife.