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There was a video I saw one time...something like Bulgarian Idol, if you can believe it. What got everyone's attention is the young singer butchering some pop song. Well, she had no English and she got the words wrong and insisted, even while the judges tried to suggest the correction, that her nonsense was right.

A clear case to ramp up our public diplomacy.

Your point is well taken. My underlying concern lies with mainstream (i.e.: commercialized) culture. There exists however, a subculture of poets (here as well) who would agree with me. Marissa Ranello is a favorite of mine among these. This is a subculture which quite openly stands in opposition to the mainstream. Was it ever thus? I suppose.

"It Can't Be Just About Us"
--Frank Schnittger, ETian Extraordinaire

by papicek (papi_cek_at_hotmail_dot_com) on Wed Jan 21st, 2009 at 11:05:07 AM EST
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bulgarian pop music is shite. I mean garbage of the worst sort. Yet their folk music is outstanding and uplifting and the women's folk "harmony" groups (using non western, possibly shamanic, harmonic ideas) are a gift to the world

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Wed Jan 21st, 2009 at 12:03:05 PM EST
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well, she was game, I'll give her that. It was some (utterly forgettable) American pop shite anyways.

I will bear that in mind about Bulgarian folk music in future. I'll ask my music guy about it. (Feel free to pass along any suggestions, please.) Today he introduced me to Peter Warlock, who sounded suspiciously Baroque. An interesting story with that one according to him. Evidently, he'd compose in studio, then at some other location, pen viscious diatribes against his compositions. Might be interesting to put the two together and see which incarnation had the better judgement.

"It Can't Be Just About Us"
--Frank Schnittger, ETian Extraordinaire

by papicek (papi_cek_at_hotmail_dot_com) on Wed Jan 21st, 2009 at 10:36:13 PM EST
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