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Toya Delazy - Are You Gonna Stay?
AWESOME Durban girl who sounds even better live! <3

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV4MDnSDy1g"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV4MDnSDy1g[/ame]
 
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHjpOzsQ9YI"]Dubstep Violin- Lindsey Stirling- Crystallize - YouTube[/ame]

Love this. Good to write Cadet TP's to.
 
Listening to one excerpt of one of my favorite films ever: Carmen by Carlos Saura.

The basic story is that a director (fantastic dancer Antonio Gades) wants to translate Bizet´s opera "Carmen" to a Flamenco performance with his Flamenco company. The magic of the film lies in the way the opera´s content more and more takes over the real life of the actors/performers until in the end it becomes almost impossible to distinguish between the Flamenco piece, the opera and (the movies´) real life.

A synopsis of the opera you can find here, just for the context if you ever should happen to see this brilliant film: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen

This scene here is the duel of Carmen in the Tobacco factory (where she kills a woman when challenged) leading to ther detention and later release by the soldier José.

The video begins with Antonio Gades (who is the José in the opera but also the director of the Flamenco piece) asking his company to practice the scene in the Flamenco factory, I have translated the introduction and the songs for you (the music is by Paco de Lucia, one of my guitar gods).

This danced duel is one of the most intense and passionate performances by those great dancers (Christina Hoyos and Laura del Sol) that I have ever seen and explains more about Flamenco than many theoretical texts:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-csly3dWYTU"]Carlos Saura's Carmen (Tabacalera) - Cristina Hoyos & Laura Del Sol - YouTube[/ame]

Introduction (by Antonio Gades, til 1:45 into the vid):
"We will now practice the piece in the tobacco factory.
We are in Sevilla, 1930, in a tobacco factory.
It is brutally hot, and as there are only women, they dress commodly, little clothes.
And I ask you a favor: Feel this heat, feel the circumstances, and over all, make me feel it, else nobody will believe it..." (followed by organisational orders to set up the scenario).

(Chorus):
No te arrimes a los zarzales (2x) / Dont you go near the brambles
Los zarzales tienen púas / The brambles have thorns
Y rompen los delantales (2x) / and tear aprons.

(Christina Hoyos):
Y en esta tabacalera (2x) / And in this factory
las hay malas / there are bad ones
las hay buenas / there are good ones
Y en esta tabacalera, / and in this factory
las hay más zorras / therea are more sluts
que buenas / than good girls

Y en esta tabacalera... / and in this factory...

(Carmen = Laura del Sol)
No te metas con la Carmen, / Dont you annoy Carmen
con la Carmen no te metas. / dont you bother Carmen

La Carmen tiene un cuchillo / Carmen has a knife
para el que se meta con ella / for whom who bothers her (2x)

(Chorus):
No te arrimes a los zarzales. (2x) / Dont you go near the brambles
Los zarzales tienen púas /The brambles have thorns
Y rompen los delantales (2x) / and tear aprons.

(Chorus split in two groups):
1) No te arrimes -> ¡Arrímate! / Dont go near > Go near!"

2) No te metas -> ¡Métete! / Dont annoy her > Annoy her!

3) No lo hagas -> ¡Hazlo! / Dont do it > Do it!

4) No le molestes -> ¡Moléstale! / Dont molest her > Molest her!

5) No se lo digas -> ¡Díselo! / Dobnt say it to her > Say it!

6) No te lo hagas -> ¡Háztelo! / Dont do it to you > Do it to you!

7) No me lo toques -> ¡Tócamelo! / Dont touch mine (balls) > Touch them!

8) No se lo vendas -> ¡Véndeselo! / Dont sell it to her > Sell it to her!

9) No te enfades -> ¡Enfádate! / Dont get angry > Get angry!

10) No lo rompas -> ¡Rómpelo! / Dont kill her > Kill her!
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Enjoy!

Rattler
 
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Delain - We Are The Others (Can't wait for this album to get here!!!!) :rock:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbXE6OtyCoI"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbXE6OtyCoI[/ame]
 
KONGOS - I'm Only Joking
(Another awesome South African band - going to ssee them play live in 2 weeks!!! whoop whoop!)

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ip1irYWXck"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ip1irYWXck[/ame]
 
Marilyn Manson - Personal Jesus <3

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl6fyhZ0G5E"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl6fyhZ0G5E[/ame]
 
Working on orders for an airsoft milsim this coming weekend (my kids versus the local police :) ) Bach in the background, Bach as only Gulda can play him (1970):

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjymWY4D4T0"]BEETHOVENFEST BONN - G U L D A SPIELT B A C H - YouTube[/ame]

Enjoy, or not!

Rattler
 
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gS9o1FAszdk"]The Script - The Man Who Can't Be Moved - YouTube[/ame]

Going back to the corner... where I first saw you. Gonna camp in my sleeping bag, I'm not gonna move...
 
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB6tNzYVUMo&feature=related"]Vangelis Conquest Of Paradise Live in Athens Greece - YouTube[/ame]
 
Dire Straits - Walk of Life

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9_VOy7VipQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9_VOy7VipQ[/ame]
 
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Vv_agvWgU"]Katherine Jenkins and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing "Habanera" from Carmen - YouTube[/ame]
 
Happy Birthday, GC.


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op4XGoMdwVw&feature=BFa&list=PLFC72A2137D42C3FC"]Григорий Лепс - Крыса (Official video) - YouTube[/ame]
 
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl9WMIPzd6w&feature=related"]Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli - Time to Say Goodbye 1997 Video stereo widescreen - YouTube[/ame]
 
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