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17. Joy – three, and then five, crazy and extremely energetic and high-jumping dancers appeared on the floor in front of the stage with very big, expressive, and very joy-ous movements. Only one was female, it was very comical to watch.
my kinda people.
13. Out Of Touch – ‘That was my all-time favorite Doug Pettibone guitar solo.’
agreed. a wise woman that lucinda.
greatest setlist in months.
just by looking the setlist, you get the sense this show was very emotional.
jesus, listen to that spotless sound design! i even felt like i visited vancouver.
why bother to actually attend a LW show when i have videos like this?
(just kidding.)
(really kidding.)
(adam sandler kinda kidding.)very compelling, even more so because i’m always underwhelmed by those newspaper reports. or maybe it’s because the author gets the ‘somnambulant quality’ of 2 kool. alas, not in the good way.
tom, i think everything he wrote in life is already translated to english. i borrowed ‘by night in chile’, the original and the portuguese translation. a few years after bolaño’s death in 2003, he became quite a celebrity among the 1,000-2,000 brazilians that actually read books. i can’t think of a writer of this caliber that has enjoyed such a warm welcoming albeit late reception in this country.
i would recommend to you either SAVAGE DETECTIVES or 2066. both are held as the favorites according to close friends.
Before song two, she modified the quote from the person who had introduced her, noting that Time mag named her “America’s best songwriter” for one year and one year only.
such a lovely, humble remark. 🙂
(lucinda’s; not yours.)
tom, nice! i’ve never read a bolaño in my life (a crying shame because i’m quite well-versed in latin american/spanish literature), but i asked a friend – a bolaño maniac – which one of his books had nicanor mentioned and his answer was: MOST OF THEM.
he appears briefly in the movie, and just as a child, as far as i remember. i also have never read anyting by him, so i’m thinking of downgrading the aforementioned well-versed to reasonably versed.
greetings!
@TOverby wrote:
I’m guessing you saw somewhere where Lu mentioned her? Or maybe not? She loves Violeta, who she remembers listening to when she lived in Santiago in high school.
no, i haven’t – but it sure seems fitting that lucinda loves her. i knew the “lucinda connection” (santiago/chile) before posting here, and it did cross my mind, esp. because her suicide cronologically “fits” (ugh, bad phrasing here) with lucinda’s sojourn in santiago.
last year, a friend just threw her “ultimas composiciones” album at me – not literally – and said: LISTEN TO IT. i did and i was positively blown away. but i kinda put her aside until last night, when i went to see her movie biopic that opened in rio last week, “violeta se fue a los cielos” (violeta went to the skies, literally). i thought it was well-made and captivating, with superb, lyrical scenes concerning her childhood and overwrought scenes in the latter half (her sojourn in paris; that crazy relationship with the swiss guy). nonetheless, worth seeing. keep an eye for screenings in LA.
anyway, i strongly suggest this forum to hunt “ultimas composiciones” like meat after 1 year lost in a desert island drinking nothing but coconut water.
