Arguably the game of the night along with USA v Sweden. Can Cameroon penetrate Japan’s defenses?
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Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.
No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.
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New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.
Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.
The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.
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raven
Looks like Japan hit them with a sneak attack!
lahke
Sorry, not tracking here. Been at Boston Early Music Festival all week, and due for my third concert of the night in half an hour. Have met folks from Miami, Baltimore, LA, Indianapolis, Texas– all over. If you get a chance next time, come to Boston!
Germy Shoemangler
@lahke: Original instruments?
lahke
@Germy Shoemangler: yes. There’s also an exhibit hall full of instrument makers, and some truly gorgeous harpsichords. Pity they sound as if someone dropped a box of Slinkies– I’m more into strings myself.
Germy Shoemangler
@lahke: A few days ago I saw the Gary Oldman film on Beethoven, “Immortal Beloved” and I read the pianos they used were from his time.
I’ve always been curious how Mozart and Beethoven symphonies sounded back in their day, compared to modern performances.
Origuy
Speaking of music: My friend Catherine is running an Indiegogo campaign to fund an Irish-Mexican fusion album. She’s a classically-trained violinist who has lived in both Ireland and Mexico, and was one of the founders of the first mariachi band in Ireland.
Gin & Tonic
@Origuy: first mariachi band in Ireland
There is more than one?
Origuy
@Gin & Tonic: I found at least two others, but I don’t know how autentico they are. This is the one she was in: Mariachi San Patricio
Omnes Omnibus
@Origuy: Didn’t the Pogues play around with that concept a little?
Origuy
@Omnes Omnibus: The Pogues did a song called “Mexican Funeral in Paris”. I’m not where I can listen to it at the moment. The Chieftains played with the mariachi band I mentioned.
Omnes Omnibus
@Origuy: “Mexican Funeral in Paris” is actually a Shane MacGowan and the Popes song. I was sort of thinking of “Night Train To Lorca” which was Spanish not Mexican anyway.
Origuy
There’s a historic connection between Mexico and Ireland; the Saint Patrick’s Battalion was a group of Irish immigrants who joined the Mexican Army during the war with the US. Most of them were deserters from the US Army; they had no particular loyalty to the US and the Mexicans were co-religionists. They are heroes in Mexico and Ireland.
Valdivia
@Origuy: VIcente Fox, President of Mexico, is, if I am not mistaken, of Irish descent.
Aleta
Not Irish, not the Pogues.
Marion Brown la Placita 1979
( A friend of Ornette Coleman.)
Mike in NC
@Origuy: They made a fairly decent movie about Los San Patricios that starred Tom Berenger: “One Man’s Hero” (1999).
Origuy
Ok, I found the lyrics to “Mexican Funeral in Paris”. Not a traditional song in either tradition.
Origuy
@Valdivia: Wikipedia says his mother was Basque and his father’s family name was originally the German “Fuchs”. The family did think they were Irish for a long time.
Omnes Omnibus
@Origuy: Not at all.
Valdivia
@Origuy: Ha! I have a clear memory of him running for President on being Irish (I think it added to his image of being cosmopolitan and can do guy)
Omnes Omnibus
@Valdivia: Doesn’t Basque and German get you to cosmopolitan as well?
Valdivia
@Omnes Omnibus: Basque doesn’t count because there were many Basque immigrants to Mexico during the Spanish Civil War. German is protestant. No bueno. Cosmopolitan but the right kind, it matters.
A little trivia which is totally unrelated to this aspect of the discussion but related: Since the Revolution there was a very firm prohibition for politicians to attend mass in public. Fox was the first President to do that. His party the PAN were deadenders in the last part of the war over separation of Church and State in Mexico which lasted well into the 1920s (the Cristero War)
Omnes Omnibus
@Valdivia: Well then, fuck me, I am wrong.
Valdivia
@Omnes Omnibus: Hey with colonialism its complicated ;)
Gene108
Just got back from seeing “Spy”. Holy fuck…it is one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in a long time.
Tommy
@lahke: Concerts like this rock. I was at Bonnaroo. None of the people I was with wanted to come with me and see Los Lobos play. It was about to rain. It rained so hard I felt it in my bones. I got soaked to my core but listened to Los Lobos play the shit out of stuff. Danced until it hurt in the rain. If you have never seen Los Lobos play live you are missing something stunning in your bucket list!
NotMax
Just back from a Costco expedition.
The store here is now selling chicken coops.
Sign of the times?
Omnes Omnibus
@Tommy: Cool. Great band.
NotMax
Bad link. Fixed.
@Origuy
Speaking of Irish connections to Latin America, let us remember for a moment one of the leading founding fathers of an independent Chile, Bernardo O’Higgins.
Valdivia
@NotMax: You must be the first person outside one of my classes who knows about dear O’Higgins. So I take my hat off to you.
Monday am I will be spending 2 hours talking about him and San Martin.
NotMax
@Valdivia
College course load (one of my three majors was in History) tended to be… wide-ranging.
Tommy
@NotMax: That is amazing. I am somewhat fighting with my city over the concept of me and the lady that lives behind me having chickens. I live on the edge of town. I pay for my streets and street lights myself. City bills me. I keep asking them why can’t I do this or that if you don’t seem to care about many other things?
She grows a lot of food. Her daugther had a lung transplate last year.
Origuy
@Valdivia: Yo tambièn.
Origuy
@Valdivia:
Not all. Fox’s ancestors were Catholics from Strasbourg. It’s in France now, but it has gone back and forth many times over the centuries.
Randinho
@Valdivia: I lived in Germany for three year in the Rhine valley, which is heavily Catholic. German is not necessarily Protestant.
Randinho
@Valdivia: me as well, but I am a closet Latin Americanist. The ceremonial sash worn by Chile’s president is called the Band O’Higgins.
Valdivia
@Origuy: @Randinho:
I stand corrected on the German protestant thing which if it not had been 2 am I might have thought of.