Gotta go, back to school night.

Estrela,

I like Tintin too but it's a little too 'white' and European for my taste, lol. Now don't mention anything about Tintin house in France or Todd will start to look at you suspiciously.

I just remember. Well almost remember. There was a poster that promoted a service in which he would get the password to mail accounts. I tried it once, the first part, never get to send the money. In the first part of the arrengement they send you a 'copy' of the personal info of the mail account you want to have access to. It worked. In the second phase you have to send the money to get the password. They did send me prove they had break into the mail account. I can't remember the name of the 'service' but they have tried to 'announce' themselves in these forums more than once.

If you want a treat, make it Shafer Cabernet Sauvignon, Hillside Select. Best red wine I've had.

Now Larousse, Bad Larousse. Don't tell Estrela that. She is still new to TKO. She won't remember me because I don't post that much, but I had posted to her thread a few months ago. At least I think I did.

Estrela, you are from Brazil right? A lawyer as I recall. WH travels with OW. How are things?

[color:"red"] Todd,
do you mean we don't want to traumatize her drastically but submit her to a gradual process of Anti-Frenchness conditioning? [/color]

By the way...

Todd, there's very good Brazilian rock. One of the big names is Rita Lee, she's daughter of and American militar and an italian. She has opened concerts for the Rolling Stones. She has sense of humor and cool attitude.

Another Brazilian pop-rock singer and compouser. Cassia Eller, other Cazuza, these last two, prematurely dead.

Oh no, Larousse. I favor quick and immediate immersion of French bashing. It was the Todd will look at your suspiciously portion.....

Hey Larousse,

Who is the guy from Guatemala who is the Latin pop idol? Cannot remember his name but he is a sensation.

BTW, DS2 plays guitar, drums and keyboard and he loves Bosa Nova. My favorite song he plays, as trite as it may seem, is "Girl From Ipanema". He plays all the other stuff too but I don't know all the songs. He says the rhythm is very complex.

And I think "Lambada", my favorite song in the world, originated in Brazil.

Todd,

just because you are Todd, I will forgive you to have Lambada as your favorite song.

It depends of who offers the statistics but it's said that Garota de Ipanema is the song more played around the world.

The rythm your son means is sincopa. The Brazilians got the best from the crooners tradition with their amazing melodic and rythmic sense.

Lambada was a comercial product. Like Timbalada. Bossa Nova, means New Thing.

American musicians like saxophonist Stan Getz had a lot to do with Bossa Nova internationalization.

Do you mean Ricardo Arjona or Tito Monterroso? Kidding.

Monterroso was one of the great Guatemalian authors. He lived in Mexico most of his adult life. You will like him, he is considered one of the best short short-stories teller.
The most famous one is called. El Dinosaurio:

[color:"green"] '...and when I woke up the dinosaur was still there.'
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Most of his work is translated, you would enjoy 'Complete Works and Other Stories'.

Hey Larousse, what do you have against "Lambada"? My mariachi sings it in Spanish which is fine, but there is no prettier sounding language than Portuguese in my opinion. Todd ducks. Larousse, quit throwing things....


I think I have heard that before. And it has been recorded in like a million languages. All but French. The hapless French cannot find Ipanema on the map.... But anyway, it has to be Ipanema or "Hotel California" the music for which was written by one of my favorite guitarists, Don Felder. My favorite BTW is Duane Allman. Sadly, he was killed at age 24 in a motorcycles accident. If he were still alive, it is difficult to imagine how good he would be.


And to think I thought it was Bosa Nova.


Who/what are the crooners?


I did not know that. For Christmas one year, I bought DS2 a bunch of Brazilian percussive instruments. They are made by a professional musican's company but I cannot remember the name. Contemprania or something like that. Anyway, they have some unusual instruments. The cuica is a sterling example. The player reaches into the drum cavity and rubs a web cotton cloth on the bottom of the top drum skin. It makes a squeaky kind of sound. If you listen to a lot of Bosa Nova, you can usually hear a cuica in the background.

Todd,

I couldn't agree with you more, Brazilian portuguese is absolutely beautiful.

Cuica comes from the Bahia. It sounds appears a little like human voice, don't you think. I bought a cuica for a friend once. I think she never paid me for it. Lol.

You are right about sincopa not been the name of Bossa Nova. How would you say it? Sincopa is the ritmical characteristic of samba musica that influenced other Brazilian styles?

The story is written by a great author, Ruy Guerra and he wrote about Bossa Nova history. Before and during WWII, when Hollywood was more open to other cultures and Carmen Miranda (portuguese by the way) had had great success introducing Brazilian rythms, many Brazilian musicians worked for famous American singers including Frank Sinatra. Tom Jobim worked several years in America as Art Director and doing arrengements. When he come back to Br he directed a record company, I think it was Philipps and he authorized some of the great recordings of the 50's and 60's.

Bossa Nova was born in 1954 with the song 'O desafinado' by Joao Gilberto, a man from the state of Bahia. He wanted something different from the big bands style and the popular rythm of samba. Originally Bossa Nova only had three instruments. Piano, percussion and guitar. Stan Getz added the sax.

That's what kept me from singing professionally.

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Morning all.

My kids love Asterix - have lots of books here.

No Way. The Road Runner and Wile E Coyote are the bomb.

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People report that stuff to the Mods as soon as someone sees it. I am sure the Mods pretty much rely on we the people to report bad stuff. Of course, a thread like this where so much trouble is caused is probably monitored. I really think TKO moves too fast for Justuss so she probably deleted Nams's post because someone got their knickers in a twist. Sad.

BK,

evidently you have not seen Daffy Duck as a vampire.