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00:01Doug meet final report submitted on00:04official Facebook survey form upon00:06competing basic blocking report action00:08submitted October 27 830am audio samurai00:13adi da samurai three mike 59 sicko00:17Flicka Randall kitty Davis stole the00:19group HTTP WWF a CB o ok calm groovy00:25bookies three days ago and now Facebook00:28is punishing and penalizing those in00:30that group who report this group and00:31indiscriminately report any and all00:33photos videos and content this was a00:37three year old group with over seventy00:39members which had never had a problem00:40until Randall Kitty Davis brought in an00:42gaben administrator status to adi da sam00:45i second who turned out to be a neo-nazi00:47extremist using a fake facebook profile00:50based on a 1980 s new age pop religious00:53figure and who then began a campaign of00:55posting of obscenities Nazi propaganda00:58photos hopped hate images of various01:00members which two days subsequent01:03culminated in his self induction and01:05reversal of all former administrative01:06settings and which resulted in his01:09commanding sole administrator ship of01:11this group a group which he had been a01:13member of for a total of three days he01:16then posted a message at the top of the01:18group which read this group has been01:20hijacked which featured below with a01:23terrorist threat to frighten any01:24remaining members and which link to an01:26FBI governmental website regarding what01:29to do in the event of the terrorist01:31hijacking of a commercial aircraft like01:33those employed in the September eleventh01:35two thousand suicide bombing of the01:37world trade center after this illegal01:39act of aggression he began creating01:42multiple fake profiles of himself or01:44sock puppets as they are known on01:46Wikipedia which he then appointed to01:48administrator status so that even01:51the former members of this group had01:53been successful in contacting Facebook01:55through any channel besides that which I01:57write you at present something that01:59criminally doesn't exist Facebook would02:02have to eliminate at last count over 1002:04bogus profiles or the entire group in02:07order to remove control from him and his02:08self-appointed group of administrators02:10he is now publicly boasting via Facebook02:14along with Randall Kitty Davis the02:16threat which may currently be viewed on02:17the official facebook page I stopped02:19eating sparta that he is in possession02:21of mine and several other erstwhile02:23members IP address along with a02:25sarcastic remark of thanks as a final02:27implied threat this group of individuals02:30has been linked to online hacking credit02:33card fraud and identity theft on02:35Facebook in the past and is no doubt02:37planning to do the same thing in this02:39instance the original group was named02:41the new keys with the facebook Uniform02:43Resource locator prefix for groups it02:45was a secret group and has not been on02:48the control of any of its original and02:50rightful administrators since Tuesday02:52october twenty four twenty eleven most02:55of those members who were successfully02:57contacted on that first day were able to02:59successfully block and report these03:01individuals but after the second day03:04know when previously a member of the03:05group was able to gain entry in order to03:07officially leave the group which is how03:09it remains until today many former03:12members are extremely concerned about03:14their personal privacy and the security03:16of their online presence within the03:18confines of facebook and can only hope03:20that the unknown disposition of the03:22individuals who did in fact and lawfully03:24compromised their identity security and03:27peace of mind will somehow be addressed03:29through the multiple reports which eyes03:30group founder have urged everyone to03:32file however as there is absolutely no03:35provision for a unique complaint and03:37report of this nature provided by03:39facebook which does not consist merely03:41of a from a three option checklist most03:44are cynical at the desired outcome and03:46resolution to this easily remediable03:48act of online piracy this predicament in03:51Facebook's inadequate provision for same03:53are now being forwarded to multiple03:55influential blogs and media agencies03:58such as Mashable New York Times LA Times04:01and many smaller blogs who specialize in04:03Facebook and social network matters04:06gentlemen I suggest you investigate this04:09matter immediately before any04:11controversial negative press is04:13generated at best and at worst before a04:15personal or class-action lawsuit is04:17filed by any or all of those violated04:20and even now unable to adequately report04:22or deal with directly with an appointed04:24official Facebook representative to04:25address there are multiple privacy and04:27safety concerns no matter what fine04:30print you may have in your User04:31Agreement it would easily be contested04:34in a court of law sue this become even04:36worse and more intrusive than it has04:38from the moment it occurred sincerely04:40more your work org group founder october04:46twenty seven twenty eleven HTTP WWF a04:50CBO okay calm grooves of emojis
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Japanese Modern Jazz Opera
Momotaro: Modern Jazz Opera
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Charlie Parker, Kenny Dorham, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Horace Silver, Bill Evans, Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers, Sonny Rollins, Benny Golson, Bud Powell, Herbie Hancock, Clifford Brown, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane ----------------- "Lotus Blossm" Milestones Misterioso "Blue Monk" "Sister Sadie" "Waltz For Debby" "Blues March" Doxy "Five Spots" "After Dark" "Cleopatra's Dream" "Comin' Home" Baby "Donna Lee" Cherokee "Fables of Faubus" "'Round Midnight" "Moment's Notice" "St.Thomas"
The standard view of Japanese popular culture, at least here in the United States, is that it’s wacky, chaotic and impossible to fathom. That’s the first reaction you might get from a video doing the rounds online.
It features actors dressed up as traditional Japanese peasants performing some sort of story to the accompaniment of American jazz standards. Which they sing. With Japanese lyrics.
At first glance it’s just funny. But The World’s Alex Gallafent digs a little deeper.
So a colleague sent me a link to a video. It had been forwarded to him by another friend: you know how it goes.
The video is titled: “Japanese Jazz Opera”.
And here’s how it begins. Yep, that’s ‘Now’s The Time’, by Charlie Parker. Only in the video it’s sung by an old peasant couple, with Japanese lyrics.
The setting is a kind of studio version of an olden-days Japanese village. They seem to be actors in some kind of elaborate comedy skit.
But before you have a chance to consider what might be going on, they move on to Miles Davis. Superficially the video, which runs to about ten minutes, is just spectacularly odd.
But still, what IS it?
I turned for help to Roland Kelts. He’s the author of Japan America – and splits his time between Tokyo and the US. It didn’t take Kelts long to recognize the actor playing the part of the old peasant woman — a middle-aged man in sunglasses.
KELTS: “In Japan, this guy Tamori, the comedian behind this video, this show, is everywhere, he’s ubiquitous.”
OK, progress: so we know it’s a skit starring one of Japan’s biggest celebrities.
KELTS: “If you can imagine someone… posters… beer… that you see on TV every night in Japan.”
And this video clip, Kelts says, comes from Tamori’s nightly variety show, an edition from March 1986. It was called ‘What a Great Night’.
Kelts recognizes the subject of the skit too.
Turns out it’s a take on Momotaro, or the Peach Boy – one of the all-time classic Japanese fairy tales.
KELTS: “It follows the narrative very closely, it hews quite close to the narrative, but everything is done tongue-in-cheek.”
The first part of the story goes like this. There’s a poor old couple. They can’t have kids. One day, a giant peach floats down the river to their village. The old couple take the peach home and try to eat it. But when they cut it open, they find a boy inside.
In Tamori’s version, this is where they sing Thelonius Monk’s Misterioso.
So now we’ve got a Japanese TV variety show from the 1980s doing a tongue-in-cheek version of a classic fairy tale.
But why the jazz?
It starts to make a bit more sense, says Roland Kelts, when you know that Tamori – the comedian – was born in August 1945.
That makes him the archetypal post-war boomer.
Kelts: “That generation grew up idolizing America pop culture. They read American novels, they listened to America jazz, they watched Am TV. So knowing those specific numbers and who created them, who composed them would be a point of pride.”
And Kelts thinks that back in the 80s, that self-aware sophistication — knowing relatively obscure jazz tunes like this one, Bill Evans’ Waltz for Debby — fit into a broader sense of Japan’s place in the world.
Tamori’s TV show took full advantage.
Kelts: “That was a time when Japan’s economy was expanding… show that was perceived to be how far Japan had come… can poke fun…. at ourselves… best known fairytale in Japan.”
In Japan, but not here in the States. Here’s how it ends. The peach boy grows up. And, along with some animal friends, he travels across the ocean – um, to the Herbie Hancock tune, Maiden Voyage.
The peach boy arrives at the island of the ogres — they’ve been stealing from the villagers. In Tamori’s skit, the chief ogre is painted red from head to toe, wears glasses and sings the bebop tune Donna Lee. In the end, the peach boy defeats the ogres and returns home with a load of treasure. In Japan it’s about as well-known a story as you can get.
But Roland Kelts says that for younger Japanese today, the only thing they’d understand would be the story.
Today their focus is domestic not international — in music and in other things.
Kelts: “It’s a symbol or a sign of how pessimistic younger Japanese feel. Tamori’s generation, they were looking to a Japan that continued to grow and the growth seemed endless. Your real estate holding would grow in value, forever. Some people said back then we’d all work for a Japanese company. It seems absurd now.”
So did the video when I first watched it. But it turns out to be much more than anonymous Japanese TV comedians singing jazz tunes in peasant costumes. It’s really a historical document of a Japanese attitude — one that’s slipping away.
And maybe the United States can relate to that feeling… a feeling that something’s been lost: that carefree sense of being on top of the world.
--For The World, I’m Alex Gallafent.
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Charlie Parker Kenny Dorham Miles Davis Thelonious Monk Horace Silver Bill Evans Art Blakey Jazz Messengers Sonny Rollins Benny Golson Bud Powell Herbie Hancock Clifford Brown Charles Mingus John Coltrane Now's The Time mrjyn
今夜は最高!
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Japanese Modern Jazz Opera (My Favorite Video)
STOLEN by Marc Campbell at DangerousMinds.net 3.1.2011
Tamori wearing his signature shades
This wonderfully surreal clip from a 1986 episode of Japanese TV variety show It’s Okay To Laugh (what a stupid fuck) hosted by popular comedian Tamori (who is never seen in public without sunglasses) takes a classic Japanese fairyland called “The Peach Boy” and melds it with American jazz to create something truly unique.
(5 videos) Hugh Cornwell (Stranglers) 'Totem and Taboo' PLUS new favorite Mariachi song - 'Golden Brown' (replacing Willy DeVille's 'Hey Joe')
Hugh Cornwell "Totem and Taboo" video from Hugh Cornwell
Bad Vibrations (trailer) from Hugh Cornwell
Hugh Cornwell "God is a Woman" video from Hugh Cornwell
Hugh Cornwell is the UK's finest songwriting talents and accomplished live performers.
The original guitarist, singer and main songwriter in the British rock band The Stranglers, enjoyed massive UK and European success with 10 hit albums and 21 Top Forty singles, including No More Heroes, Golden Brown, Always the Sun and Duchess.
Bad Vibrations (trailer) from Hugh Cornwell
Hugh’s latest studio album TOTEM AND TABOO was released to rave reviews.
It was Recorded at Electrical Audio Studios in Chicago, engineered and mixed by the legendary Steve Albini.
Hugh Cornwell "God is a Woman" video from Hugh Cornwell
Mariachi Mexteca Feat. Hugh Cornwell - "Golden Brown" from Hugh Cornwell"UK Punk's Dark Lord" David Fricke/Rolling Stone"He sounds more engaged and intense than he has in years" Classic Rock"Cornwell provides the goods In Spades" Vive Le Rock
"Golden Brown" performed by Mariachi Mexteca Feat. Hugh Cornwell.
Taken from the Hugh Cornwell digital EP "God is a Woman".Hugh Cornwell "I Want One Of Those" video from Hugh Cornwell
TOTEM & TABOO
TRACK BY TRACK BY HUGH CORNWELL
TOTEM & TABOO
Strangely enough this was the last track I wrote for the album, but it's become one of my favourites.
A hint of 'Rebel, Rebel' with some Marc Bolan glam thrown in. I've always like songs with the marching 4's on the snare, and that's what it is supposed to be, a rallying call for like-minded souls. I was playing this live most of last year so it went down easily enough in the studio.THE FACE
My favourite guitar bits on the album. I was stretched a bit to keep the solo going for that long, but Steve Albini liked it, which is praise indeed.Based on a funny story about Madonna.
I WANT ONE OF THOSE
I was very excited when I wrote this. After the melody came together I went for a walk in the country and wrote the lyric whilst I was walking in my head. Had to rush back to write it all down before I forgot it! We've all become slaves to a consumer society and it's spread into all aspects of our lives unfortunately.
STUCK IN DAILY MAIL LAND
Conceived in a hotel in the Midlands about 5 years ago, over breakfast, alone, over a copy of - of course - the Daily Mail. Not that it's an attack on it, some of my best friends read it.
BAD VIBRATIONS
People who are familiar with what I've done over the years will be familiar with a habit I have of appropriating titles and changing them perversely to my own evil ends. 'Good Vibrations' is a classic pop song from the 60's that needed to be backdoored.
GOD IS A WOMAN
Probably my favourite track on the album. First few notes may remind some people of 'Badge', but I think this is an improvement. The voice is unusually very dry and in your ear, in contrast to the bass and guitar. Hopefully people will consider, as I do, that this is a modern day 'Peaches'.
LOVE ME SLENDER
Another one of my favourites. I wanted to revisit Hendrix's 'Spanish Castle Magic' somehow in a song, as I love that skippy beat, I find it very sexy. When I play this live I give Chris (drums) the tempo at the start and I sound a bit like Tommy Cooper when I do it, which always makes him laugh. It would take too long to go into what it's about. But it is another misappropriation, this time from Presley's 'Love Me Tender' of course.
GODS GUNS & GAYS
A song about the United States of America and the obsessions you find there. The word 'gays' is only meant to represent the power of Freedom Of Speech they enjoy in that wonderful country of contradictions. No wonder so many of the Surrealists flocked there in the 1930's. Another one of my tributes to Arthurly and his band Love, God rest his soul. Amen.
A STREET CALLED CARROLL
Los Angeles. Silverlake. Overlooking downtown. A street called Carroll. The most unusual wooden houses. It's where they shot the 'Thriller' video. Quite enigmatic. Not at all what you'd expect in LA. On a hill. Old style street lamps. Not quite sure what it's got to do with Totem & Taboo, but it was the time when the whole idea of the album became clear to me.
IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT
I thought it was about time to write a long epic track, rather like we used to do when I was in The Stranglers. It had to be at the end of the album, and I wanted it to feature an extra instrument, rather like 'Banging On At The Same Old Beat' did on 'Hooverdam', my last album. Steve (bass & keyboards) obliged perfectly, bless him. Bass riff came to me in the middle of the night and sat around for a while before I realised what was going on.SOCIAL MEDIALike Hugh Cornwell on Facebook - www.facebook.com/hughcornwellofficialFollow Hugh Cornwell on Twitter -
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