tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post8963303277822406078..comments2024-03-27T09:27:33.931+00:00Comments on Idiotic Hat: Take Me To Your LeaderMike C.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-53711486068703639312014-06-08T17:29:38.758+01:002014-06-08T17:29:38.758+01:00Actually, the music is (to the best of my memory) ...Actually, the music is (to the best of my memory) fairly routine funk, compared to the dressing up. They're a bit like Black America's answer to Radio Gnome Invisible, without Steve Hillage but with Bootsy Collins...<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-58096231297315264882014-06-08T13:21:49.582+01:002014-06-08T13:21:49.582+01:00Strictly speaking, "euphemism" is probab...Strictly speaking, "euphemism" is probably the wrong word for usages like "gosh" and "jeepers", but I can't think of the right one.<br /><br />Just been reading about Funkadelic and golly, gosh! I've got some catching up to do!Zouk Delorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983226210415857258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-85018398058955226652014-06-07T18:41:33.503+01:002014-06-07T18:41:33.503+01:00Don't really know Clinton or Funkadelic. Don&#...Don't really know Clinton or Funkadelic. Don't forget that "you'll be Absolutely Free / Only when you want to be."<br /><br />The impoliteness of "your ass" is ironic, given that it's almost certainly a euphemism, not just an American respelling of "arse" to match the local pronunciation (cf German,"arsch"): the r's of Americans are all pronounced. As, often, are their arses.Zouk Delorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983226210415857258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-21125210148972720312014-06-07T08:26:50.869+01:002014-06-07T08:26:50.869+01:00Zouk,
Exactly so. There's also the whole cul...Zouk,<br /><br />Exactly so. There's also the whole culture of crazy-ass, acid-tinged, far-out weirdness that distinguishes Clinton from your average black American musician -- uncommunicable, really.<br /><br />As Gavin commented above, putting Funkadelic in the same context as Goethe is <i>my thang</i>...<br /><br />Mike<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-59939462984765482452014-06-07T02:09:24.884+01:002014-06-07T02:09:24.884+01:00Haha! If I could have remembered the German for &q...Haha! If I could have remembered the German for "donkey" when I commented, I would have made that joke too. "Der Hintern" doesn't really work, does it? It ignores the essential synechdoche, as well as the disrespect of "your ass". The whole point when someone says "get your ass over to Vienna" is the the rest of you will accompany your ass, isn't it?<br /><br />"Meschugge" is interesting, because it's actually a Yiddish word meaning "crazy" with a Hebrew, not German, etymology (see "meshugge" in a good English dictionary).Zouk Delorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983226210415857258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-55233390262987304482014-06-06T17:41:45.868+01:002014-06-06T17:41:45.868+01:00Zouk,
Well, luckily a local photographer who is a...Zouk,<br /><br />Well, luckily a local photographer who is also an English teacher went over my text to iron out the bumpier bits...<br /><br />"your ass will follow", obviously, is "dein Esel wird folgen". Seriously, though, folks... We went for "Befreien Sie ihren Geist, und der Hintern wird folgen!" Kinda politer, but talk about lost in translation.<br /><br />Otherwise, the "brush" idiom has no equivalent, it seems, so became "total meschugge", and "getting in the zone" is, remarkably, "in der Zone ankommen".<br /><br />It was fun to do, if a bit like being back at school, though nobody ever applauded my German unseens back then...<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-2262975766440175842014-06-06T14:23:55.308+01:002014-06-06T14:23:55.308+01:00Glad to hear it went down well. I would be fascina...Glad to hear it went down well. I would be fascinated to hear your translation of the phrases: "your ass will follow", "daft as a brush" and "getting in the zone".<br /><br />PS There is a go* proverb which says, "lose 1000 games to become a master"!<br /><br />*The ancient oriental board game, also known as weiqi or baduk.Zouk Delorshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07983226210415857258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-56094819526740452732014-06-05T22:54:21.905+01:002014-06-05T22:54:21.905+01:00Thanks to all for your good wishes.
I've had ...Thanks to all for your good wishes.<br /><br />I've had a great evening, up to and including a (subjunctive) proposal of marriage from a sweet elderly lady, who claimed my words and pictures had moved her to wish this could have been so. This may, of course, be an entirely conventional sentiment among elderly Austrians... Or she may have had a little too much of the rather fine free wine.<br /><br />More later: my job here is not yet done...<br /><br />MikeMike C.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11279776665185060446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-88114115571048044742014-06-05T22:32:04.044+01:002014-06-05T22:32:04.044+01:00So excited to read that your show is finally happe...So excited to read that your show is finally happening! I hope it is a great success (well, it already is, I would say, just by virtue of the fact that your images are up there on the wall for everyone to view). I trust you will fill us in on all of the details of the night. (On a related note, have you read Blake Andrews' recent blog entry titled, "Questions for Discussion," about a photographer with a gallery showing? (http://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2014/05/questions-for-discussion.html) I imagine you are the antithesis of the character he is satirizing...Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00214179882864373628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-71616501506992757982014-06-05T21:22:47.774+01:002014-06-05T21:22:47.774+01:00Hope things went well, and you garnered plenty of ...Hope things went well, and you garnered plenty of interesting and useful reactions. Sales too, if you're selling prints.<br /><br />I like the idea of prints being a by product of the photographic process. I might steal that.Struanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13263096707648672923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-87858753697512732662014-06-05T21:09:07.423+01:002014-06-05T21:09:07.423+01:00I hope it goes well, Mike: the address, the exhibi...I hope it goes well, Mike: the address, the exhibition and the subsequent photographing.<br /><br />HuwHuwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06346671593949866026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-80614094060125330972014-06-05T20:37:25.229+01:002014-06-05T20:37:25.229+01:00Mike,
This is just about the first ‘artist’s stat...Mike,<br /><br />This is just about the first ‘artist’s statement’ that doesn’t make want to shout ‘pretentious twaddle’. Nicely put, it all resonates with me. Hope you have a good opening and a memorable trip to Austria.Graham Dewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03259585331788651964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-77226922955085020072014-06-05T19:47:46.463+01:002014-06-05T19:47:46.463+01:00A great read and do enjoy the evening. George Clin...A great read and do enjoy the evening. George Clinton & Goethe in the one speech - I wish I was there, though my German isn't good enough to understand it.Gavin McLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14630089445696518084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6096844366367766843.post-32852525391184951862014-06-05T18:48:21.480+01:002014-06-05T18:48:21.480+01:00Well done, enjoy the moment,I have been reading yo...Well done, enjoy the moment,I have been reading your blog for many years and looking at your photographs which I must say I've found mystifying,nothing new there a lot of life is a mystery to me.<br />I feel I'll appreciate the pictures a bit more now after reading your piece.<br />Good Luck<br />Michael.seanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17016952019699494870noreply@blogger.com