What Are You Listening To?

It was related to a discussion on the Aswang, which, by night, grows wings and segments it's body, leaving it's legs behind. The discussion centered around whether or not the butt remains attached to the main body or gets left behind on top of the disembodied legs.

excontradiction wrote:
It was related to a discussion on the Aswang, which, by night, grows wings and segments it's body, leaving it's legs behind. The discussion centered around whether or not the butt remains attached to the main body or gets left behind on top of the disembodied legs.

OK, you got a reference but you did not get MY reference then. . .

Ooooh do tell! How many different ways can we approach the start of the butt?

excontradiction wrote:
Ooooh do tell! How many different ways can we approach the start of the butt?

There's this terrible movie podcast called "How Did This Get Made" where comedians all watch the same bad movie then discuss it and in their review of the film Mannequin 2: On The Move, a film where Kristy Swanson plays a mannequin that comes to life sporadically, they have a long debate about where, exactly, the butt starts, first with reference to mannequins but later on more existentially.

It has become a bit of a trademark line that they've shoe-horned into later discussions of other terrible films.

what are you talking about, this seems like top 10 movie

See, but doesn't that poster just make you wonder where the butt starts?

Splurged on Discogs on a test pressing of an Argentine album that means a lot to me….

I had a recent reissue but just not good enough…. Felt like a forgery… About twenty years ago I had the original LP but it was stolen …. My guess is there are less than a few hundred copies of this floating around…by 1989 in Argentina the few people buying music were buying cassettes…hardly any vinyl was being pressed…less bought

I have spent 32 years now going back to this music and it’s never let me down….

This album came out in early 1989 in the middle of a big economic crisis with 200% monthly inflation (hence the title “No one gets out of here alive”) and promptly sank like a stone. Nobody was buying records. I heard a radio program where they played all the songs and I believe Calamaro was on it… I recorded it and listened to that tape for years… for example when I was homesick…before this album Andres had recorded many great songs but this was of another songwriting level as a whole and a powerhouse album all the way through. I headed to college in the states and Andres Calamaro moved to Spain where he formed a band with Ariel Rot (Cecilia Roth of Almodóvar movies is his sister) to try his luck there… of course, he hit it big…

https://nouvellevague.bandcamp.com/album/curiosities

from Nouvelle Vague's vault from 2019

first time I've heard tracks from them with a male singer.. and a bit more adventurist in the arrangements. 

RIP to a legend.

Ha I was going to say that’s my favorite album by him

I used to have the cd but it seems misplaced

When we last left Andres Calamaro the year was 1989 and he was moving to Spain

Once in Spain, with Rot, they created Los Rodriguez (kind of like The Smiths as far as a name)

Los Rodriguez consisted of a mix of Argentine rockers and Spanish…half the band had previously been in 80s rockers Tequila

Los Rodríguez is a very Stonesy band…lots of Stones rockers mixed with some great Calamaro ballads… they would become very big in Spain in pushing Rock and roll…Spain was still coming out of decades of repression and totalitarian rule under Franco

This is their first album released on a minor indie in exchange for $5000 their lead guitarist needed for his horse habit

Tons of classics many of which would be re-recorded in better studios with more budget

Calamaro begins to shift from a pop sound to a more rocking sound…the Stones become a major touchstone…looking at him on cover we see him beginning to sport his Bob Dylan look

Did he have a heroin or equine habit?

Fortunately the former


Anyways this was 1991… I was in college in Richmond and hating life.. frat fucks everywhere…I had no idea Calamaro had created a band… I had not even gone back to Argentina or if I did I never heard about Los Rodriguez …Los Rodriguez were not well known in Argentina initially

But I also had discovered the great Stones albums…

All pre internet…it would be many years til I would catch up to this…many twists and turns

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_wb83kOA3FI


Calamaro’s second band


Maybe my favorite song ever..a hymn for Argentina

“Costumbres Argentinas” (Argentine customs (habits)

I think he was 22 or 23 at this point


Just sick that he could do this at such a young age


The guy playing the cowbell, leader of this band, was dead a few years later from AIDS which took out a bunch of the great Argentine musicians and sort of ended the scene


RIP Miguel Abuelo

Picked up this LP from 1967 - has to be, look at the cover- that I was not familiar with…


It’s actually pretty good!

Jessie Ware - What’s your pleasure


I wonder if she will tour the US soon….

Starsky wrote:
Jessie Ware - What’s your pleasure


I wonder if she will tour the US soon….

What DC area venue do you think she would pair well with?

That’s a tough call


I am not sure how popular she is and her album was sort of wasted in the pandemic…total loss of momentum… she needed to tour behind it over a year ago.. now it’s old and forgotten I fear..

Starsky wrote:
Jessie Ware - What’s your pleasure


I wonder if she will tour the US soon….

always wondered what happened to bordie James Ford

Ware and co-producer James Ford co-wrote all tracks,
seems he's doing pretty well ;)