Salif Keita

One of the week's best lastfm discoveries:

Budleigh

Seagulls to the left of me

 

and seagulls to the right.

Rocksteady

Further Kabloona-isms

"I pointed, we moved towards it, and there was no doubt about it: that black dot was a man. In this land of one million square miles inhabited by six thousand men, the sight of a human being is overwhelming; it creates an emotion that is like a seizure, difficult to describe."

"I am going to say to you that a human being can live without complaint in an ice-house built for seals at a temperature of fifty-five degrees below zero, and you are going to doubt my word. Yet what I say is true, for this was how Father Henry lived; and when I say 'ice-house for seals' I am not using metaphorical language. Father Henry lived in a hole dug out by the Eskimos in the side of a hill as a place in which to store seal meat in Summer."

A Portion Of Jagger Craziness

Watched Performance recently, still trying to piece together what I make of it. Think it'll take a few more viewings but for now this is one section of it that keeps resurfacing in my brain.

The thing turned towards you.

"Their word for polar bear is tara-i-tua-luk,'he who is without shadow' (though the polar bear is also

called 'the eternal vagabond'.

There is a sort of poetry of the concrete in their speech that is very moving. Thus, mi-kse, the

word for 'reality/ is literally translatable as 'the thing turned towards you.'"




- Gontran De Poncins on Inuit languages in 'Kabloona'.

Stuck in my head all week.