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Current mood: continually amazed at stuff
Category: Art and Photography
Josephine Baker
While engaging in a bit of mindless channel-hopping this evening I chanced on a fabulous documentary on BBC 4 about the life of Josephine Baker. Like most people, I guess, I had a vague impression of her as a fixture on the 1920s and 30s Parisian cabaret circuit, her famous banana dance costume, was partly aware of her origins in St Louis in the States and my interest in the architecture of Adolph Loos (see a recent blog) told me he'd designed for her a fantastic stripey black and white house (you're getting the significance of that, I take it?) with swimming pool in the basement, regrettably unbuilt. The BBC 4 programme showed just how little I knew. I can't recommend it highly enough. It's bound to be on BBC i-player within the next day or so, so go check it out.
YouTube
Two videos for you to search out on YouTube. Firstly, the fantastic Rodrigo y Gabriela playing Metallica's Orion with Robert Trujillo on bass! Absolutely amazing. Secondly, The Bluesfather plays for Roo, Maginnis's recording at Cosmopol. Not in the same class as R y G with RT, but sincerely meant.
An interesting conversation
On the 44 bus home tonight I was joined on the back seat just in front of the engine by a middle-aged guy who was having this incredibly animated conversation with himself in at least three different voices/characters, one of whom was certainly female. I wasn't able to catch much of the detail of the conversation over the engine noise but such of it that I did seemed lucid and educated. They/he were still arguing/discussing as I got off the bus at Shandon.
7:49 PM
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