O de Dinkart: Haiku

All that body text!
Ancien art in soaring flight.
Up noord, b'yond Gu Lu.






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Note: Re-Imagine

MUSIC: Lola Rae's One Time

Young though she still is, Lola Rae has already packed some serious time and talent into her musical journey. And the effort's already bearing ample fruit.

HERE: Something about Lola Rae

Lola's enchanting music video, One Time, produced by Twenty20 Media in 2016, is a feast of song and hi-spirited dance. She, the leading and only voice, is both single-minded and self-assured. Her Afro-Reggae offering is a fusion of colors -- all shades of color -- dancing light, and fluid bodies, all moving in a combo of sound and unspoken, gesticulated text. 

Her song speaks to the proverbial rude boy and rude girl, and her egging, in that irresistible tone of hers, is more intoxicating than any root-beer (ha! ha!) can be to a man-child, or his naughty sister. All the stuff that's here is lovely, and here's all tinsely, but for the absence of tinsel itself -- in this cool set that's beyond make-believe.

The beat, it keeps coming at ya! It's persistent. It's hi-spirited. It's consistent. And yet as soft, as flowing, as silk. All-consumed with the tempo of the moment, the girls who have joined Lola in this feast, this feat, of camaraderie and feeling simply won't let up. 

Color and shapely forms. A bewitching cadence of (e)motion and sound. A suppleness of presence. A sense of earnest, burning desire. All these fill the air, and charm the view.

Naughty visual phrases pack the secret girls' room, too, where much of the action takes place -- to the chagrin of all them guys who cannot quite be in there, sorry.

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READ: The "One Time" Lyrics

Text Dancing: Haiku

Fine, throbbing beat.
Silky bodies. Tandem turns.
So sunny a day.

Music, Written Text and the Literate Mind

The literate mind is, I think, more charitable to (the frailties of) the spoken word, than to the written. This is perhaps because, in a great ironic twist, the spoken word has deep roots in the preliterate mind, which we have not quite lost.

The preliterate mind is by definition more aural than textual.

It is far easier to produce great music, than to write great text. And far easier to come upon fine music, than upon fine 'text' -- if you come to think about it.

Music so very often and so easily makes even banal words/lyrics soar into the poetic heavens.

Great literary or scientific text is incapable of dominating the airwaves, as music does. Such a text is not, alas, sexy enough for a 4:12-minute ecosystem.

And yet, for the literate (as for the closed) mind, great music -- in particular, of the popular variety -- when weighed against great scientific or creative literature (or the written word in general), simultaneously appears:

1. Less mainstream as a continual point of reference; and,
2. Even less consequential for important matters of day-to-day life -- a luxury lay society and culture can ill-afford.

But how ill-conceived is all that! How many insights have thus passed us by, and how many opportunities lost? 

Obama's Speech in Cairo: June 4, 2009

Obama's speech, it seems, was well received, both by the live audience and the global TV audience.

1. To view the speech: Click here

2. To read the full text of President Obama's speech in Cairo, click here