Re: LOTR credit line

--- J Y S Czhang <czhang23@...> made the
following appear upon my teledar:

> >Well, I'm not sure how much worse/more
> strongly
> >put his Asiacentrism can be. Mind you, I ain't
> an
> >expert on things Asian; but in the interviews
> >I've read he seems very strongly rooted in
> Asia.
>
>     So much so that one ol'foogie type
> Classical
> Music Critic mourns this "leftward" swing in
> Ma's music.
> (Is this cultural reactionary hinting _musica
> sinistra_?
> not too far at all from _musica
> Sino-Asiatic_.eh 0_o???)
>
> >Of couse, he [Ma not the above ubermensch'ed
> paleo-conservative]
> >ain't one jot afraid of sending out
> >tap roots and creepers and branches over into
> >things American or European or African or
> Middle
> >Asian either!!!
>
>     VERFREMDUNGSEFFEKT 'n' OTSTRANENIYE!
>     Vive "mix'n'match" _Frisson_ de Cultures!
>     Be LOUD... Be Proud to be a _Race Trader_!
>             ;)
>     Dhe Future isin hard Applied SciFi, mon
> amis,
>         Hard Applied Sci-Fi...
>
> >> and thus _alienatin'_ his mainly
> upper-crusty
> >> patrons of the old-bone-moon pigmentation
> >
> >I don't think they need fear - but fear is
> wyrd
> >beastie.
>
>     Ma's recent musical blendings might be
> considered a threat to any
> Right-goosesteppin' cultural
> paleo-conservative.
pfpf. There are plenty of Asians into Western art
music - and even though Ma is not afraid to live
in all musical worlds, he still has a strong
connection to the Western tradition he was
trained in. Anystrasse, those old fogissimos
won't really become too concerned until loads of
Ghost People (Westerners) become enamoured of
Chinese and other Eastern classical forms. When
the BSO starts (and probably finishes!) a season
with Indian ragas - then they'll be concerned. ;)

>     Imagine a _Mad_ magazine cartoon:
>     European: "Oh no _our_ favourite lil Yellow
> Star, _our_ model Asian, has
> gone Native, rogue and some....The Classicist
> music world is going to Hell in
> a handbasket..."
An Asian "going native"! Oy! :)

>     Chinese: "AiYah! What a musical mess...
> Good Balanced Chinese music mixed
> with hormonally-de-ranged Black and White
> Barbarian musics? AiYaH the whole
> civilized Chinese music world is going to the
> dogs!"
>     Black "Afro-Beat": "What's wid all-a dat
> weird-ass shreeekin' Chink cello
> playin' shit? If it ain't jazz or hiphop 'n' if
> it don't swing or have a Big
> Phat-ass Hip-Movin' Beat, it don't fukkin' mean
> a damn thing..."
:D

> >> (my uncle Kai can't stop
> >> his gigglefits at the idea that there are
> >> "Whites" and "People of Colour"...
> >
> >I never have understand that one. I mean,
> since
> >when has white not been a colour?
>
>     I think albinos are _pretty_ "white."
Well, yeah, but it's still a colour. I mean, they
ain't CLEAR, ya know!

> I think the best I have seen are
> female and southern French/Italian and the
> mixed heritage ones in the
> Netherlands. Kinda like them
> pale-as-corset-whalebone-types you see in
> classic 16-18th
> Century paintings.
Gurk.

> >>  _retro_ here all-a-sudden 'gain, lah?")
> >
> >Lawks! Hope not! (:
>
>     Never truer said. _Vestigia Nulla
> Retrorsum_.
Yeah. Vestal virginals and all that jass!

> >>     LMAO... Afterlives, ya mean, eh?
> >
> >Oh, I don't know. I mean, what I'm in now is
> >after the life I've had thus far. They're just
> >further along...or just in a different
> >place...or something zen like that.
>
>     Intriguin' sense of Time there. Be neat to
> see a conlang conculture along those
> timelines ;)
Oo says there aint!? ;)))

> >> I sure wouldn't like any of mine "terribly
> >> bothered"
> >> with me - esp'ly from me Mumzie's side, the
> >> Dreaded
> >> Hardcore Republican-Xianized-Americanized
> >> Vulgar Confucianists of the
> >> _WONG Side of the Family_...
> >> the Wild'n'Kwazie Taoist-Existentialist
> British
> >> Born ZHANG leFamilia.
> >
> >HA!
> >
> >>     Hey we got a particularly nasty Culture
> >> Clash just on the edge o' Civil
> >> Warfare
> >> in our family...
>
> NEWS FLASH: it is Civil War.
Well, stop the presses! Tomorrows headlines:
Wong, Zhang: Long Tong Drang and Frang!!

> East Coast vs. West...
> See, the Wongs are mindgame-playin', gossipy,
> backstabbin' Bostonian
> homebodies mainly & we ever-blunt, nomadic,
> adventure-seekin' Zhangies are
> scattered-to-the-seawinds Tejasians &
> adopted/adapted Californians. (& the Wongs are
> not
> above literally backstabbin' their own
> either... And when a Wong needs his own
> armed-to-the-teeth bodyguard from way outside
> the family to go to a family
> re-union, ya know sumthin's not exactly healthy
> in that death-threat-happy
> family).  Go figger...
A battle royale of epic proportions that will go
down in history, yes ladies and gennlemen,
history as one of the great family feuds of all
time!

Padraic.


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