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Hmm...

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Hmm... Another Act That Mysteriously Made It To The 21st Century: Rita-Rita!

Everybody was marveling in itty-bitty Quebec, this Christmas season, over a certain Christmas-themed new CD release, from the artist formerly known as... Rita-Rita. Now, do not get me wrong here: I always thought the artist in question is a diamond in the rough, an overlooked and too often underrated TRUE ARTISTE - who simply had the misfortune of having tried to start off her career in a most commercial (and sort-of corny, tongue-firmly-in-cheek) way, as "Rita-Rita" - she who sang surrounded by alien misfits and other oddities...

I liked the "joie de vivre" and all-around contagious goofiness that permeated the atmosphere when Rita-Rita sang... uh... okay, I forget the title of the one track that made it as a single release (and that got a video-clip shot for it as well) but I remember that it sure did ROCK!
And that should be good enough for YOU too!
;)

Now, we are in 2008 - soon to be 2009...
"Rita-Rita" is long dead - for years now, the artist formerly known as her has gone by and carried through with her true name, Maryse Letarte - a serious turn for serious recognition in the otherwise never-serious industry...! Maryse is even a pundit blogger like me, a journalist-in-her-spare-time, on VOIR.CA - click here for one of her most incendiary posts so far...!

Now, again, don't misinterpret me (and my sarcastic tone!) - for I'd rather see Maryse Letarte with a blog than the likes of France D'Amour, Marie-Élaine Thibert or any other airhead whose name I forget that sings in "la belle province" - QUAWBECK...! If any of them has something intelligible to say, it should be Miss Letarte... (Okay, let's call her Miss Maryse instead - cause I know French and I know the good sense of not focusing too much on certain last names - including my own, whenever I find myself anywhere within the damnable "Francophonie" anyway...!)

Maryse Letarte did deliver a gem in the rough of a Christmas CD (to her own image, hence) - but to see the hypocrites who call themselves music experts (the critics) go gaga over it when, just a few years ago, they ostracized any artist from over there that DARED introduce a few English words into their songs... Artists such as Marie-Philippe and Léandre (both of whom have vanished from the industry since - not-so-coincidentally!) seemingly driven away from the business much like people were stoned and driven off in ancient times...! Well, that turnabout from the critic collective is an about-face that simply makes me want to... vomitar! It's about time you retards allowed for a mish-mash of languages in song, of culture in art overall - because that is what miserable QUAWBECK is fortunate to have become, after the historical mistake that gave BIRTH to it in the first place...! This place should probably have NEVER been inhabitated by anyone other than the "autochtones" - the indigenous locals who had always been around originally! But to have taken so long (since the 1980s) to have realized that it owes so much in modern times to anglo-saxon culture, to various european influences and as many languages, to Italians, Portuguese, Greeks, Latinos of all ilks, and certainly to our neighbouring American cousins... to have taken DECADES to accept that an artist has a sacrosanct right (mush more than a prerogative) to sing, write, perform in a MULTILINGUAL WAY - well, the evidence is there and critics must be numbskulls indeed!

Ironically, in taking the "serious turn as a serious artist" and being hailed for her insertion of another language into her latest work, Maryse Letarte has also joined the ranks of the critic collective, on Voir.ca.

Aller voir ça...!









So nice from Miss Maryse to have us be able to listen to her material for free - on her website!
You won't see Céline Dion do that!

Hmm...

Me, I still think the ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS ALBUM emanating from these parts remains luminous CLAIRE PELLETIER's... "Le Premier Noël."
Miss Maryse can be a close second - absolutely.
A nostalgic fave, Francine Raymond, was part of the recording of ESPÉRANCE - although not a Christmas song per say, for little luminous me and my money (that glows in the dark, surely, up to an hour after leaving my hand...!) it is the best one to convey the true CHRISTMAS SPIRIT...
Lyrics like "des quatre coins du monde, un cri d'ESPÉRANCE..." have the same effect on me as the wonderful question asked by Band Aid (along with their chorus urge to FEED THE WORLD...) - "do they know it's Christmas Time?"

Do the critics know the true meaning of Christmas, themselves - really?
Hmm...

Hmm... Up-Tempo Cover Song, Eh?

What's the point to record a new version of a song - exactly like the previous one, anyway?

Kudos to the boys here: their version of this ole classic ROCKS.




Hmm... Must be the American Way, eh?

;)

Hmm... It's Satan's Claws Time Again?!?

You better watch out
You better look out
Satan's Claws
are coming
to town!

He knows if you've been naughty
He knows when you have sinned...!
He knows if you've been good or bad
So that he can dish out punishment - HO!

No wonder kiddies confuse Halloween and Christmas all the time!
What will it be when St. Valentine's Easter Day rolls around - eh?

;)

Hmm... Luminous Elusiveness?

Hmm... indeed!
I recently posted a whimsical post (again) on the main blog of this network of mine here - the ol' network within the older network (owned by Blogger - duh!) scheme, eh - and I do mean THE LUMINOUS BLOG aka TLB PRIME...

The post was all about repertoriating as many LUMINOUS folks and/or entities (corporate or otherwise) as possible within the small frame of time that I disposed of to do it - and, these days, it isn't much!

Days after publishing it, though, I thought to myself "I am lacking musical entities on that thing!" and nearly kicked myself in the rear end (where else) for having omitted to add my MY SPACE pals, Luminous Anonymous!

(Okay - I didn't really come remotely close to kicking myself - but still!)

And then, I found what I thought to be PERFECT additions to the post, reason enough to edit it, post-publishing, as is my luminous prerogative around here...!

I found... Luminous Orange!

WOW - my favorite color coupled with my monicker - at long last!!!
Thought I'd died and gone to Heaven - not, but still...!
Wasn't long, though, before disappointment settled in here, yup!

Here it is, "Luminous Orange" - try playing it and you will immediately see why I am so disappointed, in truth:



Drats, I thought! "FILE ERROR"...! Whoever the IDIOT who uploaded this gem (undoubtedly, it must be one) did not do it properly *or* actually was obtuse enough to DELETE THE PRECIOUS FILE SOON AFTER...?!?

Horror.

Next to it though was something about "the LUMINOUS flesh of giants" (?!?) by a band called BALAKLAHVA. I thought "sheesh - let's try and add THIS ONE...?" - after all, it does have a DOUBLE irony to it too, now (the LUMINOUS element, always, but also the GIANT one - hey, hey!)

But here is what I get, again:



Damn - 0 for 2 there...!!!
Thanks a whole lot, "radioblogclub" dudes!

I might just as well console myself with an old (I do mean OLD) favorite, with an odd title, that, MIRACULOUSLY, somehow, "radioblogclub" DOES have, for real...!



Just enjoy the music - and ignore the odd title, eh?

Hey - it's GENESIS, dammit!

They're AWESOME.
Not "odd"...!

Hmm... New definitions for "finicky felines," eh?

According to the yahoos over there,
THIS cat loves BROCCOLI:



(Click on the above pic
and you may be "lucky" enough
to see the video evidence too!
Courtesy of IAMS!
Depends on one's definition
of the term "lucky"...!)

Well... I AMS-THINKING THAT...
It's no big deal at all, really!

Nope, it isn't!

My little bastard of a kitty
(aren't they all, you say...)
actually goes gaga for
OLIVES!
Pitted, preferably sliced,
sometimes stuffed with peppers
(aye - the manzanilla variety!)

So there...!


Ah - but my video evidence
is not ready yet... ok?

Laters!
;)