Soundtrack, from Harry Partch, "17 Lyrics of Li Po." Drunken poetry of NMM-TV's own. Isn't the dictator dead yet? Artsy-fartsy Cinelerra exercise for a rainy afternoon.??
Drunken Air Force cadets start up a punk band. Oba! Part of NMM-TV's "how to have fun in Brazil without getting killed and eaten by the locals" series, designed as anti-marketing to counteract the degree to which the Fox Atomic film "Turistas" -- "Don't fall for this Turistas trap," writes one reviewer -- has pissed off my Brazilian pals and put the kibosh on the local tourism trade.
My browser does not play nice with OGG files, so here is an MPG version. Da pra ver? Sampa diary December 3, 2006: Sarney and his posse and Calder?n and his posse: same old same old.
Dec. 2, 2006: Ai, que pregui?a. Crony capitalism takes power in Mexico, struggles to hang on to prerogatives here. Cheap homage to O Pasquim: We need you back, you freaks! Just the usual samba do gringo doido
Working on a project to subtitle and translate Mexican documentaries on electoral fraud.
Professionally produced video distributed on the Web permits Brazilian parties to circumvent regulation of campaign publicity and smear their opponents. Watch out, Americans. You, too, will be living in a banana republic soon.