One of Africa's music icons - Angelique Kidjo. She must easily be the most famous Beninese by a million miles and more. (Capital of Benin, anyone?) Here she's performing Adouma - one of her populars track in 1994. Okay, the audio quality is pretty poor in this one.
Eight years later, Adouma was one of the most popular tracks in Carlos Santana's new CD, Shaman.The African charm of the song is quite lost in this piece Shaman Adouma
But it's fun watching two greats having so much fun - amost like watching Edberg play Becker or something...
Monday, May 10, 2010
El Secreto de sus ojos
El Secreto de sus ojos (The secret in their eyes) - the Argentiine film that won this year’s Oscar for foreign films. Title is kinda melodramatic but it quite good. May be, not as impressive as the Das Leben der anderen that won the Oscar 2 years back, but still. A detective story, a romance, a writer, soccer, Peronist political background, a good satisfying ending.... What more can you ask for? And Ricardo Darin, the superstar of Argentine filmdom, is very impressive.
Based on the novel La Pregunta da sus ojos (The question in their eyes). Come to think of it, that might have been a better title. But then again, you can't expect Latin american to 'tone it all the way down'.
Based on the novel La Pregunta da sus ojos (The question in their eyes). Come to think of it, that might have been a better title. But then again, you can't expect Latin american to 'tone it all the way down'.
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Bend it unlike Beckham
I was watching Bend it like Beckham recently after a while, and I kept wondering about all this unfair hype about Beckham and his bender-freekicks. He’s certainly not the greatest bender-freekicker of his time. Here, watch this freekick by Roberto Carlos....
From a purely projectile-motion physics' perspective ( on a roll with my alliteration here...), watch the trajectory of Carlos’ kicking leg, the follow-through with his body, the cramped space between the right post and the goalie that he has to work with and of course, the trajectory of the ball. Makes one wonder as to why we design such sophisticated control systems to guide the trajectory of missiles and drones. Why not let Carlos and his Clones kick the missiles off literally. It’s as if he has a tracking system embedded in the ball with the exact path he had imagined in his mind...
I only hope that when they make a sequel to Bend it like Beckham, they’d name it Kick it like Karlos... (I know but alliteration is an important requirement for a movie title in this series)
From a purely projectile-motion physics' perspective ( on a roll with my alliteration here...), watch the trajectory of Carlos’ kicking leg, the follow-through with his body, the cramped space between the right post and the goalie that he has to work with and of course, the trajectory of the ball. Makes one wonder as to why we design such sophisticated control systems to guide the trajectory of missiles and drones. Why not let Carlos and his Clones kick the missiles off literally. It’s as if he has a tracking system embedded in the ball with the exact path he had imagined in his mind...
I only hope that when they make a sequel to Bend it like Beckham, they’d name it Kick it like Karlos... (I know but alliteration is an important requirement for a movie title in this series)