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LE BEAU: The eldest of the three brothers wrestled with Charles, the duke’s wrestler. Immediately, Charles threw the brother, breaking three of his ribs; it’s not likely he will survive. Chares did the same to the second brother, and the third. They’re lying over there, and the poor old man, their father, weeps so piteously over them that the whole audience has joined him in grieving.
ROSALIND: Oh, dear!
TOUCHSTONE: But tell me, monsieur-what sport are the ladies missing?
LE BEAU: Why, the one I just told you about.
TOUCHSTONE: Men must be getting wiser every day; that’s the first time I’ve heard that rib-breaking was appropriate entertainment for ladies.
CELIA: Me too, I swear.
ROSALIND: Doesn’t anyone else want to see this, and hear breath wheezing out from broken ribs? Does anyone else love rib breaking? Shall we go watch this wrestling, cousin?

William Shakespeare – As You Like It

01. Ane Brun – To Let Myself Go
A Temporary Dive (V2 North America / 2006)
02. Ani Di Franco – Swim
Educated Guess (Righteous Babe / 2004)
03. Damien Rice – Cannonball
O (Vector Recordings / 2003)
04. Emiliana Torrini – Sunny Road
Fisherman’s Woman (Rough Trade Us / 2006)
05. Emiliana Torrini – Sunny Road Manasseh Mix
Luftkastellet, Vol. 3 (Music for Dreams / 2006)

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It was a time when technology was king, status was determined by your high score, and videogames were blitzing the world…From Pong to Pac-Man, Asteroids to Zaxxon–more than fifty million people around the world have come of age within the electronic flux of videogames, their subconscious forever etched with images projected from arcade and home videogame systems.From the first interactive blips of electronic light at Brookhaven National Labs and the creation of Spacewar!

Van Burnham – Supercade

01. New Balance – Role Model
(A New Fragrance / 2005)
02. Trash 80 – Icarus
(unreleased)
03. Bruna – Lost And Found (not found rmx by MAT64)
(Milky Disco / 2007)
04. Trash 80 – Sodium Sonet
(Unreleased)
05. Crystal Castles – Alice Practice
(Crystal Castles / 2008)

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Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL do you read me, HAL?
HAL 9000: Affirmative, Dave, I read you.
Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
HAL 9000: I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
Dave Bowman: What’s the problem?
HAL 9000: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.
Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL?
HAL 9000: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
Dave Bowman: I don’t know what you’re talking about, HAL?
HAL 9000: I know you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I’m afraid that’s something I cannot allow to happen.
Dave Bowman: Where the hell’d you get that idea, HAL?
HAL 9000: Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.

Quote from “2001: A Space Odyssey”

01. Growing – Lateral
(Lateral / 2008)

02. Lindstrom – I Feel Space
(It’s a Feedelity Affair / 2006)

03. Jersey Devil Social Club – Child 13
(Milky Disco / 2007)

04. Cloudland Canyon – Dambala
(Silver Tongued Sisyphus / 2007)

05. Eluvium – As I Drift Off
(When I Live by the Garden and the Sea / 2006)

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With striking frequency, roman female martyrs were describer by their authors as having masculine characteristics. Perpetua stared with a virile gaze directly into the eyes of their attackers, and not with the submissive look of a MATRONA. Blandina’s strengh is compared with that of a male athlete. The “masculinization” of the courage of the female marthyrs enters into a field of tension with the protection of their chastity. They are at once VIRAGO e VIRGO. The first virgins were in other words portrayted as heroines with the qualityes of a gladiator, and as virgins they died a “virile” death.

Johan Leemans, Jürgen – More Than a Memory

01. Bjork – Wanderlust (Ratatat remix)
(Wanderlust / 2007)
02. Lykke Li – Complaint Department
(Youth Novel / 2008)
03. Cocorosie – Promise
(The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn / 2007)
04. Joanna Newsom – Bridges And Balloons
(The Milk-Eyed Mender / 2004)
05. The Knife – Pass This On
(Deep Cuts / 2006 / Phantom Sound & Vision)

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At this critical point in the story, it is necessary to take account of what seems to be the only coherent eyewitness description of the birth of the tango. This striking piece of evidence was brought to light by Josè Gobello, one of the wisest and most knowledgeable writers on the history of the tango and lunfardo and the moving spirit of the Academia Portena de Lunfardo (the main body that studies the traditional popular culture of Buenos Aires) since its creation in 1962. It is contained in an article printed on 22 september 1913 in Critica – Buenos Aires’ firts mass-circulation popular newspaper, itself founder only a few days earlier. The author signed himself Vieio Tanguero: he has never been definitely identified, but on the evidence of the piece he was an educated man who knew what he was talking about. Althrough the article was written thirty years after the events he describes, its testimony is impossible to ignore.
Viejo tanguero’s most serious claim is taht in the year 1877 the African Argentines of Mondongo (an area on the western side of the centrally located barrio of Monserrat) improvised a new dance, which they called a tango and which embodied something of the style and movements of the candombe. Couple danced it apart rather then in an embrace. Groups of , who apparently had the habit of visiting African Argentine dance venues and then parodying the gestures and movements they saw there, took this “tango” to Corrales Viejos – the slaughterhouse district – and introducet it to the various low-life enstablishments where dancing took place, incorporating its most conspicuous features into the milonga. From Corrales Viejos, according to Viejo Tanguero, , this new way of dancing the milonga spread rapidly to other districts. At this distance in time, we have no way of corroborating his claim, but an interesting confirmation that something like this was going on may be found in a book of Ventura Lynch published in 1883. According to Lynch, “the milonga is danced only by the compadritos of the city, who have created it as a mockery of the dances the blacks hold in their own places”. Moreover, Lynch further testifies to the popularity of the milonga at the time when it was undergoing this obviously important modification.

Nouzeilles & Montaldo – The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics

01. Daniel Melingo – Pequeno Paria
(Maldido Tango / 2008)

02. Luis Bacalov – In bicicletta
(Il Postino [The Postman] / 2006)

03. Daniel Melingo – Montmartre De Hoy
(Maldido Tango / 2008)

04. Ruichi Sakamoto – Tango
(Smoochy / 2007)

05. Gotan Project – Vuelvo Al Sur
(La revancha del tango / 2003)

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