Aterciopelados - Complemento

You are my complement, you are what I am not...

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10:44:36 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- did you see the blog on Aterciopelados way back when
10:44:56 PM SheIsHer -- RedHector urs
10:45:34 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- a band from Columbia ( like Shakira..haha ) a country that may be on the verge of a war in south america now..
10:46:00 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- I said the two in the band were husband and wife...and happy
10:46:14 PM SheIsHer -- RedHector yes..
10:46:16 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- and the guy from the band came on my blog!
10:46:17 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- haha
10:46:26 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- and said married no, happy YES
10:46:45 PM SheIsHer -- RedHector what about it
10:46:51 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- well just a sec here
10:47:35 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- the one video
10:47:44 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- affected me quite a bit in 2006
10:48:01 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- I felt I understood the deeper meanings
10:48:30 PM SheIsHer -- RedHector which was
10:48:39 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- just a sec
10:49:20 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- it is amazing
10:49:48 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- it is like a prophecy
10:50:06 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- and touches on the 'bridal chamber' concept
10:50:18 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- I think the translation is like..
10:50:29 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- we are complementary.. and together we are perfect
10:50:34 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- sung in spanish
10:51:03 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- so this is my interperetation
10:51:18 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- a bookis dropped off on the doorstep
10:51:26 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- of a human clay figure
10:51:44 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- earthy and real, in the "here" ..a human
10:52:12 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- it tosses the book aside at first.. but sparks come of it
10:52:27 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- there is a vision of a great aztec looking goddess
10:52:41 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- who is blowing on a jar fullof bees....
10:53:00 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- infusing the inspiration from beyond
10:53:13 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- a candle is lit in the here
10:53:47 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- fruit is cut open.. boiled in flasks.. like an alchemist's lab
10:54:05 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- the goddess in the great colorful animated beyond..
10:54:21 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- tries to cut her radiat hair.. it keeps sprouting back
10:54:34 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- radiant hair... I meant
10:55:02 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- in the now, the figure tries to add hair.. gazing in the mirror
10:55:23 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- frustraed at the earthly appearance
10:55:49 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- then the goddess folds up into a lotus flower
10:56:07 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- and becomes the sun.. then gives off dandelion seeds into the wind
10:56:38 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- the figure before the mirror
10:56:56 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- exchanges body parts and tries different things
10:57:04 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- the mirror flips
10:57:14 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- and the goddess is seen, reflected briefly
10:57:34 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- one key body part remains on the table
10:57:51 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- a pair of eyes.. the figure is indeed "blind"
10:58:00 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- and the eyes want to be 'put on'
10:58:42 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- the figure blindly reaches over to the table.. hovering near the eyes.. but does not find yet
10:59:10 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- but then.. does find them!
10:59:26 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- and puts on the eyes in astonishment
10:59:36 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- and sees he and she
10:59:39 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- of the band
10:59:53 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- and they laugh back, knowingly
10:59:57 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- happy
11:00:26 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- there is rising joy in the animated land of the goddess
11:00:40 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- and the figures eyes keeps opening, wider and wider...
11:01:19 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- a little bug from the animated world of the goddess.. pushes the book towards the figure.. for it to notice again...
11:01:32 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- then picks it up.. like hmmmmmm
11:01:37 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- flips though it
11:02:02 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- and colorful animated sparks and butterflies fly out of it
11:02:29 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- then in the colorful animated land...
11:02:36 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- a moon and sun are seen
11:02:58 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- they merge together as one
11:03:10 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- in a blinding flash of bright light
11:03:27 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- and out from the light come the goddess again
11:03:30 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- rising upwards
11:03:54 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- coming closer.. with the light behind
11:04:07 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- then she reveals her face to be a mask
11:04:41 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- and behind is a face that can seem to be part goddess, part the figure
11:05:28 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- she shields her eyes for a moment as 2 balls of light like the
sun and moon split aparts
11:05:44 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- but remain behind the goddess
11:06:03 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- then showing their sun and mooness again
11:06:13 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- and it pans forward
11:06:30 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- revealing the sun and the moon, now behind the goddess
11:06:45 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- and the goddess,now behind the figure
11:06:54 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- with her back to the mirror now
11:07:19 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- looking about as if aware of it all
11:07:36 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- and the mirror frame then dissolves away
11:07:53 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- pulling further out
11:08:04 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- to reveal it has all been taking place on a stage
11:08:19 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- with lit candles
11:08:38 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- and he and she of the band are there watching it all play out
11:08:41 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- the end
11:08:59 PM SheIsHer -- RedHector wow... so much there
11:09:11 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- i do not think I am "reading into" this at all
11:09:38 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- the guy hector did not contradict my claim of "hidden meanings" there...haha
11:09:45 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- so
11:10:01 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- here it is again, if you want to watch it all again, after all
of that
11:10:02 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- haha
11:10:03 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Huzo6ClspyI
11:11:41 PM SheIsHer -- RedHector u tube is down
11:12:10 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- it says maintenance..but I can stillsee it
11:12:36 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- too bad
11:12:45 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- after all that.. haha
11:14:07 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- sorry to go on so long
11:15:56 PM SheIsHer -- RedHector ok..just saw it
11:16:01 PM SheIsHer -- RedHector loved it
11:16:04 PM RedHector SheIsHer -- yeah
11:16:07 PM SheIsHer -- RedHector u said it all so well
11:16:19 PM SheIsHer -- RedHector i love how u see the meaning in things

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Me And My Imagination

"I want to get inside, To where the...Magic stays and myth remains"


A bright red neon heart within a heart within a heart frames the outer edges of this seemingly superficial flirty disco-pop music video. Yet, Sophie invites us to play a game in another realm that she calls home. On the gritty yet transparently false-illusion set of the streets of London that act as a stand in for the conscious world, she clicks her heels three times together to suggest that unlike Dorothy Gale, for her there is no place like Oz - perhaps the imaginal realm, accessed through the spinning heart chakra.

In the midst of streets and storefronts, she dances as light as air. She is trying to explain a state of being..of playfully not knowing..having just the right balance of mystery. In front of a darkened music storefront with a neon treble clef symbol, for the first of many times she is transported to another realm in a timeless moment - where "Magic stays and myth remains." A state of being that is a wondrous spell that she does not want to be released from. Neon stars of multiple numbered points dot the darkened spaceless space as she dances uninhibited, surrounded and supported by beings of light.

The lights converge and spin into a flower shape, as she puts on a crown chakra of light to emerge back into the worldly realm. She is in the refuge of nature among city streets, a park...admiring the beauty of a flower and dancing in the gentle balance between both realms. Mere moments beyond, she cannot help but transcend into the other realm once again. This time along with beings of lights, butterflies surround her.

She consciously decides to enter this realm one more time. On the illusion of the city streets, it starts to rain. Yet she keeps her step lightly, dancing through the drops to take shelter from the rain in a doorway. Is it yet another doorway to another realm? A doorway with a cross and a number 5, the number of humanity.

Once again she finds herself fading into the realm of light, where the rain there is brilliant blue lights streaming down from above. She spins her umbrella from her center heart position to show she is now in full motion. The beings of light and butterflies and stars are now joined by a bright neon rainbow. She now stays inside this realm of the heart within a heart within a heart.

"Me & My Imagination"

We're gonna play a game
Just you and me
You never should be won
So easily
Your eyes are on the prize
I'm worth the wait
Don't need to know the end
'Cause darling

Magic stays when myth remains
I'm under your spell
Don't release me
Never give the game away
Try to keep me entertained
Baby
Don't make
It too easy
Leave something
For me and my imagination

We're a possibility
When you make it hard for me
Baby
I'm not in a hurry

Leave something
For me and my imagination

I don't need to know
Your every trick
So keep me guessing just
A little bit
'Cause hidden in your eyes
There's mystery
I want to get inside
To where the

Magic stays and myth remains
I'm under your spell
Don't release me

[Chorus]

Never give the game away
Try to keep me entertained
Baby
Don't make it too easy
Leave something...

[Chorus]

Never give the game away
Try to keep me entertained
Don't make it too easy, baby

For me and my imagination

We're a possibility
You make it hard for me
I'm not in a hurry baby
For me and my imagination

Sophierazzi - sophieellisbextorfans.blogspot.com


A famous child-man who created his own world to live inside of, also revealed much about the same state of being in a world of pure imagination. "If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it." His chocolate factory was accessed though an impossibly small chamber, and the key was music.

"Pure Imagination"

Willy Wonka:
[Spoken]
Hold your breath
Make a wish
Count to three

[Sung]
Come with me
And you'll be
In a world of
Pure imagination
Take a look
And you'll see
Into your imagination

We'll begin
With a spin
Traveling in
The world of my creation
What we'll see
Will defy
Explanation

If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Wanta change the world?
There's nothing
To it

There is no
Life I know
To compare with
Pure imagination
Living there
You'll be free
If you truly wish to be

If you want to view paradise
Simply look around and view it
Anything you want to, do it
Wanta change the world?
There's nothing
To it

There is no
Life I know
To compare with
Pure imagination
Living there
You'll be free
If you truly
Wish to be


Even Dorothy Gale herself found herself in another realm, that was accessed through a spinning vortex. She had to overcome much fear in the process. The white light goes through a prism to become a rainbow. How could Pink Floyd not have made such a synchronous connection to this movie? As this transformational scene of a depression era representation of a near death experience shows, it coincides with the infamous classic music most associated with ecstasy and death, and ultimately transcendental consciousness. Maybe Dorothy should learn how to stay in OZ.

Sonique on Tomcraft - Another World

"I've been waiting all my life, to do what I'm doing now.."

I found this video among the many random videos downloaded over Usenet in recent years. As I usually do, I found myself seeing into deeper levels of meaning..



As is the case with many Euro dance tracks, the lyrics suggest the standard invitation to dance and romance, with the hopes of the transcendent consummation amidst the bliss of music. However the visuals suggested further references..

A black woman in black emerges from shell in a place that seemingly creates identical copies of the same white man in white. However this does not appear to be a racial allegory. From a gender perspective it shows a woman who at first is bound, watched, and controlled in a world of all men. She is pursued by them, becomes as strong as them, and soon returns to face and challenge them back in an act of conscious liberation.

According to a fan site the white tower, which they equated with the biblical Tower Of Babel, is a place that symbolizes the mainstream music industry. She is an independent music artist that does not fit in, but they pursue her to steal the essence of her talents. She becomes stronger after diving into the oceans of artistic freedom and reemerges to challenge all the conforming clones, who soon begin to dance in lockstep to the strength of her influence.





I would also have to concede there are many visual elements suggestive of the Matrix trilogy, as the video was released the year after Reloaded and Revolutions. The clones are reminiscent of the multiple copies of Agent Smith who Neo confronts as she also does. The multiple wall screens with scenes within scenes, also recalls when Neo meets "The Architect" of the Matrix.






The connection to The Matrix leads further into a Gnostic or spiritual interpretation. The human being inside of this world is suppressed, controlled, and watched over by the Archons. She singularly awakens to the point where she can understand and rise to a higher level, but they stand in her way as guardians to prevent her from accessing "another world" that she can now see clearly. She knows they want the divine spark within her that they don't have - her love and affections.. Her feminine spiritual strength that perhaps embodies the wisdom of the universe itself, as she is able to move between the worlds. She draws one of them down into the cubic world of mass we experience here, leaving streaking trails of double helix light in her path. She transforms them, then ultimately is able to lead them. More archons follow as she leads them down.. They have now become the fallen ones..





There are also strong allusions to the human abduction syndrome. Just like the classic grey aliens she notes that "everybody acts to same..looks the same, You have those eyes to see inside of me..." She clearly falls unconscious and is taken aboard a large technological ship-like structure. She is captured and bound to an examination table and closely scanned by a security camera probe. But even in this perspective, her spirit is released and rises to the level where she can come back to "another world" on her own terms..for which she has been waiting all her life to do.. Like the Archons the aliens stand at the threshold, but she can now transcend beyond them. After being captured, examined, perused, and then confronting them back, her dance now becomes coordinated movements of control of them. She can now stand above it all and has passed the test.

Tool - Prison Sex

"So sweet was your surrender, we have become one..."


She KNows

Imagine this
a chrysalis
silence is bliss
I am not there yet

a memory of darkness
silent footsteps
a shadow slipped
there's nothing left

where are you now?
you tore my world apart
dazzled by sky lights
but suffocated in paralysis
in my night blindness

I was taken and left

opened like the skies
I widened horizons
and exceeded expectations beyond conditions
opened like a wound
I bled with urgency
then clotted over memory

where am I?
the teeter totter
then the laundry room
I want to die
did I die too soon?
and what did eye become
you looked behind my I..
touched an optic nerve
ripped the womb
and I was born too soon

I have become detached
a perfect silent sentinel
I can't even remember hell
because heaven's here
in this egg pile where I hatched

and yet I stand tall
like a cater pillar
finally rise to the baseline
turned my back on the sacrifcial altar
let me be drawn to the light
and shatter through the filters
sent from above
she comes as I willed her

you see, she knows..

Tool - Prison Sex lyrics

It took so long to remember just what happened.
I was so young and vestal then,
you know it hurt me,
but I'm breathing so I guess I'm still alive
even if signs seem to tell me otherwise.
I've got my hands bound,
my head down, my eyes closed,
and my throat wide open.

Do unto others, what has been done to me,
Do unto others, what has been done to you?

I'm treading water,
I need to sleep a while.
My lamb and martyr, you look so precious.
Won't you come on up closer,
close enough so I can smell you.
I need you to feel this,
I can't stand to burn too long.
Release in sodomy.
Oh, for one sweet moment I am whole.

Do unto you now, what has been done to me,
Do unto you now, what has been done?

You're breathing so I guess you're still alive
even if signs seem to tell me otherwise.
Won't you come on a bit closer,
close enough so I can smell you.
I need you to feel this.
I need this to make me whole.
Release in sodomy.
For I am your witness and
blood and flesh can be trusted.
And only this one holy medium brings me peace of mind.

Got your hands bound, your head down,
your eyes closed.
You look so precious now.

( Show me something
Thought I could make it end
Thought I could wash the stains away
Thought I could break the circle if I
Slipped right into your skin
So sweet was your surrender
We have become one
I have become my terror
And you my precious lamb and martyr.) *

I have found some kind of temporary sanity in this
shit, blood, and cum on my hands.

I've...come...round...full circle.
My lamb and martyr, this will be over, soon.
You look so precious.
You look so precious, now,
You look so precious...

Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood - Some Velvet Morning

"Secrets are the things we grow.."


This song is a complete mystery to me, and that is what I like about it.

So many songs these days have contrived concepts to prove how clever they are, but still remain known qualtities once sussed. This song from the oddly intriguing couple of Lee and Nancy was heard by me occasionally as bumper music on Art Bell's late nite Coast To Coast AM radio show (along with "Lady Bird") which only magnified it's curious little oddness and mysterious epic balladry..

I find myself oddly bemused at the full range of people trying to make sense of this song's meaning, from those who think it is the worst lyrics ever to the best duet ever. The song has an enduring capacity to captivate, as seen in this small smattering selection of opinions:

Some Velvet Morning - Wikipedia

Cult Cargo > Corpses > Some Velvet Morning

Retrospace - Why I Care About Some Velvet Morning

Wikanswers - What is the song Some Velvet Morning about?

The Post-Rockist - Some Velvet Morning

To me, I find the melody and arrangement haunting, along with the contrast of voices. The utter seriousness in the midst of a smoky psychedelic haze of words and strings is confounding. In this film made for a Nancy Sinatra TV special at the time, we see LEE in dark colors representing male forthright animus, riding a horse with four legs with his section sung in 4/4 time. Contrasting, we see NANCY in color and lightness, all feminine anima, mysteriously flowered inside the waltz rhythm of 3 beats to a measure. Men and women, sex and drugs, are all implied - but in the epic sweep of the presentation, they are all denied and surpassed. The womanly waves sweep against the steadfast rocky male shoreline, as do increasingly the two sections of music. The lyrics seem to suggest a man, speaking of a woman who gave him life.. and how he still is going to someday open up 'her gate'. And the woman's part makes reference to an undefined 'us'.. "look at us, but do not touch.." Is it a common earthly gender difference reference or something somewhat more supernatural? If not casually dismissed as random word nonsense, that is what puts this song in the mysterious undefined world of mythic symbolism.. and thus ineffable.

These two were quite a team. (he wrote the huge hit "These Boots Were Made For Walking") They had many other trippy country flavored and pop duet songs, such as Jackson:

However none of their collaborations quite reached the epic mysteriousness of "Some Velvet Morning" - which has inspired many cover versions, with various artists hoping to capture some of it's elusive essense. One of my favorites is Primal Scream's take, featuring their friend Kate Moss performing the Nancy Sinatra role:



Lee Hazlewood passed away a year ago in August 2007. Before he died he mentioned in an interview how he had the studio musicians play the intricate changes from 4/4 to 3/4 time live without edits. And Nancy Sinatra simply wanted to celebrate his life and could say no more. Their unique combination of persona's, recorded in musical expression, lives on for future generations to discover..

Katy Perry - Mannequin (Acoustic)

"If the past is the problem, my future could solve them baby.."

Was Katy Perry destined to be an Indie artist or the eventual pop chart hit maker that she is?

This solo acoustic performance at South By Southwest (SXSW) was recorded before she made "I Kissed A Girl" the 7 week straight number 1 chart topping hit of the summer. As much as I liked that perfect pop hit, I wonder what would have otherwise become of the aspiring artist we see in the video below, seemingly able to meld the vulnerable confessional yeans of the 70's singer-songwriters, with the raspy cries of of the alternative 90's Riot Rrrrls.

I discovered this performance in seven hundred and twenty progressive scanned lines of high definition video, which only magnified the surprise and shock in retrospect. This even looks like the Katy we have all come to know over the summer, right down to the long eyelashes and short pink dress. One would have to admit this is a passionate heartfelt performance, and with a full command of the acoustic guitar and a yearning expressive voice. Although the song was rerecorded for her album "One Of The Boys" in more of a produced version, I prefer this version much better. I am more able to feel the words that speak of a woman wishing a man could even rise to the level of being a real boy, just to understand he is not a man..not the man he really could be.

The more I investigate the varied past of Katy Perry, the more I ponder - Indie or Pop? I discovered this pop song "Broken", and a video recorded with the behind-the-scenes hit making team The Matrix, with the The Matrix unveiled as co-performers..

And as many already know.. before the "Pop or Indie" question for Katy, she originally emerged in the industry under the Hudson surname as a christian artist. (albiet christian songs with titles such as "Spit..") I hope the success of having kissed a girl does not forever detract from the potential of a possibly multi-level talent that this performance promises and hints at...

Sam Phillips - I Need Love

"I need fire, to melt the frozen sea inside me.."

Dear Sam -

Do you remember me? I was there in St Paul, Minnesota when your tour made a stop at the World Theater in 1994. I was completely fulfilled by your magnificent performance that night, satisfied that I finally got to see one of my very special, personal, significant female artists at last, live in person.. Shortly after seeing this intense video on MTV 120 Minutes, such a spiritual message channeled though the Beatles Rubber Soul album, with it's refutation of the "political church", and visual images of real body parts and actual burning corpses - never did I imagine I would minutes later shake your hand and make such a personal connection..

Do you remember? I was simply making a fast getaway to my car in the adjacent parking ramp when I saw a very small handful of 3-4 hardcore fans, ostensibly waiting there in the back of the venue hoping to meet you and get an autograph.. Although I usually shun such interactions, I was compelled to approach the group to inquire and confirm that this indeed was their intention..

I remember very well how a stage crew member sussed that a few fans were waiting patiently to meet you, then presumably went to inform you, and how you graciously came out to meet them, despite such a seemingly low number of them.. To their disdain, I found myself at the front of the imaginary greeting line..and oh, how did I monopolize the focus of your attention. Do you remember how we discussed your last bold and legendary album "The Turning" as a christian artist while you were still named "Leslie Phillips" and how great it was that you performed tracks from it in your encore that evening? I told my tale of trying to track a copy of that album down, and you told me how Myrrh Records subsequently branded you as a heretic for the content of it. They did reluctantly release it, only for it to disappear as you said "into the bargain racks forever..." I boldly confirmed your consideration to re-release the album again under your secular "Sam" name, while also stating I had located my own rare original Leslie copy of it on CD. (which you did not even own at the time..!)

Do you remember the gaze in the eyes and the shaken hand held a bit too long? I heard from your lips first that you were next going to perform on the Conan O'Brien show. And I surely thought you were joking when you said you were going to be a mute terrorist in the next Bruce Willis Die Hard movie! yeah right.. but I guess you were telling me the truth after all..

Reluctantly I released you to the other "fans" and gamely shook the hand of your giant and then-husband, T-Bone Burnett. But I never did forget - Those stolen moments, in the presence of an artist that I admire and respect, even up to this current day moment. Thanks for every thing, Sam.

Official|http://www.samphillipsmusic.com/

MySpace|http://www.myspace.com/officialsamphillipsmusic