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The phrase cat’s pyjamas (or cats in pyjamas?) comes from the movie “Zelig” by Woody Allen (1983), where a chameleon-man Leonard Zelig “is literally capable of being any and every man, a human vessel who embodies our sociological urge to conform. He comes to the attention of the public through the media when he is sighted at affluent social gatherings, appearing to some as one man and moments later, as another. In fact, his ability to become everything to everybody makes him a blockbuster celebrity. Zelig’s metamorphosis is material; he physically takes on the ethnic characteristics or manifests the weight proportions of those around him, complete with spontaneous facial hair and costume. The gimmick-crazed public makes him an instant celebrity, and his popularity soars through merchandising tie-ins. A cavalcade of dances, songs and games are created around his phenomenon.” (www.woodyallenmovies.com)
the phrase comes from the 20s and is reportedly adequate to the now more often used:
A bee’s “corbiculae”, or pollen-baskets, are located on its tibiae (midsegments of its legs). The phrase “the bee’s knees”, meaning “the height of excellence”, became popular in the U.S. in the 1920s, along with “the cat’s whiskers” (possibly from the use of these in radio crystal sets), “the cat’s pajamas” (pyjamas were still new enough to be daring), and similar phrases which made less sense and didn’t endure: “the eel’s ankle”, “the elephant’s instep”, “the snake’s hip”. Stories in circulation about the phrase’s origin include: “b’s and e’s”, short for “be-alls and
end-alls”; and a corruption of “business”. (www.yaelf.com)
As for copy cats: it’s someone who copies the words or behaviour of another (wordweb)
Vilnius is Burning is a collective blog, a collective novel, an exhibition in Torino, a collective experience and other activities inspired by the classical film “Paris Is Burning” (1990) and many creative experiments found in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania and Baltxploitation. It is based on the logic of dragging the city, making it into something else than it is or appears to be.
The book “Vilnius is Blurring” that has spanned from this project was published in May 2007.
In the summer of 2007 this blog has become an information center of ‘The Joy is Not Mentioned’: open-source radio broadcasts, series of dance events in the city, exhibition at the Contemporary Art Centre and a continuous collective novel.
As www.vilniusburning.lt is the collective blog, everyone is invited to submit their texts, images or other resources in digital formats. You may easily do it by pressing the register button on the right side of your screen (you may find the register button by pressing about button on the same right side).
All you have to do later is to sign in.
If you’d like to change anything of what exists already, email to smc(dot)neklubas(at)gmail(dot)com.
Welcome to ‘Vilnius is burning’ collective!
Tune into 94.9 FM this September in Vilnius—the Frequency that will spill a street dance onto the city. It’s possible that you saw something like that before in the 80s: dance floors will appear in the streets, in city squares, in your garden, and your neighbors’ car. It will guide you through the city, and teach you how to use the music as the music uses you. The radio frequency might cut off too soon but if you tune in on time you’ll help the city burn.
dates: September 6-8
write to smc.neklubas@gmail.com for personal contact
…The Lettrists dreamed of continually moving house, plunging their dwellers into an intoxication of the senses. The cemeteries were to be torn up so that the present would no longer be chained to the past. They wanted to take paintings from the museums into the bars, erect promenades on the roofs, open up the metro tunnels for nocturnal parties, and fill the ugly railway stations with sound from other situations, and falsify all the departure times to bring about unusual encounters and movements.
(Heinz Stahlhut, Juri Steiner, Siebe Tettero, Stefan Zweifel, “In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni: The Situationist International (1957—1972)”, in In Girum Imus Nocte Et Consumimur Igni: The Situationist International (1957—1972), JP|Ringier, Zurich, 2007. p. 10)
… I understand the distinction between what radio is (mostly a commercial wasteland) and what it sometimes attains (clandestine bower of creation or foyer leading to adventure) …
Poly-Aural Space - Radio, Reverie And Ether by Bart Plantenga
fm3 Buddha machine is actually a counterargument to the onset of the downloading age. For one, the entire point of the release is to have the little box. Sure, you could theoretically download each of the drones… /…/ The only drone whose existence can even be questioned is “To Dance”, a jumpy two seconds that, when looped, is disorienting and a bit clumsy. I don’t doubt that even it could have its uses, however — if nothing else, it could potentially be a great people repellant. - mike shiller
“This was a BBC production that was later put out on Video in the UK sometime around 1986 on video label called channel 5. The UK only had 4 TV channels at that time” (rokshok183 for imdb.com) - check out the movie where everoyne plays themselves in the history of hiphop
sis tinklapis, 2007 metu pradzioje sukurtas kaip turine vykusios siuolaikinio meno parodos ‘vilnius is burning’ paralele ir tapes knygos ‘vilnius is blurring’ dalimi, 2007 vasara tampa informacijos apie projekta ‘the joy is not mentioned / chicks on lions playing bingo with you’ centru. ‘the joy is not mentioned’ - tai radijo transliacijos, sokiu mieste serija ir paroda siuolaikinio meno centre; ir tebesitesiantis kolektyvinis romanas
