This Video -- "Torres Gemelas" -- about the World Trade Center by This Ecuadorian Dude Named "Delfin Quishpe" ... WTF?!?

ok here is the link to youtube --> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NecoBo0BhEk

the time for healing has begun

more about delfin --> http://www.wayneandwax.com/?p=71

no, he doesn't want to be offensive but some of the comments are just horrible.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s7nlOaxIj0
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rofflicious.

Wait, what's so wrong about this -- just odd cheeriness of the music versus the apparent subject matter? He seems well-meaningly broken up about the whole thing, and it's not as if Americans haven't put together plenty of tacky takes on distant tragedies.

Ryan Adams to thread.

Ryan is playing stonehenge you know?

And here is Ryan's favorite thing from 2006.

1. SONIC YOUTH at CBGBs./ THE RETURN OF JAY-Z. I was gald to be here for those events. Jay made a record too complex and deep at many parts for people to understand. It's dense. its a love-is-hell I think, or an On-the-Beach. I love it. Some old ass motherfuckers who get paid by the word trashed him. They will crumble under the hammer of time leaving only lining for kitty litter boxes and Jay will have dropped a classic. They take a few minutes. The dude that trashed it the hardest also trashed Neil Young Harvest. go figure. get some depends. And SONIC YOUTH played at CBGBs, their new record front to back. it made people nervous but the tunes were there, the songs were there, misguided fans screaming for old hits weren't getting it and interrupting the flow, but they kept on. I think the show would have went on longer if the crowd had been a little more open minded but you know, here we are, in the Dark Ages of Art sponsored by Wal-Mart. anyway, they encored with Confusion is Sex and Erics Trip. Fuck, what an encore. you could have sold me an invisible iceberg after that. Massive. and Kim was rocking this black and white striped dress that was very beautiful and classy and played the shit out of bass when she was tired of dancing. Mimi would have been proud. I wish Mariah would listen to more post rock. She writes such great music, why isn't she writing stripped down stuff and getting dirty I dunno. Love her anyway.

I fucking love this song.

Less offensive than the Decemberists singing about the Shankhill Butchers.

Wait, what's so wrong about this -- just odd cheeriness of the music versus the apparent subject matter? He seems well-meaningly broken up about the whole thing, and it's not as if Americans haven't put together plenty of tacky takes on distant tragedies.

ok -- i should admit, that i first watched this thing (after it had been forwarded to me) w/t knowing exactly WHAT this delfin quishpe guy was singing about (since, as i said, i don't understand spanish). so at first, i just thought that it was this dude seeing this happen on TV and freaking out about it, and doing this song as a bizarre display of SOLIDARITY or something with new yorkers. bizarre in that (i originally thought) that he had no real connection to the WTC bombings (other than watching them on TV down in ecuador). the screen shots of the ecuadorian flag and soldiers just added to the WTF factor.

anyway, i forwarded it to several co-workers and friends (including several who DO speak spanish, including one guy actually from ecuador). they then told me that the lyrics were actually pretty sad, that delfin had lost his girlfriend in the WTC bombing (he was so anxious at the video's beginning b/c he knew that she worked there) & that she had called him to say that she wasn't coming back. also, they told me that delfin had dedicated the song to the ecuadorians killed in the WTC bombing (which would explain the ecuadorian flag and soldiers, i think). (my ecuadorian friend later added that he'd never heard of delfin quishpe, though he also added that he's lived in the USA for more than 10 years now and only visits the country once a year so he may not be the best judge as to how typical this song is of ecuadorian pop music.) a subsequent google search seems to indicate that, in reality, delfin quishpe didn't REALLY lose his girlfriend in the WTC bombing BUT he knew someone who did, and that he was singing this song from his perspective. (which goes back to the "bizarre display of solidarity" angle, esp. in that the bombings occurred more than 5 years ago and all that.)

and yeah, even knowing all that there IS the matter of the music -- that it's so HAPPY sounding compared to the subject matter. other than noting the oddness of this incongruity (which is almost bunuel-esque in its surreality), it's hard to comment too much about that w/t any knowledge of ecuadorian pop music (e.g., is this just typical?). and the video itself IS still pretty cheesy and exploitive (esp. w/ delfin superimposed over the images of the towers burning and collapsing, praying and singing and all that).

It's weird. Though I can't say I condone the Hulk Hogan and Trogdor parodies or the ABC/Oliver Stone commerical adapdations, I've kinda gotten used to them. This video was the first piece of 9/11 work I had seen in awhile that made me think "Oh, no. Too soon."

And you know what hit me the most? It wasn't the plane hitting the building or the fire or the building coming down. It was watching the people who were on the street that day. It was the guy toward the end holding up a lost person flyer.