domingo, janeiro 02, 2011

Curiosidades A.T.U.M.

Frank Zappa, escreveu uma opera rock polêmica, chamada 200 Motels. A obra chegou a ser chamada de pornográfica, pelo conteudo das letras da ópera. E não é que há uma letra em que surge um sanduíche de Atum. Tuna é Atum em inglês, olhem aí que doideira setentista (achei mais legal a Tuna Fish Promenade):

This Town Is Just a Selead Tuna Sandwich
(prologue)
.
This Town
This Town
This Town we're in
Is Just a sealed Tuna Sandwich
with the wrapper glued
We get a few in every tour
I think we've played this before
Blergh!
.
.
.
This Town
This Town
This Town we're in
Is Just a sealed Tuna Sandwich
with the wrapper glued
.
It's by baloney on the rack
It's goes for 40 cents a whack
It's just a place to us to play
to help us to pay
The cost of ticket back to LA
The cost of ticket back to LA
The cost of ticket back to LA
.
All the people in the sandwich town
think the place is great
what if the part of it is crumbling down
Most of them probably won't be round
They'll either be dead
Or move to San Francisco
Where everybody thinks they're heavy business
Its just another Tuna sandwich
From another catering service
.
.
This Town
This Town
Is a Sealed Tuna Sandwich
with the wrapper glued
with the wrapper glued!
.
It's by baloney on the rack
It goes for 40 cents for a whack
It's just a rancid little snack
In a plastic bag
From a matron in la Habra
with a blown out crack
who dies to suck the fringe
Of the Jimmy Carl Black!
.
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As letras dessa ópera são fortes de conteúdo implícito em gírias e referências. As traduções estão aqui no site do Whiplash. Márcio Ribeiro ribeiro explica: "Tuna Fish Sandwich também é uma gíria dos anos cinquenta para xoxota." Ah tá! Então tá explicado...

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