THE FUNKATEER'S DICTIONARY OF CURRENT P.

This Space is primary for the Foreign People : Talk here with us in English cause "One Nation Under a Groove..." :o)
funkaddict
K7
Messages : 35
Enregistré le : 26/10/04 17:45
Localisation : Cannes/France

THE FUNKATEER'S DICTIONARY OF CURRENT P.

Messagepar funkaddict » 21/11/04 15:44

salut - ca vaut la peine! http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/archiv ... 1style.htm
enjoy (°.^)

Avatar du membre
Funkygirl
Ms Admynamite
Messages : 29479
Enregistré le : 27/08/04 19:19
Contact :

Messagepar Funkygirl » 21/11/04 18:42

Yes great :cool: (I post it her to keep a copy alive :wink: )

How to speak like one of George Clinton’s funkateers
By WALLACE BAINE

Sentinel staff writer
George Clinton is human ... we think.

The bandleader of the landmark funk collective Parliament/Funkadelic (P-Funk, for short) is possessed of most recognizable human characteristics. But let’s face it, there’s something about this man that screams "Alien!"

Clinton and his reconstituted P-Funk ensemble land in Santa Cruz tonight for a sure-to-be funkatastic show at the Catalyst. Those outside the colorful and uninhibited P-Funk universe might regard Clinton as little more than a freaky oddity, a relic of 1970s pre-rap pop music, enjoying his cash-it-in years.

In fact, Clinton is the center of a whole self-invented cosmology, all built around the mysterious quality of "funk" (Clinton didn’t invent the word, but he certainly came up with most modern connotations of it).

Anyone who’s read the liner notes of some of P-Funk’s most famous recordings — "Mothership Connection," "The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein" — knows that Clinton operates on his own plane with a mythology complex enough to qualify as a religion, albeit a loud, booty-shaking religion.

Here then is our outsider’s P-Funk glossary to help you speak like a funkateer. As for wardrobe, well, you’re on your own there.

FUNK — The irreducible global life force that exists as diffused waves of residual energy in the atmosphere, concentrated wherever funky people congregate and dance. The natural state of human joy. In P-Funk speak, "funk" is an all-purpose term (adjective form: funky; verb form: funkify) to describe anything that brings delight, pleasure or hints of the divine. White folks are cautioned to use with extreme caution.


FUNKATEER — A disciple of the P-Funk cosmology, the beliefs of whom include an image of heaven as a giant dance floor. Aka "maggot brain."

BOO-TAY — That which is to be shaken madly and immodestly at the first downbeat of P-Funk music.

SPLANK — To pursue the Funk with enthusiasm and diligence.

P. — A pre-fix that makes anything that follows even more supergroovalisticprosifunktastic. "P.Funk," then, is pure, uncut funk, the essence of which there is nothing greater.

FUNKASAURUS — A P-Funk fan who dates back before the "landing of the Mothership," aka 1975. The suffix "-asaurus" can be employed in many creative ways: a bass player can be a "thumpasaurus," etc.

THE COSMIC STRUMPET — The mythological mother-goddess who spawned George Clinton, Sun Ra, Jimi Hendrix, Sly Stone and other givers of the Funk.

THE PLACEBO SYNDROME — The state of falseness that passes for contemporary American culture. A vast wasteland filled with lost souls, fatally divorced from the force of Funk.

DR. FUNKENSTEIN — One of Clinton’s many alter egos, the giver of the Funk, the alien demigod who arrived from the Mothership to give all funkateers a groove to live for.

SIR NOSE, D’VOID OF FUNK — In the P-Funk universe, Sir Nose represents the amassed enemy forces of the Funk. At the time of the Mothership’s landing (the mid-1970s heyday of P-Funk), the most vivid illustration of Sir Nose was Richard Nixon.

ZONE OF ZERO FUNKATIVITY — The dark, deadly realm of Sir Nose.

CHOCOLATE CITY — The alternative-universe P-Funk name for Washington D.C. where Muhammad Ali is president, Richard Pryor minister of education and Aretha Franklin the first lady.

COSMIC SLOP — The universe, the source of all Funk.


Contact Wallace Baine at wbaine@santacruzsentinel.com.
Funkygirl ==> I'm a White Free Passionated Funkateer and I'm Proud !

Funkhome - The Funk & Groovy musics Forum
"Funkhome-Le forum de référence, souvent copié, jamais égalé" :cool: Jam & Lewis


Retourner vers « English Corner »

Qui est en ligne

Utilisateurs parcourant ce forum : Aucun utilisateur enregistré et 67 invités