Friday, May 6, 2011

Fossils

 
 
Skull totems - in keeping with the previous post - are most commonly associated with Mexican Mariachi music, as well as Danse Macabre and Totentanz idioms.
 

Fossils by Saint-Saëns, in clay..

 
Notwithstanding, David Guetta & Rihanna have appropriated these momento mori in both video versions for the compulsively listenable Who's That Chick? - the sherbet shaded day version, and the decidedly vampier night version.

My extraordinarily patient other half has sat through repetitions of this track too numerous to recall.
 




  
Ay, Gringo!