"The Bay Area is a great place to test your material," said Jason Craig, co-founder of a New York troupe, Banana Bag & Bodice, which collaborated with the Shotgun Players of Berkeley on an erudite, esoteric, song-infused take on the Beowulf legend.
But the small group Q&A and coaching with entrepreneurs who'd successfully raised did a remarkable job of improving attendees' pitches and the esoteric song-and-dance necessary to get investors to part with their cash.
(Also, "SNL" has been killing it with the esoteric song references as of late).
The art looks really good when you frame it (plus people think you're deep when they see it on your wall) and the cassettes turned out to be him playing beautiful classical guitar and mumbling things like "I bet your band doesn't know—'She's Too Fat for Me' " (which is an incredibly esoteric polka song from the 40s).
These sketches, featuring an eponymous character (Mr. Forte) with shaggy blond hair, a plaid shirt and a vest, make fun of a television series, "MacGyver," that, while it is occasionally alluded to on other television programs and in hip-hop songs, remains esoteric to most people under 40.
Recorded 80 years ago in Mumbai at the Blavatsky Lodge, an esoteric English theosophical society, these songs were originally released by Broadcast, a label owned and run by diamond merchants Jesinglal K Mehta and his brother, Kishorilal.
If those songs are lyrically too esoteric to have broad mass appeal, most of Mr. Hitchcock's albums have sold at least a hundred thousand copies.
Their identity is paradoxical; their mystical teachings are esoteric, but their devotional and patriotic songs are popular among many Albanians, and their activities for the public welfare are known to all.
The song is full of esoteric references and off-kilter improvising.
"Chan," pronounced Zen in Japanese, is the name of the esoteric movement that took off in Song times and left a deep imprint in the psyche of the Chinese elite.
