It also means that black people have the authority to scream racism at the slightest hint of discriminatory intent by other ethnicities, while shaking a tail feather to music that features the word "nigga" at the end of every other sentence like it's a formal punctuation.
Maybe the easy way this city embraces different cultural heritages will make him think twice about hats with raffia fringing, a grass skirt in greeny-black cock feathers and music with an African beat -- as if he had to hammer home the theme.
6 ft 6 wonders, "What did I do to ruffle your feathers?" Well, play music like this, for starters.
Provoking the indignation of patriotic Americans and traditionalist Brits alike is something perhaps only a Canadian would so gladly risk, but then Neil Young has never been afraid of ruffling a few feathers with his music.
"Neil's instruments are solving questions that no one on earth is asking," says John Berndt, Feather's longtime musical collaborator and a fellow experimental music pioneer.
Spectacle would be the main feature in Baz's flying circus: bright lights, lovely ladies dressed in feathers and pearls, histrionic music, fireworks and animals (mainly cows, flown in specially from Australia), all mixed up in a melodramatic cocktail of tears and romance, ending with a song-and-dance number.
That's music (and feathers) to our ears.
Computers synchronize the simple elements of glass, feathers, wind, lights, and music to create what the makers call a "mysterious landscape between mythologic scenery and modern space design".
We kissed each other, hugged each and held hands while we walked through an explosion of music, colours, information, feathers, nudity and joy.
Lattes are served with delicate feathers etched in foam; the music is unobtrusive; and the soft glow from teardrop-shaped fixtures stipples drinkers' faces with chiaroscuro.
A model for Calvin Klein in the 90s, today Herrema styles centrefolds for Playboy and co-runs the fashion label Feathered Fish, though, as with music, she's never been a fashion insider.
