Subject: Choral Chanting-American Chronicles
From: dias@milton.u.washington.edu (Vivian Dias)
Date: 1990-09-11, 16:37
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

I rather enjoyed American Chronicles.  It was a pretty honest look at 
Mardi Gras as opposed to the romanticized version of the beautiful
people have a gay old time.  We saw real people living out their fantasy
which is what Mardi Gras is all about.  It may seem a little bleak but
the whole idea of Mardi Gras is a pretty bizarre  concept to begin with.

It's like much of Twin Peaks with an unglamorous view of people and things.
Reminds me of Diane Arbus photography in that it's not pretty in the usual
way but you become mesmerized by the grotesqueness and/or monotony of it all.
Twin Peaks does that extremely well.  If you look honestly at the characters
they are pretty ugly people.  Not the usual primetime hero/heroine.  

In response to the Choral Chanting question it was Carl Orff's Carmina      
Burana.  A rather exciting piece of music.  I believe there are drinking
songs from the 12-13th century but I could very well be wrong.