Year: 2015

Mis 25 canciones favoritas con kazoo / My top 25 kazoo songs

Con Nathan, Captain Kazooz, Temple City Kazoo Orchestra, Toy Dolls, Provizorka Jazz Band, The Savoy Orpheans, Beat Farmers, Dionne Warwick, Susan Christie, Del Shannon, Syd Barrett, The Cure, Toby Keith, Dion, Eric Clapton, The Kinks, Monsieur Mirliton, Jurassic 5, Queen, Mound City Blue Blowers, Frank Zappa, Red Hot Chili Peppers / With Nathan, Captain Kazooz, Temple City Kazoo Orchestra, Toy Dolls, Provizorka Jazz Band, The Savoy Orpheans, Beat Farmers, Dionne Warwick, Susan Christie, Del Shannon, Syd Barrett, The Cure, Toby Keith, Dion, Eric Clapton, The Kinks, Monsieur Mirliton, Jurassic 5, Queen, Mound City Blue Blowers, Frank Zappa, Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Temple City Kazoo Orchestra.

“Heidi stole my voice!”

The recollections of Selica Torcal, 86, who 40 years ago started dubbing the protagonist of the Japanese series into Spanish. She didn’t like dubbing Japanese or Isao Takahata‘s animation style – “poorly done, with her mouth open all the time, it was extremely difficult” – and preferred being Lois Lane and Shirley Temple: The only…

Transformative translation: Schloss

We’re all fucked in the end -the reward for life is death- but meanwhile the profession would be greatly improved if rendered client-free. MM: My career as a translator of guides to buildings in Central Europe started ignominiously when I gave in to the resident of Schloß Leitheim, who insisted it was Leitheim Castle. Others…

Sandwish

“All day I’ve faced, the barren waste,without a taste of… Can you see that big green tree,Where the sandwish’s running free,And it’s waiting there for you and me?” I do Cool Water with the organ, and it’s a great favourite, but the other day I made the mistake of introducing the mirage song as a…

French lessons: Grannie on her bike rides across the pool

Boby Lapointe, an obsessive, deranged comic genius who seems to have drunk himself to death aged 50, points to one of the delicious traps lying in wait for elephants who proceed beyond their French-English phrasebooks – the fact that of the supposed infinity of possible sentences in natural language, most are nonsense: What time is…