Organ-grinder tweets for December 2017

More inanity from the Hackney organity.

Boy not looking at fairground organ. Image: AMA.

Bio: Kazoo Academy & Barrel Organ Disco/Yorkshire Almanac/translator Romance & Germanic languages & Russian/old-style jazz trombone & vocals/brass bands/allotmenteer

Fri Dec 01 08:19 First well-I-never via : György Ligeti's family in Transylvania were German Jews (Auer + Schlesinger). So did he correspond with Stockhausen in German prior to his escape in 1956?
Fri Dec 01 08:19 Comment: Pleasing version of Le Grand Macabre with Spanish subs
Fri Dec 01 08:24 Beware of Max the cat. Everyone knows that the real Max wears a wolf suit.
Fri Dec 01 09:18 Non-neutral net: ISPs will start selling cut-rate packages only allowing access to e.g. Amazon/Google/Facebook
Fri Dec 01 10:00 Comment: @DrBeachcombing Whatever it is it changes gender after the comma, unless "beaky & beautiful" refers to the narrator's interlocutor
Fri Dec 01 10:58 Vasily Kalinnikov 2nd Symphony - splendid stuff for a youth orchestra, as a commenter observes
Fri Dec 01 11:58 Comment: @tombcn Politics without politics. Whatever will become of us?
Fri Dec 01 20:30 The birds and animals burying a hunter - Russia 1860s
Sat Dec 02 07:44 Red sky in the morning
Sat Dec 02 08:04 Hackney jeweller Little Storm is across the border at the York Hall in Bethnal Green tomorrow, Sunday, for the BUST Craftacular Xmas market, with high-end pieces featuring granulation & keum-boo
Sat Dec 02 09:14 A sober & sensible Dutchman is crowdfunding a comparative documentary looking at blackface as a pan-European & he thinks pre-Christian ritual: I've always tied it to the Moors, but maybe I'm wrong
Sat Dec 02 09:16 One-way pedestrianism in Madrid, in a country famous for its poor pavement proxemics
Sat Dec 02 09:20 Why give a toss about Wales?
Sat Dec 02 09:25 The semantics of "Bier"
Sat Dec 02 12:20 My God, people are actually buying this
Sat Dec 02 20:54 Your own Flying Fortress. My geog teacher at secondary built a plane in his bungalow sitting room, had to knock down the wall to get it out, house fell down, wife left
Sat Dec 02 21:58 Rhyme as patterns for the eye (and spreadsheet) rather than for the ear
Sat Dec 02 22:06 Against internal rhyme. Good, now Wonder Woman
Sun Dec 03 09:38 Elephant Man Barber Shop Because Samuel Barber's bloody Adagio was used in Elephant Man, the movie? Or Sweeney Todd-oid, in which case why?
Sun Dec 03 09:40 Comment: (Brilliant photo feed for all with W African interest)
Sun Dec 03 09:47 Comment: E.g. How To Speak Chimpanzee
Sun Dec 03 10:51 Guinness nitrogen widget patent
Sun Dec 03 15:17 deliciously dumb
Mon Dec 04 08:41 I've never used Goodreads, but re the Amazon purchase this:
Mon Dec 04 09:27 Bizarre channel of mediocre late Romantic music, each vid featuring a (neo-)Weltlandschaft-ish pic
Mon Dec 04 13:28 Comment: @miquelroig jajaja, qué horror de pueblo
Mon Dec 04 16:59 Lads riding a pushbike with a lawnmower engine fast up and down Well St. I think someone is about to reïnvent the cyclemotor.
Tue Dec 05 09:12 Comment: @Transblawg @susie_dent @GermanAtPompey Yeah, freelancers are lancers who are free, whereas we come with chains of flowers & lilies' lances free
Tue Dec 05 11:28 RT @olifranklin: The biggest casualty to AI won't be jobs, but the final and complete eradication of trust in anything you see or hear. htt…
Tue Dec 05 15:36 Comment: @ibexsalad Collioure's nice in winter
Wed Dec 06 06:49 Tyranny stew thread
Wed Dec 06 06:53 Why do small children like poo songs so much? First all-in-the-same-leaky-boat-&-OK-to-laugh moment?
Wed Dec 06 07:36 Pun on "Shostakovich", hidden away in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk BBC Lady Macbeth was terrible tripe, no?
Wed Dec 06 07:52 Christine Keeler in pocketformaat
Wed Dec 06 08:39 Ride a cock horse to Banbury cross
Wed Dec 06 08:48 Of course: OpenReach = One, Holy, Catholic (i.e. Universal) & Apostolic. Guy Fawkes is yesterday's news
Wed Dec 06 11:27 Excellent news for fans of beverages suggestive of asinine renality & for walkers from Frome to Bath: Tucker's Grave has a new landlady
Wed Dec 06 11:38 Comment: (Not that there was anything wrong with the old one.)
Wed Dec 06 13:49 Growing tulip bulbs on a nice old warm hard drive in anticipation of the Bitcoin crash
Wed Dec 06 13:58 Comment: When it's spring again, I'll bring again, bitcoins from Japan
Wed Dec 06 16:37 Lovely piece by Denis Wick on dev of UK orchestral trombone style & the instruments used Must extract from cupboard an ancient peashooter made in some Mancunian garage a very long time ago
Wed Dec 06 16:59 Looking for a certain high-quality elderly Russian image for a project, found a bunch of Russians who have it & lots more that's not theirs on website, won't tell me where they got it for permissions request, unfindable elsewhere. Do as the Russians do or forget it?
Wed Dec 06 17:01 Wahahahaha. RIP
Thu Dec 07 08:27 Westerns with trains are the best
Thu Dec 07 08:34 Splendid band of nutters next Tuesday at East Side Jazz Club, Leytonstone
Thu Dec 07 08:37 Comment: @ibexsalad My God, see you there! Which street?
Thu Dec 07 08:44 Comment: @ibexsalad It's changed
Thu Dec 07 08:47 Are the Met (NYC museum) & the Met (LDN cops) actually the two Janus faces of a single entity?
Thu Dec 07 08:51 Comment: @ibexsalad Well, hasn't been bombed since then, but astonishing demographic change. The jazz club building is one of the few stable institutions over time, & v cheap beer...
Thu Dec 07 09:11 The New Enlightenment still going strong Bet half the bots are mechanical turks
Thu Dec 07 10:16 Photo ostensibly about a font cover (St James Garlickhythe, City of London)
Thu Dec 07 10:24 Radical new hyphenation norm: alt-hough. Stop this madness
Thu Dec 07 10:48 Ambiguous news for the alcoholic in your life
Thu Dec 07 11:06 Bitcoin: this is parody, right?
Thu Dec 07 13:57 So, how about charitable status for pubs & other on-sales establishments?
Thu Dec 07 13:57 Comment: from
Thu Dec 07 16:47 So great is my admiration for the creativity & dedication of my Hackney & Walthamstow neighbours that I tend to count the cattle on Walthamstow Marsh to reassure myself that their number is still lucky
Thu Dec 07 19:21 Comment: @ibexsalad De Valera is said to have banned blue to halt the rise of the fascist blueshirts in 1930s Ireland. UK has no plans to ban grey.
Thu Dec 07 21:43 Truck bringing aggregate to Walthamstow Wetlands honks like a goose. Nurture or neglect?
Thu Dec 07 22:20 Chaos Manifest: yes, but why?
Thu Dec 07 22:37 No one seems to really know how to translate Небылица в лицах. I submit "nonsense manifest"
Thu Dec 07 22:38 Comment:
Fri Dec 08 08:26 Man serious enough to be a Google doodle has a 45º nose of the type drawn by children
Fri Dec 08 09:00 Patience/stations opens the door to recognising the boundless patience of the "savage" Thracians. Rhyme has no place in progressive politics. Discuss.
Fri Dec 08 09:05 Comment:
Fri Dec 08 10:15 Spike Milligan, Hitler: Chopin, I love you, you know I always will, I love most of your Nocturnes, and I’ll sing them till I’m ill
Fri Dec 08 13:26 Donald Wesling, hard but fair: I have said that this story will challenge those who think rhyme the sine qua non; plainly, on this showing, it also challenges those who despise rhyme and think it unworkable now.
Fri Dec 08 13:31 Comment: I'd forgotten "Cadbury's Rhumba, You'll Succumba"
Fri Dec 08 16:30 Guy murdered on Cassland Road yesterday, & everyone's whinging about how police forensics are affecting their sacred car journey
Fri Dec 08 16:39 Comment: Another age, another man: Pushkin, Eugene Oneguine before the duel with his best friend: At home arriving he addressed / His care unto his pistols' plight, / Replaced them in their box, undressed / And Schiller read by candlelight.
Sat Dec 09 11:33 Satan (not Hackney Council enforcement) has taken the most vociferously amplified of our four West African churches, and now we good souls can lie a-bed at weekends while their fellow stokers down below discover the true meaning of Hell
Sun Dec 10 20:31 The British actually have far more words for snow than the Eskimos
Sun Dec 10 20:40 A lot to be said for this
Sun Dec 10 20:41 Comment: Call me sentimental, but I'd go with Flocon, papillon by Anne Sylvestre
Sun Dec 10 20:55 RT ≠ endorsement, of course
Sun Dec 10 23:11 All those sleepy birds Now tired from flight Hide among the leaves Good-night! OR Sleepy bird he learn a lesin, He lay down, get caught in resin
Mon Dec 11 07:39 Savoury dreams
Mon Dec 11 16:49 20 more simians arrived: Next-day, standard-price delivery in ± Hackney
Mon Dec 11 19:43 Comment: @LittleItalyLond Where has he published?
Tue Dec 12 07:57 European society (i.e. bars) hanging on in Spain, Portugal and Ireland. Germans don't go to beer halls and listen to oompah bands: only 18% on-sales. Give pubs the same charitable status as temples
Tue Dec 12 08:00 Loquitur, loquitur, senex famosus / He talks and he talks, that famous geezer
Tue Dec 12 08:32 Comment: @tombcn All those poor bludy expats who thought it would be 'Allo 'Allo without the Nazis
Tue Dec 12 11:02 Declan Burke, writers as organ grinders' monkeys
Tue Dec 12 13:23 I've been bleating about this for years in Spanish context - hyper-urbanism for folk & food, and everything else a safari park beared & wolfed up for the amusement of the ecos
Wed Dec 13 08:42 Perhaps best thing in doc/mummery Surbiles (2017) at UCL Italian film club: hearing rural Sardinian: shades of Latin, Italian, Catalan, Spanish, + stuff I didn't recognise
Wed Dec 13 11:57 Underground map in German
Wed Dec 13 14:38 Crazy are their days; Crazy are the nights Of the monkeys of the world. Their necks are bent, Their faces wrinkled, Their mouths slack In the lordship of the lands, O fathers
Wed Dec 13 14:41 Roxanne accelerator
Wed Dec 13 21:38 The Church Times obit & his Sidmouth fiddler don't tell the half of David Slater - one of the kindest, wisest people I've met
Thu Dec 14 08:40 Comment: I last saw him in 2015 at a slightly unusual funeral. At the end, as I accompanied him to his Valkyrie-mobile, with the concertina still squirrelling away in the background, he said, "People are faith or hope or love. Only the former need our prayers."
Thu Dec 14 08:52 Gillian Tindall re the invention of the post-war East End: "a social assault that went far beyond any rational response to the Blitz"
Thu Dec 14 08:56 Comment: Somewhere I have a photo of the architect of the destruction in the 1960s and -70s of a small Dutch town, untouched by war since the 18th century. Standing next to one of his multi-storey carparks, and made wispy by the mist, he flaunts a toothy smile.
Thu Dec 14 09:58 Comment: @tombcn The E&V hive on Diagonal is most amusing, but WTF?
Thu Dec 14 10:42 Comment: @tombcn Definitely cameo material for Pulp Fiction 2
Thu Dec 14 11:02 Good piece on translating Tolstoy
Thu Dec 14 11:07 Comment:
Thu Dec 14 12:24 Beautiful oil by William Mulready (& good for Councillor William Smith for donating it to Brighouse Council 100 years ago!), but what on earth is the device? Fortepiano anglese (large, plinky-plonky music box)?
Thu Dec 14 21:18 No way War for the Planet of the Apes can be worse than Wonder Woman
Thu Dec 14 21:34 Death of Toscanini, Sunday edition of Corriere della Sera, Jan 27 1957
Fri Dec 15 08:45 Between-wars rhyming titles. Few triple crowns: * Der Onkel Bumba aus Kalumba tanzt nur Rumba * Ich fahr mit meiner Klara in die Sahara * More? Lots of doubles: * Was macht der Maier am Himalaya? * Benjamin, ich hab' nichts anzuzieh'n * Veronika, der Lenz ist da * Etc Quadruples?
Fri Dec 15 09:26 150mm annual rainfall looks good from a plane
Fri Dec 15 10:03 Comment: Die Braut vom Alexander, die geht so auseinander Ich hab' das Fräulein Helen baden seh'n Ich hab' dich und du hast mich Wenn der Toni mit der Vroni
Fri Dec 15 10:52 Comment: @Transblawg I hope they didn't say, "But November's winter, isn't it?"
Fri Dec 15 10:59 Comment: @jonno50 Now I've got to work out what black kissing is.
Fri Dec 15 19:41 Can't remember the last time listened to Glière - tremendous stuff - kind of thing good Hollywood composers used to do when given the chance - the street may not be ready for it yet, though
Fri Dec 15 19:46 Fellini on a bicycle
Fri Dec 15 20:17 Son: "Hey Dad, can I borrow $10 from your Bitcoin account?" Dad: "$9.67? What do you need $10.32 for?"
Sat Dec 16 09:05 It's really time we based a religion around Popper rather than alkyl nitrites
Sat Dec 16 09:22 Everyone slags David Bowie film Just a Gigolo, but closer to the Julius Brammer lyrics than yer bludy Louis Prima: lament for hussars and pre-war imperial society: Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo, Handsome gigolo, wretched gigolo
Sat Dec 16 09:39 New world order: Mr Letts omits monkeys -> intelligent personal assistants:
Sat Dec 16 09:56 Comment: Didn't realise how much of lyricist Julius Brammer's stuff I knew: How poorly the Austrians treated him in 1938
Sat Dec 16 10:06 Nowt wrong with whole milk Next step: buy & keep a cow, being cheaper than buying "real cow's milk"
Sat Dec 16 10:08 "Turing" carols Cult?
Sat Dec 16 13:38 Comment: @Transblawg Obviously a man of taste
Sun Dec 17 21:26 Singing Fats Waller "Well done, Christopher Columbus / Sailed the world without a compass" when up pipes a 6-year-old: "He DID use one, and an astrolabe."
Sun Dec 17 21:32 Comment: No good explaining that in any civilised society rhyme trumps truth
Mon Dec 18 13:18 Under Yesteryear's Snowfall (turn on the subs)
Mon Dec 18 13:40 Hardback of Steve Roud Folk Song in England 17GBP on Amazon
Mon Dec 18 13:42 Comment: Donations accepted here
Mon Dec 18 16:21 Error displaying the error page
Mon Dec 18 18:41 beautiful
Mon Dec 18 19:00 Terrible bilingual pun
Tue Dec 19 08:38 RT @_F_B_G_: If you start reading the Athanasian Creed at 11:58:25 on New Year's Eve then you'll be able to shout "inferior to the Father a…
Tue Dec 19 08:49 Can I gene-edit the monkey before it gene-edits me?
Tue Dec 19 20:01 Russian lyric about 17th century Cossack rebel Stenka Razin is sung to the tune known to the Dutch as "Ik zal nooit meer dronken wezen," "I'll never be drunk again"
Tue Dec 19 20:08 This is still a good video
Wed Dec 20 18:04 The time Amanda Holden was treated in a veterinary hospital
Wed Dec 20 20:39 Comment: @Transblawg Went to my secondary school, a lot of that around there
Wed Dec 20 20:42 Comment: @Transblawg Oh, who knows
Wed Dec 20 21:40 Luis Escobar Kirkpatrick: a bizarre literary Falangist I didn't know, to accompany the somewhat dull Dionisio Ridruejo, later Catalanist, & the tragic Valencian Jew &, I think, freemason, Samuel Ros, &c
Wed Dec 20 21:45 Comment: Por ejemplo, acacias a las doce en "Segunda edición"
Wed Dec 20 21:59 In civilisation you can pretty much get by with a sharpened spoon, but on a desert island my one piece of cutlery would be knife
Thu Dec 21 08:46 Lunar/tumour: At Babak's school, there is a 3D printer And he prints out a model of the tumour That was surgically removed from his back this winter In its rugged grey plastic, it looks lunar
Thu Dec 21 09:37 Never thought of Belgium as a Central European country. Perhaps viewed from Spain and discounting Poland...
Thu Dec 21 10:35 Why does writing about the "cosmopolitan proletariat" ignore the cosmopolitan tastes of the poor? Because the writers didn't get out much?
Thu Dec 21 10:37 Toynbee presumably holding his breath on this
Thu Dec 21 10:54 Someone's list of top literary translators, tho I'm still v fond of legacy freaks like Constance Garnett, she of when in doubt, leave it out, Motteux, Burton ... working at a time when any such project must have been horrendously difficult
Thu Dec 21 10:57 Comment: @alexkbcn Therefore I hold no course s' infesible / As this of force to win the Jesabel
Thu Dec 21 17:52 That @tombcn hasn't called it yet can only mean one thing: his phone's been nicked
Thu Dec 21 18:09 Just got a message from Robert A. Heinlein: "We are about to transship. I feel exhilarated. Puppet masters—the free men are coming to kill you! Death and Destruction!"
Thu Dec 21 18:11 @ObamaMalik
Thu Dec 21 18:54 Mundo al revés / world turned upside down from William West’s Tavern Anecdotes
Thu Dec 21 19:24 How infinitely more miserable the 20th century would have been had Odessa Jewry taken to interior design instead of fiddle playing
Fri Dec 22 03:40 VAT on German Christmas trees explained
Fri Dec 22 14:46 Comment: @jnitale @ibexsalad Unbaised as in undefeated (baise) rather than unkissed (baiser)?
Fri Dec 22 14:59 Rebrand complete
Fri Dec 22 15:01 Comment: Lest we forget, 2017 edition
Fri Dec 22 15:03 Comment: @izakaminska
Fri Dec 22 15:20 First chart I've seen that makes me think, Hmm, Japan
Fri Dec 22 15:44 Monkey here says Rajoy is a genius: cannibalised old brand (PP) to create new one (Ciudadanos) led by people with strong personal ties (e.g. IA's husband) to the traditional pre-secessionist nationalist establishment facilitating new Majestic-type pact
Fri Dec 22 15:45 Comment: Bad monkey eat oats on Christmas Day
Fri Dec 22 15:49 Comment: @tombcn Take out the chip they installed behind your left ear too
Fri Dec 22 16:49 RT @ProfBrianCox: We could all agree to turn our passports blue by running towards them, thus saving a lot of hassle. Assuming the waveleng…
Fri Dec 22 17:44 Balkan gypsies apparently played Jingle Bells first as Campanelle in Italy before colonising London Overground trains
Fri Dec 22 18:40 Sam & Moos have been drifting without Evian on a log in the Pacific for a fortnight, and are dying of thirst. Sam turns his face to Heaven and prays, but Moos, a faraway look in his eyes, starts to sing the Beautiful Blue Danube. Says Sam: You're clutching at Strauss.
Fri Dec 22 19:39 I'd forgotten about pachuco jump parody & Lalo Guerrero
Fri Dec 22 19:47 ... and of course Los Zafiros' deranged doowop
Fri Dec 22 19:51 Comment: The story in comments about Fidel Castro having destroyed them was new to me
Fri Dec 22 20:44 Worst Jingle Bells ever: Jingle Black from the Gerson King Combo
Sat Dec 23 10:43 St Thomas', Clapton Common is my best local trig point when wandering along and across the Lea, & new improved view from Coppermill Tower, so sorry to hear about all this shite
Mon Dec 25 20:51 I have seen the Great Pyramid at Giza, I have seen the Haughton Christmas Lights
Tue Dec 26 10:42 RT @phileil: This is really strong work from PVD's First Baptist Church. I chuckled when I drove by the sign this evening. Photo credit to…
Wed Dec 27 10:25 Tabarnia: the Yugoslav tragedy repeated as farce: thread
Wed Dec 27 11:50 Geezer says 25M installation costs for ultra-light rail Stafford-Derrington-Haughton-Gnosall-Newport, sharing existing Shropshire Union track with walkers/cyclists/birdies - single track + passing places. Then install tollgate on the A518
Thu Dec 28 12:53 Good deed for the day: helping Bangladeshi girl explain to her mother that Primark probably wouldn't stock cotton-wool vests, however aesthetically appealing, and that the school probably meant cotton or wool vests, and that wool meant thermal
Sat Dec 30 19:22 Mexican brickies doing some extremely nifty vaulting, though I'd call it a cloister vault, not a bóveda catalana
Sat Dec 30 21:51 Visitor to Russia of Ivan the Terrible: Maslenitsa reminds me of an Italian carnival [differing only in] that in Italy the city guard patrols on horseback & foot & does not allow unnecessary disorder, while in Moscow the guards themselves revel in wine
Sun Dec 31 12:03 Boy not looking at fairground organ
Sun Dec 31 12:46 Comment: @tombcn Watch someone born this century try to figure out a rotary dial phone
Sun Dec 31 14:03 RT @pierrebri: One of the nice things to do in Paris on a Sunday is go to the @MuseeLouvre and see the Mona Lisa