Organ-grinder tweets for December 2017

More inanity from the Hackney organity.

Boy not looking at fairground organ.

Boy not looking at fairground organ. Image: AMA.

SingingOrganGrinder
@elorganillero

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

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