When Fats Waller sang “Mr Christopher Columbus/Sailed the sea without a compass” he probably didn’t know that the great admiral had acquired his navigational skills at a driving school in Sants, Barcelona (Colón = Columbus). Lyricist Andy Razaf may well have despaired of Mr Waller, who seems more or less to have improvised his version…
The Louse reports this morning that NYC restaurants are installing DJs in order to attract the better class of chunderer. Quote: “I wouldn’t normally choose a restaurant with a D.J.,” said Kimberly Gray, 31, a financial consultant from Brooklyn who was studying the menu. “But the music isn’t too loud to be obnoxious. And the…
De politie in Barcelona doet alleen wat tegen mensen die niet stinken, zich vreedzaam gedragen, en vooral geen problemen willen krijgen. In Catalunya heb je helaas helemaal geen vrijzinnige straatorkesten zoals in Nederland, en hier komt de stadspolitie in actie om dit een beetje Dirty Dozen-achtig groepje vreemdelingen weg te jagen. (Foto’s: la Angie. De…
Els de “no a l’esquerra” estan al carrer, doncs, li presento alguns (fragments de) crits del carrer del cançoner de Joan Amades (Barcelona, 1951) sobre la melodia d’un cànon anglès (MIDI) del segle disset: La segona regla és del barretaire Joan Saluders de Barcelona (1918): No et posis davant de la ventisosa; no et posis…
MIT’s Eigenradio (eigen means “own” in Dutch and several other languages) “makes its optimal music by analyzing in real time dozens of radio stations at once. When our bank of computers has heard enough music, it will go to work on making more just like it.” Here’s a picture for people who like pictures: update…
Sorry to break my normal Dutch–Catalan–English flow, but this is important: we’ve got a winner for the cowbike drawing competition! The winning artist, Jan-Willem de Bruijn (7) from Rotterdam, notes in his entry that “The Netherlands seems to be the country with the highest density of roadsigns in the world. We have signs for everything.…
Em va agradar aquesta història en Popbitch sobre l’equivalent britànic de Operación Triunfo, fet per la BBC: Fame Academy es basa en la idea que la votació del públic pot fer veritat els somnis d’un simple ciutadà. Però és mentida. La majoria dels aspirants aquest any són pèrits professionals que han estat col·locats en el…
Today’s photoboot stars a small green grasshopper which was having its insides sucked out by a spiky black Bosch-beast when we walked past. If only, for the sake of camouflage, it had been able to change places with Ivor Cutler‘s: A great grey grasshopper jumped on my knee, dusty with age. I was wearing my…
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