Spectacles – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Torrente, modeled on the mafia private dick in Peckinpah’s The Getaway?

The hair, the dress-sense, the profession: some of the basics are there.

What musical or theatrical numbers would you like to see performed on a barrel organ?

Any suggestions deeply appreciated. Here’s the form, the results of which I won’t publish live in order to discourage Looby from submitting the complete works of Nam June Paik. Perusable results there will, however, be, soonish, and there’ll be more news here shortly. This is the original–from an old band of mine–of one arrangment I…

Mi primera canción en español

Hecha la mañana de Reyes para un cierto Dr Pol, que disfruta de la vida (sin caer en excesos).

Buffalo Bill, first vendor of palomitas/popcorn in Spain?

La Vanguardia in 1889 re Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in Barcelona: A la puerta del hipódromo vimos vendedores de caña dulce y en el interior unos vendedores ambulantes ofrecían otro dulce preparado con granos de maíz y miel. Honey-coated popcorn was already part of Cody’s commercial package in New York five years before, and La…