Francisco Gabilondo Soler has been denounced for his song, Ratón Vaquero, from the Cri-Cri show (more here), in which a Yankee mouse demands his freedom from the trap into which he has fallen: The offending lyrics in full: What the heck is this housefor a manly cowboy mouse?Hello you! let me out!and don’t catch me…
Leyendo un poquitín para preparar esto, encontré esta pequeña maravilla de Los Milagros de Nuestra Señora de Gonzalo de Berceo: Yaziendo a la sombra perdí todos cuidados, odí sonos de aves, dulces e modulados; nunca udieron omnes órganos más temprados, nin que formar pudiessen sones más acordados. Unas tenién la quinta e las otras doblavan, otras tenién…
Muchas gracias a Julian, José Antonio, Gemma, y todos los que me ayudaron a llegar a, y volver de, la Llotja el viernes pasado para una gran inauguración suya y mi primera salida de casa. Aprendí mucho, inter alia que hay que cambiar el sistema de amplificación vocal. Mi megáfono de barco de latón (o…
Hace tiempo hice música para esta magnífica canción antigua (fuente: La fiera corrupia, ed JM Rexach), pero hay que ir mejorando, y me preguntaba si habían otros versos con la misma forma (es un poco como el rondeau redoublé o parfait francés: míralo bien, guarretes) y con melodía que me podrían servir de ejemplo. Lo…
The neighbourhood Pixar voice-dubber alleges that Looper – an amusing dash through time-travel clichés – was going to be released in Spain as Lúpula, because it’s about hops. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR Sorry man, I was yust yoking – there’s been a lack of crap bilingual puns here recently.
Chez Lenox, not to be confused in any way or to the slightest degree with Lenin, whose typically deranged pamphlet, One step forward, two steps back, is here. Comrade Vladimir doesn’t address our particular theme, but those interested in the recent roots of Iberian politics may inspect with interest the mud he throws in the…
Nata con nueces de la casa, over at Charles Harrison’s, who is an absolute must for all Spanish students of English as it is spoken, and via Iestyn ap Robert, who I believe may fall into the category of a known unknown. Someone moaned that attribution of origin should be obligatory. That might make life…
Colin thinks this is one for me, rather than, say, for Pricasso, who I have to say looks like a right one. What year is it today? Have a good one anyway!
This *preliminary* version of a very old favourite, ET Mensah’s Tea Samba, is for Mr Paul “Tea” Baker (diabolus.org) and for all of you who have followed and supported this project so far: Disclaimers: Sorry, I couldn’t find a red tie. I’m shouting, not because I’m deaf, but because it’s *very* loud. This ditty leaves…