Coen brothers – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

March tweets

More Czechs, Spike Jones, Brexit, burning Guy, Child Ballads, copyright, Robin Hood’s two pricks, and so on.

Tatraplan by Blahoslaw Rozboril & Josef Daňka at the Pražák Palace bit of the Moravian Gallery in Brno.

Organ-grinding tweets for December

Xmas &c.

If any would not work neither should he eat: Walthamstow workhouse.

The Singing Organ-Grinder’s tweets for October

More rubbish.

Organ-grinder in courtyard - Bruno Schulz illustration to his story Księga, The Book, 1937.

The Russian folk song in the Coen brothers’ Raising Arizona

I thought it was a recent version of Stravinsky’s Petrushka theme, but it turns out that Pete Seeger is the intermediary. Plus an East End Jewish version of Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance.

Gorging Jack and Little Billee

The case for the defence.

Wallace Beery as Barnacle Bill the sailor.

Being [sic] Llewyn Davies [sic]

In fairness, 12 Years a Slave is said to be the best homoerotic SM flick since Cruising. But I and my fellow Celts are still atoning for our rejection of the Anglo-Saxons in the 8th century, and my offer to sit out 6 years in order to reduce the film to a manageable 67 minutes…