Organ-grinding tweets for December
Xmas &c.
Tag: Mexico
Napoleon II’s Pulcinella toy & the Empire’s collapse
A tragic gallery dealing with 1832: contemporary/posterior mise-en-scène? Plus images of Napoleon as Polichinelle.
The Singing Organ-Grinder’s top 10 pig songs
Sincerity meets spam.
El santo mocaro
Snot-nosed pseudo-saints in a Lingua Franca song by Juan del Encina.
There’s so much brilliant German shit on YouTube
Was: How pleased I am to find both the Zarah Leander and the Nina Hagen versions of “Ich weiß, es wird einmal ein Wunder gescheh’n” on the line.
La nostalgia que sentimos por la nostalgia que sentían por el organillo
Joan Perucho, Juan Antonio Bardem, y un par más.
La vida de un organillero mexicano
Y cómo mejorarla.
Por qué El Organillero va a cantar reggaetón
… pero boicoteará a los Beatles.
A brief history of zoological shame
Featuring a Spanish view of the Saxons.
Needed, a ballad for the Olli Rehn empire
Featuring Umberto Eco on Orgasmus, an obscure Restoration Scottish nationalist on London, Mexico’s revolutionary and narco-corridos, and Italian Renaissance bandit- and Camorra-praise poetry, all for the benefit of the European Union’s commissar for provincial affairs.
