Christmas carousels
Impossible automata for my street organ this holiday season. Featuring Georg Büchner, Ignaz Bruder, German Christmas pyramids, dancing Hasidim, Lieutenant Kijé as you’ve probably never seen it, Le Tigre, and a crustacean.
Tag: william Shakespeare
Karl Marx condemns organ-grinders!
“Vagabonds, discharged soldiers, discharged jailbirds, escaped galley slaves, swindlers, mountebanks, lazzaroni, pickpockets, tricksters, gamblers, maquereaux, brothel keepers, porters, literati, organ grinders, ragpickers, knife grinders, tinkers, beggars”
Fucking Ada
Excelente canción de Ian Dury, que nada tiene que ver con nuestra nueva alcaldesa.
Cómo fabricar una trompeta ritual tibetana de un fémur humano
Dave Warfield and Shylock
A new end for the Merchant.
All the world’s a barrel organ
Alectryon, the Ancient Greek model for our cuckold’s horns?
With a field study of the nymphomaniacs of Goa and brief notes on the early history of composite grafts.
Translating Hamlet into Siberian
How would you describe the relationship of the Slav Francisco with his mother?
Rhyme vs reason
Restif de la Bretonne goes one step beyond Shakespeare and says that poetry is the language of Gods and beasts, and that reason speaks in prose.
The universality of bu/bo/boo
The strange shrieks of theatrical monsters often don’t require translation.