Arts – Page 39 – coldhearted scientist وداد

Haiti’s neglected revolutionary history is one of the issues of which this weblog exists to remind people. Here we have just the first part of one Toussaint L’Ouverture video. If you click on it, you will find the next parts. Axé.

Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Edgar Allan Poe

02/09/2009

‘This old man,’ I said at length, ‘is the type and the genius of deep crime. He refuses to be alone. He is the man of the crowd. It will be in vain to follow; for I shall learn no more of him, nor of his deeds. The worst heart of the world is a … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Edgar Allan Poe

Dios, que buen vassallo, si oviese buen señore!

30/08/2009

This weekend we are singing in victory, so we invoke the Cid. Listen to the precise clashing of swords in the Poem of the Cid as transcribed at UT-Austin. Here we have a much cuter version of the Cid — perhaps the very cutest ever. The best kind of background music for the Cid’s activities … More Dios, que buen vassallo, si oviese buen señore!

Arcángel

22/08/2009

It is the weekend, so despite missing Rising Tide, we must sing. Here is a new cantaor, an archangel, singing a toná. He is really brilliant. Axé.

Rising Tide

21/08/2009

It is the weekend and I am singing that I hoped to be at Rising Tide and to see you there! I promise I will go next year! Axé.

Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Åsa Larsson

19/08/2009

In Spain, Swedish crime fiction is all the rage. I read Åsa Larsson‘s first novel Sun Storm and it was fascinating, as are most things Nordic. Now I want to see the film and to read recent books as yet untranslated. I would like to find out about Åsa Larsson’s possible preacher father. You, too, … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Åsa Larsson

A. C. Sandino

15/08/2009

Thinking of what we could sing this weekend, I reviewed many beautiful Mexican videos I could use to celebrate my escape from Spain. I concluded that the best thing I could sing was from A. C. Sandino: I am in receipt of your message from yesterday and I understand it. I will not surrender and … More A. C. Sandino