I insist now upon speaking in very positive tones, but I am rocky and discouraged many days and I am in a state of distress about many things. More than I realize. I am improved but I should still recognize the foregoing squarely. It makes life easier. What I can see, I can cure. And … More Te Deum. Lomo de las Sagradas Escrituras. The Red Army Choir
Check out WashiWara Planet. The music starts after the singer-hero arrives by magical car. In this next double dose from Cameroun the singer-hero arrives by spaceship – must be the Mothership – and opposes corruption. “It sounds like the words flow.” I wish I could do an act like this in class. I will aspire … More Avant-Goût of WashiWara – Docta Musica
IN WHICH A YANKEE IMPERIALIST IS UNABLE TO RESIST THE CHARMS OF BARACK OBAMA. This post, which had taken a certain amount of work and thought, got too baroque. I was trying therefore to break it into three posts. In the process of that I destroyed it, and it is the weekend, and there are … More Go Tell Mama, I’m for Obama
“Encontré lo ruiseñor que cantaba so la rama, dindirindín.” * This song was written down in the early fifteenth century in a version of Catalan. Dindirindín dindirindín dirindaina, dindirindín. Yu me leve un bel maitín Matineta per la prata, Encontré lo ruiseñor Que cantaba so la rama Dindirindín. Dindirindín dindirindín dirindaina, dindirindín. Ruiseñor, le ruiseñor … More Dindirindín
For this ominous date we have a video of Vallejo’s hometown, his church, his house, and more. It has an appropriately nervous soundtrack. It was made in the depths of the driest season – everything is as brown as can be. When you get to part about the house, be sure not to miss the … More Santiago de Chuco
The roofers and the telephone company have come and gone, and the results of Hurricane Gustav chez moi are almost completely hidden. Lucille Bogan is still singing. I am practicing for the possible Saturday arrival of Hurricane Ike. For this storm I will bring my battery powered CD player home from the office, and play … More ULTRAMARINOS. ABARROTES
This weekend I have begun shopping for Hurricane Ike. I considered putting off roofing until the end of hurricane season, so as not to have to repeat the job. The roofers got here before I could make this wild decision. But if Ike or any other storm comes here, I am not repairing the roof … More La Tricotea
The eye of hurricane is going to Cajun country, it is now said, so we will look at pictures of the 1927 flood as experienced there from the Louisiana Digital Library. These pictures appear first in postage stamp size, but enlarge in a few seconds. Check out the Evangeline Oak in St. Martinville, which is … More Backwater Blues
It is the weekend, so we will sing a famous vals criollo, in which a plebeian, trembling with emotion, discusses his love for an aristocrat: This is a karaoke video, so we are literally singing this time. FELIPE PINGLO wrote the song and this recording is by LOS MOROCUCHOS. You cannot beat the Peruvians for … More El Plebeyo
Friday is the three year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. We interrupt our regular programming to say that Tropical Storm Gustav will, if he holds his current course, make landfall in South Louisiana Monday night. By the time you read the following discussion from it will no longer be current, but I am pasting it in … More Hurricane Gustav
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