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Pop music from everywhere and always
6 Podcasts:
 1. 10-na-na-na-ye-kya-karne-lage-ho.mp3 (played 3 times)
2. covox_-_switchblade_squadron.mp3 (played 5 times)
3. 2-27%20Egyptian%20Shumba.mp3 (played 4 times)
4. Nina%20Hagen%20-%20Wir%20Leben%20Immer%20N .. (played 5 times)
5. 01%20El%20Tren.mp3 (played 4 times)
6. _q0Uf2_kUsM (played 4 times)
Content:
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No no no no no, what have you started to do?
If you’ve got Bombay the Hard Way, Dan the Automator’s album of remixed songs by the classic ’70s Bollywood composers Kalyanji-Anandji, you might recognize the soundtrack of Bombay 405 Miles. Like their other work, it’s great, funky stuff, but something that confuses me is why Automator missed out on the best part of the soundtrack. [...]
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Betty Beep
Hey, so I haven’t really updated this thing in an extremely long time. I’ve been in Lucknow, India, studying Urdu, and haven’t really had time to update. So I’m sorry about that. On the plus side, I’ve heard a bunch of great tunes in the last year or so since I posted, so I’ll try [...]
Books, pt. 4: The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N
The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N is a charming, short novel from 1937, by Leonard Q. Ross, actual Jewish name Leo Rosten, who taught ESL in New York. It has no real plot - I think it was originally a series of short stories - but each chapter is another episode from the tribulations of Mr. [...]
Books, pt. 3: Candyfreak
Rich recommended I read Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America, which I think he got from Froyo, so when I saw it for $6 in Boston, but a few T stops from Boston College, where the author, Steve Almond, beats grammar into freshmen, I snapped it up, even though it was hardback [...]
Books, pt. 2: The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear is the most exciting book I’ve read in quite a while. The book itself is very exciting, but what I really mean is that it gave me the visceral thrill of reading more than any book since maybe The Golden Gate, Vikram Seth’s stunningly gorgeous novel in verse. I [...]
Books, pt. 1: English, August
The next few posts have nothing to do with music - I just read a few books that I liked, all in a row, so I thought I’d write up a little something about them, one at a time, in the order I read them:
English, August: An Indian Story was a big hit in India [...]
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Way down in Egypt lay-and
Ever since I was a little kid, when I thought “Leader of the Pack” (vrrrm! vrrrrrrm!) was the greatest song in the world, I’ve loved girl groups. They never seem to get too much respect, probably because they didn’t write their own songs, and they were mostly just manufactured by their producers. So? When the [...]
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Neue Deutsche Verrückte
OK, I’ve had way too long a string of namby-pamby, nicely-nicely instrumental songs here recently. Here’s Nina Hagen, to change that with new wave beepy screechy (she belongs to the Neue Deutsche Welle, or German New Wave, but the name’s also a play on the German national radio station). According to my old German textbook [...]
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All aboard the trova train!
Vieja Trova Santiaguera (Old Santiagoan Trova) is a quintet of spry old men, all from the eastern Cuban city of Santiago, an important city to Cuban music and the birthplace of trova, a genre that developed among poor, itinerant, self-taught troubadours (trovadores) in the late nineteenth century, growing out of cancion, urban music that grew [...]
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Kick that gong around
If you’ve heard of Cab Calloway, you probably know his hit, “Minnie the Moocher.” You might not know, though, that there’s a terrific and bizarre cartoon of it, starring, incongruously, Betty Boop. Before I saw the video, I’d always assumed that Betty Boop was just a boring, ditzy character. Maybe she got stupid later on, [...]
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