SOUNDTRACK: ANA TIJOUX-Tiny Desk Concert #77 (August 30, 2010).
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na Tijoux was born in France. Her parents moved there to escape the Chilean dictatorship. She returned to Chile as a teenager and started rapping first in French and then in Spanish,
This Tiny Desk Concert is just her and a percussionist (Names Thompson) who is playing nothing but a modified tambourine (it’s an impressive variety of sounds he’s getting out of that).
Ana raps in Spanish. I don’t really know anything that she’s saying. And I have to admit that many times hearing someone speak quickly in Spanish sounds melodic anyway. But she seems to be rapping with a great flow. It’s especially noticeable in the final song “Go!” when her speed increases exponentially. And she is still very clear in her delivery.
I really enjoyed how in “La Rosa de los Vientos” she had sung a chorus at the end (her singing voice is lovely).
[READ: September 4, 2015] The League of Regrettable Superheroes
I received this book with my Loot Crate (this is the Loot Crate edition, which as far as I can tell just means it is smaller). It is yet another wonderful book from Quirk Books.
This is a collection of superheroes who actually existed in comic book form–forgotten heroes, also-rans and all around second-tier superheroes. The introduction is quick to point out that none of these superheroes is inherently bad. Perhaps they had bad timing or got lost in the crowd. He assures us that every character here has the potential to be great. In fact several have been revamped and revived
Each listed superhero has a brief synopsis which includes a Created By blurb, a Debuted in (giving the comic and the date of first publication) and an amusing commentary to accompany it. There is a one page summary of the superhero and then a sample page from the comic (sometimes a cover, but more often a page of dialogue–which is always more fun).
Beginning in the Golden Age 1938-1949 (when every Super-Tom, Wonder-Dick, and Amazing-Harry could throw on a cape and a cowl and give Hitler the Business). Superman debuted in 1938 and soon after everyone was making a superhero. (more…)
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