Seu Jorge sings “Life on Mars”:
by Will on December 14, 2009
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Nobel Peace Prize Jury Faces Formal Inquiry
Read the story here. Here’s the paragraph that would make clicking through worthwhile, if you’re still undecided:
If the Stockholm County Administrative Board, which supervises foundations in Sweden’s capital, finds that prize founder Alfred Nobel’s will is not being honored, it has the authority to suspend award decisions going back three years — though that would be unlikely and unprecedented, said Mikael Wiman, a legal expert working for the county. ( 3 comments)
A Little Side Project of Mine
As if I needed another blog! This one’s dedicated to translating some of the never-before-translated work of the French neo-Romantic poet Edmond Rostand, author of Cyrano de Bergerac and member of the Académie française.
Everyone knows Cyrano, of course, but much of Rostand’s lyric work has never been read in English before. I’m trying to change that, one poem at a time. ( 7 comments)
Regulatory Capture
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal ( 2 comments)
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Along the same lines, Nouvelle Vague’s bossa nova covers of 80′s pop songs are pretty awesome. I like their version of Love Will Tear Us Apart and Guns of Brixton.
Good call. If you can find any renditions on YouTube, feel free to drop a link in comments. I’ll post the best on the sidebar.
Here’s a like to Guns of Brixton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSX_3rL7THo
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