On Friday last week I had dinner in one of the “bring-your-own-wine” restaurants in Aarhus (in case somebody doesn’t yet know, in Aarhus and in DK or Scandinavia in general, a good wine can easily double- a very good wine can multiply it a few times…- your restaurant bill, hence these types of bring-your-own restaurants- I only know the ones in Aarhus- are extremely popular- you can basically bring your own wines and just have them serve you the meals).
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Song of the day: Yann Tiersen’s “Rue des cascades”
While I’ve been too busy in the last days and my “song of the day” rubrique hasn’t been updated for a while, the artist and song I propose today more than make make up for all that delay.
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Neither Goran Bregovic nor Iggy Pop needs any introduction- moreover I’ll write more about each of them and their music at some point(they happen to be in my top favourite artists, in general).
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This is hilarious (plus it teaches you some Norwegian and Danish at the same time:-)). Thanks to Greg Mankiw.
Update, 14th of March: this is the (unavoidable…) problem with YouTube, sometimes the user removes the material (or the YouTube administration has to act because of copyright infringement…).
→ Read more Song of the day: Manu Chao’s “Desaparecido”
A few years ago I saw Manu Chao (and other very interesting artists that I might talk about with other occasions) performing at the Pinkpop festival. As I remember it, I ended up somewhat dissapointed because he did not sing any of the pieces from the “Clandestino” album, which is by far my favourite from Manu Chao (instead he and his collaborators sang mostly Mano Negra songs, very good otherwise, but, well, not my favourite…).
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