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Fun with La Bottine Souriante lyrics
In which Anna takes a stab at a REAL rough translation effort of “Pinci-pincette”, an early La Bottine Souriante song. Without a single glance at Google Translate, even!
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La Bottine Souriante is here to rock up your Thursday
I may give most of my love to Le Vent du Nord, De Temps Antan, and Genticorum, but I wouldn’t have known about any of those bands if not for La Bottine Souriante. There are REASONS that mighty, mighty band still commands my attention. And they just gave me another one: a 46-minute video of…
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Oh look yet MORE medical fun
Words you don’t really want to hear in connection with your spouse: “emergency eye surgery”. Guess what Dara gets to do today!
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New big carbon fiber flute!
I got a new flute! And it sounds lovely, but I’m not sure I can actually comfortably PLAY it.
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The most important thing about the Great Big Sea show tonight
Anna FINALLY gets her picture taken with Alan Doyle, lead singer of Great Big Sea, and somehow manages NOT to spontaneously combust on the spot.
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Album review: Autio Huvila, by Kardemimmit
Surprise! I got given the album Autio Huvila by the Finnish band Kardemimmit! So here’s a review of the album.
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More medical thoughts
In which Anna gets introspective and thinks thinky thoughts. If you don’t know me personally, you can skip this one if you like. This post is mostly about my need to vent about current medical developments.
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Ordinary Day, en français!
I’ve just translated the entirety of Great Big Sea’s “Ordinary Day” into French! And for my next trick, I’ll actually learn to sing it. With podorythmie, because this thing IS in 4/4, y’know.
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The game plan
I get to have surgery in November, and the game plan is in place. Also, generating precancerous tissues sucks as a superpower.
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This just in: well, my week’s been ruined now
If you need me I’ll be over here having had my week completely shot to hell.
