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The Manolo has the very funny AutoTuned songs of the talented Gregory Brothers stuck inside of his head. And now, all he hears all day long is the words “backing up, backing up, backing up,” or “hide your wife and hide your kids, hide your husbands, too.”
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There is both soothing and compelling about the voice of Leon Redbone, something that is perfectly captured in the songs in Up the Lazy River.
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This movie The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard, with Jeremy Piven, turned out to be the surprisingly funny movie. Yes, it is exceedingly ribald, impolite, and unsentimental, and yet, occasionally, such things are exactly what is required to sweep the cluttering detritus of the age from the mental machinery.
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On the one of the hands, the writing in this book Netherland is beautiful, subtle, and evocative. On the other of the hands, the characters are unsympathetic, and ultimately for the Manolo unbelievable, and the plot is the closest thing to nonthingness. The Manolo suspects that if this book had been set in, say, the Kansas City instead of the Manhattan, it would not have been named one of the New York Times Bestest Books Ever of the year 2008.
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Query: Does it make the Manolo the old hippie if so thoroughly enjoys bot the Grateful Dead and The Band?
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Manolo says, it is Tuesday, time to see what the Manolo is…
The disturbing news that Steve Carell was working on the remake of the classic French play and movie, The Dinner Game, (to be disastrously entitled Dinner for Schmucks) has sent the Manolo back to the original, which he found it to be as hilarious and as French as ever.
Did the Manolo say “French”? He meant “Super French”. From the beginning to the end, The Dinner Game is perhaps the Frenchiest movie ever made, which is why it is difficult to imagine it being remade as the American slapstick comedy. (But, one should never underestimate the persistent folly of the American movie industry.)
Speaking of the French and their Frenchiness, the movie also reminded the Manolo of something his good friend the Herr Professor Doktor B. P. von Korncrake (who tells the Manolo that his memoirs are now 90% complete and will soon be ready for publication) has written about the differences between the French and the Germans.
“The French,” I said, beginning the key paragraphs of my declamation, “invent all sorts of novel theories and schemes for ordering life and analyzing the world — existentialism, postmodernism, postcolonialism, all French — and yet these theories remain purely theoretical. The French never attempt to apply a single one to everyday living. They do not live by what they preach. And why should they? The French have the best cuisine in the world, their wine is excellent, their literature grand, their cinema tolerable, their workweek short, and their women amoral. What could they possibly change for the better?”
“The Germans,” I continued, warming to my subject, “are the exact opposite. They devise no grand theories of their own (even Fascism was imported from the Italians), and yet they are credulous, nay, enthusiastic about the theories of others, to the point that they often seek to implement those theories as part of their everyday lives. My prime example? That buffoon, Herman Hesse, who goes to Sri Lanka for a vacation and comes back with a dish towel wrapped around his head, channeling the Buddha.”
The good Professor Doktor has referred to this latter phenomenon as the “dangerously credulous streak in the German character”.
What the Manolo Is…
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Manolo says, it is Tuesday, time to see what the Manolo is…
Last year, when the Manolo was living in Argentina, he discovered the greatest television chef of them all, Francis Mallmann. And so when the Mallmann recently released his newest cookbook, Seven Fires: Grilling the Argentine Way, it was only natural that the Manolo should rush out purchase this book, and read it at the single sitting.
And now, the Manolo is happy to report that he has not been disappointed; the book is excellent.
Of the course, the written word, even with accompanying full-color photos, cannot capture the true Argentine charm of Francis Mallmann. What the Manolo first said in 2008 holds true today..
If you do not know Francis Mallman, you must learn of him immediately. He is not just the greatest chef ever produced by Argentina, but also perhaps the most completely self-confident and instinctively correct lifestyle maven to emerge in the past 25 years. Compared to Mallmann, Martha Stewart is the dowdy and self-doubting hausfrau.
To watch Mallmann is to know immediately how one should live one’s life. And his masterful cooking show, Un lugar en Medoza, is both the oddest and most satisfying cooking show ever to appear on television, anywhere. It is, above all else, completely mesmerizing.
There are several videos available on YouTube, including the whole episode of Un lugar en Mendoza (in three parts).
Why is Mallmann so mesmerizing? Here is the person at HotelChatter explaining Mallmann.
Mallmann has a quality you don’t find much in hoteliers: pleasantness. Not only that, he’s a scholar, a gentleman, and a romantic. His poetry collection greatly exceeds his cookbook collection. He smokes good cigars. He likes camping and mucking around on his Blackberry. He dresses like John Wayne dressing up as Oscar Wilde. He would make a good character on Lost.
Speaking of camping, here is the video of Mallmann camping…
This is on the Laguna Garzon, near the Pueblo Garzon, which home of the fabulous Mallmann restaurant and hotel, Garzon.
Finally, you must see the video below, even though the quality is execrable. You must see it for the coat that Mallmann wears…
This is how to live!
What the Manolo is…
What the Manolo Is…
Manolo says, it is Tuesday, time to see what the Manolo is…
The Manolo has come to the work of Frederick Buechner very late, and regretfully so. Godric is, without doubt, simply brilliant.
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