DEC
2010
08

And Thy Name Shall Be Accursed

Manolo asks, do you have frenemies? If so, the Manolo has found the perfect Christmas gift for their children…. Available at the Amazon.

DEC
2010
07

Pearl Harbor, Redux…. The Otamatone!

Manolo says, from the peoples who brought you Pearl Harbor comes the latest Japanese aggression … the otamatone! Music that shall live in infamy!

OCT
2010
09

It is Saturday!

Manolo says, time to get up and boogie! That’s Right!

JUL
2010
04

The Fourth of July!

Manolo says, perhaps the single most delightfully jingoistic scene ever to appear in any Hollywood movie, featuring Soldiers, Boy Scouts, Patriots, Cowboys, Uncle Sam, and Teddy Roosevelt armed with the sword!

JUN
2010
26

Athiests Don’t Have No Songs

Manolo says, it is funny because it is true! P.S. The tip of the hat to Vanderleun

MAY
2010
07

In Jedem Klaren Bach

Manolo says, if you were to compile the list of things that make the Manolo exceedingly happy… Fritz Wunderlich singing Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin would be very near the top. One of the great tenor voices, so filled with robust vitality, singing one of the most beautiful songs ever written. And Wilhelm Müller’s poem is heartfelt simplicity itself. Ich hört ein Bächlein rauschen Wohl aus dem Felsenquell, Hinab zum Tale rauschen So frisch und wunderhell. Ich weiß nicht, wie mir wurde, Nicht, wer den Rat mir gab, Ich mußte auch hinunter Mit meinem Wanderstab. Hinunter und immer weiter Und immer…

APR
2010
24

Lin Yu Chun Should Be on Glee

Manolo says, the Manolo has started the Facebook group dedicated to the proposition that the producers of Glee should cast Taiwanese singing sensation Lin Yu Chun as the Foreign Exchange Student. Please be so kind as to consider joining this group, and suggesting to your friends that they should also join. Together we can change the course of the musical television history!

APR
2010
23

Turn Around, Bright Eyes

Manolo says, what can the Manolo possibly say that would do full justice to the utter awesomeness of this? All the Manolo can do now is renew his call to the producers of Glee to cast Lin Yu Chun as the recurring Foreign Exchange Student character. Here is more evidence to support the Manolo’s belief…

APR
2010
14

Can the Manolo Make the Suggestion?

Dear ABC Television Network Casting Peoples, The Manolo believes he has found the perfect person to play the role of Wacky Foreign Exchange Student on Glee. P.S. Previously…Wayne Newton!

APR
2010
08

Lin Yu Chun, Vegas Bound

Manolo says, speaking of oddballs with talent…Lin Yu Chun.. Everyone is going on about the Whitney imitation, but for the Manolo, the following video is the much better performance… And now, the question is, what to do with the pudgy, funny-looking, teenaged man-child with the girlish-beautiful voice who likes singing in the foreign language? Well, the Manolo can think of one very prominent role model for Lin Yu Chun…

MAR
2010
04

The Love Marriage

Manolo says, and now to make up for the Manolo’s absence, he gives you the incomparable Wilbur Sargunaraj, destined to be perhaps the greatest superstar ever produced by the internets.

FEB
2010
11

Professor Plumcake Sets You Straight

Manolo says, about the Who and that “CSI Medley”