Manolo says, behold! Beautiful and unusual platform sandals from Burberry in the handsome dark nickel color, but that name? What does it mean? Tonal…Check…Perspex? It sounds less like something you would wear on your feets and more like the DARPA super secret squirrel project.
Manolo says, one of the Manolo’s internet friends has the request of the Manolo. Dear Manolo, I am the Mary (well, not The Mary, but the Mary around here). I agree with you about Crocs, and you have done the Lord’s work there, and I appreciate your references to your affiliated blogs. I am a big fan of the Manolo. What I miss are the Tuesday updates on what the Manolo reads, watches and hears. I have enjoyed many tips from these postings. I understand if it is too much work for the Manolo to be able to make these…
Manolo says, it is Tuesday, time to see what the Manolo is… Listening to… Reading… Listening to… If you have not read this book, How I Became The Famous Novelist, you are missing out on the remarkably funny thing.
Manolo says, it is Tuesday, time to see what the Manolo is… Reading… Watching… Listening to… The Manolo has come to the conclusion that it is impossible to make the fully satisfying cinematic adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. Indeed, only the person who had never read the novel Persuasion could be content with the latest filmic version, staring the Sally Hawkins and Rupert Penry-Jones. Yes, there were portions of the production that were amusing, but the final fifteen minutes, which showed the Anne Elliot racing about Bath like the Sarah-Connor-style action heroine, were especially absurd. Likewise, the Manolo was…
Manolo says, it is Tuesday, time to see what the Manolo is… Reading… Watching… Listening to… One of the more surprising and pleasurable thing about living in Argentina is the incredible number movies that are shown on the television here in Buenos Aires, dozens each night spread over several different cable channels. Most of these films are the usual Hollywood movies, both recent and classic, shown most often in the original English with the subtitles (although movies dubbed into Argentine Spanish are common enough). However, also spread among the products of Hollywood are the goodly number of French, German, Japanese,…
Manolo says, it is Tuesday, time to see what the Manolo is… Watching… Reading… Listening to… Eating… The Manolo is now completely smitten with the Argentine pop genius that is Hilda Lizarazu. She has that wonderful quality of defiant vulnerability and intelligence that the Manolo associates with the best of Chrissie Hynde. And her voice, it is so beguiling. But, judge for yourself…
Manolo says, it is Tuesday in Buenos Aires, time to see what the Manolo is… Reading… Listening to… Watching… The Manolo has been in Buenos Aires for the little bit less than one week, and already he is in love with this place. It is spring here, and the trees on the street outside of the Manolo’s apartment are putting out the leaves. It is perfectly pleasant. As for the shoes, the Manolo is most happy to report that the Crocs are nowhere to be found! Finally, the Manolo has escaped this pestilence! In the Manolo’s upper middle class neighborhood,…
Manolo says, it is Tuesday, time to see what the Manolo is… Reading… Watching… Listening to… The Manolo finally managed to see the Sex and the City movie. His reaction: In the word, meh. Although supposedly set in the present day, the movie seemed dated, as if it were the daguerreotype from the previous millennium, quaintly hinting at the outdated customs and obsolete mores of the distant past. On the one of the hands, Carrie and her pals were sweeter and more vulnerable, more desperately romantic, than we have ever before seen them (although less funny). They were also more…
Manolo says, it is Tuesday, time to see what the Manolo is… Reading… Watching… Listening to… The Manolo has this past week rediscovered and become completely absorbed and enthralled with the music of Tom Waits. Perhaps it is because the Manolo was too young the first time around to fully appreciate it, but he has found unexpected depth and poignancy in these songs.
Manolo says, it is Tuesday, time to see what the Manolo is… Reading… Watching… Listening to.. Until this past weekend, when the Manolo saw the new Tropic Thunder movie, The Manolo had nearly given up on Ben Stiller. His act, once so sharp and funny, had grown stale and repetitive, and almost unbearably lazy with throw away movies such as Dodgeball. But, with this new movie he has redeemed himself, for it is one of the funniest and sharpest movies the Manolo has seen in many months, indeed, it is the work of near genius. Of the course, Tropic Thuner…
Manolo says, it is Tuesday, time to see what the Manolo is… Reading… Watching… Listening to… The workings of the human mind are truly the mystery, no? For several days now two songs have been playing continuously–round, round, baby, right round–in the Manolo’s mind. The first is the marvelously hummable “The Brotherhood of Man,” from the the quintessential 1960’s workplace musical comedy, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying. The second is, inexplicably, the opening few chords from Dolly Parton’s “Why’d You Come in Here Lookin’ Like That.“. The mysterious brain part is that, as far as the Manolo…
Manolo says, it is Tuesday, time to see what the Manolo is… Reading… Watching… Listening to… The Manolo can watch Fellini’s Roma again and again, if only to see this amazingly surreal and amusing scene again and again…