.. more stuff I can't find..

Yesterday I talked, amongst other things, about intelligent/witty rap and hip-hop, which seems not to exist in Spanish. I even gave you a few examples of what I take to be "good" rap music in French and English.... have a look... maybe you know some Spanish bands which do this.

Anyhow, while I am on that theme, what about particular types of novel... for instance, are there any Spanish novels or plays which are witty, comical, and intelligent all at the same time... ? some examples of the sort of thing I mean....

[a] Nice Work and other David Nobbs novels.
[b] The Knights Tale ... Trevor Jones... well that isn't actually a novel!
[c] Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
[d] Catch 22 ( Joseph Heller)... I've got the Sp. translation ( Trampa 22)
[e] Money... Martin Amis
[f] Arcadia... a play by Tom Stoppard
[g] Barcelona Plates... short stories by Alexei Sayle
[h] One for the Money ... Janet Evanovich

If you have read some of these and know a Spanish author with a similar style, I would like to know, and I bet lots of other people would too.

Here's another question.... I find it very easy to get CDs of brilliant French bands at reasonable prices on Amazon or amazon.fr.... bands like Noir Desir, Saez, Diam's, Dolly etc.

When I try this with Spanish bands... like the ones I have been featuring in this blog... I find they are very very expensive and/or unavailable, and there isn't as far as I know, a Spanish version of Amazon.

Does anyone know of a way of getting round this situation?

I seem to be asking a lot of questions lately without telling you anything very useful... I will nxt time, OK ? In the meantime..

I wanted to show you this song a while ago but "they" wouldn't let me.... but they seem to have changed their mind.... it's Diez Minutos by Efecto Mariposa....



here's the ( unchecked as yet) words...

Lyrics to Diez Minutos :
La calle esta vacia,
hay lluvia en el cristal,
la calle esta tan fria y no te veo pasar,
y hoy te espero te espero,
y desespero en tu ausencia.

Quisiera tocarte, acercarme un poco mas,
pero sé que estas tan lejos, al verte pasar,
en tan solo diez minutos,
nuestra historia que empieza, se acaba.

[Estribillo]
Y si fuera capaz de mirarte
y decir lo que siento.
Si pudiera tenerte mas tiempo,
del tiempo que tengo.
Si pudieras venir a mi lado
tan solo un momento.
Si solo fuera capaz de romper el silencio,
y no tenerte en el tiempo.

Quisiera descubrirte, estar dónde tu estás,
mirar desde tus ojos, poder ir dónde tu vas.
En mi torre te espero, y desespero en tu ausencia.

Porque éres la razón de mi ser,
mi anhelo, mi perder, destino.
Ahora solo vuelve quedate,
diez minutos conmigo, conmigo.

[Estribillo]
Y si fuera capaz de mirarte
y decir lo que siento.
Si pudiera tenerte mas tiempo,
del tiempo que tengo.
Si pudieras venir a mi lado
tan solo un momento.
Si solo fuera capaz de romper el silencio,
y no tenerte en el tiempo.

Y si fuera capaz de mirarte
y decir lo que siento.
Si pudiera tenerte mas tiempo,
del tiempo que tengo.
Si pudieras venir a mi lado
tan solo un momento.
Si solo fuera capaz de romper el silencio.

Y si fuera capaz de mirarte
y decir lo que siento.
Si pudiera tenerte mas tiempo,
del tiempo que tengo.
Si pudieras venir a mi lado
tan solo un momento.
Si solo fuera capaz de romper el silencio,
y no tenerte en el tiempo.


(Gracias a Nuubee_x por esta letra)
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