Yes on the Massive attack, plus Portishead. They’re my jam

I’ve learnt a few words in Greek, thanks to Harlequin books I read as a teenager. I’ve learnt countless English idioms that made me have a better grasp of the language (EFL teacher here). I’ve learnt the propper order of the English peerage. And, jokes aside, I’ve learnt so much more about human nature. Reading is one…

Dolores Ibarruri is the origin of my nickname, yes, thanks for noticing.

As a native, I can tell you that most of the traditional cakes, sweets and biscuits in Portugal and Spain originated in convents. Most are very heavy in eggs, because nuns used to wash clothes and they used the egg whites their tennants paid as tribute to starch their habits. They used the yolks then to make delicious…

Yeah, because more instances of indentured servitude is just what the world needs right now.

Everyone has poor judgment at that age. You have to hit thirty to start being rational IMO.

I’m almost forty FFS, these make me feel like a dirty old woman. But he’s just so yummy it’s worth it.

The dress is not the best thing she ever wore but it’s her body, her choice. I’ve just gone to the original site and the comments there are vile. I would hate to bethe target of all that judgey virtiol.

I live in Portugal and a state-funded programme like that has been in place since 2001 I think, give or take a year. It hasn’t of course been consensual. Your welfare queens narrative has its equivalent in Roma families getting huge incomes, perfectly showcasing the inherent racism of right-wing politics. And, as I…

We have that in Europe, at least in my country we do. It used to be called Guaranteed minimum income and it’s now called Social inclusion income and they give a certain amount of money to poorer families. Not that our current right wing government and the troika haven’t taken steps to destroy it, but it still exists,…

You had good taste, at least IMO. By 2001 I was 26, and lived through eighties new romantics, grunge and post-grange. Sum 41 and Blink 182 were just derivative and inconsequential for someone who still remembered real punk. Getting old gives you perspectivre

Mark Ronson has a serious knack to recycle and mashup (should I say sample, quote?) vintage music cool vibes and there’s something fifties melodrama about this song that’s perfect for Lana. That being said, only very rarely do I feel like listening to LDR brand of existencial ennui. I came of age in the nineties, so…

Oh honey, the majority of dirtbag dwelers are blind spots to me, that’s what I get for being almost forty and out of the loop.

I love masses and requiems too, I listened to Faure’s requiem almost everyday while pregnant, it just soothed me. Glee’s soundtrack is no big deal but I can remember an exception, chech out Amber Reily singing Candy man. Oh and a really old track, from sister act II I think, the musical acts are pretty good. And with…

You’re either very young, and therefore sincere in your zeal, or very bitter so as not being able to see the shades of grey in reality. I’m an old and not in the mood to argue with an internet stranger. Have a nice evening.

I didn’t say Dukes of Hazard or the Cosby Show are fine art, did I? Actually I had Heidegger, a brilliant philosopher with Nazi ties in mind when I answered. And Twain himself was a brilliant writer. But if you think that, as a teacher of almost twenty years I am an idiot for advocating teaching with context, well,…

Brava, I love choral music. Smells like teen spirit in the beggining of Moulin rouge is a must, fabulous. And classical pieces, two in particular come to mind: Spem in alium , by Thomas Tallis and Mahler’s 8th Symphony of a thousand, particularly the last movement. Youtube it (especialy Gustavo Dudamel’s version), you…

I’m kinda conflicted about that one because art, literature and science are often produced by deeply flawed individuals. And when it comes to genious, do you disregard a brilliant piece of art, writing, philosophy because of who produced it? I think that wouldn’t be wise, you’d be missing out on a lot of interesting…

Opera tends to wake my little revolutionary up, it’s the only reason that’s not there. But add watever you want, the more, the merrier.

I have a current youtube playlist for my kid that makes me sleep like nobody’s business, Him, not so much, but it does soothe him. It’s classical though. If someone out there has a fussy kid like mine before falling asleep, I highly recomend it.