stramberiji minn madwar id-dinja

Curse ov Dialect

Nibdew b'dawn. Curse ov Dialekt - naqra hip-hop teatriku Awstraljan. Il-membri huma maori, pakistani, macedonjan... u Malti. Grupp stramb. Anke l-kuncett ta' hip-hop Awstraljan stramb, ahseb u ara l-ezistenza ta' dan il-grupp.


Kotba (The Libération u Le Guardian)

Ghal min jista' jsibha hemm suppliment tajjeb hafna fil-Libération tal-bierah fuq il-francophonie. Ghalija li ma nafx hafna kittieba Frankofoni li m'humiex Franco-Belgo-Suisse-Québécois kien minjiera ta' informazzjoni dwar is-suwed u l-gharab li qed jiktbu bil-lingwa tal-barrani. Naqbel ma' l-artiklu ta' Sharon (M.I.A. barra mill-bloggosfera) fit-Times of Malta - li tikteb f'lingwa barranija taghqad u jkun hemm certu kamaraderì bejn il-kittieba li m'ghandhom xejn x'jaqsmu ma' xulxin.

Fost il-kittieba, l-iktar wiehed li hadt grazzja mieghu hu certu Abdourahman A. Waberi (Djibouti) ghax ghandu sense of humour tajjeb li bih jghid hafna veritajiet...

Fl-artiklu tieghu beda kull sentenza b'"J'écris en français..." u fost ir-risposti kien hemm
"...pour que l'on continue à me poser sempiternellement la question 'Pourquoi écrivez-vous en français'",
"...parce que je suis un pur produit postcolonial",
"...pour voir mon nom dans les pages 'Culture' de Libération",
"...en attendant de bien dominer la langue de Woody Allen et Bret Easton Ellis".

Ir-Review ta' The Guardian ta' weekend ilu (li spiccajt naqra l-bierah fuq l-ajruplan ghax ma kellix cans qabel) kien interessanti hafna, imma ghalkemm l-artikli huma intelligenti u miktuba b'Ingliz isahhrek, huma wisq qishom ewlogiji (hassejtha partikolarment fl-ewwel artiklu dwar Beckett din). Beckett kien narcissist liba minn dawk il-horox li ta' min itih xebgha stanga kif imiss ha johorgu mill-adorazzjoni tieghu nnifsu u jgibhu f'postu (u la qeghdin hemm aghtu daqtejn lill-Hemingway, dak il-giddieb). Ma narax ghalfejn xi hadd ma jistax jikteb hekk (u jekk jikteb xi haga hazina m'hemmx ghalfejn jigi jigri sentenza wara biex "jikkoregi" l-image tieghu). Nixtieq li certu kittieba ma jkunux daqshekk in awe tas-suggetti taghhom. Artiklu tajjeb imma kemm ser iddum taqra ewlogji li ma jipproponux il-kittieb minn lenti differenti u mhux daqshekk reverenzjali. Dan l-ahhar anke kwazi-ewlogji ghal Milsovic qrajt! (fejn hi dik l-istanga...)

Muzika accessibbli

Katerine - Robots après tout
Elektro-pop imhanzer. Hemm diska fuq kif beda jsegwi wahda u meta daret kienet Marine Le Pen u hi bdiet issegwih madwar Parigi.

Ivor Cutler - Ludo
Poeta foniku (sound poet) assurd minn Glasgow li miet dan l-ahhar

Françoiz Breut - Une saison volée
Chanson Franciz jidhol fir-renju tal-pop intelligenti...

The Perceptionists - Black Dialogue
Hip-hop kif suppost ikun. Intelligenti u rima/ritmu mexxej. Ir-rappers huma naqra wisq "tfal sew" bhal Jeru the Damaja jew Public Enemy xi minn daqqiet, imma l-analizi tal-mod ta' kif jitkellmu s-suwed (ebonics) u kif din hi marbuta ma' flus u popolarità llum hi partikolarment tajba.

Tom Zé - Estudando O Pagode: Na Opereta Segregamulher e Amor
It-tifel bizzar tal-tropicalia braziljana johrog b'album iehor rebbieh u accessibbli (imma xorta stramb - stramb daqs Araça Azul ta' Caetano Veloso!)

Axolotl - Sad Hotel
Erm... ok.. qed nigdeb. M'humiex prooooopja accessibbli imma xorta tajjeb dan l-album. late night howls of damaged electronics and otherworldly layered violin, layered and overdriven.

Min irid inizzel xi haga minghandi kull ma jrid jaghmel jiftah is-SoulSeek u jfittixni.


Franzzzzza

Contrat Premier Embauche
Cazz Prim Erdghu
Constellazjoni tal-Priministru Etereali
Cotra lejn Prekarità u Estru (socjali)

Inglixx

I'm compiling a glossary of Maltese-English terms. Suggestions?

Blue film (porn film) - also used in India, Pakistan
Bottle shop (off licence) - also used in Australia, New Zealand

The first is a word I already use (although I usually prefer 'film nittien' in Maltese or 'porn film' in English). The quietly subversive streak in me will make me use the above words more often now. When I learnt that "savoir" is used instead of "pouvoir" in Belgium (and only in Belgium) about a year ago, I started using it. It wasn't a conscious effort - I just happened to say it once and before I knew it I had savezed and saised my entire gallic vocab.


Caw ittra

L-ittra/email/blog (araw il-kummenti ta' l-ahhar post tieghi) ser titlaq ghada. Il-peer pressure kattiva eh?