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My daughter Zoe and her friend Nil exchange youtube tunes. Here’s the latest find.

http://www.julietavenegas.net/

I can thank Zoe and Nil for Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Shakira and Patito Feo. 10 year olds Keepin’ me hip.

See it here. My first time. Scary, fun… Bring it on.

OK Felix has been reading the blog and was apparently offended by my comparing the sounds of killing cats to the cobla (the traditional sardana orchestra) so he sent me a file of some traditional Catalan music played on the gralla (ok insert the word “Catalan” every time the linked web page says “Spanish”). This is not the music for the Sardana and is actually quite sweet:

Gralla

Here’s the cobla Sabadell playing a sardana:

lescomares

And here is a cat fight:

catfight

See!

Listen I play the harmonica and there are times when I think would rather have my skin pulled off with a set of pliers than have to listen to a squeally tin sandwich.

Of the three the Gralla wins hands down. But…  sorry… it still ain’t Duke Ellington.

My short film “Walter Ate a Peanut” made it into the Cannes Film Festival. Things like this don’t happen very often so I and Darrell Williams (AKA “the writer”) decided to go. We ended up being finalist in 2 major competitions sponsored by Amazon and The National Film Board of Canada. We were slightly confused as to how it all worked so we found ourselves walking around looking at things and talking to people. Here’s a few pictures.