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[lapsedmodernist]

1. I went to the huge fleamarket that happens in this large expo building a couple of times a year. Snagged a few things, including one of those lamps with spinning decals inside that project images onto the "walls" of the lamp for a Euro--Fionn was entranced. The woman asked me heb je een baby? and when I said yes, she threw in a soft toy thing (I am not quite sure what sort of a creature it is, taxonomically, but it will be transferred into Fionn's possession just as soon as it makes its way through a laundry cycle). I got a cute fall/spring jacket, AND a turquoise-colored leather jacket that fits me perfectly (5 EU and 10 EU, respectively).

2. I found a place here where I can take a basic jewelry-making/metal work course next year, which I've wanted to do forever.

3. I discovered that Chumbawamba did an English version of that Italian partisan song, "Bella Ciao" that I love

and

In My Soviet Childhood, in the young pioneer choir, we sang an adaptation of that song, made into "mama ciao"--but I couldn't find that on youtube...

Comments

[beginnersmind.livejournal.com]

I love Bella Chao. I sing the traditional version to Maiya with it changed to "Maiya Zhou". I'd never heard the Chunbawamba version before. Thanks!

Here's a few Chinese remakes...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAboGBYGegk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NyTeogmKyI

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

haha, that is so cute! "Oh Maiya Zhou, Maiya Zhou, Maiya Zhou Zhou Zhou!"

Fionn is really into it, he joins in for the "ciao, ciao, ciao" enthusiastically. I have been singing it to him intermittently in Russian, but I think I am going to try and learn and teach him the original Italian version.

our sunlight is not for franchise...

[christophrawr.livejournal.com]

well done...

Re: our sunlight is not for franchise...

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I love that line!

[nunofthat.livejournal.com]

I can sing Bella Ciao in Spanish. I went to this little commie language school in the Guatemalan highlands, staying with members of a coffee growers collective, and every morning we woke up and sang this song.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

ha, your Guatemala language school sounds cooler than my Guatemala language school--which was fine, but we sang, like, children's songs.

[brooklyn-jak.livejournal.com]

One of my favorite memories is singing Bella Ciao with a bunch of Italians on a 12 hour bus journey to a Zapatista village during the Zapatista Encuentro of 1996. We sang it at the hippie summer camp my parents sent me to too. Love that song.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I love everyone's memories of singing this song in the randomest settings!

[already2late.livejournal.com]

I encountered it on the soundtrack for a German pop movie from the early 00's, sung by Anita Lane, who used to be a member of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds... that's fairly random. If you want a copy, let me know. I haven't sent you a CD in ages.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

I would love a CD! But also if you have the file on your computer, can you email it to me?

xo

[brooklyn-jak.livejournal.com]

there is a slew of bella ciao versions here:
http://burning.typepad.com/burningman/2006/04/four_5_bellas_c.html

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

awesome, thank you!

[prostheticgod04.livejournal.com]

I've never encountered that song before - or spent much time considering the arts beyond letters in Resistance Europe. This is really interesting to me. Thanks for posting this.

[lapsedmodernist.livejournal.com]

:)

[twotoedsloth.livejournal.com]

I actually learned it in... Italy.
Um... does the Mama Ciao version have all the Streets of Laredoey death references?