Journal entries in 'Things I Like' for September, 2004

My cowoker, Luis Ramos, is an incredible music fan, and nearly every day he brings in a new CD. He is a bassist, so his primary interests are music that tend to have interesting basslines: latin jazz, Spanish music, etc. I like lots of the music he brings in, and have discovered quite a few new bands while working here. One CD that he brought in recently was Ojos De Brujo (Eyes Of A Warlock). It's a Spanish band that plays a sort of modern incarnation of flamenco. The sound is predominantly flamenco, with a female singer, but with a drumset and with small, subtle electronic touches that add a lot. The music is fast and very percussive, and just really cool. Here's a few tracks to check out.

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Two recent posts by Geoffrey K. Pullum on Language Log bringing up amusing mistakes in Spanish translated closed captioning (Los Senadores Y El Presidente and Speaking Puerto Rican) got me wondering how exactly closed captioning works and just why the mistakes are often so radically different from what was actually said.

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