Como el turrón en Navidad, como la primavera en el Corte Inglés, un año más San Valentín vuelve a los escaparates de las tiendas de regalos y las agencias de viajes o a las portadas de los telediarios para demostrarnos que nuestra tolerancia a la intoxicación publicitaria es prácticamente infinita.
En The Philologist celebramos SV a nuestra manera: regalándote cosas que ni se compran ni se venden (como el amor verdadero): músicas, poemas, canciones… que hablan de amor. Como esta «LGBT Valentines’s day playlist» que hemos preparado para recordarte que hay «otros» tipos de amor; una playlist que, como no podía ser de otra manera en The Philologist, también es descaradamente alternativa (nada de Village People ni Monica Naranjo por estos lares).
Porque el amor no conoce fronteras de género. Y el sexo menos aún.
Que la disfrutes, sol@ o en compañía…:
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LGBT SV PLAYLIST
- Macklemore – Same Love
- Indigo Girls – Romeo and Juliette
- A Great Big World – Everyone Is Gay
- Tegan and Sara – Boyfriend
- Jens Lenkman – A Postcard to Nina
- Antony & The Johnsons – Today I Am A Boy
- Ani Difranco – Two Little Girls
- Billie the Vision and the Dancers – Ask for More
- Melissa Etheridge – Your Little Secret
- Antony & The Johnsons – You are my sister
- Ingrid Michaelson – Girls Chase Boys (An Homage to Robert Palmer’s «Simply Irresistible»)
- Goddamn HIV – Mary Gauthier
- Lemonheads – Big Gay Heart
- Spectrum ft. Cryaotic & Minx
- The Magnetic Fields – Andrew in Drag
- Joan Jett – Androgynous
- Hozier – Take Me To Church
- Benny – Little Game
- Avicii – Addicted To You
- Garbage – Androgyny
- John Grant – T.C. & Honeybear
- Jen Foster – She
- Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy
- Mary Lambert – She Keeps Me Warm
- The Smiths – This Charming Man
- Katy Perry – I Kissed A Girl
- Billy Bragg – Tender Comrade
- Ben Harper – Mama’s got a Girlfriend
- Rufus Wainwright – One man guy
- Peaches – I U She
- Mika – Billy Brown
- Billie the Vision and the Dancers – I Seek a Stronger Word
Should the students of Estudios Ingleses read a non-fiction bestseller? I think they should. They would be sharing an experience with a quarter of a million Britons who seem to be reading the same book right now –and enjoying it. Oddly enough, the book is written by an American who has recorded his most recent trip around Britain. But Iowa-born Bill Bryson (pronounced braison) is not so American –he has now dual nationality American-British– and the view of Britain can be as fictional as the title The Road to Little Dribbling. Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Great Britain and wrote Notes from a Small Island, which was voted the book that best represents Britain, so forget George Mikes’ How to be an Alien. The idea of the cultural shock received by an American who tours Her Majesty’s big island is not new, not even for Bryson, and I also recommend Mark Twain’s The Innocents Abroad to those interested in the shocking experience of European uses and habits for a group of 19th century Yankees. Anyway Americans –and everybody else– are still fascinated and frustrated by British eccentric pastimes and place names. The trip begins in Bognor Regis on the south coast (Bugger Bognor! is the first chapter after a hilarious prologue) and ends in Cape Wrath, UK’s most north westerly mainland extreme. This is called the Bryson line, which is followed and abandoned at will to fetch up in Wraysbury, the failed capital of Motopia, the Cornish coastline around Lyme Regis –remember The French Lieutenant’s Woman?– or Lauharne (pronounced larn), where Dylan Thomas’s writing hut still stands perched on the cliff’s edge. There’s the sentimental return, the disappointing rediscovery and the permanent bewilderment. Bryson’s insight is both funny and perceptive so this reading will give students the opportunity to enjoy and perhaps understand some of the contradictions of Britain today.
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