I ❤ The Paris Review

My favourite thing to read while travelling is The Paris Review.  It has like full-spectrum literature that’s perfect for reading while getting slightly drunk on airplanes.

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So I just bought a whole stack of old issues from the sixties, seventies and eighties.  You can still get them pretty cheap from sources on the interwebs.

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Man, look at those covers.  Makes me want the next holiday to happen now.

NOW!

WFC Ecuador: Feriado

Very metal.

I finally went through the curiosly divisioned (is that a word?) “Spanish/South American/African” shelves at the video store.

As suspected, it was 87% Spanish, 22% Mexican and 13% “other”. (Lots of copro-ductions.) I only found two films from countries previously not covered (of which this is one), so it’s getting really difficult to just stumble onto films now. I guess everything will have to be shopped via the Intertubes from now one.

Anyway anyway, yet another interesting film from South America: Still the part of the world with the highest good to bad ratio. Good actors, too. The fat kid is really convincing as an asshole.

It’s a really sweet film.

Holiday. Diego Araujo. 2014. Ecuador.

Canalazo

  • 20 cl water
  • 10 cl light brown sugar
  • 5 cl rum
  • juice from one small orange
  • 6 cinnamon sticks
  • star anise as garnish

Heat sugar and water until dissolved. Add the rest and heat, but do not boil. Pour into a cup (without taking the cinnamon sticks out) and add garnish.

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