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...read: e-mailing, IMing) again. Second, I believe Harvard is as good a place to date as any, and probably better than a number of colleges. Thinking otherwise merely profanes the gift certificate. This evening at L’Espalier is about the finer pleasures of life, that certain je ne sais quoi, not harping on the negative but remaining hopeful that magic seasoned with a full glass of bordeaux is out there...
...takes a considerable amount of creative panache to assemble an eye-catching outfit from the Square’s generic clothing stores. However, there’s one place on campus where everyone seems to have that certain je ne sais quoi. Romance Languages teaching fellows are so jaw-droppingly stylish that their students may find it hard to concentrate on their verb declensions. The department imports graduate students and their sense of style from all over the world. FM imported two of these style-savvy TFs to survey the budget holiday shopping scene in the Square. Generous as well...
...students are no longer blowing off their finals for the silver screen, the school’s presence still gives the Brattle that all important je ne sais quoi...
Like its even more egregious older sister Macarena, The Ketchup Song started as a holiday hit. (Europeans travel to Ibiza and return to their soggy homes with a sunny, exotic tune stuck in their heads.) The genius of Ketchup is that its bouncy chorus--"Asereje ja de je de jebe tu de jebere seibunouva/Majavi an de buguni an de buididipi"--means the same thing in Spanish as in English: nothing. The words are a gibberish homage to the opening line of the first rap song, Sugar Hill Gang's 1979 hit Rapper's Delight. America's familiarity with the original...
...understand a word that's being sung. Asereje is mostly gibberish. The title doesn't mean anything. The comprehensible parts of the lyrics tell the story of Diego, a young gypsy with Rastafarian leanings who likes clothes, dancing and music. But look at the chorus: "Asereje ja de je be jebe tu de jebere sebiunouva majabi an de bugui an de buididipi." This isn't Spanish. This is not even Spanglish, as the export version claims to be. Though he loves hip hop, Diego "can't speak English," explains Lucia. So he improvises, and much of the song is written...