a day of random research
Jan. 31st, 2007 07:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swan_towerToday has featured two e-mails to random strangers about research questions (for writing, not academic purposes). Climatology and contact information for a Spanish musician -- we'll see if either turns up results.
(Yes, I'm still trying with "Hijo de la luna." A very helpful person pointed me at the Spanish poem that inspired Cano's song, but having translated it, turns out it doesn't contain the elements I'm basing my story on. I did, however, come up with a purportedly official website for Mecano that had some actual contact information [unlike Cano's own site], so I'm making another attempt to find the man and ask him if I can story-ize his song. The site is even in English! Though I said in my e-mail that I can correspond in Spanish if necessary. As tough as that might be for me, I kind of want to, partly to continue validating my supposed proficiency in the language, and partly to not be a Stupid Monolingual American.)
(Okay, that parenthetical digression ended up longer than the supposed body of the post. Oh well.)
(Yes, I'm still trying with "Hijo de la luna." A very helpful person pointed me at the Spanish poem that inspired Cano's song, but having translated it, turns out it doesn't contain the elements I'm basing my story on. I did, however, come up with a purportedly official website for Mecano that had some actual contact information [unlike Cano's own site], so I'm making another attempt to find the man and ask him if I can story-ize his song. The site is even in English! Though I said in my e-mail that I can correspond in Spanish if necessary. As tough as that might be for me, I kind of want to, partly to continue validating my supposed proficiency in the language, and partly to not be a Stupid Monolingual American.)
(Okay, that parenthetical digression ended up longer than the supposed body of the post. Oh well.)
