At least, the TV station has SAP and Close Caption?

However, I find the German dubbing a worse solution. The casting of voice actors is so poor in most cases that even Germans criticize it. There’s no preservation of character through the voice. The Dutch solution of subtitles on everything except children’s programming remains the best.

I am eagerly awaiting your “Venture Bros” post.

@Christian
You and I both know you just blew your whole Polish wad on that sentence.

kaolin at gud magazine.

Always happy to stop by anywhere that links to GUD And especially our contributors’ spots.

BTW Christian, I know the Polish narration is frustrating for you, but have you considered trying to learn Polish? It has been 5 years after all, and you seem to have no plans of returning, and your wife is Polish. Plus, it seems logical that if Dudikoff can be bilingual, that P Criddy should be able to at least stumble his way through.

The music scene sounds fascinating. I bet Girl Talk would be HUGE over there if they ever heard one of his songs.

Fox: You’re not prying at all.

Hip hop is huge here, and there is a large Polish hip hop movement that’s been going on for a while. The artists even emulate the “gangsta” lifestyle in their music and videos. Other than that, the music is all over the place, with a majority of it being American. A typical radio station can jump from Britney Spears to Leonard Cohen to Abba to Tom Waits to the Beatles to Iggy Pop (it seems like I hear “The Passenger” every day). What’s interesting is that they don’t categorize the work by dates; it’s all lumped together. I love this, because at clubs you’ll see young people dancing to “California Dreaming” with the same enthusiasm and excitement as they would anything new.

There also seems to be an unusual fascination with the Pulp Fiction soundtrack as I tend to hear it all of the time at various clubs and bars (I can’t express properly how much they love Tarantino; there was even a bar here called Pub Fiction).

I’ll probably write more on this topic someday.

Thanks for reading.

Kapuscinski sounds interesting. I haven’t read anything but slush and stuff to review in a very, very long time.