tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21757830883318683112024-03-08T05:37:09.587+01:00Just Stuffinfotaupehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06561874029662599392noreply@blogger.comBlogger234125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175783088331868311.post-107930493445189882022-02-03T19:02:00.013+01:002023-04-29T16:27:42.763+02:00About musicians becoming repressors..This article by Winston Marshall for Bari Weiss on Substack is spot on ๐๐๐ <div>Hard to find an artist these days who isn't either a) preaching the official line with the utmost intransigence an bigotry, calling for "dissidents" to be cancelled or b) just self censoring, silent.</div><div>No true rebels, no brave free spontaneous artists. </div><div>What an ugly face so many people have shown lately. Not Marshall, thankfully, and those few like him almost make it all worth it. They have a heart and a light that might even make up for the millions of sheepish idiots and their corrupt leaders.</div><div><br /></div><div><div><script type="text/javascript">
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The Vaccines - I Never Go Out On Fridays - Or saturdays, or sundays....<br />
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Justin recently released another video with new duo The Halloweens. Again, funny and uplifting with the usual touch of poignancy, as above:<br />
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Not going to say disappointed at the management of the crisis by national authorities and international organizations because who's expecting any efficiency from them. Yet excited to see those bravely pushing for better ways, new possibly effective approaches like stratified lockdown, rational scientific ideas not based on irrational fear or partisan interests or primitive hasty answers or least controversial safest actions or that which the dumbest masses will approve like we see now. </div>
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Same response as in the middle ages? Wait until it's upon us and then shut down?. We should do better. At least here in Spain some private citizens and companies are pulling for all of us as the government fails miserably in every department and day by day falls to new lows. But I don't want to talk politics. These crisis always show the best and the worst in mankind.<br />
We are at the worst of it now, a little more steepness before we start
to walk our way back, I think. Then the economic crisis with this
government at the helm, a far left chavist vicepresident who even now is
trying to maneuver to push nationalization of companies and comunist
measures (same guy who's broken quarantine twice to preach about safety)
and our comunist minister of Labour (anyone curious, look at pictures of her this days, how worried
she is. Seems she spends her time at the stylist, pathetic) ... Ah, I'm
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Glad my parents are abroad at the moment, in a safer place though that's not saving them from worry and anguish. Keeping in touch with my older family, some have caught it but so far are well..<br />In the moments of worry and fear most will have, of facing our own mortality much more vividly than usual.. I had a pretty bad experience a few years ago. Kept the circle extremely small, if I had little time I didn't want to spend it on whatsapp and phone calls. But still parents made it larger than I wanted, and people telling me to be positive gutted me most. Why be positive? Be realistic and be you, please. You are going through enough to have to force yourself to be anything or pretend for the sake of others. Process things your way, within limits. A guy writing on google saying he was very pesimistic and yet survived really helped, lol. But everyone's different and need to hear different things. I am practical and therefore what helped me and what I try to convey now is don't lose perspective. It's a time to catch up with acceptance and what life is. And to be proactive and help best we can, there are a million small ways. We may feel sorry for ourselves but pls think of parents of children with cancer, for instance, you'll see what I mean by perspective. <br />
- and I'm fine now btw, turned out to be just another pathology diagnostics mistake. <br />
My cousin works in a hospital, as of yesterday in hers there are respirators for everyone but that is not the case in every hospital. In others those over 65 are sedated and deprived of a few more years of life. The biggest ice rink in Madrid is the new morgue. Many of our nurses and doctors wear trash bags for protection, our pharmacists are out of masks too as are the police.. the government is too useless to buy the proper equipment fast. Tough times, injustice and useless people in charge harder to bear than ever. Almost 10.000 health workers have caught it (data coming from the government, so expect it to be even higher).<br />
Numbers in Spain are not to be trusted as the overwhelming majority of people with symptoms remain untested. Only those with acute cases in hospital are tested (those and the politicians, our president's brother though he didn't have symptoms, his wife, father in law..they have plenty of respirators unused waiting just in case too. O socialism, all the ministers who have fallen ill have gone to private hospitals...). Our health minister is a philosopher who doesn't even know the name of the main drug used against COVID19... And the main reason we have so many cases is our government had a big concentration planned for the 8th (feminism, only socialists and communists, all the other parties were yelled at and forced to leave. Basically the left's best publicity stunt), and they weren't willing to cancel and therefore couldn't take any measures against concentrations until after.<br />
Let's point out that in Spain when the women's right to vote was proposed and passed in 1931 it was done by liberal Clara Campoamor, who defended it against main opponent Victoria Kent (SOCIALIST) who not only opposed it fervently but who once it was passed tried to thwart it with different maneuvers. But now socialists are the ones who decide who can fight for equality and who can not. Pathetic.<br />
With this imposed quarantine the government has taken measures restricting citizens freedom like free access to people's cell phone locations or press conferences hardly ever taking any questions -and when they do questions are selected by the president's censor (he calls himself something else, but that's what he is). In the middle of this massive crisis, with our country already having big trouble because of our deficit (and thank god for EU's supervision, otherwise it would be even worse), our government decides to give away 15 million euros to private televisions. Televisions that have big PROFITS! with celebs getting huge paychecks- I don't want to pay taxes for that, it's pathetic. It is of course a fact now that the mainstream media is their servant. Very worrisome, comes from having the far left deep in the government despite only having less than 13% of votes. First thing they go for, always..<br />
No tax reductions, btw. And making clear their intention to nationalize, appropriate private earnings with the excuse of this emergency...all for the greater good 'course (that coming from our Communist vp, who just moved to a massive house with big swimming pool, guest house and tons of service). Great way to ruin a fantastic country (only with a lot of stupid envious lazy sheep in it). <br />
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This made me smile, authentically chaotic well intended, fresh, from <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #9fc5e8;"><b>Chris Martin</b></span></span>:</div>
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For that he plotted with every pro independence party in Spain (including Bildu, the new name for Batasuna, former ETA terrorists' advocates) and the far-left Venezuela style party, all in small minority, leaving outside all the moderate (and most voted) parties.<br />
His excuse: the party in power (PP, most voted) was guilty of too many corruption scandals (not the actual people governing at the moment, but other individuals belonging to that party in the past, the last case for illegal financing). This ultra cynical individual forgets that his own party has had far more corruption cases and is in fact currently being tried for the biggest corruption scandal in our history: the "EREs case". I wanted to add a link but the first results in English are all conveniently from El Pais - waay biased, won't bother-, or others pretty unkwnown which would be dismissed. So, basically in Andalucia, where socialists governed for almost 40 years -sistematically achieving the worst employment and education numbers in all of Spain- millions and millions (around 700 of them) disappeared from the money destined to the unemployed: it was spent by socialist administrators on friends' companies, ilegal pre retirements, nights out with plenty of drugs and hookers... I'd say that beats illegal financing). Should he resign for it then, applying his own rule?. Spoiler alert: apparently not.<br />
A few days after his coup, this guy was already hard at work. In the main issues?. No: redecorating the Moncloa (where the president lives), using the official airplane to fly to an in law's wedding an hour away by car, then to go to see the Killers at a music festival with his wife. An airplane that costs a ton per flight, and had up to that point been very scarcely used (we're getting out of a crisis here). A weeek later, his wife got a fantastic position (created from scratch just for her) in a company that receives grants from the government. WOW. In a few months he's managed the worst employment numbers in the last 6 years, turning the tide from sistematically being reduced to a fast rise in the negative. All that having brought taxes to a new high and public expenditure way beyond budget. Crime, insecurity, are worse than ever. He's also risen the social tension in Spain to red levels, allowing the most virulent independentists their every whim and leaving the rest (the vast majority) defenceless (and we don't only have independentists in Catalonia, oh no). Meanwhile he's been practically absent, travelling around the world with his wife for free, avoiding facing the congress or the press to the point of ridicule. After all, it's been scandal after scandal with his government ministers.<br />
He's been proven a pathological liar who's done all he said he wouldn't do.There's youtube to prove it.<br />
Read, for instance, about how he tormented a former politician for irregularities in a master's degree in her cv, obviously asking for her resignation, and then read about his own doctorate, the strange tribunal, his plagiarized thesis (more than half of it!). Since his case was eon light years worse, should he have resigned?. You guessed right. Cynism beyond belief. <br />
But he has tv and most of the press on his side...<br />
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We're all supposed to vote for him because otherwise the "republican"/conservatives/right wing parties may pact with the terrible far right -new party in town (VOX)- and all sorts of nightmares will happen. <br />
How easy it is to trick some... To me HE is the worst nightmare.<br />
He goes hand in hand with the far left, but apparently those are swell. <br />
What can I say, I hate far anything. Wouldn't want to choose between far right and far left, and I refuse to agree to the far left suddenly being cool and fine and normal. Not to me. At all. Specially after Venezuela. Terrible <a href="https://www.abc.es/internacional/crisis-venezuela/" target="_blank">pictures posted today</a> on twitter. Who wants that for their country?.<br />
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To clarify: those parties Sanchez &co refer to as "right wing" are:<br />
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Ciudadanos: nothing right wing about them ever. If anything they're more
left leaning than right, their intention is to be the middle ground. Center. But since they have publicly said they wouldn't agree to a pact with him anymore, given his not defending our Constitution, he just conveniently relocated them to that category.<br />
2. PP: Moderate right wing. <br />
3. VOX: actually, hate
to disappoint but nothing "far" about them. Right wing period. But they erupted with such force that putting
that label on them was super handy. Suddenly with that word they were the pest and nobody messes
with the definition or they may get infected. Nobody say they're not radical
because you may then be accused of being one of them yourself. Well, I call
things by their name. Their biggest crime is displaying the Spanish flag a lot, which here because of our past (Franco) is not seen with simpathy by many who associate it with him. Their mistake, because this is our flag, no ideology attached, and about time we stop giving it the wrong connotations. I don't agree with certain things, but not xenophobes
or homophobes or "facha". So beat them with fair play, oppose them on
things they say, don't just be lazy demagogues. Too many of those
already.<br />
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We do have "far" parties. Bu the only ones that get a considerable amount of votes are far left (though they're never called that in the press): Podemos, whose leader Iglesias rose to stardom fighting for the workers rights against the "casta". Casta is the idea of the stablished political parties full of people who have always been politicians, who've lost contact with reality and use politics to enrich themselves. Fantastic idea, I fully support it.<br />
BUT the only thing this guy has done, aside from being a paid adviser to Maduro (hello, they were justifying him until a couple of months ago!), is very undemocratic "escraches" (public targeted harassing to democratic parties, like <a href="https://twitter.com/rosadiezglez" target="_blank">Rosa Dรญez</a> who used to be a socialist and is now in UPD, again, center, not even right wing, and who by the way is a most corageous woman who spent a long time being a target for terrorists ETA. She put her life on the line for democracy. Shameful), saying publically he would beat a certain famous female journalist until she bled (but he's king of feminists) and switching a modest flat in Madrid for a most expensive huge house with a pool and maids in the outskirts. Yeah.. He doesn't wear suits though and he's kinda hippy, so it does the trick for many. His right hand man, one more who now lives in the poshest, most expensive neighbourhood in Madrid, recently lost a lawsuit: his aide (who cleaned for him etc and who he directly hired) had no employment contract and was being paid less than the minimum wage they angrily demand....How there can still be a single idiot out there who votes or believes these fakes beats me. They're even worse than the casta.<br />
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And we have the separatists. And you can want idependence and fight for it. But you can't behave like a bully to all those who don't think like you. Or fill the streets with violence and antidemocratic behaviour denying even freedom of speech to those who don't think like them. But that's another story for another day. <br />
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Anyway. I'm tired of manipulation and I fear what's coming if the scruple-less useless Sanchez continues in power, specially needing the far left and independentists support as it seems will be the case.<br />
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Many people fool themselves that this guy is going to be some Robin Hood taking the rich guys' money through prohibitive taxes and giving it to them through benefits while they loiter around the house. And they will put on blinders 'cos that's convenient. To start with, that is not my idea of a good way to earn a living (I'd rather have a government that protects the conditions for me to have a proper job), but regardless: the ones bearing the taxes are not the rich. And the ones receiving the money are not the ones that need it most. It just doesn't work that way, just read some History or look at our situation after Sanchez's few months destroying. This only leads to a massive crisis. Again.<br />
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I hate when celebs and the like get political and tell me who to vote. I wouldn't want to do that. I just hope people choose between one of the parties (any of them) that will not treat us like we're dumb, will have some dignity, and will govern for all of us. And in the process won't make our country break and hurt.<br />
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Don't believe me, check my facts. <br />
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Tags: Pedro Sanchez, Pablo Iglesias, Pablo Casado, Albert Rivera, Santiago Abascal, PSOE, PP, Podemos, VOX, Ciudadanos, UPyD, Spanish elections, EREs, casta. Elecciones Espaรฑa. Google, index me dammit!<br />
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PS Uggghhh. At least I had hope for a few days. Now it's back to grim reality, where radios play yuck, people travel just to take selfies no one cares about, being informed is waching the news headlines on tv and entitlement without foundation is the norm. I felt bad for some party leaders I did not vote for but I respect, went to their twitter accounts to give some words of support and found all these lowlives hideously displaying all their hatred and aggression in the most vulgar terms. Who does that. Had Sanchez lost I would have never gone to his twitter to berate him. A lot of humanity sucks.<br />
In the end Spain voted divided in 2 blocks practically equal in numbers ("center/right" and "left"), but because of our election law (D'hondt Method) and the fragmentation of votes in one of the blocks, not all votes are equal. Hence this arrangement. At least Iglesias has lost almost half his votes. Which is little solace: half of Spain is to me deeply stupid and quite mean. Which shouldn't come as a surprise, really. And there's no question: hello unemployment, hello crisis.<br />
For some reason made me want to listen to Billie Eilish's Xanny.. a great song very on point. I've never taken one. Even though this is mighty depressing.<br />
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infotaupehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06561874029662599392noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175783088331868311.post-25295089760657897802017-06-14T12:02:00.000+02:002017-12-30T12:04:28.914+01:00At last: acknowledging food allergies.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Thanks so much to the New York Times Magazine for choosing food allergies for its next Sunday's edition cover. A most important issue yet most incomprehensibly ignored by Health and Education institutions in most places, the
media... and society. So people in general are clueless, or worse: full of mistaken ideas thinking they know when they don't.<br />
This is specially sad here because that ignorance is these children's biggest danger. If people were aware of a few simple facts they would be so much safer. And they deserve to be.<br />
Thankfully there are parents, doctors like Nadeau and organizations (<a href="http://www.foodallergy.org/" target="_blank">FARE</a> is one of the most active, its youtube channel <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/faiusa" target="_blank">here</a>) fighting hard to raise awareness and make big advances. Pls get informed, chances are that sooner or later you'll interact with these parents and their children (after all it now affects 1 in 13 children, in different degrees from mild to severe). Pls take them seriously, and please bear in mind that unfortunately -and contrary to general judgement-, when talking precautions they (we) are not exaggerating. <br />
While the NYTM piece mainly talks about a new trial, it still provides a very good insight into the world of children with severe food allergies. <br />
Read the whole article, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/10/magazine/can-a-radical-new-treatment-save-children-with-severe-allergies.html?ref=magazine" target="_blank">The allergy buster, here</a>.<br />
Regarding how serious it is, you can read <a href="http://www.kcra.com/news/local-news/news-sacramento/parents-of-girl-who-died-of-peanut-allergy-reaction-speak-out/-/12969376/21686610/-/5dla0yz/-/index.html" target="_blank">this</a>.<br />
Update 2014: <br />
This other article, "<a href="http://smarttereachday.com/?p=2891" target="_blank">What parents of kids with food allergies want you to know</a>", is also very informative. And for parents of children with allergies, <a href="http://www.healthline.com/health/allergies/food-allergy-would-understand#1" target="_blank">this</a> will ring a bell. Ugg.<br />
If putting one more face to it helps, this is my (of course) music loving son years ago. At one and a half yrs old it had already been a year since he had suffered his first anaphilactic shock. <br />
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section is atrocious. It's taken over by pettiness, selfishness, the most arrogant
ignorance. I haven't seen this ruthlesness with any other illness (see an example <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2902018/British-schoolboy-potentially-fatal-peanut-allergy-barred-boarding-American-Airlines-flight-Florida-parents-U-S-citizens-right-eat-nuts.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490" target="_blank">here </a>or <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3575823/They-said-remove-plane-Family-kicked-Alegiant-flight-telling-staff-baby-son-peanut-allergy.html" target="_blank">here</a>). No wonder the world is such a brutal place.</div>
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My son has no problems if someone eats nuts close to him, thank heavens (and still flying is such a daunting scary experience). I know that some children aren't that lucky, their parents are sadly not overreacting or exagerating (despite what total ignorants who have never read a single serious article about allergies or talked to a single allergist in their lives decide to judge so irresponsibly and hurtfully). Yet if I was asked to give up eating nuts, it's a no brainer, and I'd smile at that child and her mother, he needs to be so brave at such an early age, she's goine through so much. I want to think that if my son wasn't allergic I'd do exactly the same. I refuse to think that I could be such a monster.</div>
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Just for the record, if they are allowed to wipe their seats and no one eats peanuts/treenuts or whatever it is, they are safe. That is the only thing they ask for. Is that such a ridiculous demand?. The joke is, anyone can suddenly become severely allergic anytime. I have friends who never had food allergies suddenly in their 30s, their 40s become sensitized to apples, to shellfish, to treenuts...one bite sends them to the hospital. Anyone can be next, so if only out of selfishness, which is the only language some people speak, they might want to think twice.</div>
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He had been a shadow of himself for a long time now. No, not even a shadow.<br />
I stopped following what he did long ago, it was sad to see.<br />
But he was the main soundtrack to my teens. And I had the hugest crush on him then. Just yesterday Last Christmas came up on the radio for the umpteenth time and I took the chance to explain to my sons what platonic love is. It's serendipitous (as usual with me), had not come up in years. I almost lost my sanity back then trying to figure out what the hell he was saying in certain parts of that song, listening over and over and then over again!. I still remember how my English teacher feared me, trying to get her to translate Careless whisper and then every song after that. I didn't understand, and couldn't bear it. <br />
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it stayed with me like nothing before (for me it wasn't the Wham dancey type with the shorts at all. I liked him despite that. It was that guy in the suit who could look at you like he did there -and the music). I was lucky I
had taped it, saw it a million times literally. Where I lived nobody knew him, and wouldn't for a long time. Afraid to say, he was my main motivation for learning
English.. silly me. He was something else.<br />
Still it felt like this amazing musician was just too gentle for life, or flawed, or ill-equipped. So at one point he went and did a 180, hit self-destruct with such intent there was barely a trace of grace left. I'm sure he was generous and kind but...<br />
They're saying all sorts of nonsense now as they always do, from conceited vacuous Elton John to the tabloids (like CNN, nr 1 tabloid, how disgracefully they're covering this). <br />
Anyway, very sad. <br />
Pic: my closet a million years ago, somebody took this photo of me there. <br />
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Is Regina Spektor at the Macy's Thanksgiving parade in an Ocean Spray float something I'd expected to come up on my TV when I turned it on as background "noise" for my wrestling match with my turkey? (first time ever cooking one) No. Did it happen?... yep!!. There she is on my TV (and somebody really needs to work on their spelling).<br />
Probably one thing I can give thanks for this bad, bad year: life's unexpected good blips. If scarce. <br />
Though she didn't even choose one of the few new songs I like. <br />
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Also impressed @ how incredibly biased the media is, they don't even bother to pretend anymore. Not a good thing no matter what. Yuck.<br />
So I thought I'd post this beautiful soothing song on acceptance and dealing with bad hands. Which we will have to do regardless.<br />
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And I thought House of Cards was too extreme...<br />
PS Nov 8: sick of receiving prerecorded calls and messages on my phone asking for democrat vote. I got them from a "Hey it's Tess..." (703 3729398), "Hi, it's Charlotte..." (703 9918928) "Hey it's Sarah..." (703 9918928) and so on. Not helping, guys. <br />
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It's the day for sharing and stuff so..music: my favourite cd of 2012: Julia Stone, "By the horns", wouldn't have predicted it but she's really taken a huge leap with this one (a grower, takes a lot of listens to get to the bottom and the first few times most of it may not even seem any appealing, but it's fantastic -half the songs). Video I liked best probably Knots, by Dan Michaelson, most simple and yet...<br />
2013 now, it has started with enjoying a few perfect pop songs off the new Tegan and Sara (with the help of mighty omnipresent Kurstin, now busy with Sia -btw so happy to see a <a href="http://www.teganandsara.com/sheet-music/" target="_blank">sheet music shop </a>in their website, finally someone doing that!-), the cosy if this time too diluted Dido (she's giving away a reallly good acoustic of an oldie today, check out her facebook. Not one of my favourites though), the This is 40 soundtrack (Fiona's ace back in 2012 but Norah's now, bravo-h) and this and that like Blackbird Blackbird's It's a war -last year's though. And old The Kills (Sour cherry, a natural reaction today to so many hearts and marshmallows I suppose! -and to other things other days). Oh, and Solange!!, Losing you is fantastic (Rice-Oxley recommended, really surprised to love it and later found out someone familiar is behind it: Dev Hynes!: that explained it, long time no see, a music genious). Lots of my favourites preparing releases these days, may be a good year.<br />
The other day I set out to discover new blogs, thought I'd do so with a search of my two favourite songs of 2012 "with quotation marks", see which blogs/websites were in the same "niche". Got only one hit: me!!! (the lastfm I use now, that is). Unexpected, gets you thinking...<br />
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Back to my cave now :P To the people like me out there may patience, temperance, resignation be with you in the most unreasonably huge amounts.<br />
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February 21st: Went to Madrid fashion week today, managed to attend one of the fashion shows, Sita Murt. One of the three songs they used was Solange's "Losing you", serendipity!. Took the bad camera so bad pic: <br />
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The experience of going to the Cibelespacio was somehow bitter, seeing too many people around trying too hard and failing miserably, not a nice sight. But there certainly are bigger issues out there.<br />
27th: And on second thought I need to mention Kathleen Edward's Voyager as another one of my favourites from last year if it took me quite a while, but again half the songs are just gorgeous, and inevitably she always ends up being my most played. She's just released a new video. So brilliant-.<br />
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Not pretending to be what she's not, thankfully. But again, some absolutely don't need to.<br />
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March...here, again...saw this Solange (+ Dev) performance, flawless, wanted to include it. <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4H5AmE7ZIyY?rel=0" width="560"></iframe>Another fabulous song. I should finish this post at some point though. Because otherwise I'd also want to talk about Brooke Waggoner's Originator (with last lines like Be wise, you fool..), and Solange's page of<a href="https://soundcloud.com/solangeknowles" target="_blank"> vibes</a> on Soundcloud -very original!-and then about this <a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/03/01/173275533/the-mix-the-austin-100" target="_blank">free download of SXSW artists </a>that includes the fantastic Haley Bonar... -listened to her wonderful ditty Raggedy Man yet?- And I'd never end. So I'm going to try now, seriously. With crisis of every colour and shape out there inspiring music is so necessary.<br />
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"Home for the Holidays" - Tim Wheeler & Emmy the Great<br />
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Melody sounds most familiar (in fact, combine the gorgeous L'anamour -version Franรงoise Hardy- and Abba's great One of us to a faster beat = mighty close to the verses) but all is forgiven because it's pretty, unpretentious just for the season cheesy kinda thing -and cheesy is good, good cheesy that is. Bad cheesy is terrible. But this is good cheesy-. And these two's talent for music is proven (Tim as for instance in Ash's fantastic Free all angels, Emmy as f.i. in collaborations with Lightspeed Champion), and foremost: hearing it is like Christmas: same warm fuzzy feeling. So different from what stems from the world and in particular my beautiful country these days, I'm making this exception. Also no need to blog until after Christmas!. But then, it makes one have to blog in January not to be so outdated (nah, can always delete, yay!).<br />
Music these days is in general pretty incredibly boring to me, a lot of work just to find one or two songs worth it. Crumbs. That so even though some of my favourites have released albums lately...sadly boring albums (with luck one song, two can be salvaged). So practically Camera Obscura is kinda my last hope (according to their facebook they were already working on new cd in june... C'mon Tracyanne!! a last push!!!). Well, Jakob Dylan released a really great bitterest song months ago (he's so ahead he's already left his respective boring period behind). And Amy sounded so good on that bit of Like Smoke- sad. Very. Well, also hopes on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVL7Mz97s60">La casa azul</a>'s latest out on the 28th, label mate of Camera Obscura's for a while, but not sure non Spanish listeners can get it the same way. Actually this blogs quite shares his philosophy, as explained in the video, specially at the end. It's stupid to write about music etc with the things that are going on, but then not totally.<br />
So, uh, don't know what else to say. Well, <a href="http://vimeo.com/31158841">this is pretty too</a>.<br />
As always, post will probably be heavily edited, no reason in particular.<br />
PS I know some will snort at some of my crumbs (one christmas song and one Coldplay and Rihanna song? oh, jeezz). Well, I like both and other, considered more "serious" crumbs I've been listening to I haven't blogged about. Though they'd look much cooler, I'm well aware.<br />
On a positive note, there's still more than a month left of 2011. Maybe time enough for me to get my cool back!!<br />
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Christmas notes: for christmas letters , love the typography of the warm december <a href="http://thiswarmdecember.com/">here</a>. For christmas ornaments the super <a href="http://fishinkblog.wordpress.com/">Fishinkblog </a>has pretty ideas including recycled jumpers (funn, involves shrinking them, which some of us are accidental experts at). Like in music blogs, some posts I love, some not. Definitely dazzled by incredible artists featured in it, like Jon Klassen -WOW- or Jared Andrew Schorr, no lack of inspiration there. Some pretty stuff in Laura Veirs' happy <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd-Y-M9kPfw">Tumble bee</a> too, like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6gJMV0Ux-s">Prairie Lullabye</a>.<br />
Or for those who for some reason are still feeling un-christmassy like me <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFmllIW7VU0&ob=av2e">this</a> is also December and mighty catchy (and still good natured, ahem).<br />
And of all the goodies artists have given away this Christmas, I'll choose Tina Dico's -she released the very crisply produced True North a month ago-: an old unreleased song, quiet and simple but full of flavour and meaning, <a href="http://soundcloud.com/tina-dico/tina-dickow-dont-belong-here">Don't belong here</a>. Too few available downloads though, they were gone faster than fast.<br />
And <a href="http://soundcloud.com/tracks/search?q=goldfrapp" target="_blank">Goldfrapp's little greeting</a>, too many swear words for me, but singing's fantastic.<br />
Christmas is not synonim of amnesia, though.infotaupehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06561874029662599392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175783088331868311.post-77463488358286513012011-10-19T11:13:00.025+02:002011-10-28T12:06:59.927+02:00Princess of ChinaEverybody listened to it already?. Coldplay + Rihanna?!??! Leaked to the internet yesterday apparently:<br /><object height="81" width="100%"> <param name="movie" value="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F25739401"> <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"> <embed allowscriptaccess="always" src="http://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F25739401" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="81" width="100%"></embed> </object> <span><a href="http://soundcloud.com/dj-erm/coldplay-princess-of-china">Coldplay - Princess Of China (feat. Rihanna)</a> by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/dj-erm">DJ ERM</a></span><br />Unexpected. But kinda good. Made me think of a comment Nerina Pallot made on her twitter about R.'s songs theme the other day (lol), an exception indeed for the girl with possibly the worst taste in clothes (ugg) and the most thigh exposure (double ugg). But voice too.<br />Anyway, halfway between a fun freestyle version of <a href="http://www.poesi.as/index604.htm">Ruben Darรญo's Sonatina</a> and a catchy eurovision tune: Chris Martin, douze points!<br />This post may disappear in a few days. Some parts have already have .. must be amanaemonesia.<br />PS To get into the Halloween mood, <a href="http://www.nowness.com/day/2011/10/17/1640/spike-jonze-mourir-aupres-de-toi">this Spike Jonze thing is pretty</a>.<br /><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">_uacct = "UA-1747021-1";urchinTracker();</script>infotaupehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06561874029662599392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175783088331868311.post-21428533263326275372011-09-20T22:57:00.026+02:002016-03-25T17:59:31.477+01:00traschcan<iframe frameborder="0" height="169" src="http://www.npr.org/player/embeddable/video/player.html?i=140539730&m=140609272" width="300"></iframe><br />
Lots of it!. Watch in full screen if you can, quality's pretty good.<br />
Quite the experiment for Lisa Hannigan.<br />
Premiered yesterday but I was in no mood for blogging.<br />
If you haven't already, you can read about this video and Lisa <a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2011/09/20/140539730/first-watch-lisa-hannigan-knots">on NPR</a>.<br />
Not really sure what the song's about, but you definitely get the feeling of release!!!<br />
It reminded me of this great children's book:<br />
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PS Making of the video Knots <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWS3i7MKkyE&feature=feedu">here</a>. Surprisingly simple.<br />
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Remembering the victims of 9/11. What was to happen was inconceivable 3 years before, when I took this picture. There are no words.<br />
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<br />Her article for the Huffington Post <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/annie-clark/st-vincent-cruel_b_936089.html?ref=tw">here</a>.
<br />"Casually cruel", brilliant term!
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First, a pic of Alice Gold and her setlist.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HVoOvT83T7I/Tf0oXjj-_HI/AAAAAAAABqc/5x1XccNM-_s/s1600/CIMG0400.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HVoOvT83T7I/Tf0oXjj-_HI/AAAAAAAABqc/5x1XccNM-_s/s200/CIMG0400.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619692295176518770" border="0" /></a><br />Alice's album is out at the beginning of July and can be <a href="http://www.recordstore.co.uk/productdetail.jsp?productPK=unittest-gFiuIHB87jQjN52xqN3IEb-1">preordered here</a>, first copies will be signed.<br />Nothing new to add to what's already been said about her lately, it's clear that she's got the extra ingredient and that if she doesn't make it big it won't be for lack of ability. Got presence onstage too, reminded me of The Duke Spirit's Liela.<br />A bit too much going on in the album though, at points too psychedelic for me, at points too poppy but she told me she hopes when one listens to it from beginning to end it will make sense as a whole.<br />And she's getting a lot of positive attention: I discovered her when checking out the Pierces' supporting acts, listened to her music, and she became the main reason to go to the show, but little after that I was listening to one of Jo Whiley's Radio2 shows (first I've ever listened to, she was playing one of Ane Brun's new songs that I'd already listened to on Spotify but was curious) and she went and played Alice too, so her music is really getting out there, congrats to her.<br />And lucky her she's not only most talented, she's also got one of the coolest bass players (<a href="http://www.blogger.com/WWW.SAULPHOTOGRAPHY.CO.UK">Saul</a>) with her onstage!. She did not introduce her band, guess she forgot -Well, it was great, the drummer added beautiful backing vocals (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dSeHKOSn0E&feature=player_embedded">see it here</a>), he and the guitar player were previously in a band, Fields, that broke up. Music is so rough, well, life is so rough.<br />Beautiful minidocumentary on her <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvwBcUu8sXI&feature=feedu">first album here</a>.<br />The Pierces setlist:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qP40VL0Y-Z0/Tf3QBemxq4I/AAAAAAAABqs/mqMahUGptTQ/s1600/CIMG0609.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qP40VL0Y-Z0/Tf3QBemxq4I/AAAAAAAABqs/mqMahUGptTQ/s200/CIMG0609.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619876633842396034" border="0" /></a><br />The Pierces pics:(click to enlargen, don't know what's the deal with blogger today but in these small views pictures are pale and have very bad definition...)<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mP7QpyVCBQI/Tf3RZpID0WI/AAAAAAAABq0/rz10CLQaswE/s1600/pierces1.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 257px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mP7QpyVCBQI/Tf3RZpID0WI/AAAAAAAABq0/rz10CLQaswE/s400/pierces1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619878148494840162" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rI-4W35SFDE/TgO3eAEhNhI/AAAAAAAABsc/JeIXdh7_pQM/s1600/pierce22.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rI-4W35SFDE/TgO3eAEhNhI/AAAAAAAABsc/JeIXdh7_pQM/s400/pierce22.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621538485931423250" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6uf10vtrgtY/TgO3tY0BlUI/AAAAAAAABsk/4NDXEe9Wdw8/s1600/pierce2.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6uf10vtrgtY/TgO3tY0BlUI/AAAAAAAABsk/4NDXEe9Wdw8/s200/pierce2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621538750271165762" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g7_xAVj1UG4/TgO3ymkSu3I/AAAAAAAABss/wFOB-j2v8cM/s1600/pierce1.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 148px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-g7_xAVj1UG4/TgO3ymkSu3I/AAAAAAAABss/wFOB-j2v8cM/s200/pierce1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621538839862623090" border="0" /></a><br />Better than anticipated. All's been said too, not any challenging or very special but by all means some really good songs. Highlights live: "Sticks and stones" and set ending "Boring" (which I didn't like much on the cd but that absolutely rocked live, really fun too). They sold out the first date at Bush Hall , so they added this extra one, which also sold out soon after I bought tickets. Incredibly mixed audience, almost like a perfect population sampling: all ages, all types, no one could feel out of place!<br />Objection: they didn't play "Piece of you", which is probably my favourite by them.<br />Delta Maid pic:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EaXlhB_-cok/TgGsDjWGIuI/AAAAAAAABrk/fumUBxztVH0/s1600/delta.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EaXlhB_-cok/TgGsDjWGIuI/AAAAAAAABrk/fumUBxztVH0/s320/delta.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620962986962592482" border="0" /></a><br />Funny it looks like a painting.<br />Uploaded some snippets of each of their sets on my youtube, but it was too loud for my old camera so the sound's far from good.<br />More soon. Lovely weather in London btw..<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zt7at31mUJM/Tf3Lz1LjtRI/AAAAAAAABqk/jUzamH7LOfA/s1600/southbankcentre.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zt7at31mUJM/Tf3Lz1LjtRI/AAAAAAAABqk/jUzamH7LOfA/s400/southbankcentre.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619872001337570578" border="0" /></a><br />(Southbank centre, 14/06)<br />Way too lengthy posts also way over edited but.. air conditioning only in the computer room so....today 27/06 11.30 and its already over 30 degrees out, will go way higher. Yersterday night it only was under 29 from 1.30 am. So you can hardly open your house and it only gets hotter and hotter. Ahhhhhh and it's only the beginning. Thank god for swimming poolz- and no, I can't blog from there ;)<br />Wow, about that just found a graphic example in the kitchen cupboard:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wzgBrlTE9hQ/Tgmlc_fE5HI/AAAAAAAABtg/Siqg8ZL7aSg/s1600/CIMG0691.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wzgBrlTE9hQ/Tgmlc_fE5HI/AAAAAAAABtg/Siqg8ZL7aSg/s320/CIMG0691.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5623207527245472882" border="0" /></a><br />Forgot I'd bought these, "fondant" wobbly dome tea cakes!<br />PS And if you really want to read a good post on Alice Gold, ignore mine and read this <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/alice-gold--the-gold-at-the-end-of-a-rainbow-2304906.html">The independent </a>bit. Among other things, gives the name of the album one of those images you don't forget .<br />This post has been being written for about 2 weeks now, so chronologically -or otherwise I'm afraid- it may not make much sense.<br /><br /><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">_uacct = "UA-1747021-1";urchinTracker();</script>infotaupehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06561874029662599392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175783088331868311.post-85732043806226000722011-06-19T00:23:00.090+02:002011-11-14T19:55:08.867+01:00London as of June'11<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gR-Y_4l6oBA/TgENJb5IDiI/AAAAAAAABrE/QYsKzdugK7I/s1600/keyring.JPG"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gR-Y_4l6oBA/TgENJb5IDiI/AAAAAAAABrE/QYsKzdugK7I/s400/keyring.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620788265692433954" border="0" /></a>Might as well post about bits and ends in case it's useful to anybody and as always to keep track for myself...<br />-Keep in mind I opted for skipping the main tourist attractions-<br />Post in progress too.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">1.</span></span> First reccomendation:<br />The London street photography exhibit at the Museum of London: if pics were generally small and too plainly displayed and only a few of them caught my attention (went to Henry Lartigue's exhibit in Madrid's Caixaforum a few months ago, same period aprox and some of it same category, THAT was way more impressive), what I really enjoyed was the documentary showing in the first room, made for the exhibit. Thumbs up. Photographers like Matt Stuart, <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tJlZxZbgwkM/TgEOqDXXVoI/AAAAAAAABrM/JpZL2oQjWCA/s1600/CIMG0624.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tJlZxZbgwkM/TgEOqDXXVoI/AAAAAAAABrM/JpZL2oQjWCA/s200/CIMG0624.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620789925555689090" border="0" /></a>Polly Braden or Wolf Suschitzky talk about it, things like how the preception of street photography has changed and how inhibited one feels these days to shoot a pic, about the challenges of using cameras with limitations, how they often stick with them because their struggle to overcome these limitations actually makes them way better photographers, how they are driven by passion and curiosity to explore and capture ...<br />And of course before or after do visit the museum of London itself, I had been there once before and was looking forward to returning.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">2.</span></span> The candy department at Selfridge's huge store in Oxford Street (stifling street though, <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mVoVbMC0xks/TgEUpHRYqZI/AAAAAAAABrc/oNpk6zu5th4/s1600/gummy.JPG"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 182px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mVoVbMC0xks/TgEUpHRYqZI/AAAAAAAABrc/oNpk6zu5th4/s200/gummy.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620796506494249362" border="0" /></a>so many people it was nightmarish. To be avoided as much as possible). May be silly but felt kinda overwhelmed, so many things, so many colours, simply gorgeous (much better that the Harrods' one and more price friendly). And yes, that is the hugest gummy bear ever!- how mature of me..wheighed a ton. Wouldn't eat it though..looks dangerous.<br />I also enjoyed the silly things on the ground floor (like the ice invaders ice molds or the finger food plate ring, the Fred stuff ,not to buy it but to see it, curious - bought robot key covers on sale though, fun). And of course the music part HMV in the basement. Not great selection (there's way more stuff in the Piccadilly one, which conveniently opens until real late) but big offers. As I was leaving up the escalators with my new cds they started playing Robyn's Dancing on my own (the serendipity of it!- I know what I mean)...weeeent back down and bought part 1 and part 2 for 3 pounds each, not bad.<br />I also visit at least one supermarket when a tourist, great way to know more about where you are. Since here I knew them well from last summer, I had to go to a number of them to get the different cookies needed :).<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-size:180%;" >3</span>rd. Ok, let's get serious now: obviously the Tate Modern...cafeteria. Seriously, amazing views. If one's allowed to love one's own pics, I love this one:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bW_wARWowro/TgG8zO1eG0I/AAAAAAAABr0/Mjssg3AhhU0/s1600/waiter.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-bW_wARWowro/TgG8zO1eG0I/AAAAAAAABr0/Mjssg3AhhU0/s400/waiter.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5620981398276807490" border="0" /></a><br />It's on the top floor, I was just snooping (on most mornings I was alone, so I set my own very quick pace). The building is very worth it , specially the inside, the large empty spaces(the collection, I skipped most of it I'm afraid, went for the Matisses, didn't really like the ones there). I prefered to sit on the ground floor's floor for a bit, watch the building.<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-size:180%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">4</span></span>. South bank walk and bridges, a must.<br />Worth to check out the huge "Urban fox" on top of a building in Southbank centre, more magic at night. About the meaning, <a href="http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/tickets/urban-fox-1000125">here</a>. Truth is it really was an odd mix of cute and threatening, quite an achievement.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jDzsimZpn2s/TgMdbTOa3yI/AAAAAAAABsM/giwC-mXAhLg/s1600/fox.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jDzsimZpn2s/TgMdbTOa3yI/AAAAAAAABsM/giwC-mXAhLg/s320/fox.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621369114742939426" border="0" /></a><br />That day I crossed different bridges 5 times (never walked so much as in London I think, I was exahusted). The night ones were fun, because since there had unfortunately been a fire Waterloo bridge was closed to the traffic and quite empty:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JIL8uoGT-og/TgMQ566--xI/AAAAAAAABsE/Lh_JlzLxoZk/s1600/waterloob.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JIL8uoGT-og/TgMQ566--xI/AAAAAAAABsE/Lh_JlzLxoZk/s200/waterloob.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621355347143752466" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VIpaicHGvcQ/TgOzfTPO_QI/AAAAAAAABsU/sxYf_X24XnA/s1600/lndny.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VIpaicHGvcQ/TgOzfTPO_QI/AAAAAAAABsU/sxYf_X24XnA/s200/lndny.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621534110209998082" border="0" /></a><br />Also there was a full moon that seeemed to look right through the London Eye. A number of improbable things going on. And the following day even a rare eclypse..<br />And how flattering are pictures of one's back, huh?. So very, highly recommend them ;)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-size:180%;" >5</span>th Will keep this one way shorter than planned for the moment. The Station Sessions Festival, free concerts at St Pancras station, is currently on. Check out the lineup <a href="http://www.stationsessions.com/festival/3">here</a>. Would have loved to go to the fantastic Nerina Pallot's one (but was boarding my plane at the very moment). Wow!, just seen sensational Alice Gold is on on the 18th July: don't miss it if you have the chance!!.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-size:180%;" >6</span>: If you happen to be walking by Piccadilly's Royal Academy of Arts (yep, that street that's full of bulldozers, traffic jams, etc, half of it being digged up, unfortunately where I was staying...), enter the courtyard to see Jeff Koons's Coloring Book (temporarily). If you happen to pass by more than once, go to see it in different lights, it changes a lot. When I took the pic it was cloudy (obviously).<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EzbUBS5x4xE/TgO9NkYUHuI/AAAAAAAABs8/OKhVS09cavI/s1600/lon5.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EzbUBS5x4xE/TgO9NkYUHuI/AAAAAAAABs8/OKhVS09cavI/s400/lon5.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5621544800690118370" border="0" /></a><br />The reflection has absorbed half the building/or vicerversa. Clever Koons, I only saw it fully when I looked at the picture. Usual picture would go something like this, quite different:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0MLIiTSfin8/Tia90nRUXLI/AAAAAAAABuE/Gi98mKKAW90/s1600/summerex.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0MLIiTSfin8/Tia90nRUXLI/AAAAAAAABuE/Gi98mKKAW90/s320/summerex.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5631397095665851570" border="0" /></a><br />There's the Summer exhibition going on now at the Academy (hence the sculpture) but I skipped it (great idea, but what the brochure showed, not for me). I did take the John Madejski fine rooms tour but unless you've seen many other things before and have time, I do not recommend it, few paintings (can I say minor works though from huge fantastic painters, long tour, slow pace). I mean, had little time and lots to see (that said by someone who spent half a morning inside a TK Maxx, shame on me - well, I had to buy gifts... and try on fancy stuff the wrong size. Same shops as TJ Maxx in the US).<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);font-size:180%;" >Next number</span>:<a href="http://www.creativeboom.co.uk/london/news/free-range-2011-art-design-show/"> Free range talent</a>. Didn't go to this one, no events scheduled for the little time I was in London. A bit far too, but looked like an interesting enough art and design show. No pic for that so instead this one of a painting in an Albemarle Rd gallery, not my taste but really well painted and most original. Like sometimes someone complains that you let go of their hand when the truth is.. Really eerie picture, the girl's face of joy as she jumps to the void, the very opposite in the boy's as he tries in vain to stop her. Afraid the reflection in the window disguises that, reason why I explain, also makes it look a bit like the boy is in a real balcony.. It's called Tana!, by Enrico Robusti (again, far too grim for me).<br />Wait!, she's not falling but running, escaping..how misleading. Well, well done sir, first impression was completely amiss, I've just realized. Oh, so poetic ...I saw what I wanted to see, which was the completely opposite image of something I'd watched recently. It may still be, but in a much more twisted way, which is so fitting.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vKn0sbsKfQ0/TgWmk33YToI/AAAAAAAABtE/q0lXwh66Erk/s1600/vid.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vKn0sbsKfQ0/TgWmk33YToI/AAAAAAAABtE/q0lXwh66Erk/s320/vid.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5622082862243663490" border="0" /></a><br />I know, most of my recommendations are art, but.. Also, I have to point out that all this I found out about browsing the internet, brochures, etc. No one to help out in the UK.. No need these days, internet is the bomb. I'm amazed at how easy it is now to get all this info from your very chair. I even got my Bush Hall tickets delivered weeks in advance. You have to love technology sometimes.<br />Next number and last art thing. But the only one I was sure to visit: Tate Britain. Why? Ah, Ophelia, 'course. Will elaborate. Do the <a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/tatetotate/">Tate to Tate boat</a>.<br /><span class="st">Should write about </span>the Victoria & Albert Museum, <span class="st">the William <em>Blake</em> Richmond </span><span class="st">painting</span><span class="st"> 'Mrs Luke <em>Ionides</em>' now moved to The cult of beauty exhibition </span>without museum workers knowing about it (was I really the first one to ask where it was and be directed to an empty space???). Someone kindly slipped me inside the exhibit and delivered me in front of it as I'd gone to the museum mainly to see it, escorted me all the time though. Glorious print in background. Dress fabric: amazing.<br />Food: here's a few pubs I went to, not extraordinary yet quite ok:<br />* The Salisbury in Covent Garden: very handy location, a place with personality, cosy. I tried my first mashed peas there (as a side dish) and they were quite good .<br />* <a href="http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/pubsandbars/the-field-info-61776.html">The Field</a> (29 Clarges Street). This time we were a large party yet the food was quite decent. Had this:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ts6GHoPb_8c/Tqkl-vxGPVI/AAAAAAAABwg/cccab_jEYiE/s1600/CIMG0302.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ts6GHoPb_8c/Tqkl-vxGPVI/AAAAAAAABwg/cccab_jEYiE/s200/CIMG0302.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5668103365926993234" border="0" /></a><br />And loved the Yorkshire pudding.<br />* <a href="http://www.fancyapint.com/Pub/london/kings-head/1817">The king's head</a>, only place to eat at 15.30..Food just ok but the place had a lot of flavour (ha ha), upstairs very nice. So I'd recommend it for a beer.<br />Next one I went to (but couldn't eat, too late), was recommended to me and it looked really nice: <a href="http://www.chorbizarre.com/newsite/index_london.html">Chor Bizarre (indian food). </a>Alice Gold had just blogged that <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/AliceGold/status/71854770800967681">this other one was the best curry place</a> but too far away. The rest was mainly sandwiches for me, was not a foodie trip and anyway some sandwiches are really good. And English food is full of dishes with onion (which I hate) and strange meat pies etc that I wouldn't eat (I recognize I am a bit of a fussy eater), so not very encouraged. I'll have the cookies and the desserts though, thank you. And the curry and the sandwiches (specially the prawn ones). Aaand the Yorkshire pudding.<br />London is full of things to see and do. Curious that when you're on the road heading to the city from the airport one of the first ads you see are two rather huge screens both sides of a bridge that read "Head to Portsmouth" or something like that. Kinda disloyal, these Porstmouthians.. people have not even arrived in London yet!!. Well, londoners turned out to be really nice in general. Last summer I was surprised by how nice people were in Somerset, Cornwall, and a few more places, didn't recall brits to be that way and figured it was the countryside. But it has been the same in London. As bothersome as so many tourists have to be in one single city (some city people were understandably complaining in a newspaper one of the days) they still were incredibly nice to us. Like this serious looking man in a suit we asked for directions to a restaurant, he didn't know so went and looked it up on his phone, showed us a map and then even showed us a pic of the restaurant's facade!<br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);font-size:78%;" >Tags:"london june 2011 blog"</span><div class="widget AdSense" id="AdSense1"> </div>infotaupehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06561874029662599392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175783088331868311.post-69439813514550752102011-06-10T11:26:00.040+02:002011-06-11T15:57:35.306+02:00More tunesLike this one, quite older, by The Pierces<br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/FAU2Pf78fXE?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" width="425"></iframe><br />These two know how to use a spade!, last blow should be it, & his fault alone it is too.<br />Those are the creepier, "Secret" Pierces, pre Berryman producing, pre The Mamas and the Papas varnish (at its most accomplished in songs like You'll be mine), pre becoming quite quite popular. In fact one's surprised to find out this is their 4th record -if I'm correct.<br />It's funny how some unlikely words keep repeating themselves in songs, for instance Domino: ask Sondre Lerche, he's just written such an irregular song with it, most moments are a ten, others... not. Still the number of views of its charmingly unpretentious <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4F2kQojAkY"> official video </a> months after being posted is just ridiculous and sad. Guess sometimes internet not only does not make you feel less isolated but makes it poignantly clear that the insignificant number of people on your "team" is even smaller than you had estimated.. Kinda.<br />Sondre is also posting a video a day for a time to launch his latest album and has done this most hyper<a href="http://vimeo.com/24169382">stripped down version</a>. He was one of the first performers on XPN I missed when I left Philly and I was very bummed about it. He's irregular but regularly fantastic.<br />Talking about most irregular things, saw "I heart Huckabees":<br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/6k-N6ri95Xs?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" width="560"></iframe><br />Genious brilliance at times, such a drag at others (unfortunately one of the worst moments is the one with a Spanish old woman on it. A wink to Almodovar, no doubt, but more of a black eye as she's so shrill-fake silly). But yeah, some amazing moments. Plus Jon Brion on board can't hurt. And as I said, just like in song lyrics you come across the same words again and again (eyes, ocean, blue, sun, moon... domino, hggg) and same themes, it's much more so in movies. So one that's not about love or sex or war or mystery or the very popular option of 4X1, a movie simply about being human is great. Well, it's also about serendipity (in fact that's how the title was translated in Spain), you seldom know what's serendipity, what's not and still at times you have to act upon it. Sometimes it's so poetic and pretty to think some things are not sheer serendipity...one's tempted!. But more often than not they are (which on the other hand is sometimes quite liberating). Ultimately it's the facts that prove it.<br />I mean, is this post serendipitous? or not?<br /><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">_uacct = "UA-1747021-1";urchinTracker();</script>infotaupehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06561874029662599392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175783088331868311.post-14713696422424955232011-05-19T16:15:00.012+02:002011-05-20T11:29:46.275+02:00TunesLike hers:<br /><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/skJFzB5RV0Q" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="349" width="560"></iframe><br />And as I reverted to draft yet another post and started writing a fresh one with a plan -an impossible to draft totally undeletable one that would break the curse (17 posts this year, only 3 still standing!)- I listened to this song for the first time. Yep yep, no complications no frustrations simply a surprisingly pretty song Gainsbourg style. Should do. Video's fun too, her dying of boredom in a room, doing silly things, rings a bell. And if I'm not going to Paris or Berlin -sadly!- at least there's a short trip somewhere soon. Travelling's good, I want to run run run away<br /><br /><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">_uacct = "UA-1747021-1";urchinTracker();</script>infotaupehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06561874029662599392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175783088331868311.post-13722196351153309532011-04-23T12:07:00.017+02:002015-04-10T01:32:33.558+02:00I love this cover!<br />
It just works really well, everything. She's covering Je fume parce que tu bois next Tuesday? (Mardi prochain?) -I think. And quite the smile, cet Adrien.<br />
Everybody on holidays? Ha, I was back Wednesday, just as everybody was leaving, like that feeling.<br />
Have to paintbrushsabotage a pic and will post it.<br />
...<br />
Hours later:<br />
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zuv99uz-noM/TbLbyjl0YJI/AAAAAAAABos/9rUGVL9So28/s1600/azul.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zuv99uz-noM/TbLbyjl0YJI/AAAAAAAABos/9rUGVL9So28/s320/azul.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5598778948368752786" style="cursor: pointer; height: 320px; width: 240px;" /></a><br />
Beautiful Asturias coast.<br />
And coming back in the rain..<br />
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i1nGO2OAfD8/TbLpBRDAu9I/AAAAAAAABo8/SPLwoEhoSxM/s1600/lluvia.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-i1nGO2OAfD8/TbLpBRDAu9I/AAAAAAAABo8/SPLwoEhoSxM/s400/lluvia.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5598793494740122578" style="cursor: pointer; height: 300px; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
And my previous impression proved totally false: after going out there this morning I believe I can safely report that nobody has left Madrid for Easter, and that its whole population has agreed on going out shopping this morning too..<br />
Well, since in a few days this blog will be 4 yrs old, might as well have a few posts from this era for its bthdy!.<br />
PS Never bother with the je bois cover, was pretty terrible.
https://youtu.be/Fq5vyXGtxScinfotaupehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06561874029662599392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175783088331868311.post-86597618547411188792011-04-13T13:35:00.012+02:002011-04-14T22:45:21.156+02:00To watch and help (or Alela & Housing Works)If you watch this video:<br /><iframe title="YouTube video player" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2qgmYKNI5Vo?rel=0" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="390" width="640"></iframe><br />1. You've just helped a good cause as all views generate revenue for charity <a href="http://www.housingworks.org/%29">Housing works</a>. Don't know the details (tried to find out but couldn't, and come to think of it they should say, else it might just be a VEVO marketing campaign more than anything and I should delete this post, ohh that's why I don't blog anymore, too complicated!)<br />2. You might like this song. I certainly do (this particular one), big change for Alela Diane, very upbeat and fresh. Just came across it on Spotify - and how cool is Spotify? very, use it all the time.<br />Anyway, and either way, the world still needs a lot of help these days...<br />PS (day after) Why don't I just shut up, just read that <a href="http://www.spotify.com/int/blog/">Spotify has announced today</a> (serendipity, a constant in my life) that it will very severely restrict access to music to non paying listeners (10 hours a month??). On the other hand seems it's finally going to be available in the US soon..for those there..<br /><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">_uacct = "UA-1747021-1";urchinTracker();</script>infotaupehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06561874029662599392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2175783088331868311.post-64033620269451051042011-01-20T13:31:00.040+01:002011-10-25T10:49:01.259+02:00Kathleen Edwards' 4th -with helper-<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_btsZvC6VKZ0/TTg0Ud1a5nI/AAAAAAAABnc/Hh8t0sXG_DU/s1600/Screen%2Bshot%2B2011-01-20%2Bat%2B14.05.24.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 327px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_btsZvC6VKZ0/TTg0Ud1a5nI/AAAAAAAABnc/Hh8t0sXG_DU/s400/Screen%2Bshot%2B2011-01-20%2Bat%2B14.05.24.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5564254865826965106" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Kathleen has been in the studio for some time now, getting her 4th release ready. And being as fantastic as she is, she's been keeping us in the loop by occasionally posting bits and ends on her facebook. In case you missed it, today's bit is priceless: new music!!.. so fresh, love it. Goes by the title of <span style="font-weight: bold;">"Little T workin' the piano", </span>and has the so very Kathleen intro "just another night of fucking around on the piano, with a helper" (her cat). Unfortunately video can't be embedded so click on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/kathleenedwardsmusic">this link to watch it (post edit: not anymore, once there go to videos and select it)</a>.<br />I'm jealous, not only do I not have a musical pet, neither do I get to funk around on my piano at night. Booo, I don't like having neighbors.<br />Just can't wait for her new songs.<br />PS (day after) Turns out she has a few more new songs out there, had not heard about them :(<br />In case you missed them too found:<br />*<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOXSGO_llxM"> </a><span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153); font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOXSGO_llxM">"<span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">Mint</span>"</a> </span>and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=visTZMGxRGY">"<span style="color: rgb(102, 255, 153);">Change the sheets</span></a>" on youtube, recorded comme il faut by building55 (thnx!).<br />*<span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">"</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Empty threat</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">",</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);"> </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">"Chameleon"</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">, </span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">"Soft place to land"</span><span style="color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">, </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 153, 255);">Pink champagne</span>... <a href="http://blog.haterhigh.com/?tag=kathleen-edwards">downloadable here </a>from someone who taped then shared the audio for some shows (thnx 2, I'm so thankful for this kind of kind bloggers). Quite a few new covers as well.<br />Band: Jim Bryson always, Cripps and Tough alternate, seems. For more posts on K.E. in this blog see archives (June'08 and March'09)<br />PS (weeks after) Also, diffferent topic: Daytrotter just released their <a href="http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/best-of-daytrotter-2010-concert/20054595-37382447.html">Best of Daytrotter 2010</a> list, more than worth checking out (picked from all sessions, all downloadable for free). Not the best songs but "the songs that moved us greatly". And I'd add a sentence here but I don't know how to say it in English..<br />One last musing if I'm allowed...'cos this is the perfect post to bring Sarah Hallman up, another brilliant Canadian. You can <a href="http://radio3.cbc.ca/#/bands/Sarah-Hallman">listen to her songs here</a> (first you'll have to pause the usually terrible radio), specially recommend "Forget you", kinda like a mouthful of Twizzlers and strawberry chewing gum, like blowing bubbles with chagrin..<br /><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script type="text/javascript">_uacct = "UA-1747021-1";urchinTracker();</script>infotaupehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06561874029662599392noreply@blogger.com1