Wanna join? Love y'all, my friends.
13.4.08
Too young to be old, too old to be young
Yes, it's finally come. My 30th b-day. And what am I gonna do about it? Well, pretty much what everybody does: gather as many friends as I can around me and have a crazy night to remember, and celebrate that life is good (not to be taken lightly ;).
Wanna join? Love y'all, my friends.
Wanna join? Love y'all, my friends.
30.3.08
Quote: Philip K. Dick (2)
The Nexus-6. He had now come up against it. Rachael, he realized; she must be a Nexus-6. 
I'm seeing one of them for the first time. And they damn near did it; they came awfully damn close to undermining the Voigt-Kampff scale, the only method we have for detecting them. The Rosen Association does a good job-makes a good try, anyhow-at protecting its products.
And I have to face six more of them, he reflected. Before I'm finished.
He would earn the bounty money. Every cent.
Assuming he made it through alive.
I'm seeing one of them for the first time. And they damn near did it; they came awfully damn close to undermining the Voigt-Kampff scale, the only method we have for detecting them. The Rosen Association does a good job-makes a good try, anyhow-at protecting its products.And I have to face six more of them, he reflected. Before I'm finished.
He would earn the bounty money. Every cent.
Assuming he made it through alive.
Do androids dream of electric sheep?, 1966
16.3.08
I love house, too
A bit house for the crowd:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/9024235ab1af11/
Track list:
1.- K7 - make up your mind
2.- madonna - jump
3.- svek - hold still remix
4.- rinocerose - la guitaristic house organisation
5.- bare essentials - weekenderstyle
6.- buddha bar - the novel sound
7.- svek - gamla stan
8.- blue six - music and wine
enjoy!
http://www.zshare.net/audio/9024235ab1af11/
Track list:
1.- K7 - make up your mind
2.- madonna - jump
3.- svek - hold still remix
4.- rinocerose - la guitaristic house organisation
5.- bare essentials - weekenderstyle
6.- buddha bar - the novel sound
7.- svek - gamla stan
8.- blue six - music and wine
enjoy!
la iaia
Aquest és el meu petit homenatge a la meva iaia Remei, que morí a Barcelona el passat 11 de marc. No hi ha hagut mai iaia tan riallera, llesta, aguda i amb tant sentit de l´humor. Tan moderna, tan estimada, tan gran persona. Han estat tants estius, tants Nadals, tantes tardes... T´he estimat de debó, sempre viuràs en mi.
9.3.08
I love techno
This is a little mix I assembled with my beloved Hercules MK2 console, my favorite toy:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/8700733fb43912/
Track list:
1.- tiga - you gonna want me
2.- john dahlback - it feels so good
3.- random factor - after the tone
4.- royksopp - what else is there (trentemoller remix)
5.- mike ink - rose
6.- oxia - domino
7.- leger & lake - aqualight
8.- mateo murphy - crockett's theme
9.- ellen alien - blaue iwen
hope u enjoy it.
http://www.zshare.net/audio/8700733fb43912/
Track list:
1.- tiga - you gonna want me
2.- john dahlback - it feels so good
3.- random factor - after the tone
4.- royksopp - what else is there (trentemoller remix)
5.- mike ink - rose
6.- oxia - domino
7.- leger & lake - aqualight
8.- mateo murphy - crockett's theme
9.- ellen alien - blaue iwen
hope u enjoy it.
25.2.08
El debatillo democratiquillo
Zapatero flojo. Sí, flojo, siempre parece que se va a quedar sin palabras.
Pero es que el PP, con Rajoy o sin él, me sigue dando tanto miedo como hace 4 años... O casi más, porque Aznar era más facha, pero Rajoy más tonto...
Por eso, y porque es de cajón, votaré catalán, como voto siempre que me desencanto. Al menos para mí es fácil. Cuanto mayor me hago más me doy cuenta de que o nos entendemos y nos damos cuenta de que este país cagón esta lleno de naciones, o aquí no quedará de pie ni el apuntador, porque para chulo un español.
Duran i Lleida, ajuda´ns i escombra cap a casa. Visca Catalunya i l'Espanya federal.
Pero es que el PP, con Rajoy o sin él, me sigue dando tanto miedo como hace 4 años... O casi más, porque Aznar era más facha, pero Rajoy más tonto...
Por eso, y porque es de cajón, votaré catalán, como voto siempre que me desencanto. Al menos para mí es fácil. Cuanto mayor me hago más me doy cuenta de que o nos entendemos y nos damos cuenta de que este país cagón esta lleno de naciones, o aquí no quedará de pie ni el apuntador, porque para chulo un español.
Duran i Lleida, ajuda´ns i escombra cap a casa. Visca Catalunya i l'Espanya federal.
2.2.08
Music store: Oi va voi
This British band is another member of the breed of bands that blend music, in the deepest sense of the word. Those that live comfortably in the border of styles and cultures. In this case, Yiddish music is assembled to pop-rock-electronic music to obtain a surprisingly positive and uplifting result and, in the
process, the most advanced expression of klezmer music today. Their music is an rich wrap of traditional sounds (lots of violin, clarinet, old men hebrew voices...) around a modern layer of contemporary sounds (great bass and electronics). At times you seem to be in an Armenian wedding and then you are transported to a London club. And it works.
Oi va voi have three studio albums, and all of them worth a listen. Probably, their best known song is Refugee, a gripping and tearing song about forced emigration. Not to miss either is the instrumental 7 brothers, a perfect example of what these guys are about. And they are meant to be great life, too. Give them a try!
This is the video for the song Yesterday's mistakes, from their second album. Enjoy.
process, the most advanced expression of klezmer music today. Their music is an rich wrap of traditional sounds (lots of violin, clarinet, old men hebrew voices...) around a modern layer of contemporary sounds (great bass and electronics). At times you seem to be in an Armenian wedding and then you are transported to a London club. And it works.Oi va voi have three studio albums, and all of them worth a listen. Probably, their best known song is Refugee, a gripping and tearing song about forced emigration. Not to miss either is the instrumental 7 brothers, a perfect example of what these guys are about. And they are meant to be great life, too. Give them a try!
This is the video for the song Yesterday's mistakes, from their second album. Enjoy.
Quote: Arthur C. Clarke
The sixth member of the crew cared for none of these things, for it was not human. It was the highly advanced HAL 9000 computer, the brain and nervous system of the ship.
Hal (for Heuristic programmed ALgorithmic computer, no less) was a masterwork of the third computer breakthrough. These seemed to occur at intervals of twenty years, and the thought that another one was now imminent already worried a great many people...
Whether HAL could actually think was a question which had been settled by the British mathematician Alan Turing back in the 1940s. Turing had pointed out that, if one could carry out a prolonged conversation with a machine - whether by typewriter or microphone was immaterial - without being able to distinguish between its replies and those by a man might give, then the machine was thinking, by any sensible definition of the word. Hal could pass the Turing test with ease...
And then, if there was no reply from Earth, HAL would take what measures he deemed necessary to safeguard the hsip and to continue the mission - whose real purpose he alone knew, and which his human colleagues could never have guessed.
Poole and Bowman had often humorously referred to themselves as caretakers or janitors aboard a ship that could really run itself. They would have been astonished, and more than a little indignant, to discover how much truth that jest contained.
Hal (for Heuristic programmed ALgorithmic computer, no less) was a masterwork of the third computer breakthrough. These seemed to occur at intervals of twenty years, and the thought that another one was now imminent already worried a great many people...
Whether HAL could actually think was a question which had been settled by the British mathematician Alan Turing back in the 1940s. Turing had pointed out that, if one could carry out a prolonged conversation with a machine - whether by typewriter or microphone was immaterial - without being able to distinguish between its replies and those by a man might give, then the machine was thinking, by any sensible definition of the word. Hal could pass the Turing test with ease...
And then, if there was no reply from Earth, HAL would take what measures he deemed necessary to safeguard the hsip and to continue the mission - whose real purpose he alone knew, and which his human colleagues could never have guessed.
Poole and Bowman had often humorously referred to themselves as caretakers or janitors aboard a ship that could really run itself. They would have been astonished, and more than a little indignant, to discover how much truth that jest contained.
2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
27.1.08
Music store: The Dears
Ewa and me saw this band in London, on the South Bank Center, in a events that commemorated the 10th anniversary of some discographyic company. The Dears were not even the headliners (Midlake were, that was the day I discovered them; check the music store archive to read about them). I learnt about their existence through Radiohead... yes, yet again. Tom Yorke gathered a list of his favorite songs from 2007, and among them was a song from The Dears. I downloaded the songs, thinking (quite rightly, I must say) that if I like A and A likes B, I will like B as well. And how right I was.
I remember that the guy presenting them complained about the critics, which would define The Dears as bad copies of a whole list of other well-known bands, and he argued that critics that can only describe a band by comparing them to others should get out of the way and do something else. He had a point really. It is true that you cannot avoid hearing influences in their music (Radiohead themselves, The Smiths, Doves...), but it's unfair not to acknowledge the arrogance and lack of fear of these guys when it comes to music: the use of a myriad of instruments, the musical landscapes, the way they can express all sorts of feelings with their songs... they have been defined at times as pretentious. I don't get why. Some of their songs are indeed grandiloquent, but they work. Hell they do. This is, to conclude, very good pop rock. Some of the best around. Together with Arcade Fire, these guys have placed Montreal in the musical maps. Big time.
With songs such as Find the way to our Freedom, Expect the worst 'cos she's a Tourist, Hate then Love, I feel deep, Never destroy Us, No hope before Destruction... this band has all the tickets to become either a cult band or a mass success... not sure what would be better. I just happen to be very happy to have discovered them.
Here's the video to the melancholic You and I are a Gang of Losers:
I remember that the guy presenting them complained about the critics, which would define The Dears as bad copies of a whole list of other well-known bands, and he argued that critics that can only describe a band by comparing them to others should get out of the way and do something else. He had a point really. It is true that you cannot avoid hearing influences in their music (Radiohead themselves, The Smiths, Doves...), but it's unfair not to acknowledge the arrogance and lack of fear of these guys when it comes to music: the use of a myriad of instruments, the musical landscapes, the way they can express all sorts of feelings with their songs... they have been defined at times as pretentious. I don't get why. Some of their songs are indeed grandiloquent, but they work. Hell they do. This is, to conclude, very good pop rock. Some of the best around. Together with Arcade Fire, these guys have placed Montreal in the musical maps. Big time.
With songs such as Find the way to our Freedom, Expect the worst 'cos she's a Tourist, Hate then Love, I feel deep, Never destroy Us, No hope before Destruction... this band has all the tickets to become either a cult band or a mass success... not sure what would be better. I just happen to be very happy to have discovered them.
Here's the video to the melancholic You and I are a Gang of Losers:
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