Sunday, September 28, 2008

Alegría o Taxi

Es ese dilema que se plantea periodicamente y en cual acabas dedicidiendo que todo tiene su momento... pero que de cualquier manera por defecto tu tiendas más a uno. ¡Supongo que con un espectro suficientemente amplio se podría hacer un buen psicoanálisis de cualquiera!

Ahi van unas cuantas elecciones mias - ¿Alguien se atreve con más?

Antonia Font: Alegría - Taxi
U2: The Joshua Tree - Achtung Baby
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Club Hearts Club Band - The While Album
Radiohead: OK Computer - The Bends
Metallica: Master of Puppets - Black Album
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here - Dark Side of the Moon
Queen: News of the World - A Night at the Opera (Sí, llamadme raro)
REM: Automatic for the People - Document

Friday, September 26, 2008

BCN (II)

Seguimos con el concurso de "¿Donde en Barna?", esta vez ligeramente más complicado para que la gente no utilize Google y similares. Esta vez, ¡dos cervezas (o dos vinos) a quien lo gane!

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Buy it all off!

http://www.buymyshitpile.com : a website to get the US government to buy everbody's "distressed assets", not just the banks! A gem!

Via: Boing Boing!

Monday, September 22, 2008

I'm from Barcelona in Barcelona!

Alegría de las alegrías: los 29 hiper-happies suecos de I'm From Barcelona tocan en Apolo el jueves 30 de octubre.

¿Quien se apunta a venir a la fiesta? Yo me compro la entrada pero ya.

Como deleite, su mega-hit:



Y su último single:

Thursday, September 18, 2008

LDN

Sigue el concurso, esta vez en Londres.... y con un "special guest": Banksy!

¿En que calle de Londres podemos encontrar este graffiti?

Monday, September 15, 2008

BCN

Como homenaje de vuelta a mi ciudad de adopción, ¿alguien me sabría decir donde hice -exactamente- estas fotos?






Friday, September 12, 2008

Insularidad (y II)

Por petición popular, las últimas fotos de Mallorca que me quedan: de Soller y Fornalutx






















Y con esto uno dice adios a su estancia estival en Mallorca!

Insularidad (I)

Ya que el sábado me vuelvo (o voy, no lo se, últimamente estoy muy descentrado) a Barcelona, voy a poner algunas de las fotos que hice este verano de Mallorca.

Thursday, September 11, 2008

MacGyver

Si con un chicle y una goma te paraba a un tanque, a saber que haría el en esta situación!

Tuesday, September 9, 2008

La fine del mondo























Grazie, Max!

Monday, September 8, 2008

So far, not so good

This afternoon I felt like doing a "Top of 2008" CD list (I know, 2008 is not over yet, but hey, I felt like it), and after a little bit rambling around the music collection the truth is that 2008 hasn't been a very good year (so far).

As very good albums I'd list:

The Hold Steady - Stay Positive

They haven't expanded greatly on their musical style but surely they don't need to! I like Craig Finn's lyrics and these two lines make me stand up:

Raise a toast to St Joe Strummer
Think He might've been our only decent teacher



Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust

You would have thought that the musical landscape of Sigur Rós was pretty much fixed or if it moved, it did at a glacier's speed... you would be wrong! I thought it was the case... and I have loved being proved wrong! Can't wait to seem them live in November at Razzmatazz.



... and that's basically it. There aren't any more albums worthy of being put on "the very good" list. All the others are just OKish, not great.

I still have to properly listen to Ra Ra Riot's "The Rhumb Line" and Emiliana Torrini's "Me and Armini", so maybe the list will increase before the end of the year.

Anybody care to recommend anything?

ps: If we had made it a 2008 "school year" top list (ie, from sept 2007 to august 2008), I'd definetively have included Radiohead's - In Rainbows & Beirut's - Nantes... and Josh Ritter's & The New Pornographer's latest... even though they're good, but not top top.

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Ra Ra Riot

Ra Ra Riot - Ghost Under Rocks

A cello and a violin in indie rock... and they sound great!

Thursday, September 4, 2008

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Monday, September 1, 2008