Weekend update!!
I am way happy, yesterday's Cuba vs. the Dominican Republic was a great game, and I was fucking nervous and anxious watching, wow, and Cuba won and I am very happy for them. Tomorrow will be the final showdown between them and Japan, and it promises to be another great game, goo luck to both teams, althought my heart is with Cuba.
My dear friend Elga is in Spain since this thursday starting her work for her thesis, and it deals with national identity and the sport of soccer (futbol), I know she will do a great job and have some good fun while doing it.
Okay, starting now this will be my attempt to equal Delores latest journal entry, which I loved!!, a stream-of-conciousness/like prose work regarding music and my life.
Okay, lets start very early, with "...And justice for all" by Metallica which I bought on casette in seventh grade (I think, it might have been sixth but I doubt it) on a K-mart/like local store named Pitusa. At that time that album changed my life, it turned me away from the hair-band hard rock which I listened at the time and turned me into bands like Slayer, Anthrax (I loved "State of Euphoria" and "Among the living"), Testament, Exodus, etc. I was very much a Metallica fan for a while after that, I think I have never been more fanatical of anything else, I would have probably fought you at that time if you said anything bad about them. It is weird because now I make fun of them all the time, they are now such a joke... But at the time I loved them, and thought they were the greatest musical act alive.
Another musical memory is regarding my all time favorite album by any band and any genre: Rush's "Presto". It is strange because I do not know anyone else who thinks this a great album, I know a lot of people who thinks it is a bad album and some who thinks it has a few good songs but nobody loves it like I do. I bought the cassette (I bought cassettes only during their time, no vinyl in my house because I always thought they were not practical because they were so big, were not something you could carry with you and they got scratch pretty easily, plus we did not had a record player at my house) at a record store that still exist, even thought I bought my cassette copy in 1987, named Disco centro, in a mall named Plaza Rio Hondo, which is the mall nearest to my house. I played that album nonstop for more than a month in my portable cassette player. I stopped listening to other albums and even stopped listening to the radio (which I listened to cosntantly and intensely, but more on that later). I loved all the songs and learned all the lyrics, because I read all the lyrics in the booklet while singing to the songs, which is something I rarely do this day. This day I rarely read the booklet, I usually open the cd case, make an mp3 copy and then I put the cd away in my archive, but then again, back then I a had a very small music collection, because of not having a job and also, back then there was no cd burning or downloading 
I do not how many of the people who read this are even familiar with these album, but I reccomend you give the album a try, even if you hate it afterwards, it is a recording very near to my heart.
About the radio: there was a time when I did not hated it, in fact, I used to listen to it all the time, in fact I also used to call to make request and even won a few radio contests to earn free tickets to concerts (I saw Cafe Tacuba, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, la Maldita Vecindad, La Lupita and many others for free because of those free tickets). There is so many great musical acts that I discovered thru the radio, and not only commercial radio but also thru a small program that used to go on during Saturday night named "Rock Internacional" in the local college radio station. Besides those acts mentioned in this writing so far I also discovered La Polla record, Mano Negra, Tijuana No, Tahures Zurdos, Fobia and many others bands that where playing great music not sung in english (at that time I only listened to rock music, and only acts that sung in english, a sad symptom of many people in my country, courtesy of living as a colony, but that is a story for another time
). I am very grateful to radio because I learned of all those bands, and I am glad that in the time-period where "Radio Internacional" used to go on another, even better radio program plays regularly from 9 PM until midnight every Saturday, "Frecuencias Alternas", so everyone who reads this and lives in the Island, please do yourself a favor and listen to it!!!
My last recording for the night is "Matenme porque me muero" by Los Caifanes. They are a very influential and popular rock band from Mexico during the 80's and early 90's (they survive now with name "Jaguares") that started as a heavily synthpop influenced band that outgrew their influences and developed a sound very much their own later on. This particular album is one of those synthpop albums, and it sounds very similar to "Head on the door" by the Cure, and its great and I love it. This album also holds the distinction of being the first album sung in spanish that I totally LOVED, and it made start to like and love all those other rock bands that existed in the world. I owe this discovery to a friend from the ninth grade named Antoine, because he lended me the cassette so that I could give it a try and from the moment I listened to it I was hooked. I think he told me that I might I like it because they were "just like the Cure" which we loved especially because of "Mixed up" and "Disintegration" (those two cassettes we listened to a lot, and we idolized Robert Smith, but the again who does not???). Afterwards I got very heavily into Los Fabulosos Cadillacs "Vasos Vacios" and Cafe Tacuba's "Re", which made us even more fans of rock sung in spanish. I still love Caifanes, but are not a big fan of the group that they turned into, Los Jaguares, althought they are still very popular in Latin America.
Well enough of this for tonight, but I will write another one of this hopefully during the week, bye to all and GO CUBA!!!
I am way happy, yesterday's Cuba vs. the Dominican Republic was a great game, and I was fucking nervous and anxious watching, wow, and Cuba won and I am very happy for them. Tomorrow will be the final showdown between them and Japan, and it promises to be another great game, goo luck to both teams, althought my heart is with Cuba.
My dear friend Elga is in Spain since this thursday starting her work for her thesis, and it deals with national identity and the sport of soccer (futbol), I know she will do a great job and have some good fun while doing it.
Okay, starting now this will be my attempt to equal Delores latest journal entry, which I loved!!, a stream-of-conciousness/like prose work regarding music and my life.
Okay, lets start very early, with "...And justice for all" by Metallica which I bought on casette in seventh grade (I think, it might have been sixth but I doubt it) on a K-mart/like local store named Pitusa. At that time that album changed my life, it turned me away from the hair-band hard rock which I listened at the time and turned me into bands like Slayer, Anthrax (I loved "State of Euphoria" and "Among the living"), Testament, Exodus, etc. I was very much a Metallica fan for a while after that, I think I have never been more fanatical of anything else, I would have probably fought you at that time if you said anything bad about them. It is weird because now I make fun of them all the time, they are now such a joke... But at the time I loved them, and thought they were the greatest musical act alive.
Another musical memory is regarding my all time favorite album by any band and any genre: Rush's "Presto". It is strange because I do not know anyone else who thinks this a great album, I know a lot of people who thinks it is a bad album and some who thinks it has a few good songs but nobody loves it like I do. I bought the cassette (I bought cassettes only during their time, no vinyl in my house because I always thought they were not practical because they were so big, were not something you could carry with you and they got scratch pretty easily, plus we did not had a record player at my house) at a record store that still exist, even thought I bought my cassette copy in 1987, named Disco centro, in a mall named Plaza Rio Hondo, which is the mall nearest to my house. I played that album nonstop for more than a month in my portable cassette player. I stopped listening to other albums and even stopped listening to the radio (which I listened to cosntantly and intensely, but more on that later). I loved all the songs and learned all the lyrics, because I read all the lyrics in the booklet while singing to the songs, which is something I rarely do this day. This day I rarely read the booklet, I usually open the cd case, make an mp3 copy and then I put the cd away in my archive, but then again, back then I a had a very small music collection, because of not having a job and also, back then there was no cd burning or downloading
I do not how many of the people who read this are even familiar with these album, but I reccomend you give the album a try, even if you hate it afterwards, it is a recording very near to my heart.
About the radio: there was a time when I did not hated it, in fact, I used to listen to it all the time, in fact I also used to call to make request and even won a few radio contests to earn free tickets to concerts (I saw Cafe Tacuba, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, la Maldita Vecindad, La Lupita and many others for free because of those free tickets). There is so many great musical acts that I discovered thru the radio, and not only commercial radio but also thru a small program that used to go on during Saturday night named "Rock Internacional" in the local college radio station. Besides those acts mentioned in this writing so far I also discovered La Polla record, Mano Negra, Tijuana No, Tahures Zurdos, Fobia and many others bands that where playing great music not sung in english (at that time I only listened to rock music, and only acts that sung in english, a sad symptom of many people in my country, courtesy of living as a colony, but that is a story for another time
). I am very grateful to radio because I learned of all those bands, and I am glad that in the time-period where "Radio Internacional" used to go on another, even better radio program plays regularly from 9 PM until midnight every Saturday, "Frecuencias Alternas", so everyone who reads this and lives in the Island, please do yourself a favor and listen to it!!!
My last recording for the night is "Matenme porque me muero" by Los Caifanes. They are a very influential and popular rock band from Mexico during the 80's and early 90's (they survive now with name "Jaguares") that started as a heavily synthpop influenced band that outgrew their influences and developed a sound very much their own later on. This particular album is one of those synthpop albums, and it sounds very similar to "Head on the door" by the Cure, and its great and I love it. This album also holds the distinction of being the first album sung in spanish that I totally LOVED, and it made start to like and love all those other rock bands that existed in the world. I owe this discovery to a friend from the ninth grade named Antoine, because he lended me the cassette so that I could give it a try and from the moment I listened to it I was hooked. I think he told me that I might I like it because they were "just like the Cure" which we loved especially because of "Mixed up" and "Disintegration" (those two cassettes we listened to a lot, and we idolized Robert Smith, but the again who does not???). Afterwards I got very heavily into Los Fabulosos Cadillacs "Vasos Vacios" and Cafe Tacuba's "Re", which made us even more fans of rock sung in spanish. I still love Caifanes, but are not a big fan of the group that they turned into, Los Jaguares, althought they are still very popular in Latin America.
Well enough of this for tonight, but I will write another one of this hopefully during the week, bye to all and GO CUBA!!!
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fernando37:
si recibi tu mensaje gracias un millon...mi hermana me regalo los dvds de los capitulos de abduction.....me recurda cunado me ude aqui a gringolandia...que el show era los viernes en la noche... anyway..llamaste a mi pana??? el tiene los cds...dejame saber..cuidate bro.. 
anyway..llamaste a mi pana??? el tiene los cds...dejame saber..cuidate bro.. 
delores:
oh, the Lacrimosa i was reffering to was the name of a Regina Spektor song i had downloaded last weekend. perhaps she is reffering to the musical act that you're thinking of 