There are seventy-five rock and roll acts here in this picture. Let's see if you can identify them by using your metaphoric and visual area of your brain.
I'll start with one: Center top, see the two big bombers? Those are the B-52's!
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Mince Core band from Belgium, Agathocles recently visited my hometown of Tacna, Perú on their South American Tour.
I have a thing for trash metal bands that play loud and hard, unintelligible and completely having fun. Agathocles seems to be a down to earht, cool group of guys with just one purpose: rock the night and have fun.
Check out their Mincer album, available on Amazon.com and their website, http://www.agathocles.com/ for cool stuff and downloads like this one.
No, I'm not losing my mind. I just love to see rockers playing real rock, having fun and keeping it up with a smile. Rock on, Agathocles, rock on!
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
In 2001 I bought a copy of the companion book for the BBC TV series "Dancing In The Streets" written by Robert Palmer (unfortunately, out of print in the U.S.)
At the the book's last pages there was a series of lists on Rock and Roll milestones: top 10 albums, top ten dance singles... etcetera. The last one was an empty field for you to put your top ten, your favorite ones, your Desert Island CD's. The best music in the world is what you consider the best, not what people tell you what is. It's contradictory, but in blogs like mine you will find suggestions, invitations, not mandatory listenings or such. That would be
I didn't think twice and started writing down whatever came to my mind first. What I have heard from the last 15 years that I really, really loved.
Some of them are linked here to be reviewed and purchased on Amazon.com:
Friday, November 2, 2007
See the consequences? His father forced him to become a dentist when he was supposed to become a DJ, a dancer, a music man!
Loco Disco Men of the World, Unite!
Disco-dancing dentist sued for drilling disaster
Tool lodged into patient's sinuses while doc boogied to 'Car Wash', suit says
Tool lodged into patient's sinuses while doc boogied to 'Car Wash', suit says
The Associated Press
updated 12:42 p.m. MT, Fri., Nov. 2, 2007
updated 12:42 p.m. MT, Fri., Nov. 2, 2007
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A dentist was dancing to a song on the radio while drilling on a woman's tooth, and she wound up in the hospital when the drill bit snapped off and lodged near her eye, a lawsuit alleges.
Brandy Fanning, 31, said she had to undergo emergency surgery and spent three days in the hospital because of the October 2004 mishap.
The federal lawsuit filed last month against Dr. George Trusty seeks $600,000 for her medical expenses, pain and suffering.
Trusty, 57, a dentist at Syracuse Community Health Center, declined to comment, as did Dr. Ruben Cowart, the center's president and CEO.
Fanning said she went to the center's emergency dental clinic after pain in a left molar started getting worse. With a root canal ruled out as an option, Trusty gave her some Novocain and began drilling to break up the tooth before extracting it, she said.
As Trusty drilled, he was "performing rhythmical steps and movements to the song `Car Wash,'" which was on the radio, according to the lawsuit. Then, Fanning heard a snap.
Trusty tried to use a metal hook to pull the bit out, but that only pushed it farther up, driving it through the sinus and bone near her eye socket, the lawsuit alleged.
After first minimizing the problem, Trusty talked to an oral surgeon to set up an appointment — and then told Fanning she needed to get to an emergency room immediately, according to the lawsuit.
She claimed he had initially told she would likely sneeze the drill bit out, but doctors said later that if she really had sneezed, the drill bit could have blinded her left eye.
Fanning said she sued because Trusty failed on a promise to pay her medical bills. She said she still suffers facial swelling, nerve damage and chronic infections.
The suit is in federal court because the health center operates under federal law.
Brandy Fanning, 31, said she had to undergo emergency surgery and spent three days in the hospital because of the October 2004 mishap.
The federal lawsuit filed last month against Dr. George Trusty seeks $600,000 for her medical expenses, pain and suffering.
Trusty, 57, a dentist at Syracuse Community Health Center, declined to comment, as did Dr. Ruben Cowart, the center's president and CEO.
Fanning said she went to the center's emergency dental clinic after pain in a left molar started getting worse. With a root canal ruled out as an option, Trusty gave her some Novocain and began drilling to break up the tooth before extracting it, she said.
As Trusty drilled, he was "performing rhythmical steps and movements to the song `Car Wash,'" which was on the radio, according to the lawsuit. Then, Fanning heard a snap.
Trusty tried to use a metal hook to pull the bit out, but that only pushed it farther up, driving it through the sinus and bone near her eye socket, the lawsuit alleged.
After first minimizing the problem, Trusty talked to an oral surgeon to set up an appointment — and then told Fanning she needed to get to an emergency room immediately, according to the lawsuit.
She claimed he had initially told she would likely sneeze the drill bit out, but doctors said later that if she really had sneezed, the drill bit could have blinded her left eye.
Fanning said she sued because Trusty failed on a promise to pay her medical bills. She said she still suffers facial swelling, nerve damage and chronic infections.
The suit is in federal court because the health center operates under federal law.
Friday, October 19, 2007
I always thought Charles M. Schulz was a genius, and honestly I didn't care too much about his private life. I always admired his work and I grew watching the Charlie Brown Television specials and reading the strips, which I adored in their spanish version ("Carlitos".) I felt their characters close to my personality, which is pretty much complex.
The strip was about what Schultz knew best, and that was his very own life. Complex and double standarded: a guy who thought nobody cared or loved him but, at the same time, someone who was using his own emotions to create art and, the most important thing: to tell us life is not a bed of roses and children can be pretty cruel.
On the night of Saturday, February 12th, 2000, a few hours before the papers of the world publish the last sunday strip, Schulz died of colon cancer. Now I'm sure it was also because of pain, and he knew he wouldn't last more than a day without seeing his work on papers. He didn't announce it publicly until december 1999, but there were signs that something wasn't right with his health and his mind. Schulz became a manic Christian preacher and a teller of jokes he himself only would understand.
With the release of the new Michaelis book, we finally understand Charles M. Schulz was a man born to suffer, but turned this condition into a virtue and, of course, art. I'm sure this story is the real thing: no wonder why his children are furious with the statements the author has made in the book. According to some people, he didn't care too much about humanity, and children. He never showed love to his own, anyway.
We are humans, and Schulz proved to be an important one for the Western Culture. Even thought he never "believed" he was loved, or understood, he knew he was doing something big.
See the Article I wrote in 2000 here. (in spanish)
Peanuts creator Schulz led secret life of misery
By Arthur Spiegelman
Fri Oct 19, 7:43 PM ET
Good Grief, Charles Schulz. The creator of the beloved Peanuts comic strip was a shy, lonely man who used his child-like drawings to depict a life of deep melancholy, according to a controversial new biography.
The book is based on six years of research, unlimited access to family papers, more than 200 interviews and a close reading the 17,897 strips Schulz wrote and drew. It portrays Schulz as a man who felt unseen and unloved even if his readers numbered in the hundreds of millions.
Biographer David Michaelis, author of "Schulz and Peanuts," said the cartoonist was also a man who could neither forget nor forgive any slight or lonely moment.
Not for a minute did he believe that "Happiness was a warm puppy" -- and he may not have believed in happiness at all.
"He thought it was impossible to draw a happy comic strip and actually he was fond of saying that 'Happiness is a sad song,"' Michaelis said in a recent interview.
The cartoonist's family says it is very unhappy with the 655-page portrait of Schulz, who died in 2000 at the age of 77, and say they do not recognize the man on display.
Not for a minute did he believe that "Happiness was a warm puppy" -- and he may not have believed in happiness at all.
"He thought it was impossible to draw a happy comic strip and actually he was fond of saying that 'Happiness is a sad song,"' Michaelis said in a recent interview.
The cartoonist's family says it is very unhappy with the 655-page portrait of Schulz, who died in 2000 at the age of 77, and say they do not recognize the man on display.
Stan Getz's Children Of The World album cover, art by Charles M. Schulz (1978)
His son Monte Schulz told Newsweek magazine: "Why would all of us (children) gather at his bedside for three months if we hadn't felt enormous affection for him?"
"Had we known this was the book David was going to write, we would not have talked to him."
But they did talk to Michaelis and the writer stands by his findings. "Charles Schulz was a funny, warm and charming man with a great sense of calm and decency. But he also had a lifetime of being lonely, misunderstood and unhappy," he said.
FEAR OF BEING LEFT BEHIND
Michaelis says that to the day he died, Schulz could recall the terror of being separated as a boy from his mother on a crowded streetcar in his hometown of St. Paul, Minnesota.
"Schulz never stopped believing that he had been forsaken and would be left behind, that nobody cared," wrote Michaelis.
"In his work, indifference would be the dominant response to love. When his characters attempt to love, they are met not just by rejection but by ongoing, even brutal indifference -- manifested either by insensitivity or as deeply fatalistic acceptance."
All of Schulz's beloved characters -- Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Snoopy -- seem to have been torn from his life.
Michaelis says a close reading of the comic strips reveal them to be a Rosetta stone in which Schulz puts the most intimate details of his private life on display, including a romance that led to the breakup of his first marriage.
He says the bossy Lucy was inspired by his first wife, Joyce, who had no patience with his worrying and used to tell him during his bouts of melancholy, "Snap out of it."
Charlie Brown had a big head because Schulz's father continually warned him about getting a swelled head. Charlie Brown's dreams of grandeur had no place in Schulz's working class world.
All of Schulz's beloved characters -- Charlie Brown, Lucy, Linus, Snoopy -- seem to have been torn from his life.
Michaelis says a close reading of the comic strips reveal them to be a Rosetta stone in which Schulz puts the most intimate details of his private life on display, including a romance that led to the breakup of his first marriage.
He says the bossy Lucy was inspired by his first wife, Joyce, who had no patience with his worrying and used to tell him during his bouts of melancholy, "Snap out of it."
Charlie Brown had a big head because Schulz's father continually warned him about getting a swelled head. Charlie Brown's dreams of grandeur had no place in Schulz's working class world.
As to the family's criticism of his book, a note of regret can be heard in Michaelis' voice but he says a biographer has to draw the line between different views of the subject.
"I don't think there is one version of a man's life. I interviewed a lot of people who said Charles Schulz was a humble man, a shy man, a warm man and a sweet man. But they all also said he was a complicated man. I was not out to get him, but to understand him."
Después de lo cagado que estuvo Perú, hasta yo celebraría.
Charly García celebró junto a Chile el triunfo sobre Perú
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Santiago de Chile (EFE).- El cantautor argentino Charly García se unió la noche del miércoles a la celebración de los jugadores de la selección de Chile tras haber ganado a Perú por 2-0, en las eliminatorias al Mundial de Sudáfrica 2010, señala hoy la prensa local.El autor e intérprete de "Inconsciente colectivo", "Los Dinosaurios" y "Yendo de la cama al living", entre centenares de éxitos y famoso por sus excentricidades, llegó en una limusina junto a cuatro jóvenes mujeres a una discoteca de Santiago en la que celebraban los jugadores chilenos.
Según la prensa, García exigió el lujoso coche con las cuatro voluptuosas chicas incluidas como condición para salir de su hotel.Charly, según las versiones, celebró por partida doble, ya que la selección de su país, con dos victorias consecutivas, sobre Chile y Venezuela, esta última a domicilio, lidera la clasificación suramericana a la próxima Copa del Mundo.
El músico argentino llegó a Chile mientras se jugaba el partido Chile-Perú, en el estadio nacional, invitado al cumpleaños de su amigo, el cantante chileno Pablo Piñera, que se celebra hoy, jueves.
La celebración de los jugadores, organizada por el volante Arturo Vida, fue al compás del reggaetón, el ritmo favorito del jugador del Bayer Leverkusen alemán, que además invitó a la fiesta a sus amigos del barrio.El también autor e intérprete de "Cuando yo me empiece a quedar solo" y "Alguien en el mundo piensa en mí" se quedará hasta el fin de semana en la capital chilena, donde se presentará el viernes y sábado en el mismo local donde tendrá lugar la celebración del cumpleaños de su amigo Piñera.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)
That's right, someone posted this video on YouTube. One of the greatest songs of the eighties. "My Girl" by Chilliwack.
Chilliwack is one of those totally underrated bands that for some reason we don't know at all, they never became big, as they deserved it.
Check out the guitar solo, right in the middle of the song (you can see it up there, totally cool angle!). The guitar playing is perfect, accurate, rocking, desperate. Maybe one of the best guitar solos ever produced on record. The album version features this solo 12 bars longer, and it's way more mind-blowing.
That's right, someone posted this video on YouTube. One of the greatest songs of the eighties. "My Girl" by Chilliwack.
Chilliwack is one of those totally underrated bands that for some reason we don't know at all, they never became big, as they deserved it.
Check out the guitar solo, right in the middle of the song (you can see it up there, totally cool angle!). The guitar playing is perfect, accurate, rocking, desperate. Maybe one of the best guitar solos ever produced on record. The album version features this solo 12 bars longer, and it's way more mind-blowing.
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