#FlashbackSunday - Serge Gainsbourg "L'Anamour "

Acabo de hacer un post de Charlotte Gainsbourg en mi otro blog y me sentí yeyé por un momento así que me tomé un momento para recordar a Serge Gainsbourg <3

Some on The Walking Dead

So last night I saw TS 19 episode of The walking dead, and not only this series is amazing but the best thing of this episode, to put things interesting is a very dramatic explosion, leaving one of the cast members behind respecting the desire to die when there is nothing shore in front of you...and to complete the dramatic ending, the live version of Tomorrow Is A Long Time song by Bob Dylan, just the perfect song for a perfect episode.

This song was covered by Elvis Priestley, and Bob Dylan once said that that cover was his favourite cover that someone ever made of one of his songs...Talk about a song in the history of music, made by Bob Dylan and singed by Elvis, two of the truly greatest in the history.

Not everyone that covers Dylan does it well, people that cover him tend to try and sing like him and its hard to picture one of his songs singed differently, that was the truly thing about Elvis, he maybe never made a truly great song of his own, but he sure knew how to do everyone else’s his own way.

Here's to dead, and Elvis! Cheers ;-)



P.S: The Bob Dylan version is not on youtube or anywhere, you can find it in his Greatest Hits Vol. II or watch the episode to listen to it.

Stream: Noah & The Whale "Wild Thing"

Stream the new song of Noah & The Whale "Wild Thing". They sound different, and it's not necessarily a bad thing but is not better than the previous stuff...For now...

Woods "Til the Sun Rips"

At Echo Lake is the second LP of Woods, and they mix a bunch of sounds with easy going acoustic stuff, they are really amazing. The first single was "Death Rattles" and it has become one of my favourite songs of this year, but this is not about this song, is about the new single and video "Til the Sun Rips". Watch it / hear it / love it

Woods- "Til the Sun Rips" music video from Jon Casey on Vimeo.

Calexico "Feast Of Wire" (Reissue)

A thing about this amazing 2003 LP reissue is that the secund CD has Remixes by Jazznova, Gotan Project and The Cinematic Orchestra!, and also it really is a truly great LP, is never a bad thing to look back on works of this kid of amazing bands.

Also, the Hot Rail LP was remastered as well, two good Reissues of the week

Enjoy!

#FlashbackSunday - Mary Hopkins "Those Were The Days"

I think today I will start a new category of posts in my blog...it will be called Flashback Sunday :-) Here you will find music of any kind, because I figure that is important to pay respect to the history of music that evolved on to whatever amazing music we have today. I'll start with one of my favourite songs of all time and the YouTube kind of karaoke video. I mean, really...listen/read the lyrics to this song and tell me if isn't amazing! I always quote from this song "Oh! My friend, we're older but no wiser".

brilliantlove

I love films that have a little bit of indie production, cute people, a little bit of fashion, art, music, summer, love and sex...I mean...Who doesn't?...Thank God we have yet another movie about this and I want to see it (of course...if it ever comes to theatre in Venezuela...if not...thank God we have illegal downloading...is the consequence of letting underdeveloped countries out of the picture ^^)

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HIV / Aids "Dark Was The Night"

One of the dearest family members I've ever had was mu cousin Gullermo; a medicine student at U.D.O (Universidad De Oriente) here in Venezuela. He was a very organized and in control guy that had a gay closet issue that made him rush into casual sex rather than accepting who he was and try to find a good relationship that could balance his care and love for the family and his needs as a gay human being. There is a lot of that part of my cousin that we'll never know, he lived two lives and one aspects of that life led him to unprotected sex and got transmitted HIV.

He studied medicine, so he did not tell anyone in the family and everyone loved him, I'm sure that if he had told the truth there would have been lots of prejudice and ignorance and rejection surrounding the issue and his life could have been miserable for a while, but just maybe we could've helped him as well, the thing is that he died some years ago and I never knew the real story until I was a grown up.

My dad loved my cousin Guillermo, and my little brother was born after his death, so he named him Guillermo as well.

My cousin was my father's pride and joy and he was mistaken thinking that if my family knew the reality of his life he wouldn't find people that loved him; instead the secret hurt more than the reality ever did.

Days like today celebrate aids awareness, and for me it's not only important to find help if you have aids, but it's also an opportunity to let know that no matter what, even if a bunch of people around you leave you alone and make your existence a little bit more miserable than it is, there are also people who will stick around and help you out and a bunch of new people that will help you overcome and become stronger.

Today aids is not a death sentence and for my cousin, being gay it was not going to be the end of the world, and all the family that loved him without knowing who he was still love him and some of us regret never having the chance to love him for who he really was.

Last year, a bunch of artists put together an amazing album that got out almost like a concept album; some of my favourite singers / songwriters and bands took a part in this album and also made it to raise awareness in the world, awareness is not only learning how not to get it, but also knowing that its not the end of the world and if someone near you has this virus you can and should still love and support him or her. This album was called "Dark Was The Night", and it’s for those of us who have seen amazing people die alone because of this terrible disease, we are the help that brings light to those who live in darkness.

Awareness is a mix of prevention, tolerance, acceptance and love.

Today "Dark Was The Night" have raised over 1 million dollars to create awareness, and not only I love the concept behind this amazing album, it’s also one of my favourite albums of all time. The guys from "The National" put together amazing people in this initiative and made beauty out of it.

The National - Dark Was the Night from Nathanaël Le Scouarnec on Vimeo.

This post's intention was to talk a little bit about this with all of you guys and share a little bit of this album and my close relationship with this virus, and also say that someday we shall overcome.

The National

I got this e-mail and I loved it:

Hi Everyone!

We're very excited that the release date for the Expanded Edition of High Violet has finally arrived! The expanded edition has eight new studio tracks, b-sides and live recordings. Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpdadGCiBWA for a presentation that we received from Matt's brother Tom Berninger explaining the expanded edition and Violet Friday.

Speaking of Violet Friday, on November 26 the High Violet Expanded Edition will be available for $7.99 at participating indie record stores in the US. For a list of retailers, visit http://www.highviolet.com/violetfriday If you do visit your local participating record store on Friday, check in via Foursquare while in the store to receive a download of the Expanded Edition version of Terrible Love.

We're also excited to announce that we've added a show in Tokyo on March 17th and a show in Aarhus on February 26th. You can find links for tickets to the shows here: http://www.americanmary.com/tour.php.

Finally, we couldn't be more delighted that our good friend Sharon Van Etten will be playing with us at our February & March European shows and that The Middle East will be performing with us in Sydney and Melbourne.

Happy Thanksgiving and we hope to see you soon!

Dawn

And loved the video ;-)

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti "Round & Round"

And for another interesting video today, I give you the Ariel Pink's Round & Round video filmed by Wayne Coyne (The Flaming Lips front man) with his iPhone.

Enjoy!

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round & Round from Delo Creative on Vimeo.

Active Child "I'm In Your Church At Night"

Here is yet another new video of yet another one of my favorite bands of the year Active Child and the song "I'm in your church at night". An interestinc chef take on the genesis hahaha!

Enjoy!

Sufjan Stevens "Too Much"

Here you have the stop motion "lots of going on" strange new video of Sufjan Stevens. He's one of my favorite artists of all time and this song is pretty standard of him, but really, you should check out the rest of his work.

Röyksopp's Short Film

That Go | Röyksopp 'Senior' from Rokkit on Vimeo.

Love the 80's looking girls and the mixture of comedy, horror, drama portraying an Ironic piece of art.

Two thumbs up for Röyksopp.

James Yuill "Rusty Nails"

I'm a huge Apparat fan since I discovered him in 2005; I've followed his solo projects and his collaborations with a lot of artists. In 2009 he teamed up with Modeselektor and together they were Moderat. They have albums and a DVD with amazing visuals and music, the most famous song of this group is a song called Rusty Nails, also the video is really amazing:

Moderat "Rusty Nails" from Pfadfinderei on Vimeo.

Another great artist is James Yuill. He has a good knowledge of electronic music and he mixes that with his acoustic guitar. The result is great songs. The point of this post is for you to hear a cover of Moderat's Rusty Nails made by this other amazing artist James Yuill. Hope you enjoy :-)

James Yuill - Rusty Nails by James Yuill

My Time Travel Weekend

This weekend I time traveled back to the age when the only technology available was printed books. The Illustration, and pulled a finger to Kant ;-)

This happened because in this perfect third world country the rain made impossible to get out of my home because the subway closed and the traffic jams were too heavy for anyone to go anyway (that was Saturday). Then on Sunday I woke up and there was no light service or water service or gas service. So I couldn't use my T.V. or computer, I couldn't go out because of the traffic jams and the lack of subway, it rained good part of the day and I couldn't cook anything so all I ate was fruit and bread...

That was my time travel weekend :-)

Arcade Fire "The Suburbs"

Arcade Fire + Spike Jonze = The Suburbs

Black Prairie "Red Rocking Chair"

There's always a good thing in listening to KCRW's radio show, earlier on this blog one of that good things was Fistful Of Mercy, but now I came across with “The Decemberist” side project of Jenny Conlee (vocals, accordian), Nate Query (bass, cello) and Chris Funk (vocals, bazouki, dobro, weissenborn) together with fellow Portland musicians Annalisa Tornfelt (vocals, fiddle) and Jon Neufeld (guitar, vocals). The Decemberist are a well known band on the indie scene, but this sort of traditional performed so purely is not so usual. Hipster indie people tend to run away from this bluegrassy sound, but maybe because I spend two years of my childhood in Oklahoma I developed a taste for country and bluegrass like music.

This is no Ammylou Harris, it has an experimental edge, and its a mix of a lot of traditional and folk sounds from around the world; it has very distinctive European sounds, a little bit of tango, a little bit of waltz and a lot of northern American traditional music as well. Very instrumental but very pretty, if people are interested in having a bit more of maybe not so common music in their collection this is a band I can strongly recommend ;-)

The LP is "Feast Of The Hunters' Moon" and the song tagged is "Red Rocking Chair".

Enjoy!

So...

Yeah...I had a birthday...and this was not my birthday cake...

Bummer :-(

Happy Birthday To Me!

Kids Kids Kids

I love kids, and I often do this sort of internet experiments showing them viral internet youtube videos to see how they react; thats why I not only enjoy the fact that people are doing a youtube viral with kids reactions about viral youtube videos, but also because kids are brilliant...they really are, and this ones chosen buy this guys are also adorable.

Hail to those who make internet a kids tool that is adult friendly (and not the other way around)

Enjoy!

Chromeo "Hot Mess"

Chromeo are not astrangers in this blog and it's well known by everyone that knows me not only that they represent an eternal music crush in me and they can't go wrong in my book.

This time around I'm here to show you the last video, that is also the first song of the latest album, and what a way to start!

This video is a sexy awkward loving story in a police department. Not in a police academy kind of way, but just as good and funny...Enjoy this Hot Mess ;-)

The Tallest Man On Earth "Love Is All"

Well I walk upon the river like it's easier than land
Evil's in my pocket and your will is in my hand
Oh, your will is in my hand

And I'll throw it in the current that I stand upon so still
Love is all, from what I've heard, but my heart's learned to kill
Oh, mine has learned to kill

Oh, I said I could rise
From the harness of our goals
Here come the tears
But like always, I let them go
Just let them go

And now spikes will keep on falling from the heavens to the floor
The future was our skin and now we don't dream anymore
No, we don't dream anymore

Like a house made from spider webs and the clouds rolling in
I bet this mighty river's both my savior and my sin
Oh, my savior and my sin

Oh, I said I could rise
From the harness of our goals
Here come the tears
But like always, I let them go
Just let them go

Well I walk upon the river like it's easier than land
Evil's in my pocket and your strength is in my hand
Your strength is in my hand

And I'll throw you in the current that I stand upon so still
Love is all, from what I've heard, but my heart's learned to kill
Oh, mine has learned to kill

Oh, I said I could rise
From the harness of our goals
Here come the tears
But like always, I let them go
Just let them go



<3

Sesame Street Know Best...

In this world of technology Sesame Street know that software creators think of everything to create a new App. A lot of parodies have been made about Iphone in almost every show, but to have fun with technology in a kids show is very "of out time" and that's what I call smart television. To all the kid shows that make music and are "from our time" Seasame Street knows "There's An App For That" <3

Little Wings + Feist "Look At What The Light Did Now"

Lots of people know the behind the scenes and creative process of Feist DVD is around, but Look At What The Light Did Now...

Feist and Little Wings (AKA Kyle Field) singing in a hidden beach canyon <3

The Streets "Trust Me"

This song appeard on the 15th of April of last year (2009)and its a part of the new LP project called "Computers and Blues" also the last he will do under the name of The Streets (hope not the last one at all). The thing is that after some Twitter activity he has posted video vlogs, poems, and now the video of this song that is not only listening great but looking great in the video.

Everyone that love The Strees miss not listening to new material and the new website started a countdown of what probably is the day he will say goodbye to The Streets name and have a new LP coming out, I don't really know. But while we wait for the next steps of Mike Skinner's projects we can enjoy hes old music and his new videos. In this post I'll let for all of you to enjoy the "Trust Me" video and a powerfull piece of Urban Poetry like only he can do it called ***something to hide*** that starts with a powerfull line

"Everyone has something to hide if they don't there's something wrong".

Hope You enjoy.

Miami Horror - Holidays

Summer started in the south and Miami Horror is celebrating with a new music video for the song Holidays :-)

Its kind of Zoiberg inspired character chillin with a pretty girl in a car and the beach.

Enjoy!

Holidays from Miami Horror on Vimeo.

Diamond Rings - Special Affections

I came across this band with a review of TND and I saw it before lots of times but the cover art was so gay that I imagined (wrongly) that it would be a bad LP. My wrong! this is something like Joy Division wanting to make an honest Pop thing...and the results are more than you could ever hoped for it to be. I really enjoyed it and I leave you one video and the soundcloud so you can stream it :-) (I love FREE streaming <3)



Diamond Rings - Special Affections by SecretCityRecords

Kanye West "Runaway"

For this video Kanye west overdid it, not because of the art and photography, but because the songs were cut off and not well blendend to the image. But nontheless, the intention of the video is well done and musicaly i give two thumbs up, specialy for the last song in the video that is a work between Kanye and Bon Iver that I haven't heard before until today and it blew my mind!

There i let the clean version of the song video. I hope you enjoy ;-)

The National "Terrible Love"

Also new video of The National...today has been a good video day :-)

Enjoy!

Local Natives "Who Knows Who Cares"

This has been one of my favourite songs of the year and finaly has a video...hope you enjoy!

Google's "It Gets Better"

For a while the "It Gets Better" campaign that tries to stop young GLBTT of killing themselves by showing people that survive to see that in time life gets better. This is a beautiful thing to do, because it doesn’t matter if you are against it or in favor; it doesn't even matter if you fight for social rights and equality for the GLBTT group; this is just a fact of life that when things are very fucked up and there's no way that you could be worst then life gets better.

This message is not only about pro-gay rights or even about pro-gay youth, is about life. While de suicide in GLBTT youth is growing, the world is not only losing one gay life, but also a mother is losing a child, a brother is losing a playing buddy, a class room is losing a joke and a country is losing a possibly productive citizen.

The message is simple, "Don't do it...Life gets better", I'll show right now the Google campaign, but there are many others...

Thank you Google, because this gives hope to those who are losing it, and also thank you for giving jobs to GLBTT that are out and proud. I'm sure that with Google on the project the campaign will reach more people...I would like to watch the same campaign in underdeveloped countries and other languages, but this is a cool start.

Liars "Scissor "

Liars have made this video to demonstrate that in the end the rock will always win...So stop trying!

Enjoy!

Liars "Scissor" from A Bruntel on Vimeo.

Paradigm Change In Education

Previously I've talked about technology and multitasking children and as an educator I've always known that the model of education must benefit the progress and changes in life and must be an education of its time. This said, I've been talking with some people to see how technology and change can be brought or even taken in consideration to reform education in Venezuela benefiting the changes of the world, how can a student in this countries can become competent in the world, and for this the question on how can the Venezuelan education can form part of the world.

In Venezuela the revolution must lead to modernize and dynamize the education to a much versatile approach to reality. If we are already excluded of the economic system because we are third world and most recently because we have an Ape as president that wants to implement XIX century ideas into the already old fashioned institutions its more than time that we start taking education to a much more interesting and fun approach on reality.

The children don't want and don't need to be told about the historical prejudice against developed countries and the importance of closing their mentalities to a one squared socialistic (almost communist) view of politics and power and institutions. Maybe I'm against the institutions as they are, and more against on what the revolution is taking them, but if we are going to change it must be to a much 21 st. century mentality. We have the meads...so let's go for it.

Here I leave for you a video I found that talks a little about exactly what I've been fighting for in schools and university since I've been inside of the system, and an interesting approach on how the educational paradigm should change. So I hope you enjoy.

If Lance Armstrong Had Two Balls

I made this playlist thinking in this...

Hope you enjoy :-)

To All The Unbelievers Out There

Lately I've had a few people saying to me "is Fiona Apple really making a new record? Don't play with my feelings like that!", and if there was some sort of doubt here we have eccentric Fiona and her animal print gloves talking about her relationship with music and how this was what she was supposed to be doing in life. This is a sort of reference to her upcoming album and I hope that the music playing on the back could be one track? Well I hope so.

Fiona seems to be quite socially awkward to still be making unique and amazing music for all the misunderstood people out there, but I don’t know why I have the feeling that this time around she is a lot less troubled and won’t be so violent on her lyrics like she was in the past. Still I’m waiting anxiously for this album and also sure of the greatness it will have, I really hope it will be her best, because I think there’s still much more Fiona that we might not know.

To do list

Next time I go to a rural place with a Pond I'll remember to do this:



Loved the song Cool Summer song...shame is not summer anymore hehe.

How To Dress Well

How To Dress Weell is the lo-fi home made project of a dude called Tom Krell. He has some early R&B vibe from the 80's and 90's with very lo-fi recordings that sometimes saturate, truly representing what a living room and a basement can sound, but what today I'm going to post about him is a very personal track for a very personal feeling. The song is a cover of R. Kelly's song I wish, and with less anger and less beat the lyrics of the song really shine through and reveal the amazing songwriting and how amazingly well done is this cover made. In his blog Krell refered to it so I'll quote and leave it there.

i lost my best friend and i sang this song for him. this was a really beautiful and sad experience for me – the video is the only take of the song, the first time i've ever played it, culling the lyrics from memory and singing from my soul with and for my boy.

i hope if you've lost someone you love you know that this shit is from the bottom of the heart.

love,
htdw

HOW TO DRESS WELL "WAKING UP TO LIFE SOMETIMES SEEMS WORSE" from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

Things I can't hardly wait

For sure we can say that 2010 is an amazing music year, but for some reason I want 2011 to come because this year has been awesome and there is too many good music going around...the thing is that all though that we have awesome music this year, 2010 is letting that good old known feeling that amazing musicians I've been waiting to give to the world new material will do so in 2011 and that alone is very exciting!

2011 will give us new Cat Power, Wilco, Fiona Apple, and Radiohead albums are on the way! AWESOME!

Video / Art

Chris Cunningham always takes an interesting turn on his videos, commercial spots, and basically everything he puts a video camera into. Nobody doubts that Cunningham is a real modern artist, watching visual creations done for people like Björk or Aphex Twin, and he’s experience goes not only on the music videos but on commercial spots and diverse installations and short films such as ELECTROMA made for Daft Punk or Rubber Johnny for Aphex Twin. He also has done publicity spots like Flora Perfum for Gucci and my personal favorite Mental Welth for PlayStation.

Now he comes back with a video installation he made for MoMA taking a 10 minute remix of New York Is Killing Me from Gil Scott-Heron’s new LP “I’m New Here”. Gil Scott-Heron is a poet and baritone singer, and there’s something about he’s writing and he’s voice that takes you places. Also the visual experience of Cunningham makes this installation in MoMA a thing worth trying. Consists in images of NYC, very minimalistic for usual Cunningham taste, but in the end a collage of multi directional images produce a sort of vertigo that goes amazing with Gil lyrics and the whole vibe…I really hope you enjoy this one.

You can grab de video on http://chriscunningham.com/

Some words on Chromeo

Maybe some people don’t like Chromeo, they look at them as too hipsters, too electro, too retro, whatever. I must say that I’ve had a crush on this band since it came out, and in the new LP “Business Casual” they demonstrate that Chromeo will always be Chromeo. This doesn’t mean that the new LP is a repetition of previews ones, actually, musically it’s maybe the less electro, they come to say that they are educated geeks that can compose really good music with the early sounds of 70’s and 80’s disco, hip hop, and electro but still represent this times. Another classy note on this LP is that all songs were written in piano, thing that the Yours Truly session leaves no doubt for the world to see.

I really don’t care what everyone says about Chromeo, they haven’t had a single down for me and they hit all my buttons right, and yes…the new LP is just FANTASTIC, so get it, and get it NOW!

Enjoy!

Yourstru.ly Presents: Chromeo "Don't Walk Away" from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

Music and Hair

Some people don't like it...but when it comes to musicians we all love the beards, could be the 3 day beard or the years on working beard, either way, when it comes to musicians, a little hair going on its always irresistible. So I decided to make this post for all of you to enjoy.

Maps & Atlases - Solid Ground from FatCat Records on Vimeo.

Kings Of Leon - Radioactive (album Come Around Sundown) from szymen on Vimeo.

The Tallest Man on Earth from bob6y on Vimeo.

Mr. Pink

Yes, there is such thing as a gay and lesbian film festival and shit, but the important thing isn’t that the gays have more space to express themselves (because now the weird thing is a movie without a gay character), just that they have good creation team to promote this sort of stuff.

I don't know why, gay movies don't get to me, I find myself watching them and not understanding them, because it’s based on stereotypes, or maybe cultural beliefs that I don’t share nor understand, Maybe because we are far from doing a reality gay movie of a Venezuelan middle class person and there won’t be any movie of this subject coming soon. I guess that the progress have been made looking gay people in movies like another person in the movie, not making the movie gay because (let’s face it) gay movies suck. If you want to make a gay movie it just has to be very gay, SO gay that even gay man finds it gay…So gay that is almost impossible to watch…So gay that takes the regular human interaction and interrupts them with some gay thing that makes it impossible that something that gay can be happening.

Anyway, nobody cares what the gay movie is about, it’s too gay to be taken seriously, and that’s what the creative team of this gay and lesbian movie festival understood and made an excellent advertisement to promote this. Inspired in Reservoir Dogs we have Gangster, a plan, colour code names, blood, and GAYNESS. All this ends in a fantastic gay interaction that maybe doesn’t make us go to the festival, but at least will make us laugh our socks off.

Advertising below.

Enjoy!

Trespass: A History Of Uncommissioned Urban Art

Once again TASCHEN made a book that is worth spending money to have. The great thing of these books is that they truly try to speak about our generation with words but also with good designs, marketing and an awesome line of collaborators that give shape to the ideas of what contemporary stuff is about.

They talk architecture, they talk fashion, they talk any type of art and anything dedicated to saying and documenting how the world of today’s aesthetics works.

In this opportunity they bring us a new book that attempts to talk about the urban culture, the streets, and they do it brilliantly acknowledging that what makes urban culture what it is has a little to do with doing it illegal, hidden, in your face, and they take the concept of urban art from the beginning with the name that defines the book: "Trespass".

And the interesting thing about this is that in our civilization and ideal of what society should be we forget the beauty, the element of surprise and the capacity of looking the world differently. For this we have heroes that trespass the roles imposed by the powerful sections of society and without causing a political revolution they communicate the massage of freedom, beauty and the possibility of free thinking even when something bigger than you doesn't let you.

The thing about trespassing is that we know we are little, we know we can do illegal stuff; we know we're not wanted sometimes, but we also have a voice that we rarely use it in a form that affects many people unless you trespass the normal way of doing things. The urge to use that voice in a form of urban art goes beyond the rules imposed by civilization.

In the Declaration of Dependence the Kings of Convenience talk about this sort of things and I quote how brilliantly they communicate the feeling of trespassing and the concept of the new TASCHEN book:

Boys of today write lines on walls
in the streets at night
in suburbs of cities with no name
is this destruction or just quiet protest
against loneliness?

I want this book and I thing everything around this urban heroes is just beautiful and amazing and so right...Check it out:

Generation of Multitaskers

I wonder what the future might be like... In back to the future the pictures on the news paper moved and information changed on the moment, and it seems that with the latest technology books will be a thing of the past. I still think that the best way to read is with a book in your hands. But it's true that I’m just a guy from Venezuela with political control of money change and I can't buy freely books on Amazon or whatever because technology is not at all accessible. The thing is that I really wonder if in the future, taking out the economic issues that don’t allow everyone to have access to technology, people really would stop reading in paper and invest in iPads and Kindels and whatever engineers and creative technological geeks come up to make even wider the experience of reading.

The only thing that really concerns me about reading and the new experience of it is that it will be even harder to make children really learn how to read, and the children that have some sort of learning problem will even have to learn how to multitask in order to read an entire book. We ask ourselves why is it so hard that children’s this days sit down and pay attention, and some go to a pharmacist to prescribe something to make the kid survive a day in school paying attention, sitting down, but the complicated thing is that technology and progress are taking us to a less specific field of knowledge, to a sort of "know a little bit of everything" and learn more about the things you like, and the world is not moving towards children that concentrate on one thing, but on multitaskers that are in contact with everything and are not really paying attention to anything, unless you are really gifted and develop a sort of super learning skill that goes beyond the tool that is given to you.

I see the future in the present and the path that technology is taking and I confess that its really amazing, but also hard to process if you are not in perpetual contact with all this new stuff; the world and technology are becoming a perpetual revolution, nothing stays the same anymore, and our brains are almost forgetting what peace and quiet means. I wonder how education will be in the future, how we will be able to modernize the way we approach reality and the way we learn, how will the children adapt...Isn't that the goal of everyone standing in front of progress? Change and adaptation?

Even so, I'm here, sitting down, writing to the wind, and asking myself how will I have children and raise them to be calmed and multitaskers with a powerful tool like Nelson, Coupland, and Alice, because I want my children to be calmed and fun, and active, and smart, and a little geeks, but I feel that the world is becoming a constant bombarding of stuff very difficult to process...Everything is going fast and I don't want it to slow down...but it also gives me a little angst...

Maybe is right...Angst is the motor of the world, without it we would be dead...but what do I know?

In the mean time you could see what the hell am I talking about here:

The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

Peace!

Loop a Loop

Its funny how one goes into this sort of music loops, you find yourself listening to the same songs over and over again. Lately I've been remembering a lot of old stuff I used to listen and lately not any more, some 80's and 90's things and stuff, but looking through my music I came across a playlist I did to Fernando. I'm a very musical person, therefore I put moments and pretty much everything I live into the music I listen. But anyway, I came across this playlist and a song called Loop a Loop of the band Crimea, the LP that has this song can be downloaded in their web page for free :-) And because everyone loves free stuff (and I love music) I thought that it was a good idea to share with you and give the opportunity of download new music.

Enjoy!



Download free in The Crimea's website :-)

8 Bit Magic

We all have some fascination for 8bit games, specially everyone that have had some contact with Atari, Nintendo and the first computer games. The coolest thing is that the excitement of 8bit games has never been gone and with tecnology we have demonstrated that 8 bit is not a fashion trend but a thing that was borned to stay.

In music the "nintendo wave" and the 8bit sounds have been very popular lately with mega bands like Crystal Castles sampling this stuff. But are bands like YMCK and Anamanaguchi that have been on the top of the 8bit music. At first listening to this bands was a sort of smiley nostalgia of when we were little and remembered the sountracks of this games, but we don't have to be nostalgic anymore, because with PlayStation 3 and the mega project of the brains involved into making Scott Pilgrim into a Franchise the concept of Game and 8bit music is back!

I'm glad to see a soundtrack of an 8bit game being as famous and happy to see that Scott Pilgrim is doing well (and how not?), the world of grafic comics, 8bit games fans, PlayStation 3 fans, awesome musicians and all is colliding into one mega success that is not only making lot's of money, but making lot's of people freaking happy!

For all of you out there that have no idea of what I'm talking about...and those who do...or just the ones that come into this blog to see the music videos and not read what I have to say :-) I leave the Blogotheque's performance of Anamanaguchi and a sample of the new Scott Pilgrim's PlayStation 3 game sountrack!

FREAKING AWESOME!

Anamanaguchi | A Take Away Show | Airbrushed from La Blogotheque on Vimeo.

Enjoy!

The Post For The Suicidal

Not many people reflect about suicide in a funny way (maybe because is a very serious thing to do). The fact is that is never important if you care about the person that will commit it, if this person is decided to do it, they will; and the reason is that most of the time the suicide is very selfish. But the thing about the selfishness in suicide is very important, perhapes the most important aspect about suicide, but though this is important I would like to have a word for al the suicidals everywhere, know that your death will affect someone else, even if nobody loves you, someone will cry and grief for a while, and that's natural because it comes naturally with death.

If you want to die because you want to hurt someone its your problem, just know that if you want to die you can't mess with some other people's life because that's suicidal gone wrong.

This reflection came to me because of the new Philip Selway (Radiohead's drummer) video, it's a very funny take of what can happen when you fuck up your suicide, if you want to take a look here you go...

I also recomend this album...Its Philip Selway "Familial".

Enjoy!

Fuck You!

Although there's pain in my chest
I still wish you the best with a...

FUCK YOU!

Cee Lo Green says it best!

The Wilderness Downtown

I grew up between a little town in Venezuela near the capital and Bartlesville Oklahoma, another little town nobody knows in the Stetes. The thing is that I've never told how great is to have a childhood in little towns, where everyone knows you and the friendliness of its people helps you grow up. I imagine that the city can be great for teen and adult fun, but nothing like swiming in a pool of leafs in autum careless of scorpions and snakes, unaware of the dangers and having a blast with your friends.

Venezuela is fun, but never with the quality of a childhood in some good old Oklahoman park...My chilldhood will always be in some of this little parks and some of this awesome and simple streets, and will be contained in bycicle rides around the town.

Well, today I rememberd, with little tears in my eyes showing, those times. When life was simple and I wondered careless watching the seasons go by.

To all the people involved in the latest interactive video or whatever people would want to call it, you made a wonderful thing, making a tall venezuelan guy watch his streets and school again in old Brtlesville, now that life is more complicated and has been a hard one so far.

"Now our lives are changing fast

Hope that something pure can last"

To all the people involved in the project...thank you...and to Arcade Fire for amazing new album and the effort of making it a personal journey, more than usual, thank you, thank you!

http://thewildernessdowntown.com/

In that page you'll find what the hell am I talking about, and if the place you grew up has enough data, then I hope it will be as meaningfull as it was for me.

Shame lot's of the people I know grew up in places that are very underated from google earth and tecnology in general, but for those of you that get to this blog and have the oportunity to try it in the place you grew up and you happen to love Arcade Fire: don't miss it for the world!

Enjoy!

Fistful Of Mercy

Every year we have a bunch of super artists colaborating or making new bands together...This year has had some great stuff but for sure one of the highlights will be Fistful of Mercy. This band is made out of Dhani Harrison (George Harriosn's Son), Ben Harper and Joseph Arthur and the results are listening pretty good!

Fistful of Mercy from Fistful of Mercy on Vimeo.

Not only sounds great, but you can listen more on KCRW given that the Myspace page still has no music uploaded...

If you want to keep track of the band do so in their page http://fistfulofmercy.com/

Free Flights and Leg Humping

If you don't know who Jens Lekman is, you should know that he's a timid like man with lot's of creativity and a wicked sence of humor. He's also an amazing singer/songwriter that I strongly recomend. But today I won't talk about his music, but about his participation in an Australian quizz-comedy show that was both, brilliant and adorable! And funny as hell :-)

Also he does the funniest comments about Drew Barrymore and their meeting when she wanted to use his songs in the Whip It Soundtrack (amazing sountrack btw)

Enjoy :-)

Erase/Rewind

Hello, my name is Manuel, and this is my old new blog.

I've decided to try to give my blog a new and simple twist, it doesn't mean that it wont be deep sometimes, just means that I want it to be fresh and new, that's why you can consider my blog reborned and let's see how it goes...this is now my new first entrance, and let's hope you enjoy what's yet to come ;-)

I want this to be a reflection of who i am, though I study some deep shit I like to keep stuff simple, you'll mostly find reference to other stuff and blogs I like and I promise to keep it fun and entretaining.

It dosn't hurt to follow one more blog on your google reader...so if you'd like to stick around I will be more than happy to entretain you.

Cheers!!!