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miren, me siento para el re mil orto; probablemente no voy a postear ni siquiera aparecer en el waste.Asi que la verdad el ingles pueden meterselo por el culo, estoy cansadome voy; cualquier cosa aparecere mas tarde
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Blue.

It is a lonely girl who walks through the streets of their city, only accompanied by her faithful music ... This roller coaster of emotions ranging from the maximum happiness to melancholy eternal.
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Gigs!

The summer promises so much. I have about five gigs lined up and all going well I should O.D on joy by August 22nd.Sunday 20th April: Coronas at Cyprus Avenue (Havent got tickets yet but its a free gig)Saturday 26th April: The Courteeners at the Astoria London (Best gig ever! Liam Fray, remember that name!!!)June 6th: Radiohead/Bat for Lashes at Malahide Castle (Cant wait!)July 6th: Paul Weller at the MarqueeAugust 13th: Muse/Kasabian at Marlay Park ( )August 21st: The Killers/Bloc Party/ Louis XIV at Marley Park (Again, cant wait!)TBC: Pete Doherty at Royal Albert Hall (If I can go!)
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New York City April '08 w/ The Verve & Elbow

This is a short essay on the going ons in NYC the last weekend of April 2008.My wife and I flew into La Guardia Saturday the 26th.We were in town primarily to see The Verve on Monday night at WAMU Theatre at Madison Square Garden.We arrived at are friends apartment on W.52 St.dropped the bags off and headed for Canal St & Chinatown.It was a busy day on Canal and the little green turtles have started showing up on the streets.A sure sign of warm weather arriving.We shopped abit and went to Mulberry Street for a noodle bowl.Cant remember the name of the place but it was very good.We than headed up thru Soho and back to the apartment to get ready for the evening show w/ Elbow.Elbow was fantastic.They played at Webster Hall in The East Village or St. Marks neighborhood.Did not reallly care for their first or last song but the rest was great.They also did not play "Fugitive Motel" which is my favorite Elbow song.Oh well....it was agreat show even if you could here the disco cranking below the room Elbow played in.The night was finished with a few pints at Druids in Hells Kitchen.Sunday we got up and Q'ed for tickets to a play.We selected Spamalot w/ Clay Aiken.It was the best show I have seen.Super funny and in a great old theatre,Shubert.Had dinner that night at Peter Lugers Steakhouse in Brooklyn which we arrived an hour late for our reservation due to missing a train.Lugers is known as the best steakhouse in NYC and the US....it did not live up to the hype.Steak was good,drinks were good,ambiance was good,service was lacking and uncaring,appetizers and sides were poor.The only dissapointment of the trip.We finished the night at The Snug also in Hells Kitchen.Monday brought the torential rain.We got soaked on the way to Les Halles for breakfast.Les Halles is where Anthony Bourdain worked for many years.It was superb in every way.We than went to McSorleys Old Ale House for light & dark beers for the rest of the afternoon.We had dinner that night at Rice & Beans in Hells Kitchen which was very good and than hopped the subway to Madison Square Garden for The Verve.The WAMU Theatre is OK.Kinda big and wide w/ low ceilings.I did not care for the place.It gave you a sterile feeling.The Verve came on at 9 after a DJ played for an hour.Opened w/ "This is Music" and played all their hits.I especially loved "Rolling People & Sonnet & The Drugs Dont Work".They were very good.They closed with Bitter Sweet Symphony as their first encore and another new song for the closer.We managed to get their dressing room sign but failed to work are way back stage.That night we had a pint on the 30 floor sundeck of the aprtment we were staying at that overlooked midtown Manhattan and Times Square.It was cool.It was a cool weekend in NYC.
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Go Slowly

Follow my attempt to do the tour without flying at http://notrock.blogspot.comContributions/ idea/ help welcome!
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Shoving off.

Slowly gearing up for the show....May 9. Charlotte. Bike. Thoughts. Vacation. Current events..Things here, proto-turbulent with almost runaway fuel prices and the constant paranoa-o hammering of shortages proffered as "news" by the "news". Hard to believe this is 21st. Century America. Part of me boils with the idea that its just the begining. Never thought the future would be half as stupid as this current one seems to be.Enough! Slowly getting my bike ready. Just fired in a new set of front brake pads. If nothing else, the engineering on the bike, makes for almost endearing rapport. (I love working on my vehicles). The other big concern is always weather. For me the ride to Charlotte will run between 12-15 hours, barreing time to piss, get gas, inhale a coffee and a few smokes. What always makes long rides good are the unexpected things that can and sometimes do happen on the road. Kerouac I am not, nor even interested.But still and all. Tearing up the super-slab can at times suck but its never boring.As for the show, I have good thoughts. This will be my second time before 'the boy's". I caught them at Giant's Stadium in N.J. back in May of '03. Myself as well as thousands of others spent the day in a total down-pour. 10+ hours. Radiohead came on and rocked. I was blown away. They were actually better live. I originally went to see that dickhead Beck, but he bowed out for some feigned injury. The Beastie boys were ok, but they've become....? To each their own I guess.For me this Is my first vacation in about a year. Along with this show, I'm liking the idea of traveling into the South. Aside from Florida, I've never traveled in these areas. So there will surely be observable cultural differences, possibly ?shock? Not that I'm really all to worried. Not being arrogant. I like going to places. Grabbing a coffee and a smoke and just taking in scenes of parking lots, gas stations and etc. day or night. Try to get a sense of the area, The flow. Shoot the shit with the locals and pass on a laugh or two if I can.Since this is an election year folks seem a little less reluctant to talk politics. Still there's an odd taboo on this everywhere i've been. Few exceptions but overall, political ignorance stands at times as a heinous crime in its own right. Sometimes even to me a mortal one. I get lost at times in or with the idea that life on this 3rd rock is stalled, doomed. That in the end there are few if any real solutions. Or that anything good or beneficial get bought up and destroyed rather than utilized to create anything remote to "progress". At best these are super-subjective. Another weakness of the language or one's economy of conveyance?
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On the april 26 in the National Philharmonia of Ukraine kyiv children's choir "Shchedryk" performed a well-known Messiaen masterwork "Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine ("Three small liturgies of the Divine Presence")" ....))) i'm so very proud.)http://www.shchedryk.kiev.ua/eng/http://www.filarmonia.com.ua/ukr/index.shtml
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Do you like Lars Ulrich?

2000 .. Lars Ulrich accuses30000 napster users and becames a symbol of antipiracy efforts..2008 .. in his interview for Rolling Stone Lars Ulrich says that metallica think of following Radiohead and Reznor idea about internet downloading.Will he decide at last?? is he a music industry friend or rival?i don't like him!Do you like him?
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