Last year and even this year I have continue to listen to Amadou and Mariam’s Dimanche a Bamako with Manu Chao. Today I just saw a video concert of them in paris, they rule.
Last year and even this year I have continue to listen to Amadou and Mariam’s Dimanche a Bamako with Manu Chao. Today I just saw a video concert of them in paris, they rule.

Love of the year (and many years to come): Elisabeth G
Live Concert of the year: CSS Live in Paris
Kiss of the year: Elisabeth G
Podcast of the year: the chicklet show
Blog of the year: the next few hours
Crush of the year: Lisette G
Video Club of the Year: Netflix
Band of the year: CSS
Job of the year: Miami Art Services
Email of the year: Elisabeth G
Blogger inspiration of the year: Adler G
Surprise of the year: Elisabeth G
Dance Opera of the year: White Darkness
Gift of the year: Elisabeth G
Conversation of the year: Vickie P
Webmail of the year: Gmail
Cellphone of the year: Krzr
Artist of the year: Ida T & Wil M
Porno site of the year: soft-tits.com
Movie of my year: Le Samurai
Book of the year: L’art à perte de Vue
Museum of the year: Palais de Tokyo
Encounter of the year: Axel dC & Laurent dR
Sad School of th year: ENSA Dijon
Site designed this year: chicomalojay.com
Friend of the year: Isa M
City of the year: Paris
Town of the year: La Rochelle
Groove Music of the year: Mulatu Astatke
Video of the Year: Let’s make Love
World Music of the year: Amadou & Mariam

Here is a little cellphone video blown up of my current favorite band CSS live in Paris. They are a great spectacle. Enjoy it if you don’t mind the saturated audio. (11/18/2006)
Fuck the pain Away! Peaches live in Miami Beach during Art Basel 2006 (12/6/06)

I once felt it.
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Since some of you might not get what the heck is this post about, allow me to clarify it. I once left Miami for a girl in France… We met in Salamanca, Spain and it was fire love, young love, playground love, she was and might still be my favorite flavor, my favorite love. We lived together for around nine months where I showcased with flying colors my lack of maturity and need to experiment with other women. She left me…I lived in Dijon for four more years and secretly hoped that she will one day contact me. Ten years later, a few threesomes later, one great other love later with a little Japanese girl that I will also always love, I started sending my business card to her parents house in the hopes that she would email me, well it worked. I am now chatting with her weekly and she looks like the song says, like a piece of gold that flushes all my soul.
I have tried to reason matters of the heart… and everybody who I talk to about this looks at me like I am crazy, as if I have lost my head. Yes it might be true, but one can lock its heart away for so long… why not love all the way even if it is not meant to be… why not be in permanent love even if it is with someone I can no reach…I have to admit that here in Miami there are girls I am interested on, but it is not quite the same. I wish I can understand this things better, so I am going to try to find out if I can feel.
Jay Jay Johanson; very popular in France but less known in Amerika because of ramping homophobia, jjj is my best company when in deep melancholia. Some of his music is so sad that I feel ok by simple comparison. Although his last two cds were crap (Antenna and Rush) his first three cds (Whiskey, Tattoo
, and Poison
) were really gluey.
CSS is coming to Miami September 20th, 2006 at Studio A
Listen/aggregate to CSS at Hype Machine
pic by way of here
As I spend an evening listening to the sticky tune by Nelly Furtado, Promiscuous Girl, I can not stop thinking of some girls. No words from me.. at this time, maybe in a future posting During a party last week, I saw this girl I was hitting on being played by a friend of mine who knew I was interested on her, later my friend acquaintance came to let me know about all her facial defects and to brag how dumb she was and that I did not have a chance…funny thing, I can see things as if I was in a bubble… maybe I am, but anyways, as I study this pop culture of ours (listening carefully to the lyrics of Furtado’s latest hit used to promote cell phones) maybe to do a painting and maybe to understand it as well, and I see a band I have venerated come back doing pop, Sonic Youth Rather Ripped, I wonder, are Furtado’s lyrics factually based? probably… in a music video? right?!, Is this new release by Sonic Youth the end of my times as a punk lover?
check sy and let me know what you think
Chorus-
Promiscuous girl
Wherever you are
I’m all alone
And it’s you that I want
N: Promiscuous boy
You already know
That I’m all yours
What you waiting for?
read lyrics here
I first heard of Mishima from a friend I loved, she told me that he was one of Japan’s greater writers. Time passed and I later purchased in an impulse many of Philip Glass’ recordings. One of them was Mishima, I loved the music and listen to it for more than a year… and one day I had the curiosity of renting the movie (only to be found on netflix, of course). Well, watching a movie when you know all the music by heart is an exhilarating experience, like feeling more every musical accent, or experiencing more of the frames. I have not read any of his books, but now I have a reason to do so. Does anybody know which book of his would be good to start with?
I later saw Glass in concert in Miami with the Screens, good stuff.
Normally when people would use the expression “thinking outside the box”, I would understand that I need to do my job some what different from others and to approach the task with a different perspective. Today I was told to think outside the box and all I could see in my head was a small box on the floor and me next to it with a complete lost face. I could not stop laughing at the expression as it was used a few times during the workday.
Does anybody have a Freudian examination to this?
Is it a visual perspective? The image and link to peaches is nonrelated, just like it