Beatles at Shea Stadium
(via Horses Think)
This is a present for all my good friends whose birthdays are the month of January. The idea of digging this dog out of its grave is Lorenzo’s (now in Milan), but I am have a feeling that Nella (Madrid), Eric (Atlanta), and Francisco (San José) will also enjoy this.
Listening to the 17 year-old version [...]
From Wikipedia’s article on the Velvet Undergound:
Although never commercially successful during their time, the Velvet Underground have been regarded as one of the most important and influential groups of their era. A famous remark, often attributed to British musician Brian Eno, is that while only a few thousand people bought the first Velvet Underground record [...]
Es curioso ver de dónde nacen las ideas, qué inspira que. Por ejemplo, un grupo de música inglés parte de la novela de un ruso para hacer un hit internacional. El comediante eccéntrico inspira una canción genial que más tarde le da el título a la película sobre su vida.Matías Ravier es un gran amigo [...]
Wired: Can playing music alter the structure of your brain?
Oliver Sacks: Very strikingly. In musicians, parts of the corpus callosum —the bridge betwteen the two hemispheres— are enlarged, and there’s more gray matter in the cerebellum. While you can’t tell by a glance at someone’s brain if they’re a writer or a mathematician, you can [...]
Difícil de creer, pero llevo 3 horas trabajando en el Starbucks frente a la Universidad Iberoamericana y, durante 2 horas, la selección musical ha sido… SALSA BRAVA.
Bravo Starbucks, que sorpresa compartir un Chai Latte Alto con Mongo Santamaría, Hector Lavoe, Willie Colón y Cheo Feliciano.
The first time I heard Mika I didn’t doubt he was talented, but I wasn’t sure I liked his music. A few months later I returned and it slowly stopped being a “guilty pleasure” and became a more deliberate pleasure. I began to recommend him without being sure what impression he would cause. I was [...]
69 Love Songs is a triple album by The Magnetic Fields, one of the many projects of hyper-prolific Stephin Merritt. The songs are quirky, beautiful, poignant, and funny. Here are a few snippets of the lyrics, just of Volume 1.
Absolutely Cuckoo
Don’t fall in love with me yet
We only recently met
True I’m in love with you [...]
Me he dado cuenta que mucha gente llega a este sitio por error: buscando en Google las “notas del cumpleaños feliz” aterrizan en esto que escribí del aniversario de Roberto Mata Taller de Fotografía.
Para complacer a mis lectores accidentales y como experimento para ver esto sigue atrayendo tráfico, les subo las notas y acordes del [...]
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