Well, it’s New Year’s Eve, and we are having the first of what I hope will be many NYE parties. My grandparents, Nanana y Pachu, siempre had NYE parties. Even after he passed away, she continued to have NYE parties until just a few years ago. I think she was already in her 90s [...]
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The Place: Port Isabel, Texas behind the shrimp boats in a little Catholic church; a Venus-esque sea shell crowning the alter and a sunrise sea mural beyond. The Life: A mother of ten, grandmother of 16, great grandmother of 17 who shouldered the balance, as does her town, of two cultures. A maker of [...] I was the thrilled recipient of an Amazon Kindle DX for Christmas. I knew that the Kindle had wireless Internet via a fee-free arrangement with Sprint. I knew that I could use the Kindle to buy books on the fly and surf the web from a basic browser. But what I did not know [...] Perhaps I was a little too ambitious in my mixological forecasting. Only managed to get one of them tinkered together thusfar. I was hoping to present these in sequence, but for some reason I tackled the latest one first. And so, from December 2009, I give you Universal Earcare. Lossy files here (let me [...] 2009 was both an amazing and incredibly disappointing year for me. From a musical standpoint, I witnessed little that truly inspired me, signaling yet another opportunity to dive into my musical past (way past, honestly) and rediscover some old flames. From a creative standpoint, I appear to have landed in just the right spot [...] My favorite jam from this week is Doc Watson’s “Slidin’ Delta”. Just one of those rare songs I hear once, and then it’s all I want to hear. Great little tune. Caused me download a buttload of Doc Watson from the eMusic. [display_podcast] Here’s Mississippi John Hurt’s original. [...] I’m feeling extra lazy this week, not that you will notice much difference. Best song of 1968 in 2009 – Las Ovejitas by Los Salvajes. A song about counting sheep. Killer rhythm, awesome guitar solo, spacey intro and outro, my daughter loves it and loves to sing along to the chorus and how it turns around at the end from no to si. Here’s a good version [...] I look forward to Christmas: getting down to Houston, seeing family, eating good food. I usually, however, spend Christmas depressed and each visit has peeks and valleys of cheer and moodiness way more than the rest of the year. What Christmas needs is an auto-tuner or a drug. Next Week: Mr. Lost [...] ‘Tis the season for Christmas songs everywhere — on the radio, in department stores, on television and in movie theaters. It may seem as if you’re hearing an unfiltered stream of the same songs, played over and over, but in fact someone put a lot of time and care into selecting and obtaining the [...] |
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