Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Tequila Cause Headaches

THE TRUNK STILL SURPRISES


will not know how that trunk, which dimensions will be, or who has the key where it is stored, in February 2009 because someone happened to CD format several unedited footage of The Beatles, including Revolution # 1, in its decision number 20, with a duration of 11:34 minutes, something that never We had heard before.
Evil tongues say that after so much an oversight review tapes for remastering, they surfaced in a non-legal.
The launch of this "bootleg" dates from the middle of this year and is published by the label "His Master Choice" (something like a joke to HMV, His Master Voice-subsidiary label of EMI in England).
disquito In the first (this is a set of 2 CDs) plus the jewel never heard before Revolution # 1, making 20, with many minutes are too much like parts of the sound collage that John Lennon did for Revolution # 9, there are versions (or mixtures, to be precise) of "Across The Universe" with plenty of unused overdubs in edited versions.
The most interesting of the set are the mono versions of "Dear Prudence" with more minutes and Lennon's comments at the end of the song and "Julia" (takes 1 and 2) with excellent sound quality, a rarity in these issues.
"Step Inside Love", sung by Cilla Black, several tests and some shots are also sessions "Come and Get It" song written by Lennon and McCartney for the band Badfinger (one of the first to sign with Apple Records ), here are the 26 shots directed by Paul McCartney, making it clear why the version of Badfinger is as same as sung by Paul McCartney, who met on "The Beatles Anthology."
The second CD contains 10 shots of the song "No Escaping Your Love" by "The Iveys" which was the original name before it was called the band Badfinger.
In this era of reissues, remasters and box number, it is unfortunate that the fans have to hear these versions underground editions, when EMI could edit them with the best art in the booklet of the cd, better photos, more reviews and the green apple plastiquito decorating. Or is that only the edited versions are profitable for the English label?
Next time, maybe even ... "Anthology IV", "Blue Ray edition?

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Colors Accent Chocolate



Since I'm on this English island I wanted to have a daily contact with Argentina, first by the digital editions of a newspaper and when the technology permitted, on the radio.
The first I heard of the network was the ubiquitous Rock & Pop, you get more for automation, so when I discover a new one, I give him a hearing and if I like, I stay. It happened in Buenos Aires with Lalo Mir Del Plata, with Supernova and FM Kabul, heard that until they left the air.
knew
by Sergio Marchi Facebook is doing a program (not yet heard) in a radio network made for, is what I'm hearing now on the schedule "random" of SHHH! Radio , formed by a musical selection that has listeners scattered across the globe, some as famous as Debbie Harry , which sends mails saying that she loves the music happen.
The head of this wonder of the "ether? No, the "streaming" is John Paul Gauthier, a middle man who worked in Rock & Pop FM in Kabul, was the voice and scripts Fisu bird, pet attacks the TV, first program of its own Mario Pergolini on television, which left him with Pipo Cipolatti and Troup PHONE bound to make the elusive "Boro boro".
SHHH! Radio has a cast of top-level staff of the new station, designed especially for Internet users or people who work from home, because transmission is exclusive to the network.
is heading "Rafa" Hernández, speaker and creator of the "Flat 93" (the best of what was heard by the former Daniel Grinbank station) during the radio that it was in quality.
Gabriela Guimarey Also,, Rosana Cortez Corina Gonzalez Tejedor (announcers who were also on that radio), Mary Carámbula, Rolo Rossini, Alfred Olivieri, Clota Ponieman, organochloride pesticides and more, all people well known in the communications medium and a history of many years.
I hope to see the expanded grid, as are many, although not think they'll put too much talk show because the premise, they note, is the varied music and an eclectic point with a high aesthetic sense ranging from Frank Sinatra, The Clash, Frankie Valli, Ike & Tina Turner, Jimi Hendrix, Style Council, ie the music that you do not hear on conventional radio.
started with 300 and go about 25,000 listeners.
this radio is welcome.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Nintendo Pinewood Derby Designs

SILENCE WILL HAVE ACTION, WE HAVE NEW mini-documentaries

In the litter of "new Uruguayan bands" that became known in this decade, that shows a way, even smart thing to do is rock "We quartet." With new album, "Bipolar " successor to the magnificent "Rare "-with how difficult it is to happen an album as good as the previous one-the band manages to keep the bar high.
The best, the letters sharp, house brand, with some rhymes impossible, and the low ubiquitous, direct to the chest, some arrangements, impeccable again have producing Campodonico Juan , which makes the band sound subtle, clear and powerful.
There are songs that are close relatives of some of "Bizarre , but this continuity is given more of a conceptual idea that if they were self-plagiarism, because they have the irony of his lyrics and these verses that are registered trademark of the quartet .
What I got stuck in the cells of hit, are what gives the title track, with the best change of pace from the previous times, "Hernandez 's Son" and "Reasons ."
The band has an impressive repertoire, have ideas for a while, make 25 years that roll and not long ago that
are known in Argentina, which speaks of no connection to in music had in the past decade between both banks of the Rio de la Plata
.
I love to see them live because when you walked on this island, I could not even go see them and I'm sorry.
is truly a great album, those that come immediately, I hope the accompanying radio and come to Mallorca again.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Pregnant Adult Dress Up

THE BEATLES

C hen Paul McCartney heard the medley two disc side "Abbey Road" (which originally was to be called "Everest" photo on the mountain included) , was not very happy about how embedded "Her Majesty" with the rest of the songs, so he asked the technician John Kurland that removed.
Kurland, scissors and tape in hand, he realized he just wanted to take her out of that place and hit the final master tape of what would shortly album "Abbey Road" .
to the disc was finished, nobody noticed the little song that had been lost in the end, after several seconds of blank tape. The result was everyone's taste (luckily for Kurland and all us).
was the second "hidden track" in the history of recorded music, The Beatles had done in 1967 with the "inner groove" end of "Sgt Pepper's" .
For long time I thought "Abbey Road" did not end exactly with "The End" and yes to "Her Majesty" as a final joke and also by way of a small crevice where once the meeting colaría band.
Despite the personal discomfort of each of the members of the Beatles when they recorded that album, the work that came out of those sessions was sublime, as if each firm was also imposed the idea of \u200b\u200bfinishing in the best possible way, musically speaking.
seems that the Beatles had really bad at that time. John Lennon wanted to finish the album with "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" - ie what we know as the next one would be the next two - but in the end it was decided that the "medley" to finalize the disc.
there a way, perhaps too compressed, to see how it came every album, but effective and always exciting, which is the DVD that comes with the box stereo remastering Collection The Beatles.
Almost everything is on DVD and we had seen in Anthology , this perhaps is more like "beginner", but the fan also will interest you.
This DVD of "mini documentaries" boot from "Please Please Me" , the band's first LP and is located only in the recording sessions of each disc, with commentary from members and George Martin irreplaceable co-commanded teams that like a real conductor.
photos, tridimension digitally, are a find, much like listening party the dialogues of the recording sessions and permanent voices of the characters, narrating off the adventure of being a Beatle. Follow
amazing the great evolution of the group from "Rubber Soul" and makeover from "Sgt Pepper's" until the end where John Lennon seems to have aged 20 years.
In addition to the record collection is more than good, but it could be sold individually, it is very short and many photos presented as "unheard" are thanks to technology that can mix images.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Chlamydia Twice In A Month

BRIAN

Finally the day arrived. Today, it is history.
boxes and the individual disks. Stereo and mono p'al people for the elite of connoisseurs.
The Beatles, the fab four those of Liverpool, the largest. Now remastered.

only now ... When
2009 and the average CD is going downhill.

lyrics They slip stereo box I've gone to iTunes in some differences are more striking: Only A Northern Song Harrison, the remastered version of Yellow Submarine the rediscover, especially in the final sound collage.

Everyone talks about how good sounding bass and drums, it's true, but the acoustic guitars are made of glass.
And the vocal harmonies, which makes a lot of the tone of George, are just voices of angels. Because
With me happens something strange: The modernization of the audio cover reminds me of that great (replica) the original, Pedro Aznar made by for his first solo album since 1982 and not vice versa. How strange.


Sgt Pepper's ... Revolver, Abbey Road, White Album are the fastest growing in the reinvigoration of the audio.

With the first four place greater clarity of the voices and the most wins is in my opinion "Please Please Me.
As a remastering and not a remix (that may be the next touch to the world's most profitable discography), have left intact the "fake stereo" , as these discs were originally designed to be reproduced in mono and that excessive channel separation in stereo versions of left and right instruments, voices, has become obsolete.

actually this is the first time the complete collection of The Beatles sound so well in CD format.
editions of 1987 appear low ink photocopies of the original vinyl. And that vinyl sound very good English.

But when the cd came to in '87, they did everything wrong, wrong masters used, as advocated in EMI, which together with the inexperience of digitizing technicians in charge, gave a result that left as anyone, but we sold them the same and very expensive.
Let
story: EMI
entrusted to George Martin do new edition mixes stereo of the first four albums, to be passed to the new format The compact disc. The did and were very good, but saved for another time. Because
in 1987, EMI (UK) finally opted for edit First 4 cds in mono mix-and so uniform throughout the world the Beatles library CD, leaving out Hey Jude, The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl, Oldies and all the compilations that came out after separation.

Then stereo mixes Please Please Me, With The Beatles, A Hard Day's Night and Help! box stereo put up for sale today, from those masters -or nearly half the work he had done Sir George Martin in 1987 -.
(By mistake, the first Canadian edition on CD of The Beatles, the first four albums are the graceful blend well today listed on the collector market Beatle ...)

In 1997 and 1998 edited versions of "30 anniversary" Sgt Pepper's ... and White Album, respectively, with improvements in the artwork, but without re-mastering
in 1999 made the remastering and remixing Songtrack of Yellow Submarine, which sounds to be both better than this.
remastered in 2000 the singles "number one" for the compilation 1 with a good result, similar to now.
So, this remastering "2009" is for something?
Yes, because it sounds much more clear that the old editions on CD and all gains in depth.
The ear gets used right away (at least mine) these versions as limpid and realistic.

I would "clean up" a lot more imperfections study but (for example) the coupling in I'm Looking Through You (barely perceptible), remains, though the "gap" in the third verse of "Day Tripper" has been fixed.
So enjoy and officially digital discography of The Beatles now that EMI has finally succeeded, they'd better with the time taken.

Monday, August 31, 2009

After Prom House Rentals In Montauk

BOXES ARRIVED ... SMiLE! ElPaso


Labels sometimes conspire to that part of the work of a musician is relegated to a file that will surely find missing after taking it for a long time.

Maybe displayed on a chest covered with dust original stereo tape of "She Loves You" by The Beatles recording any potential loss of a forgotten hit from an artist who was top.
What ever will is the album "SMiLE" by the Beach Boys, this work of art designed and produced by Brian Wilson, Van Dyke Parks texts, still faithful traveling companion of BW.

why people Purple Chick has "reconstructed" great and so resisted the album of the Beach Boys.
These guys Purple Chick bother to make bootlegs packages very comprehensive , thereby demonstrates its good taste and professionalism when you pick up the pirated discs had no idea that existed but had never heard in its entirety.
In this case, the complete reconstruction of SMiLE was made material that appeared on later albums to SMiLE, the following: Smiley Smile, which contained 4 Songs legacy postponed disk, but arranged versions simpler ) , collecting pieces of the original recordings of SMiLE, which went a long time giving around the net, imagining how he would have made Brian Wilson.
So coexist on the same topic edited footage, with intros from unpublished trials, some parts mono, stereo and other far from being chaotic result , is sensational.
I have in iTunes the complete reconstruction, and then the SMiLE Brian Wilson recorded in 2004. Actually the album version restored by Purple Chicks, often exceeds that of Wilson with the Wondermints he edited in 2004.
The story of inspiration and influence (reciprocal) between the Beatles and the Beach Boys from "Pet Sounds" -said, sustained and repeated by Sir Paul McCartney- and that was the push to conceive that the great Liverpool "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ".

And vice versa, because Revolver (disk before " ... Pepper's ... ") Brian Wilson was enough motivation to put hands the work (of art) and hatched the "Symphony for teens God (SMiLE), which initially was well received by Capitol Records (label that recorded the Beach Boys and the Beatles also edited in USA ), but delays in the recording, the complexity of the melodies and arrangements, and the ever-changing mental health status at the time of BW-conspired against the great album, and it was that just over a year of its announcement, the exit of the disc was delayed forever.
Then in 2004 Brian Wilson re-recorded entirely with new players and won, in addition to mainstream recognition, a Grammy.
And there was again evidence of the failure Capitol, which lost twice to edit it, because the new SMiLE came under the label Nonesuch, a Warner subsidiary.

Monday, August 10, 2009

Baby Rosy Cheeks Reason Why

40 YEARS OF ZEBRA CROSSING THE GOOD RADIOS

The first time I visited London was in March 1999 Vacation Europe. When I returned to Buenos Aires my coworkers asked me: Did you go to Abbey Road? Of course, I answered almost without thinking, but not really gone. St. John's Wood I was near where I was staying (Mayfair), yes, he had taken photos of every possible angle to the Beatles rented house at 3 Savile Row, to mount Apple Records and had played a terrace his latest songs stopping traffic (Savile Row is a very narrow street). But in the nearly two days in London, I had not had time to step on the zebra crossing most famous the world. life, apparently gives a new opportunity for the fans. Two years after the rate hikes, lack of employment and personal decision I spat out in Argentina where my mother bore me. The first place we chose was Amsterdam, I needed a little bloated and that city that he knew, he knew he would give me. A couple of days there and then go to visit my friend Alexander, who for a year living in London. We were by mail and gave me his address, the metro station was Swiss Cottage, and his apartment was in ... Street Abbey Road. When I got to London, I took the subway and there was. Remained about 20 blocks from the famous crossing, but after two weeks, having expired metro pass (such as public transport in London is quite expensive), I would walk straight down Abbey Road to St. John's Wood (neighborhood where you live Keith Moss and Paul McCartney) and then crossed the Thames and went my way to Regents Park. spent daily by the door of the studies EMI to let the Beatles play the music and make a full day their first LP "Please, Please Me" and take as long as you want to create the " Sgt. Pepper ..." I always stopped and looked inside, I could not avoid. A few meters away from Al plate was set in the back of the disc "Abbey Road" , I took several pictures but none came. The zebra crossing, the street sign daubed all in one building that is on the cover of the disc, it did and now I have them in front of me pasted on a sheet of cork. One day was passing by the combination of the London Symphony and I thought I heard that chord endless "A Day In The Life" . are being met 40 years of publishing one of the most memorable albums of the band from Liverpool, "Abbey Road" . In these days of celebration and commemoration, many fans crossed the pass, wearing clothes similar to the Fab Four took the day Ian McMillan gave them the photo that became an icon and has been stamped indelibly in the collective unconscious.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Digrams Of Part Of Dental Burs



In Buenos Aires good FM radios do not last long, not last too long the good times of the programs in these radios. Lalo Mir went
Radio del Plata during the early '90s, and was the best radio gave Argentina, along with "Radio Bangkok here," one of the first author programs leading to many more who came later, some simply taking the formula and imitating.
But by the mid-'80s, (1987) Lalo Mir, Bobby Prosen Quique Flores and began to make way for a station that was removing the FM signals as always, the announcer of subject matter, to make it again unprejudiced formats with music ever scheduled.

meeting, going from one place to another on the Internet, a documentary
"Here Radio Bangkok ", With reports Lalo, Douglas and Bobby, and audio of the program.
his co-stars also speak (operators, partners) and journalists, as Alfredo Rosso, who believes in " Here Radio Bangkok " be able to find perhaps the continuity "The Ghost Train" (FM Rivadavia,
Speaker: Omar Cerasuolo, early '80).
Vinci Douglas disagrees with that view, and I agree with him in that "Bangkok" was the collapse of the FM, as "El Tren ..." , even with the first glimpses of another kind of listening, still maintaining aesthetically FM format ever, yes, daring to put background music as the sponsor, the Falange anthem creepy "Cara al Sol" and the best music in those days was played on the radio. Bangkok

was made by a speaker, two guys that had never aired, along with a lot of artists and ordinary people who approached the study of radio, creating characters, situations tangles, revive the spirit of drama, and the result was the best and most novel that he had heard so far.

Yesterday I happened to run "Lost Tapes" double CD that took the Argentine newspaper Page12 few years ago, is a compilation of some of the best pearls of the program that turned many heads.

listen to "El Pollo Cohen and Dentures" and remember back in the wording of the Lavalle street, where they spent the musicians who, in civilian-I did not recognize and had to wait outside.
Marcelo Bitar, the head of this language could not believe I did not realize that Miguel Mateos, for example, had come to see.

few years ago when Carlos Masoch was the art director and swiftly departed mid-morning without the editor noticing, began to swarm the first walkman wording.
all heard the new radio program -owner of the magazine that did-Masoch radio out in this new program Lalo Mir.
So it was best to listen in private to the editor does not know where he was the artist's brush and cutter. The Rev. Douglas

Vinci, was the character did, in a sort of "micro" where he spoke to his "faithful", asked
collections and gave advice,
sometimes recorded in the radio club in the evenings, but then began to live on the station. When he finally
"Bangkok" absorbed him, Carlos was the publisher and I left his post I covered for three years. Already as

Douglas went on to take the place of Quique Prosen, (who became a director of the radio), but would continue rising (by telephone) by a very popular character in the program: Piece of Castelar.

"Here Radio Bangkok" lasted almost three years and ended with the start of menemato. Daniel Grinbank
tired of the radio copyright, complaints and fines Comfer.
addition, the main advertiser radio at the time (Pepsi), preferred a target more "quiet" and gave Grinbank leaving only the historic Pergolini,
with other speakers, giving the radio an environment " light."
was the so-called "Third time" of the station, which fortunately did not last long because it started to look like other FM (Aspen type, but with rock bottom), the audience was hungry for those programs "so mad" and measures began to bear down.
While the program again "with argument" was the time of "Could Be Worse" (Pergolini - Di Natale), "Buenos Aires? A Divine Comedy" (Lalo Mir - Elizabeth Vernaci) and others still the Rock & Pop

In 2000, in "Animal Radio" (last Lalo Mir program for the station), there was a remake Radio of Bangkok without saying it openly. There were
Lalo, Bobby and Martin Douglas with Cicioli, Fernando Pena and others,
but among many programs "à la Bangkok, ended up going unnoticed.

pass the tracks, I still hear the occurrences of these three geniuses of radio, and I understand that quality catalytic Lalo Mir had to see talent, to discover and expose them.

I have not followed stage or radio Mitre (AM), nor making the speech would listen to Arjona for one hundred .
prefer to stay with these "lost tapes", I always wanted my distance and European impossible for me. Luckily there is Internet. Thank

who (anonymously and massively), approached me and sleep in Argentina, the good
stations last significantly longer.
Well, if you can dream ... FM returns to Kabul.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Used Vegetable Oil, Dallas



sound speakers in Josh Rouse, a singer born in USA, Bobby Flores who introduced me to his already deceased evening program also dead in the Kabul radio.
Music, according to my mood is like "melancholy," the voice of this type has no fanfare, nor is the owner of a ringing, but it is in perfect synchronicity (a word that does not exist, but it is a psychological theory) with regard to my mind immediately. Now, right now.
had read an interview with this gentleman in a British magazine of popular music, a few years ago, just when he was promoting his album "1972" (year of birth of the singer).

never sought the disc, though the story had seemed great.
He recorded in the same studio where Fleetwood Mac created and shaped the difficult double album "Tusk" in 1979.
The owner of the studio that the remains of cocaine between consoles and tables were recording these sessions, you could have put together a bag.

Rouse himself said that during the recording of "1972", it tried to repeat that spirit so characteristic of rock and roll and the stock market.

Bobby Flores said that Josh Rouse was at the height of a Bob Dylan or a Carole King when Santi Calori it wanted to tear down. Until I first heard the songs of this album, I thought there was too much, now, with a few passes, I agree with you.
Behind pop "easy as pie" which seems at first hearing, the layers arise where the value of this work.
subtlety that breathes in every song, soft melodies and exquisite orchestration.

seems it was actually recorded an album in 1972, by the sound, the freshness, lyrics, arrangements and that voice whispering Rouse makes you want to hear.

are three thirty in the afternoon in Mallorca, the sky is cloudy and the heat is oppressive, that hardly breathe.
In the pages of the newspapers of the Internet, Michael Jackson omnipresent as nothing "invincible" and yet so creepy with his oxygen mask final.

A melody seeps through the speakers and Josh taught me how much he influenced Smokey Robinson, then the change of pace and Marvin Gaye sneaks through some arrangements à la What's Goin 'On. Continues in sync with my mood.

At six o'clock I expect five students, to whom I teach computer science. But today I have no desire to be with them, I follow listening to music that takes me a while and then, better mood, bring me back to continue the struggle.

Monday, April 20, 2009

Pokemon Leaf Green On Mac Os X

Last night I dreamed I WRITE TODAY Miyo

That was the cat I had since the end of '88 until I came to Spain in mid-2001 before the collapse of the country I happened to be born.

I was in my childhood home in the garden and Miyo sitting next to me watching. I called him and the cat as usual, came to my side. It was all so real that I only realized it was a dream because I never lived with Miyo in that house, but I rented an apartment to go to Capital. And I woke up.
the'm not having fun in this place, which many see as a paradise. Sure, I live in Mallorca, I open the window and I have the sea ten meters of depth (I live in an upper floor) is the city of Palma, Bellver Castle and the mountains. Everything is a wonderful postcard.
But: How much is all this? In money, a lot. In life, taking me all I have left.
did not friends on this beautiful island, perhaps my fault, I think. But my wife, who is much more friendly and social than me, not the could. Is it because he's with me? I wonder and I have no answer for that.
few years ago a friend (Argentina) said: "It looks good landscape, " but you will feel part of it? " I did not answer because I I did not feel part and it was hard to admit.
Then came the acclimatization, work on something that never would have done in Argielandia, achieving her residence and employment improving and mood.
When one is standing up straight, falling is always stronger. This is what is happening to me right now. We live treading on ground cobweb, knowing that at any moment is coming down and we with it.
is sad but real. Immigrant bleeding in the tail of absolute unemployment, restrictive measures that the government "socialism? prepares to outsiders gives us the pattern of what is to come. In fact it already is, just need to institutionalize it, and are working quickly on it. In fact the children of Ecuadorians living in Spain are not more considered English, but born out of Ecuador Ecuador. It is usual that happen.
invite to your house to an immigrant without papers (As they call here to those without legal residence) will be considered a "serious breach of the immigration law" by a fine of 6000 € or more. Ie, no more zapateril humanism within socialism. Helping someone in trouble will be punished by law.
boatloads I think of Argentina beef bound for Spain during the Franco rationing in the '50s, leather shoes that españolitos be worn after a long period of walking on legs, no, better stop thinking in all this because I still live here.
I see online classifieds for Argentina and I notice that some "entrepreneurs" who ask for "native English graphic designers." English Will these entrepreneurs, it is legal what they do, why let them do that?
Yes, in Argentina English designers ask when so many designers born in Argentina with great quality and experience.
Page12 Leo a shout on an Argentine guitarist who is coming to try to edit your Rock & Blues album in Spain, the guy is well known there, played in bands mainstream, had his time over, and ditto that had to make driving a taxi, and to edit the disc sold part of its equipment. It saddens me that yet, with the news that slip over the Internet, people want to come to Europe.
Because here no one loves us, even before when you had to go around, were frowned upon, now we are the biggest threat they see that we take away the little work there. When reminded that the English, for political or hunger went to South America, I reply that they have no family there, or know anyone who does. And you do not fight because for an immigrant to his bones in prison, it's just a snap.
I have on my Facebook photos in glorious times Buenos Aires, where everything worked in my life, as he left work to get into another, all graphic design. Working with friends, with freedom of action, when people trusted the other. Now that's a utopia, part of a past where people lived and what he did on weekends, went out to have fun. Is not that was sold us happiness? Well that does not exist anymore, or at least it is forbidden for "nobodies" to us.
again come to mind images of my cat walking around the apartment where he lived with Danisa, the woman who at that time ('90) shared her life with me, in Yatay and Sarmiento.
I see him jump on the window frame and jump to the neighbor's balcony to catch a pigeon, which ends by inviting the department to dinner (she was the dinner) and enclosing the Miyo Danisa saved in another room. I remember the sound of flapping pigeon scared looking stunned the open window of his salvation. And now here, writing on the Mac, seeing the letters on a screen, look out the window and I pulled back the curtains, not to sightsee, afraid that I have to stare at him, I realize that is badly printed and out of register.

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Dark Gray Suit With Pink Shirt

WITH STREET Alfonsin

The first memory I have of the pre-election is that with my friend Ricardo Carossino started talking about politics. It was when I learned that he was a Peronist. We had been classmates in a course of secondary (2 º. National in the Guemes El Palomar) five years earlier, but just at that moment I realized the difference between living in a dictatorship and start enjoying the sweet taste of democracy that was coming. When we talk about politics with my friend, but differed in terms of party-we wanted the two was the same, no more repression, free to walk the streets without fear of being asked for documents and anything you take more dough in the pockets of the people, education, health and good government. When I heard the phrase "With democracy you eat, cures and education ..." did not hesitate and went there. On 31 October morning we were all aware, the candidate of the cordial greeting of plain prose, had won the first general elections entirely without prescriptions in many years in Argentina. The months went by and the joy was completed quickly, which lasted a spring, the first democracy in 1984 where it was sunny, the street was ours and everything seemed possible and good. passed the plan (again) in spring, but the following year, and darker. The external debt grew rampant, the finance ministers seemed crazy teachers, without exceeding a little the script dictated by the IMF, the World Bank and some other creditor. Devaluing currency change again for the first time we thought our tickets were worth more than the dollar when they were not even pesos. One day we wake up to an uprising, with a surrender and an unfortunate phrase. "The house is in order ... Happy Easter." Finally the that was surrendered to the military president because the pose, just beginning, and it was. Another attempt to blow each of them and the advanced miliquitos several boxes carrying all before him on the TEG of the reality of Argentina and who lost points democracy was so fragile it, so docile. next day there was an attempt to seize the barracks at La Tablada and ended up being a tragedy of intrigue because the owners of the barracks finished slaughtering the assailants (there were even shooting) and they soon left several casualties of olive green. One evening out of the editor of the magazine Rock & Pop that remained in the Once neighborhood, heard screams and noise. There were people looting the stores, it seemed that soon would be by my side. I ran, I was maddened by the cries and noise of the broken glass behind me. Shortly after the early dismissal for not being able, not knowing and not dare, because we now know that the military pose the '80s did not involve a risk to the democratic system. democracy, that young and beautiful lady who gave us so much at first, in nearly four years a lady prostitute was made by an evil pimp, had stayed on the street and a train had passed over, too, besides having a lot of bad blood, indeed. Today is Wednesday, April 1. Coincidentally, a day of Wednesday. He died Raul Alfonsin, the first president of post-democracy "process." The famous greeting, that of RA stickers, oval with the colors of the flag behind "The man we need" , according to David Ratto, campaign manager and publicist. A good guy, a person who had the best intentions and the worst decisions. Which was recently voted as the best president since the return to democracy in Argentina, that speaks very poorly of those who succeeded him. Because Alfonsin intended to make things right, did not lack. But I can not stay with the "not let him." was hesitant in matters of state and did not maintain the strength of being the head of the three armed forces, did not cut the root of the first military uprising. Had it done so we had saved the following. Also economically excessive loyalty remained with the IMF raised its debt and devalued the national currency twice. Olivos Pact was the last trick that earned him the hatred of many and ended up devaluing as a Democrat. Here in Spain when you're a supporter of one or another character, political or artist said: "I like (X) but I'm more (Y )..." I have to say something like, I Alfonsín excites me like no one in '83 and voted for, but in '87 I was wondering what was all that, like a bolero fatal. So I liked Alfonsin, was not too bad, but I'm more of Arturo Illia, a president who would be good to include it in the polls for the best. An anecdote that when David Rockefeller met with him in Buenos Aires. told then President Illia he intended to open branches in Argentina Chase Manhattan Bank, owned. Illia tycoon replied: "It will not be able to be Mister, if you open the banks here will have more power than me, and that's not a good thing for the country ..." Illia Shortly after he was overthrown by the walrus Onganía, and new banks opened Rockefeller in never-never land of the south. The history of Argentina began to go wrong ever since.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

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Attic. Garden.

One morning, the little boy with bright eyes up to the attic and look for her suitcase. Should not have saved much time, think before you drag and sit. But it opens. The shrewd-eyed boy leans over the small suitcase, leather, full of colored stickers that his grandfather left him a legacy. Glue ear expecting to hear a faint heartbeat.
wait and wait, fingers crossed, wishing still alive. Has almost ceased to hear anything else. Birds that lean toward the window glass, the sound of a car lost another nearby street, the dogs in the yard. It focuses on listening inside the case while passing the morning, noon and evening.
When everything is dark and rubbed up shaking hands. It's cold, he thinks. Caress the lock of the suitcase but opens it. You should not. Then down the garden with care, as if still in the suitcase was something alive.
The bright-eyed child is suddenly a shovel in the shed and start digging. Drag the suitcase to the hole when finished and then returns to cover everything.
down the garden every night
Every night stick your ear to the ground and listen.
still have hope. Today
finally heard the heartbeat.