guitarrero

I stumbled upon a 2CD set of Pablo Casals playing Bach's entire cello suites 1 through 6. It was recorded in 1929 and is was simply awesome...

 

Astor Piazzolla and Carlos Gardel were the "maestros" of the Tango music genre. Piazzolla's "Libertango" and Gardel's "Por Una Cabeza" arranged for a string quartet is truly moving. Even if you don't know how to dance the tango you will be tempted to try a step or two...

 

Por Una Cabeza was made popular by the movie "True Lies" and "Scent of a Woman"...

 

Have any of you heard of David Oistrakh, the famous Soviet violinist????

re; piazzolla and gardel are two sides of a coin. you must see piazzolla's tango as a re-invention, thus the nuevo tango, and it's a break from the past or what is referred to as the "hollywood tango". and as per piazzola's equation, sex=whorehouse=tango.

by the way, i recently watched a bbc docu on piazzolla, and the references to the role of the musician in society were very provocative, to say the least.

i guess somewhere around 8 glasses.

nilagang pata ng baboy, pinakbet, chicken and pork adobo, mechado, inihaw na hito, bulalo, sphagetti neapolitana or bolognese.

i love veggies. pinakbe ain't pinakbet withoout talong, ampalaya,okra, sitaw, patani, kamatis, sibuyas.and what would happen to nilagang baboy or baka without the repolyo, pechay and mais?can you imagine sinigang na kanduli sa miso without the lechugas?and of course fresh vegetable salad with lettuce, onions, bell peppers, cucumbers and cilantro. yummy!

yesterday morning i had sardinas, scrambled eggs, and fried rice. tomorrow i'm gonna have danggit, sunny side up eggs, fried rice and of course really strong brewed coffee, with brown sugar and no milk.

nothing beats arroz caldo. but then again my ilocano blood gets the better of me and then i crave for traditional pinapaitan made with kambing.

patis for most filipino food, but i gotta have tomatoes and patis with fried fish. definitely mang tomas with the lechon. for bulalo it's patis, calamansi and siling labuyo.

dencio's, gerry's, and manong's.

there was this place in binondo where they had fairly priced but great-super-wow-astig tasting dimsum. man, that was really chinese food!

she's leaving, i will, eleanor rigby

music for 18 musicians by steve reich; but i guess after listening to three tales that might just become my favorite.

led zeppelin, deep purple, the doors, jimi hendrix and the experience, frank zappa and the mothers of invention.

tuwing gabi, gising ako kasi night person ako. i usually do my internet things at night until 3 a.m.

to relieve stress, get out of the city and go as far away as you can from city life. spend a week or two in malaybalay, bukidnon or panglao in bohol.

no difference i guess, being me is alredy difficult why bother inventing one for the internet?

besides preserving body and soul it has to be performing in public.

what would be great when it rains? camembert cheese, champagne, and a beautiful woman.here's another great combination- sphagetti puttanesca, red wine, and the music of steve reich.

i want to learn how to swim, then learn scuba diving.

i miss getting high and listening to beautiful music.

when you realize you don't actually need what you bought.

i'd leave to take a vacation; i'm staying because it's home.

thans to whoever for this life journey

thanks for music; it does make life more awesomely bearable

thanks for food and sex; isn't it a mistery that the things we need most in life are the most pleasurable?

1. ayn rand

2. borges

3. herman hesse [great news from another star, siddharta]

4. marquez

5. rushdie

6. used to love carlos castaneda

7. jrr tolkien of course

conrado de quiros; manuel quezon iii; ambeth ocampo

i usually log on at night if

a. i don't have work to do

b. there's nothing good on cable

c. i don't have new music to study

d. i'm not listening to music