Friday, November 30, 2007
Columnist Hugo Arsch, lamenting the demise of the role, recently wrote: “Nobody buys 10s anymore. Why not? Do they all hate poetry?” Arsch went on to note that the most beautiful exponent of the art of the 10, Ricardo Bochini, never left Argentina to play abroad. Riquelme, he added, should never have. Both belong on [...]
Friday, November 30, 2007
there is no more mysterious and knowable, at once wealthy and impoverished, classical and at once modern, anarchic and calm place I’ve ever seen than here…I’ve found one of the truly magical places on earth, one of the truly unique things that western cultural, and american cultural, that is, of the americas, that exists. amazing. [...]
Sunday, November 25, 2007
The hilarity of the Sunday Times Slash, the guitarist of Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver fame, recently confided to Conan O’Brien that while he enjoys Guitar Hero, and his actual playing is included in the new version, he stinks at it. “Starting Out in the Evening” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It has [...]
Saturday, November 17, 2007
mendoza is really really really really beautiful
Monday, November 12, 2007
Quote of the week is definitely: I’ll do things to you I wouldn’t do to a farm animal.
Monday, November 12, 2007
i went to argentina a year ago for a show and i was all over buenos aires looking for street vendors and trying to hear local music. it wasnt easy to really get down like that.. the place had a lot of energy and all the girls had way better haircuts than in the USA. [...]
Saturday, November 10, 2007
“Decent middle-class lives with wives and children were abandoned to pursue this elusive possibility. They were bank clerks and shipping agents and teachers. They all fled West for a sniff of cheap money. And they made it up as they went along. No one knew how to drill for oil. Initially, they scooped it out [...]