Afro Cuban Jazz Suite is one of the themes recorded for Calle 54 which is a documentary about Latin Jazz by Spanish director Fernando Trueba. It features excellent Cuban musicians like Paquito D’Rivera, Bebo and Chucho Valdes, Tito Puente, Chico O’Farrill and Cachao.
12.11.2011
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Y sin embargo sé que son tinieblas las luces del hogar a que me aferro, me agarro a una mampara, a un hondo hierro y sin embargo sé que son tinieblas. Porque he visto una playa que no olvido, la mano de mi madre, el interior de un coche, comprendo los sentidos de la noche, […]
12.07.2011
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We took a 6 am Bart train this morning to get to the San Francisco airport. We are spending the next five days in Seattle!. Taking off from sunny SF flying over the clouds and then landing in cloudy and colder Seattle made me think of Toronto and my love hate relationship with Canada. The […]
12.07.2011
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De Young Museum in San Francisco has free admission every first Tuesday of the month as well as SFMoMA. I finally made my way to their building this morning, I thought of spending the whole day there but it turned out that I had to help a friend to move so I ended up staying for […]
12.05.2011
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Estoy tan solo como la muerte Haberlo comprendido me ha hecho poderoso Las palabras que solemos decir no son las justas Justas son nuestras acciones que todo lo demuelen El pasado y mis enemigos me han enriquecido He aprendido el amor como quien busca cactus espinosos He llorado la sangre de mis dedos y las […]
12.02.2011
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There are not plenty of stories I can recall from the Cuban 80’s regarding religion. Being in primary school I was growing up to be a complete atheist, never baptized, never introduced to religion at home or at school. The vague idea of the existence of God I had was brought to me by very […]
12.01.2011
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Fort Mason’s Cowell Theater in San Francisco had a very interesting speaker last night: Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive. One of our friends is a big Stewart Brand fan and reminded us to go to one of the Seminaries for Long Term Thinking, created by the Long Now Foundation. Kahle’s presentation was […]
