Four more weeks to go and I will be out of Toronto for a while. In the MEANtime I am working, continuing the extense process of emptying out an apartment and finding things to do/spending time with friends in the city. Not much time left to sleep I suppose. This past Friday I went to […]
A theme from this amazing CD to start the Saturday.
El Cristo is a very famous statue of Christ in Havana that faces the city from the little municipality of Casablanca, right across the bay. This 20 mt Carrara marble sculpture has been watching Havana’s day and night since 1958. If you enjoy photography, this is  one of the places where you can have a […]
Some days I cannot take Havana out of my mind. If feels like I am losing something really precious to me and there is nothing I can do about it. Trying to fight that feeling back would be like trying to fight time and distance so I get somehow pessimistic. Today was one of those […]
Cuban Jazz warms my heart and soul. Harold Lopez Nussa just released a CD called “El pais de las Maravillas” (Wonderland), a trio with bassist Felipe Cabrera and drummer Ruy Adrian Lopez Nussa.
There comes a time when you have to “clean” your computer and start deleting duplicates of pictures sitting on your desktop, organize your files, allow more space for your music and films. I do not do it regularly but most of all the work has to get done for you to just find things easily. […]
Saber que uno va a irse de pronto una mañana para ese viaje largo que no se acaba nunca sin haber caminado contigo por La Habana. He ahà a la muerte de perfil. Otro ángulo de su serenÃsima majestad es no poder escribir tu nombre y el tercero es la certeza de que todo esto […]
Por qué esta sensación de ir a buscarte hacia donde por mucho que vuele no he de hallarte. Qué terror sin tiempo ahora me impele a por sobre tanto terror siempre evocarte. No ha de encontrar sosiego nuestra pena (que hallarlo serÃa comenzar otra condena) y por lo mismo jamás cesaré de contemplarte. Luna, […]
This song is history! Los Van Van have been playing for so many years that  we grow up and get older listening to their tunes. Pretty much every stage of our lives can have a Van Van hit that goes with it. This one in particular reminds me of my secondary school. Dancing, dancing, dancing. […]
Hoy comparto, llena de orgullo este video de mi gran amigo y artista cubano.
Ok, as people like to say: the cat is out of the bag! My crazy man and I are going to San Francisco in September. Right after the Burn all I will have for a while is a suitcase and a backpack full of basic stuff, a laptop and I guess the bike that I […]
