On Fire

1. Julie And The Mothman
2. Underdog

3. Where Did All The Love Go
4. Swarfiga
5. Shoot The Runner

6. ID
7. Processed Beats

8. Thick As Thieves

9. Take Aim

10. Stuntman
11. Empire

12. Fast Fuse
13. The Doberman
14. Club Foot

Encore
15. Fire

16. Vlad The Impaler

17. LSF

Paco Picopiedra

1. Intro (Un chien andalou)
2. Dancing The Manta Ray
3. Weird At My School
4. Bailey's Walk
5. Manta Ray
6. Debaser
7. Tame
8. Wave Of Mutilation
9. I Bleed
10. Here Comes Your Man

11. Dead
12. Monkey Gone To Heaven

13. Mr. Grieves
14. Crackity Jones
15. La La Love You

16. No. 13 Baby
17. There Goes My Gun

18. Hey

19. Silver
20. Gouge Away

Encore:
21. Wave Of Mutilation (UK Surf)
22. Into The White

Encore 2:
23. Planet Of Sound
24. Isla De Encanta
25. Something Against You
26. Gigantic

Rock en Seine

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

01: ?
02: Phenomena
03: Heads Will Roll
04: Pin
05: Dull Life
06: Gold Lion
07: Miles Away
08: Soft Shock
09: Maps
10: Honeybear
11: Zero
12: Cheated Hearts
13: Date With The Night

Vampire Weekend

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Bloc Party

01: One Month Off
02: Hunting For Witches
03: Positive Tension
04: Talons
05: Signs
06: Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
07: Banquet
08: Two More Years
09: One More Chance
10: Mercury
11: This Modern Love
12: The Prayer
13: Like Eating Glass
14: Flux
15: Helicopter

Oasis

Que se abran

Nuestra cerveza

Bavaria

Magnificent

1. Breathe

2. No Line on the Horizon
3. Get On Your Boots
4. Magnificent

5. Beautiful Day (with Paris, Mon Amour intro and Here Comes The Sun)

6. Mysterious Ways
7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

8. Angel Of Harlem (with Man in the Mirror, Don't Stop 'Till You Get Enough)
9. Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of

10. Unknown Caller

11. The Unforgettable Fire

12. City Of Blinding Lights

13. Vertigo
14. I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight

15. Sunday Bloody Sunday
16. Pride (In The Name Of Love)
17. MLK
18. Walk On
19. Where The Streets Have No Name
20. One


21. Ultraviolet (Light My Way)

22. With Or Without You

23. Moment of Surrender

La banda de David Mateos

Bartender
Shake Me Like a Monkey
You Might Die Trying

Spaceman
Cornbread
Everyday

Seven
Grey Street
Alligator Pie
Funny The Way It Is

Crush

So Damn Lucky
Lying In the Hands of God

Jimi Thing

Too Much (fake)
Ants Marching

Rye Whiskey
Tim Reynolds
Don't Drink the Water
Why I Am

Castlevania 9.0

La Loire

In Memoriam

Beyond the controversy, blanket, the horrendous plastic surgery, the psichological problems and every sick aspect of his life, the death of MJ was, in a sense, the death of childhood for some of us. Thriller was the first album our generation bought and it truly was a climax for pop music.

Instead of recalling a career, let's just see how the self-proclaimed king of pop influenced cultures and brought us joy, seen through a somehow different lens:

Charlie Goleada Barcelona

Barcelona

Old Boy

Seoul

Gooooooood Morning Vieeeeeeeeetnaaamm

Hanoi

Ha Long Bay

Hoi An

Hue

Can Tho

Phu Quoc

Ho Chi Minh City

Kafkian Winter

Praga

Ay Joaco!

First there was this:


And now this:


And to top it off:

Trans-Siberian sex toys and what not

Illumination
Ultimate

Not A Crime

Dogs Were Barking
Wonderlust King
Mishto!

Tribal Connection

60 Revolutions

American Wedding
Sacred Darling
Baro Foro



Start Wearing Purple
It's Too Easy To Be a Cynic
Mala Vida
Think Locally, Fuck Globally

A Year at the Movies

• Most "What the fuck?" moment: Charlize Theron is also a superhero in Hancock? Worse, they were a couple in ancient times?
• Most "I can't recover from seeing that!" moment: Matthew Fox speaking spanish in Vantage Point
• Most "I want to like it more but I can't" film: Indiana Jones and the Legend of the Crystal Skull. Question: How is Indy's dad dead if he drank from the Holy Grail at the end of The Last Crusade?
  
• "Samuel L. Jackson's seal of crap" film: Jumper. Now you know it: if Sam's in a movie, it probably sucks.
  
• Most "Pretentious self-satisfying pet projet": Maradona by Kusturica. Apparently, Maradona's "hand of God" goal was planned as a socialist coup to the establishment. Best Fiction Ever.
  
• "Annoying Karaoke singer" award: Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia. It's bad enough that we have to endure musicals, there's no need for this Saw-inspired torture.
  
• "Maradona's Destroy the legend" award: Al Pacino and Robert De Niro in Righteous Kill. After a mediocre decade at best (Showtime? Simone? 88 minutes? Godsend?), are the two icons heading for leads in CSI:Wichita?
  
• Worst excuse for a film: X Files 2. They actually thought people craved for more Duchovny.
  
• "I am starting to hate her but I don't know why" actress of the year: Nicole Kidman. Maybe it's because she looks a little pretentious. Or because her pregnant belly is no larger than a beer belly. Or because she hasn't aged since Days of Thunder.
  
• "Follow Joaquin Phoenix and retire already" award: Eddie Murphy. Should've retired in 1989, along with Soul Glo.
  
• Wile E. Coyote award for persistence and utter failure: Madonna, now directing. How can this be stopped?
  
• "I thought this was a movie and not 24" award: Taken. Dishonorable mentions: Vantage Point, 88 minutes. I thought the phrase "real time" was buried with the crash of the dotcom bubble.
  
• "Typecasted in a corset" award: Keira Knightley in Atonement and The Duchess. Maybe its because all those costumes make us believe that your chest is actually full, maybe it's because your movies in present time are, hmmm, awful? (The Jacket? Domino?)
  
• "Was this really a movie?": Mamma Mia. It was more like a perfume commercial mixed with singing under the shower. Apparently, they just gave the camera to some innocent bystander and asked him to shoot.
  
• Worst career move: Mark Wahlberg (Max Payne? The Happening?). Hire Ari, bitch!
  
• "In your face!" award: Scarlett Johanson. She's everywhere, like your annoying friend that comments everything in Facebook but ultimately has nothing to say or show for herself. What is she's going to do when she's 40 and can't play precocious anymore?
  
• Most enlightning moment of the year: Audiences finally realized Mike Myers is NOT funny. Hope this kills all planned Shrek sequels.
• "Makes you think" moment: Oliver Stone directing W. After World Trade Center and Alexander, it seems to confirm that you lose your edge with age.
• Proof that kills the theory that Europeans are more cultivated and intellectual: Mamma Mia is the highest grossing film of ALL TIME in the UK, Bienvenue chez les Ch'Tis is the highest in France.
  

L'Interista

Milan

Mucha lucha!

Para poder lidiar con este dia de anglicismos tipo change, hope y swing states y descansar un poco de la sobredosis de hockey moms, Joe the Plumber (o Tito the Builder), Clintons, Obamaxploitation y no-neck McCain, nada mejor que mirar de nuevo a nuestro continente donde dos fenomenos paralelos nos enseñan que el verdadero entretenimiento se encuentra en la tierra de la Copa Libertadores y no en los live coverages que analizan que significa cada variacion de un décimo de porcentaje en las urnas.

En esta esquina tenemos a las cholitas luchadoras. Efectivamente, con nombres como La Rompecorazones, La Vengadora, Carmen Rosa, La Alteña y el muy creativo La Campeona, la lucha libre de cholitas se inscribe dentro de los anales "bizarros" del folklore latino al lado de los ya famosos peces samurais bogotanos.

Aparentemente, el furor de la lucha libre de cholitas, bastante popular en los barrios humildes de La Paz y otras ciudades del Tibet Suramericano, se explica en la revindicacion de las mujeres y del pueblo indigena en general. Para la muestra, una cholita dandole su merecida paliza a La Alteña (luchadora no cholita, sino de piel blanca):


En la otra esquina tenemos al ya no tan underground Fray Tormenta, quien sirvio de inspiracion para Nacho Libre. Si, Nacho Libre existe, es mexicano y si, lucha para poder tener plata con que ayudar a los niños de su orfanato.

Otra prueba mas que el mundo de la WWF con sus payasos gemelos, bikers y robots se queda corto frente al sinnumero de personajes que nuestro creativo continente puede aportar.

Si el desocupe es maximo, aca se pueden ver videos de las peleas que espero poder alguna vez ver en vivo:

City Crumbling

NYC

Greed & The City

As I watched the film adaptation of Sex and the City on a plane recently, I couldn't help but notice how ironic it was that the New York version that this movie displayed and encouraged was crumbling down just outside my window.

At this point, it is really hard to know if the series fueled a lifestyle of 500 dollar shoes, breakfast mimosas and hefty apartements on the average New Yorker or if, conversely, the appartements, restaurants, wardrobe and lounges of Carrie and friends reflected the average day of working girls at the time. But the question of which inspired which is irrelevant on an era where the line between TV and reality is blurry. What really matters is that in the future, when people want to understand what really happened during the credit boom and what caused the 2008 crash, they just have to watch a couple of episodes of the series (watching the whole movie is too much of a punishment).

Not coincidentially, the series and the movie cover the whole decade where excessive leverage, minimal rates and 1-800-FREEMORTGAGE made a whole generation believe that a one bedroom apartment in Greenwich Village, a Louis Vuitton puppy bag and daily Cosmopolitans at lunch were just around the corner. Just like small town blonds arrive in LA to make it in showbiz, Ivy Leaguers flooded the city to indulge in haute couture, VIP lounges and, of course, casual sex. This generation, boosted by Gordon Gekko's "Greed is good" motto (but misinterpreting the rest of Oliver Stone's Wall Street) managed, by means of 9 figure bonuses made up of just thin air, to turn Hugo Boss, Armani and Moët & Chandon into the new Gap and Heineken.

Well, fear is good too. And even if recession will negatively affect all of us non-hedge funders, hopefully housing will become reasonably priced, risk will be treated as such and ludicrous salaries will be curtailed. But best of all, we wont have to bear for some time with Mr. Bigs and Carrie Bradshaws, fiction and real.

Strike a Pose

Intro/Candyshop
Beat Goes On
Human Nature
Vogue


VIDEO INTERLUDE

Into The Groove

Heart Beat
Borderline

She’s Not Me
Music

VIDEO INTERLUDE

Spanish Lesson
Miles Away
La Isla Bonita/Lela Pala Tute
Romanian folk musical interlude
You Must Love Me

VIDEO INTERLUDE

4 Minutes
Like A Prayer
Ray Of Light

Hung Up
Give It To Me (Finale)