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		<title>The resistance is here</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The Resistance” is here and apparently even before the official release in Europe (yesterday) some Burak Çalık had already set up a neat web site from which you can download Muse&#8217;s new album via RapidShare. As an appetiser (and while you download the archive) check out this live performance of an established classic, “Starlight” (can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="capitals"><a href="http://musicbrainz.org/release/56a7a497-86a7-43c3-981a-7b5dbd2e8d53.html" title="Metadata in MusicBrainz">“The Resistance”</a> is here and</span> apparently even before the official release in Europe (yesterday) some <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/burakcalik" title="In LinkedIn">Burak Çalık</a> had already set up <a href="http://twitter.com/xmRipper/status/3850380260" title="Çalık twittering about museresistance.com">a neat web site</a> from which you can <a href="http://www.museresistance.com/downloads/" title="Not sure if this is legal in your jurisdiction…">download Muse&#8217;s new album</a> via RapidShare.</p>
<p>As an appetiser (and while you download the archive) check out this live performance of an established classic, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlight_(song)" title="In WP">“Starlight”</a> (can&#8217;t get enough of it), followed by one of the most interesting tracks from “The Resistance”: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=muse+%22undisclosed+desires%22&#038;search_type=&#038;aq=f" title="Search results in YouTube">“Undisclosed Desires”</a> (skip to 4:12 for the new song if you&#8217;re in a hurry).</p>
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		<title>Reseña: «Radio 3: rescate de un recuerdo»</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Compré este libro hace cuatro años en la Cuesta Moyano de Madrid (los entrañables puestos de libros de la calle Claudio Moyano, justo por debajo del Jardín Botánico, cerca de Atocha). Ahora me he propuesto compensar un poco que durante el último año no he leído prácticamente nada. Mentira: sí que he leído, y bastante; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="capitals"><span class="huge">C</span>ompré este libro hace</span> cuatro años en la <em>Cuesta Moyano</em> de Madrid (los entrañables <a href="http://maps.google.es/maps?f=q&#038;source=s_q&#038;hl=es&#038;geocode=&#038;q=calle+claudio+moyano,+madrid&#038;sll=40.396764,-3.713379&#038;sspn=11.35566,23.269043&#038;ie=UTF8&#038;ll=40.409667,-3.690253&#038;spn=0.001387,0.003862&#038;t=h&#038;z=19" title="En Google Maps">puestos de libros de la calle Claudio Moyano</a>, justo por debajo del Jardín Botánico, cerca de Atocha). Ahora me he propuesto compensar un poco que durante el último año no he leído prácticamente nada. Mentira: sí que he leído, y bastante; pero solo artículos de revistas, pasajes de libros de texto, libros recomendados en la uni y cosas así. Todo en inglés y bastante monotemático, y casi todo por obligación (o no; según se mire).</p>
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<p><em><strong>«Radio 3: rescate de un recuerdo»</strong></em> no es, como yo esperaba, una crónica rigurosa, o al menos detallada, de los 30 años de historia de <strong><a href="http://www.rtve.es/radio/radio3/" title="Sitio web oficial">Radio 3</a> de <a href="http://www.rtve.es/radio/" title="Sitio web oficial">Radio Nacional de España</a></strong>. Más bien es <strong>un recuento desordenado, ligero y subjetivo del espíritu de los inicios y de algunas anécdotas ligadas a la emisora</strong>.</p>
<p>Para empezar, y antes de entrar en el fondo, la forma es muy frágil: el autor, <strong>Mariano Francisco Sánchez Fernández</strong> (que colaboró con varios programas en Radio 3 hace años) no parece un buen escritor. El libro da la impresión de haberse escrito con prisas, y en vista de los resultados me huelo que el editor decidió ahorrarse el corrector de pruebas. Erratas y faltas de ortografía a tutiplén («visagra» por «bisagra», <em>«you don&#8217;t below»</em> por <em>«you don&#8217;t belong»</em>, etc.) y una puntuación totalmente desastrosa que hace que la lectura no fluya cómodamente. Parece mentira que este hombre haya colaborado con tantos periódicos, radios y televisiones, con esa forma tan simplona y poco clara de escribir que tiene. La última frase del libro es (y con esto no destripo nada): «¿que (sic) más voy a decir?». Pues eso; mejor no digas nada más.</p>
<p>El libro está organizado en entrevistas a unos pocos protagonistas de Radio 3: <strong>Ramón Trecet, Diego A. Manrique, Jesús Ordovás, Beatriz Pécker, Federico Volpini, Carlos Galilea, Juan Pablo Silvestre, Iñaki Peña</strong> y alguno más. El autor transcribe párrafos completos de estas entrevistas entre sus propias reflexiones, pero no los edita convenientemente, ni se queda sólo con la enjundia. Así, las declaraciones de los personajes están llenas de puentes, lugares comunes y ocurrencias a la ligera, de las que uno suelta en cualquier conversación distendida, pero que no deberían aparecer en negro sobre blanco. Además, en distintos capítulos se hace referencia a la misma anécdota o al mismo evento, como si el autor se hubiese olvidado de que ya lo había mencionado antes.</p>
<p>No sabemos cuáles fueron las preguntas que se hicieron (solo leemos respuestas, a modo de monólogo), pero es fácil deducirlas. Algunas preguntas tienen poco interés en relación al tema (Radio 3) y algunos de los entrevistados contestan como contestaría tu cuñado listillo, más o menos. Por ejemplo, varios comentan acerca de la «crisis de las discográficas», «internet» y «la piratería»; pero emplear una o dos páginas por capítulo en transcribir el tipo de comentarios vagos y poco informados que cualquiera haría en 2004 con una cerveza en la mano, pues es un poco timo para el lector.</p>
<p>El tono que impregna el libro es el de que <strong>Radio 3 fue un experimento excepcional hecho con cuatro duros, un espacio sorprendente de innovación y libertad en plena transición política en el que se reflejaron e impulsaron las minorías y la cultura, algo que milagrosamente los sucesivos gobiernos dejaron vivir y donde se encontraron un grupo de profesionales enormes, que hicieron una radio muy innovadora y ganaron una audiencia pequeña, pero fiel</strong>. Como <a href="http://blog.tripu.info/item/r3" title="Mi entrada más comentada, con diferencia">fan declarado de Radio 3</a>, suscribo casi todo eso. Pero a veces da la impresión de que se cae un poco en la nostalgia y en el «Radio 3 ya no es lo que era».</p>
<p>En mi opinión, <strong>lo más interesante es percatarse de cómo era Radio 3 en sus inicios, a principios de los 80, y comparar aquella situación con los medios de comunicación actuales. Es desolador. El programa <em>«Caravana de hormigas»</em>, por ejemplo, era transgresor a un nivel que hoy parece impensable</strong>. En <em>«Caravana de hormigas»</em> llamaban «rata» a Txiqui Benegas (entonces en el gobierno), tenían una sección llamada «voy a por ti, Barrionuevo», celebraron la muerte de Luis Buñuel para poner de manifiesto el simplismo que hizo a Buñuel un héroe de la izquierda mientras que Dalí fue considerado, a la ligera, un fascista. Para atraer atención sobre las muertes de emigrantes en el Estrecho de Gibraltar, daban el parte de muertos como si fuesen los números en un cartón de bingo.</p>
<p>Iñaki Peña dedica varias páginas a contar la historia de aquella proposición no de ley que finalmente restituyó <em>«Trébede»</em> después de que fuese suspendido por el gobierno de Aznar cuando se mostró tan crítico con el chapapote, el Plan Hidrológico Nacional y la Guerra de Irak. Yo recuerdo con especial cariño las historias surrealistas, terroríficas, estimulantes, sensuales de Carlos Faraco y su equipo a primera hora de la mañana en <em>«El despertatroz»</em>, hace diez u once años.</p>
<p>La verdad es que da un poco de pena pensar que esas críticas no son ni imaginables hoy. Maldita corrección política.</p>
<p>Por cierto, la mayoría de los presentadores entrevistados señalan que, contrariamente a lo que se podría esperar, hubo menos intentos de control desde el poder con la <abbr title="Unión de Centro Democrático">UCD</abbr> y el <abbr title="Partido Popular">PP</abbr> que con el gobierno del <abbr title="Partido Socialista Obrero Español">PSOE</abbr>.</p>
<p>No pongo la editorial ni el número de páginas, que para eso están la fotico y Google. Tampoco le doy puntuación, como hacen los que saben, pero creo que queda claro que no lo recomiendo.</p>
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		<title>Rationalism (II)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The absolute genius of Tim Minchin and a very different take on rationalism (audio only): He is, like George Carlin, a brilliant comedian with a soft spot for science. Categories: Life, Music, Videos; Tags: atheism, Australian, comedy, English, funny, humour, Life, Minchin, Music, philosophy, rational, rationalism, rationalist, sceptic, scepticism, singer-songwriter, song, Storm, Tim Minchin, video, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="capitals">The absolute genius of</span> <a href="http://youtube.com/results?search_type=&#038;search_query=Tim+Minchin&#038;aq=f" title="All his videos in YouTube">Tim Minchin</a> and a very different take on rationalism (audio only):</p>
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<p>He is, like <a href="http://blog.tripu.info/item/carlin" title="I blogged about him when he died">George Carlin</a>, a brilliant comedian with a soft spot for science.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch the music video before reading the rest of this post. How was that? Did you feel that something didn&#8217;t quite fit in the picture? That is the music video for 海雪 (umiyuki, “Ocean Snow”) the first single by Jero (ジェロ), released last February in Japan. Jero is a young black American from Pittsburgh&#8230; who [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Watch the music video before reading the rest of this post.</p>
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<p>How was that? Did you feel that something didn&#8217;t quite fit in the picture?</p>
<p>That is the music video for 海雪 (<em>umiyuki</em>, “Ocean Snow”) the first single by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jero" title="WP">Jero</a> (ジェロ), released last February in Japan. Jero is a young black American from Pittsburgh&hellip; who sings <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enka" title="WP"><em>enka</em></a>.</p>
<p>Enka is a form of Japanese popular music which was at its height in Japan during the postwar period. Its main themes are loss, loneliness, unfulfilled love, even suicide. Female singers of enka have been especially popular. I can&#8217;t help noticing some striking resemblances to Spanish <a href="http://www.esflamenco.com/scripts/news/ennews.asp?frmIdPagina=660" title="In “www.esflamenco.com”"><em>copla</em></a>; not only in the themes, but also in the staging, the perceived attitudes of the performers, their use of <em>vibrato</em> and the way both genres have gradually become regarded by their respective younger generations as “uncool” and affected.</p>
<p>For samples of enka, watch <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=QrKo9Z800UU" title="YT">修羅の花</a> (<em>shura no hana</em>, “Flower of Carnage”), the beautiful theme song for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Snowblood_(film)" title="WP">修羅雪姫</a> (<em>shurayukihime</em>, “Lady Snowblood”) sung by Meiko Kaji and later reused by Tarantino in “Kill Bill”; or listen to <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=uBFPM5NO2F4" title="YT">川の流れのように</a> (<em>kawa no nagare no yôni</em>, “Like the Currents of the River”) by Hibari Misora, which at some point was proclaimed “the greatest Japanese song of all time” (?).</p>
<p>As Jerome C. White himself explains in <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=t3gdVIc2x4Y" title="YT">an interview with CNN International</a>, his maternal grandmother was a native of Yokohama who married an African American. Jerome was born and grew up in Pennsylvania, close to his Japanese grandmother, listening and singing enka even before he could understand the lyrics. Apparently, his debut has been a great success in Japan, where black urban cultures from the United States have been trendy for some years now (as one can gather by the surprisingly large number of shops selling hip-hop-related products in cities like Tokyo and Kyoto).</p>
<p>This form of strong cultural hybridisation is still rather unusual in Japan. Although we can find <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Pollito_de_California" title="“Pollito de California”">similar cases in other countries</a>, where an “outsider” is “allowed” to succeed in an area that is traditionally perceived as idiosyncratic to that culture, Japan is (still) among the world&#8217;s most ethnically homogeneous countries. Of course, Jero is not the first performer of enka born outside Japan, but I don&#8217;t think that there has been any other <em>gaijin</em> before him who brought such distinctive traits of race, nationality, culture and language with him to the genre, all the while being supported by the industry and the media.</p>
<p>That said, I must confess that I can&#8217;t see the influence of rap <em>in his music</em>. Would you have been able to tell, had you listened to <em>umiyuki</em> with your eyes closed?</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Eclectic beauty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adorable stuff to shift your mood. My muxtape: tripu.muxtape.com Categories: Music; Tags: Music, muxtape, selection, song, tape, tripu 2 comments so far        © 2006-2010 tripu        ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Adorable stuff to shift your mood.</p>
<p>My muxtape: <a href="http://tripu.muxtape.com" title="My 12 songs"><code>tripu.muxtape.com</code></a></p>
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		<title>3 razones para salvar Radio 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 02:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[«Me siento muy orgulloso de que Tricky, Massive Attack o Chemical Brothers hayan permitido que sus discos se hayan estrenado mundialmente en Siglo XXI antes que en ningún rincón del mundo. También es verdad que todos estos artistas encontraban asombroso que hubiera una emisora que a las once de la mañana y en difusión nacional [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="font-size: smaller; margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 4em; text-indent: 0;"><em>«Me siento muy orgulloso de que Tricky, Massive Attack o Chemical Brothers hayan permitido que sus discos se hayan estrenado mundialmente en <a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siglo_21_%28radio%29" title="Hay más info en WP que en la web oficial; tiene huevos">Siglo XXI</a> antes que en ningún rincón del mundo. También es verdad que todos estos artistas encontraban asombroso que hubiera una emisora que a las once de la mañana y en difusión nacional pusiera sus canciones.»</em></p>
<p class="put-right" style="font-size: smaller; margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 4em; text-indent: 0;">&mdash; <a href="http://www.clubbingspain.com/entrevistas.php?id=211" title="En una entrevista">Tomás Fernando Flores</a>.</p>
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<p><span class="capitals"><span class="huge">L</span>os enamorados de</span> <a href="http://www.rtve.es/rne/r3" title="R3">Radio 3</a> de <a href="http://www.rne.es/page?HOME_RNE" title="RNE">Radio Nacional de España</a> somos unos sufridores. Nos hemos acostumbrado ya a vivir permanentemente con una corazonada agorera. Cada vez que el gobierno del país cambia de signo, cada vez que hay un nombramiento en <a href="http://www.rtve.es/" title="«El ente». Vaya nombre :¬P"><abbr title="Radiotelevisión Española">RTVE</abbr></a>&hellip; nos ponemos en lo peor. «Ya está», nos decimos. «Ahora sí; esto se acaba».</p>
<p>En estos días el corazón se nos estruja un poquito otra vez. Hablan los papeles de cambios gordos que se avecinan en Radio 3, <a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/Pantallas/Radio/renueva/busca/nuevos/publicos/elpepirtv/20080502elpepirtv_4/Tes" title="«Radio 3 se renueva y busca nuevos públicos»">cambios de personas</a> y <a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/Pantallas/Radio/cambia/registro/elpepirtv/20080512elpepirtv_2/Tes" title="«Radio 3 cambia de registro»">cambios de ideas</a>, y a ninguno nos sorprende.</p>
<p>Parece que no se habla de cerrar la emisora, cierto. Pero, ¿qué diferencia hay entre cerrarla y mantenerla abierta con el mismo nombre pero cambiando completamente los contenidos? Manel Fuentes no tiene ningún sentido en Radio 3. No es una cuestión de <em>calidad</em> —el señor Fuentes es muy competente haciendo lo suyo— sino de <em>oportunidad</em>. Es como si Ramón García empezase a escribir guiones para las historietas de <a href="http://www.eljueves.es/" title="La «web» que sale los miércoles">El Jueves</a>.</p>
<p>Estas son las 3 razones por las que RTVE y el gobierno deberían conservar Radio 3 con el mismo espíritu que tiene desde hace 30 años:</p>
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<li><strong>No existe una alternativa a Radio 3.</strong><br />
Sencillamente, en España no hay otra programación a nivel nacional siquiera parecida a la de Radio 3. Desde el punto de vista de la <em>variedad</em>, hacerla desaparecer sería más desastroso que hacer desaparecer <a href="http://www.cadenaser.com/" title="Los voceros del PSOE y de la progresía">La Ser</a>, <a href="http://cope.es/" title="La radio conservadora y de la Iglesia">La Cope</a>, <a href="http://www.cadenadial.com/" title="La radio más casposa">Cadena Dial</a> o incluso <a href="http://www.rtve.es/programas/radiouno" title="La cadena pública generalista">Radio 1 de <abbr title="Radio Nacional de España">RNE</abbr></a>, puesto que al menos los tipos de contenidos de estas cadenas se pueden encontrar en otras emisoras, en casi todos los casos. Radio 3 es el único estandarte convincente en contra de las radiofórmulas, los patrocinios encubiertos, las listas de ventas, las modas de quince minutos, el conservadurismo cultural, el conservadurismo a secas, el papanatismo musical y los envoltorios histriónicos de los medios de masas.</li>
<li><strong>Radio 3 es prácticamente el único valor que algunos recibimos a cambio de nuestra contribución a RTVE. Y aún así Radio 3 es extremadamente <em>barata</em>.</strong><br />
¿Que Radio 3 no es viable económicamente? Vamos a ver eso. En «El Ente» llevan años rasgándose las vestiduras por la baja audiencia de los programas de Radio 3 en comparación con programas <em>mainstream</em> de otras de sus cadenas. Parece evidente que <a href="http://www.rtve.es/rne/r3/pr/cuandoelef/cuandoele.htm" title="Latinidad y negritud">Cuando los Elefantes Sueñan con la Música</a> siempre va a tener menos audiencia que el magacín de la mañana de Radio 1. Pero, ¿cuáles son los costes de producción de uno y otro? Dado que en RNE <del>no hay</del> apenas hay publicidad, el único criterio <em>económico</em> de viabilidad debería ser el coste relativo, en oyentes/€. Pero en cualquier caso, y dado que RTVE es un «servicio público» en teoría ajeno a intereses comerciales, el económico no debería ser nunca el único criterio a aplicar. Por otro lado, el propio carácter selectivo de los oyentes de Radio 3 hace que estos apenas consuman muchos otros productos de RTVE que están dirigidos a un público mucho más amplio.</li>
<li><strong>La cultura y la música en España sufrirían si Radio 3 desapareciese.</strong><br />
Muchos aspectos de la cultura y muchas tendencias musicales tienen en Radio 3 su único eco con cierto alcance. La música <em>indie</em> no quiere que Radio 3 cambie. Las contracorrientes tampoco; la vanguardia musical, las artes plásticas, la tecnología, los músicos que terminan su primera maqueta, los <em>performers</em>, los pequeños festivales, también los festivales grandes, las músicas del mundo, la poesía, el <em>country</em>, el silencio, la música brasileña, el <em>jazz</em>&hellip; incluso la <abbr title="Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia">UNED</abbr> confía en Radio 3.</li>
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		<title>Left/right hemisphere</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, two videos that struck me recently. One video for the left hemisphere of your brain. Mathematics, Japan and genius. Part of a documentary about the amazing Daniel Tammet. The second video is aimed at your right hemisphere. So much beauty and so many ways to invoke it. Imogen Heap knows a few of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="capitals">On Sunday</span>, two videos that struck me recently.</p>
<p>One video for the left hemisphere of your brain. Mathematics, Japan and genius. Part of a documentary about the amazing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Tammet" title="@WP">Daniel Tammet</a>.</p>
<p class="no-indent centred"><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=EueFhYZ4HxI" title="“Genius fast calculation by kids”"><img src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/EueFhYZ4HxI/0.jpg" alt="“Genius fast calculation by kids”" /></a></p>
<p>The second video is aimed at your right hemisphere. So much beauty and so many ways to invoke it. <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=eKZsZkH_MJc" title="Music video for “Headlock”">Imogen Heap</a> knows a few of them.</p>
<p class="no-indent centred"><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=pSIbfzK2spg" title="“Imogen Heap - Just For Now (live at Studio 11 103.1FM)”"><img src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/pSIbfzK2spg/0.jpg" alt="“Imogen Heap - Just For Now (live at Studio 11 103.1FM)”" /></a></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 23:20:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teorema Del Ánimo Inducido: «Para cualquier grado de cansancio acumulado c, hora intempestiva h y tarea importante e inaplazable t existe al menos un par {e, v} con e estilo de música y v volumen que hace t soportable.» Conjetura Del Masoquista (no demostrada): «Además, siempre existe al menos un par {e, v} que hace [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="no-indent"><strong>Teorema Del Ánimo Inducido</strong>:</p>
<p style="margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 4em; text-indent: 0pt;">«Para cualquier grado de cansancio acumulado <em>c</em>, hora intempestiva <em>h</em> y tarea importante e inaplazable <em>t</em> existe al menos un par <em>{e, v}</em> con <em>e</em> estilo de música y <em>v</em> volumen que hace <em>t</em> soportable.»</p>
<p class="no-indent"><strong>Conjetura Del Masoquista</strong> (no demostrada):</p>
<p style="margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 4em; text-indent: 0pt;">«Además, siempre existe al menos un par <em>{e, v}</em> que hace <em>t</em> placentera.»</p>
<p class="no-indent"><strong>Teorema De Friquismo No-Anulable</strong>:</p>
<p style="margin-left: 4em; margin-right: 4em; text-indent: 0pt;">«No importa cuan grandes sean <em>c</em> y <em>h</em>, siempre es posible encontrar al menos una parida <em>p</em> que necesite ser blogueada <em>antes</em> de acometer <em>t</em>.»</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holy cow. Right after posting the previous entry I learnt that Leonard Cohen was inducted into the “Rock &#38; Roll Hall of Fame”… only five days ago. That is good news for three reasons: a) it&#8217;s good to check, from time to time, that L. Cohen is still alive; b) his appearance at the event [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="capitals"><span class="huge">H</span>oly cow.</span> Right after posting <a href="/item/cohen" title="Some words by L. Cohen">the previous entry</a> I learnt that <a href="http://www.rockhall.com/pressroom/2008-inductee-announcement/" title="The official announcement">Leonard Cohen was inducted into the “Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame”</a>… only five days ago. That is good news for three reasons: a) it&#8217;s good to check, from time to time, that L. Cohen is still alive; b) his appearance at the event proved that he is still brilliant with words and that the pitch of his voice has dropped down yet one more octave, entering the range of infrasounds; and c) there is still hope for a music industry that can spot an amazing lyricist among all the rubbish, and pay tribute to him even after so many years.</p>
<p class="no-indent centred"><img src="http://i.inlive.co.kr/alb/m00/d26/l0026551.gif" title="L. Cohen" alt="L. Cohen" width="500" height="500" /></p>
<p>There are people whose soul vibrates in resonance at the same harmonics as Leonard Cohen&#8217;s. For all those people (of whom, if my reckoning is right, there are exactly zero among the handful of readers of this blog) let me link a few items about Leonard Cohen that are dear to me:</p>
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<li><strong>The <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=o7IuCKfA0PM" title="YouTube">event of his induction into the “Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame”</a> on March 10, 2008.</strong> Includes a short clip with words and images and an ardent introduction by Lou Reed. Cohen&#8217;s acceptance speech is short yet witty. After a few words of gratitude he recites part of the <a href="http://www.lyricsfreak.com/l/leonard+cohen/tower+of+song_20082815.html" title="LyricsFreak">lyrics of “Tower of Song”</a> and everything just works. Suddenly every single verse he wrote in 1988 becomes unexpectedly meaningful.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=aaHdeNN_ee0" title="YouTube">Damien Rice performing “Hallelujah” at the same event.</a></strong> Even if it&#8217;s not one of my favourite songs and its title always put me a bit off, I think this is a really good cover. But I still prefer…</li>
<li>…this other <strong><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=T2NEU6Xf7lM" title="YouTube">cover of “Hallelujah” performed live on TV by four Norwegian singers</a>.</strong> I love Kurt Nilsen&#8217;s voice (at 2:05).</li>
<li><strong>“Famous Blue Raincoat”, one of my favourite songs.</strong> Write a letter for the man who stole your woman — she is back with you again, but you know that he gave her something that you could not. <a href="http://www.lyricsfreak.com/l/leonard+cohen/famous+blue+raincoat_20082860.html" title="LyricsFreak">Lyrics</a>. <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Leonard+Cohen/_/Famous+Blue+Raincoat" title="Last.fm">Full song</a> (kudos to <a href="http://last.fm" title="A lovely service">Last.fm</a>).</li>
<li><strong>“Everybody Knows”, another great tune.</strong> <a href="http://www.lyricsfreak.com/l/leonard+cohen/everybody+knows_20082809.html" title="LyricsFreak">Lyrics</a>. <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Leonard+Cohen/_/Everybody+Knows" title="Last.fm">Full song</a>.</li>
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		<title>“So clearly beautiful to me”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“A lot of these songs are just a response to what struck me as beauty. Whether it was a curious emanation from a being or an object or a situation or a landscape, you know, that had a very powerful effect on me as it does on everyone, and I prayed to have some response [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><span class="capitals"><span class="huge">“A</span> lot of these</span> songs are just a response to what struck me as <strong>beauty</strong>. Whether it was a curious emanation from a being or an object or a situation or a landscape, you know, that had a very powerful effect on me as it does on everyone, <strong>and I prayed to have some response to the things that were so clearly beautiful to me; and there were a lot!</strong>”</em></p>
<p class="put-right">— <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=1MDlMdu2gjw" title="From the documentary “I'm your man”">Leonard Cohen</a></p>
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		<title>On this world</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:08:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will never stop being surprised by this digital world. How can you be exploring it many hours every week for years, and still find so much unexpected beauty, creativity, misery, shit, information and disinformation, all in new formats, all tangled and evolving, threatening and blossoming in real time? Some parts of what follows may [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I will never stop being surprised by this digital world. How can you be exploring it many hours every week for years, and still find so much unexpected beauty, creativity, misery, shit, information and disinformation, all in new formats, all tangled and evolving, threatening and blossoming in real time?</p>
<p>Some parts of what follows may be wrong, I really don&#8217;t know. (And that&#8217;s the spirit of the web, too).</p>
<p>Today by sheer chance I found <a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=miaarose" title="Worth visiting&hellip; in spite of the MySpace-ish design">Mia Rose</a>, a teenager from Wimbledon who posted on <a href="http://www.youtube.com" title="En español, «Tú tubo»">YouTube</a> some videos of herself singing covers, and also a few songs by her own. She is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfq7WfbrpuE" title="Singing one of her own songs">very talented</a> (far more than those dummies from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X_Factor_%28TV_series%29" title="“Pop Idol”, “Popstars”, etc.">X Factor</a> and alike) and gained an impressive base of fans in a short time.</p>
<p class="centered"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tfq7WfbrpuE" title="“Husband to be”"><img src="http://sjl-static15.sjl.youtube.com/vi/Tfq7WfbrpuE/0.jpg" alt="“Husband to be”" /></a></p>
<p class="centered"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Caf5v7OTZg" title="“Never on your own”"><img src="http://sjc-static15.sjc.youtube.com/vi/7Caf5v7OTZg/0.jpg" alt="“Never on your own”" /></a></p>
<p>It happened that some executives of some big record label in the <abbr title="Just a region of the northern half of the continent called “America”">USA</abbr> noticed that, too. And they wanted to talk to her, who is just a girl from London with an account in YouTube. So by the time you read these lines she may be signing her first contract with a major label, which is wonderful and disappointing at the same time.</p>
<p>I mean, being under 20 she has already arrived in weeks to where many other good musicians will never arrive, and that is thanks to that over-hyped, web -2.0, massive store of frames with null usability called YouTube. And that&#8217;s great.</p>
<p>But, on the other hand, she had already become known and recognised <i>without</i> the need for any of those greedy companies. Is she going to betray the spirit of the web? (Mia, this is mere rambling — go ahead and become rich. I really mean it).</p>
<p>People with true talent, people born with that “touch” within, they just need some <b>good advice</b>, a <b>modest investment</b> and <b>a little bit of experience</b> to achieve big things. That is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imogen_Heap" title="Kind of British Björk">Imogen Heap</a>. Or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Smith" title="Cinema goes freak!">Kevin Smith</a>. Both are talented, very young professionals who (I believe) really enjoy doing what they do. Both sold or re-mortgaged their goods to fund their first works. None of them will enter Forbes&#8217; elite, but that&#8217;s a false “elite” anyway. And they are honest. Yeah, honesty doesn&#8217;t quote on the stock exchange, but that&#8217;s beside the point.</p>
<p>The web simply leverages that old formula. <b>Advice</b> comes easy from the internet when you are giving something away and know how to ask for it. <b>Initial investments</b> become even lower for all those artists with the need for physical tools (sequencers, video editors, press) which may be replaced by computers. <b>Experience</b>&hellip; well, that you still need. That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s called “experience”. (Otherwise it would be called “Windows Vista” and nobody would need it).</p>
<p>This story goes on with some <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=zmp0Xs3iAKk" title="Which I pretty much don't understand">youtubers claiming that Mia Rose is a fake</a> (sic) and some odd controversy about whether her visits and comments are real, and whether she&#8217;s “cheating”. Maybe people envious of her success. Maybe they are right. In any case I don&#8217;t understand why the discussion is about her position on YouTube&#8217;s ranking instead of her merit.</p>
<p>Now, the last piece of this story is the best one. Via <a href="http://mikeabundo.com/2007/01/22/open-music-collaboration-on-youtube/" title="“The Mike Abundo Effect”">Mike Abundo</a> I learn that some visitor who Mia doesn&#8217;t even know decided to add drums to one of her songs. Then someone else took that mix and added a bass line. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guu9vF17y0c&#038;eurl=" title="“Husband to be”, revisited">The result</a> is a moving example of spontaneous, simple, altruistic, agile collaboration to create something beautiful&hellip; on the web.</p>
<p class="centered"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guu9vF17y0c&#038;eurl=" title="Isn't it wonderful?"><img src="http://sjl-static2.sjl.youtube.com/vi/Guu9vF17y0c/0.jpg" alt="Isn't it wonderful?" /></a></p>
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		<title>Michel Gondry</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Escher had made a music video he would have made this one. Categories: Images, Music, Videos; Tags: 4 comments so far        © 2006-2010 tripu        ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._C._Escher" title="M. C. Escher was a genius">Escher</a> had made a music video he would have made <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_into_My_World" title="Kylie Minogue's “Come into my World” by Michel Gondry">this one</a>.</p>
<p class="centered"><a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=ACD1jAe9kmY" title="Go to YouTube to watch the video"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ab/KylieMinogueComeIntoMyWorld.jpg" alt="Kylie Kylie Kylie Kylie Kylie" width="500" /></a></p>
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		<title>Placebo @ Wembley Arena</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I happen to have two tickets to see Placebo at Wembley Arena (London) on Saturday 9th December this year. According to my statistics since I entered Last.fm, you could say it&#8217;s my favourite band. It&#8217;s definitely one of my favourites. If anyone out there fancies coming to this gig to listen to Brian Molko&#8216;s voice, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I happen to have two tickets to see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo_%28band%29" title="Wikipedia, as usual">Placebo</a> at <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tripu/125966986" title="A few pictures that I took there">Wembley Arena</a> (London) <a href="http://www.last.fm/event/9812" title="Gigs in Last.fm; a nice new feature">on Saturday 9th December this year</a>. According to <a href="http://www.last.fm/user/tripu/charts/?charttype=overall&#038;subtype=artist&#038;range=96" title="My preferences, exposed. I feel embarrased.">my statistics</a> since I entered <a href="http://www.last.fm" title="Music 2 beta?">Last.fm</a>, you could say it&#8217;s my favourite band. It&#8217;s definitely one of my favourites.</p>
<p>If anyone out there fancies coming to this gig to listen to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Molko" title="Contemporary sophisticated glam">Brian Molko</a>&#8216;s voice, please tell me before the end of November.</p>
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