Sunday, January 28, 2007

Hypersea Presents: Voices Without Borders

La Idea
El Material & Las Instrucciones
La Fiesta
Photos: Alex
Entrevistas
Photo: Josh
Los Participantes

A participatory Mural Making Event
"Come and participate to produce the 6th temporary mural at Clarion Alley of San Francisco. The mural, led by artists Susana Aragon and Mabel Negrete (project leader), addresses the concerns of the family program Casa Corazón of Instituto Familiar de la Raza through a participatory process that celebrates the values and challenges of migrating and adapting to a new society. The Instituto Familiar de la Raza provides mental health, social services and leadership support to Chicano/Latin American families of San Francisco."


SATURDAY - JANUARY 27, 2007 - 12-6pm
12-6pm at Clarion Alley, San Francisco
(Btw. Valencia St. and Mission St. / 17th St. & 18 St.)

Fin a ocupación de Irak !

Photos: Alex

Miles de manifestantes exigieron ayer en San Francisco poner fin a la ocupacion estadounidense en Irak.

Sundance 2007

Photos: Alex.
“Founded by Robert Redford in 1981 in the mountains of Sundance, Utah, Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated year-round to the development of artists of independent vision and to the exhibition of their new work. Since its inception, the Institute has grown into an internationally recognized resource for thousands of independent artists through its Film Festival and artistic development programs for filmmakers, screenwriters, composers, writers, playwrights and theatre artists”.
http://festival.sundance.org/2007/

Mr.Santo nos comenta directamente desde Sundance, que vio un film de Mr. Crispin Glover llamado: "It is Fine, Everything is Fine":
“It was quite the interesting movie. Some people would call it weird. I would say it was strange, even bizarre". Luego Mr. Santo nos dice: “I also had the opportunity to see a documentary on Joe Strummer, "The Future is Unwritten". It was excellent !”.
Segun nos cuentan, el Santo fue confundido con una "estrella de cine" mientras caminaba muy bien acompanhado por esa frias calles de Sundace.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Director David Lynch - Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity

Photo: Alex 01-20-2006
"El Pez Gordo" autografiando libro para Alex
David Lynch hablando sobre Meditacion, Creatividad y algo de Cine en San Jose - CA.

Monday, January 08, 2007

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

Photophone: Alex
Red Vic Movie House
in San Francisco

“The 1960s were years of intense social and cultural tumult; it was the Age of Aquarius, when change was in the air, revolution on the horizon, and all things seemed possible. Some looked to transcendental meditation, free love, Black Power, or LSD. But for others, Jim Jones, the charismatic and forceful leader of Peoples Temple, offered the perfect balance of spiritual fulfillment and political commitment. Jones not only preached about integration and equality, but also built an organization that provided food, clothing, and shelter to his congregation and his community.
On the surface, Jim Jones and his multiracial congregation, Peoples Temple, espoused the values of a model society. But in the summer of 1977 an article in New West magazine exposed the truth. Defectors and family members gave accounts of physical, sexual, and drug abuse, financial corruption, and members being held against their will.
On November 18, 1978, over 900 members of Peoples Temple died in the largest mass suicide/murder in history. Using never-before-seen archival footage and survivor interviews, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple tells the story of the people who followed Jim Jones from Indiana to California and finally to the remote jungles of Guyana, South America in a misbegotten quest to build an ideal society”.

Fire Light Media Films

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!Photo: (waiting for credit)

Sunday, December 24, 2006

Woody Allen marches to his own beat

Photo: Alex -Dec. 20 2006
Woody Allen and his New Orleans Jazz Band
Fox Theatre -Redwood City,CA.

"Film buffs assume Woody Allen would like to be Charlie Chaplin or Ingmar Bergman. The fact is, he might prefer to be 1930s clarinet virtuoso Sidney Bechet.
Allen is no dilettante. Jazz has always been his great passion. Eddy Davis, the New Orleans Jazz Band's music director/banjoist/vocalist and longtime Allen pal, says, "He loves to play music more than anything. But he knows he has to make films to be able to do so." Davis met Allen in Chicago in 1963, while he was attending music school and fronting a jazz band at the Bourbon Street club. Allen was doing stand-up at Mr. Kelly's and would sit in with Davis at every opportunity.
In the '90s, they put a rehearsal band together, which was different from the band Allen had been playing with socially at Michael's Pub in New York, and the new focus was New Orleans Dixieland.
Allen's band performs at Cafe Carlyle in New York every Monday night, and such legends as Benny Goodman, Toots Thieleman and Mel Torme (on drums!) have joined in the musical fun.
Davis points out that when Dixieland began it was considered an avant-garde music form. "It was different than anything else that had come before it. It was like when rock 'n' roll started, something new was happening. It was a pop form of music."
Davis says music naturally re-creates itself. "Music doesn't get used up. It just gets copied after a while. People go back and emulate the stars and that kills every form of music. Everybody would like to play like Louis Armstrong or Charlie Parker. But there's only one Louis Armstrong. Only one Charlie Parker. To copy them is not doing any justice to the music - where it came from," says Davis, the "Manhattan Minstrel," who early in his illustrious career played with the Turk Murphy Band at San Francisco's Earthquake McGoon's.
When the New Orleans Jazz Band plays, its energy breathes new life into the genre. However, Davis is well aware that the band draws packed houses, not because of the endless appeal of Dixieland, but because there are a lot of curious movie buffs out there. "Everybody goes to a happening. People come to see Woody, because he's Woody Allen".
By Paul Freeman

Monday, December 18, 2006

El Poema Silencioso del Camino. Versión 2

Foto : Alex Dec. 2006

"Camino pedregoso entre los campos
amarillo, verde y azul
Grandes nubes blancas hacia las montañas
Escucho mis pasos en el camino polvoriento
Cardos en flor
Pàjaros que se pierden en la claridad.
Por tres palabras que trato de enhebrar,
el mundo se despliega en un manto multicolor
Sòlo sigo la visiòn
Soy parte de un enorme poema
del que apenas puedo dar cuenta."

Ignacio B.
Para Alex, 17 de diciembre 2006

Sunday, December 10, 2006

Fallecio Pinochet - Ex-Chilean dictator Pinochet dies at 91

El ex dictador Augusto Pinochet, fallecido a las 17:15 GMT de este domingo en Santiago a los 91 años de edad, será recordado en Chile como un actor fundamental de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, con una herencia en que los crímenes contra los derechos humanos y la corrupción opacan definitivamente al estadista que algún día pretendió ser. (IPS)
"Pinochet's dictatorship laid the groundwork for South America's most stable economy, but his crackdown on dissent left a lasting legacy: His name has become a byword for the state terror, in many cases secretly supported by the United States, that retarded democratic change across the hemisphere. Pinochet died with his family at his side at the Santiago Military Hospital on Sunday, a week after suffering a heart attack".

Sunday, November 26, 2006

SEAN LENNON in CONCERT

The Great American Music Hall -San Francisco

"Are you talking to me?"
Con un gran sentido del humor dialog0 con el publico.

Photos: Alex
Fui el unico en reconocerlo y saludarlo mientras Sean tomaba aire fresco antes del show.
"SF one of the most beautiful cities in the world" SL

Sunday, November 19, 2006

Paisajes I - The Bonneville Salt Flats

Photos: Alex - Nov 2006
“Imagine a place so flat you seem to see the curvature of the planet, so barren not even the simplest life forms can exist. Imagine the passing thunder of strange vehicles hurtling by on a vast dazzling white plain. This is not an alien world far from earth; it is Utah's famous Bonneville Salt Flats.The Bonneville Salt Flats is one of the most unique natural features in Utah. Stretching over 30,000 acres, the Bonneville Salt Flats is a fragile resource administered by the Bureau of Land Management. It is located along I-80 near the Utah-Nevada border.” www.utah.com

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Friday, November 10, 2006

El Jardin Perfumado

Radio LondonJohn Peel

Si pretendias escuchar lo mejor del Rock y Pop britanico cuarenta anhos atras, lo mas seguro era sintonizar las radios piratas de ese entonces. Estas emisoras tenian sus base en embarcaciones que se encontraban fuera de los limites maritimos britanicos.
Una de las emisoras mas escuchadas era Radio Carolina(suena familiar?) y la otra era Radio Londres con el “deejay” John Peel y su program “El Jardin Perfumado”.
En Octubre de este anho la BBC de Londres recreo su ultimo programa, utilizando la voz de John Peel(grabaciones originales), pero esta vez la musica fue recreada con CDs.

…49 anhos mas tarde saludamos al “Monje I” y su programa El Mirado de los Pinos.

Happy B. Day!.

Wednesday, November 01, 2006

...y hoy estamos escuchando


Joseph Arthur
“Redemption's Son”

Canta y compone, fue descubierto por un cassette de un amigo, que paso el cassette a otro amigo y finalmente llego donde Peter Gabriel en los anhos 90. Podriamos decir que su musica tiene aires de un Leonard Cohen o un Joe Henry.



Michy Mano
“The Cool Side of the Pillow”(“el lado helado de la almohada”).

Michy Mano was born in Casablanca, Morocco. His music includes lots of percussive drum beats. But he also throws in some elements of Morocco's traditional "Gnawa" music. Gnawa music has religious significance in Morocco



Los Tres
"Hagalo Usted Mismo."
(Do it yourself.)
Los Tres are back together and are reaching back to the music that first inspired them. This is their rockabilly single "Camino." It's is getting a lot of airplay in Chile and Mexico.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

...y ahora HALLOWEEN - Special Showing !

Photophone: Alex 2006
Poster: Holland, Michigan - October 29, 1974
HOMBRES DE ROCA
SANTO Y BLUE DEMON vs. LOS MONSTRUOS

Sponsored by
Latinos Americans Unidos Para el Progreso
-A COLORES-

Monday, October 23, 2006

Lunes en Radio Estudiantil

NEW WINTER SCHEDULE:
Sunday, 3:00 pm Pacific - 4:00 pm Local(SLC) Time

Monday, 5:00 pm Pacific - 6:00 pm Local(SLC) Time
“El Mirador de Los Pinos” presenta: “Ciclo Beat”
For anyone with a passing interest in America's first counterculture movement; a great musical portrait of the era.
www.radioestudiantil.cl

Friday, October 20, 2006

Ray Suarez Latest Book: The Holy Vote

Photophone: Alex
Ray firmando un autografo para Alex
NewsHour Senior Correspondent Ray Suarez discussing his latest book The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith In America on October 20th at 7pm in the Downtown Salt Lake City Library Auditorium.“We can't get American religion out of politics, or politics out of religion. It's too late for that. It would be like trying to get the sugar out of a cup of coffee. But finding a way these two behemoth institutions in American life can coexist, while respecting the convictions of believers and protecting the rights of nonbelievers and those who disagree, is the riddle we must solve.” RS.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

EE.UU. llegó a 300 millones de habitantes

Estados Unidos tiene ahora 300 millones de habitantes, según nuevos cálculos estadísticos. El reporte del Instituto de Censo está basado en la media de un nacimiento cada siete segundos y una muerte cada 13 segundos, y tiene en cuenta las naturalizaciones, calculando un nuevo ciudadano estadounidense cada 11 segundos. Los cómputos no tienen en cuenta a los inmigrantes clandestinos, que según las fuentes, oscilan entre 12 millones y 25 millones. Si se considera esa inmigración clandestina, la cifra de 300 millones de habitantes en Estados Unidos fue superada desde hace ya tiempo.

Monday, October 16, 2006

Juana Molina Starts North American Tour

“compone, canta y muestra una verdadera faceta experimental desde Argentina al mundo. Reconocida ampliamente en el exterior, principalmente en Reino Unido y Estados Unidos, es definida por muchos críticos como un genio que navega entre lo electrónico y el folk, con una aditivo de jazz, blues, avantgarde y pop”.
Photophone: el Santo
Alex & Juana Molina in SLC 0ct 18-2006
Tour Dates:
10-17 - DENVER, CO - Walnut Room
10-18 - SLC, UT - Urban Lounge
10-20 - SEATTLE, WA - Crocodile Café
10-21 - PORTLAND, OR - Doug Fir
10-23 - SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Great American
10-24 - LOS ANGELES - ECHO
10-25 - SAN DIEGO, CA - Casbah
10-26 - AUSTIN, TX - Parish

www.juanamolina.com

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Radio Estudiantil-On Line

El Monje I en El Mirador De Los Pinos

-VIDEO-
Nuevo Horario:
Sunday 7:00 pm ET , 4:00 pm Pacific
Monday 9:00 pm ET , 6:00 pm Pacific

Rock en Espanol - Lucybell in Salt Lake City

Photo: Alex
Lucybell en SLC, Oct.12-2006

“Since the debut of their first album in 1995, Lucybell has been a leader of the Rock en Espanol movement. Their unique but widely appealing sound has made Lucybell a household name in their native Chile and a important contributor to the genre abroad.With a sound that is a balanced blend of electronic, acoustic and rock guitar music, Lucybell has been compared to Blur, Catherine Wheel and Radiohead. Lucybell is now the best-selling rock band in Chile. With six gold records and a large and faithful fan base, this trio is poised to take on the world”.
The Depot-SLC
October 12, 2006
Doors open @ 7:00 PM

www.lucybell.com

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

THE TORTURE DEBATE, Part II - Letter from Ariel Dorfman

Dear friends who contacted me regarding the U.S. position on torture:
I have been overwhelmed by the number of you who have expressed your horror and sadness that the United States would abandon its founding principles of presumed innocence and habeus corpus, as well as its support for the Geneva Conventions and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and make a policy of torturing human beings in the name of security and freedom. It shows that there are many among us -- I would hope a majority -- who believe we are still a nation of laws, with respect for justice and an abhorrence of the barbaric practices used by authoritarian regimes and criminals.
A number of you responded asking what can be done to stop our country from engaging in these practices.
The Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International (TASSC) is a coalition of torture survivors (of every ideological sign, by the way) who are dedicated to work toward the abolition of the use of torture and ill treatment currently practiced by more that 150 governments (it's dreadful to realize that we are now being added to the list!). If you feel as strongly as I do about a zero tolerance for torture being used as a "tool" by our government, I urge you to support their crucial work and continue to speak out, writing letters to editors, to your representatives in Congress, and the President.
I have written to Sister Dianna Ortiz, who heads TASSC in Washington, D.C., and she has suggested that you could contact them about any help you might be willing to provide to them.
Their website is: http://tassc.org/
Or you can write to: info@tassc.org

Cordially, and in solidarity,
Ariel Dorfman

Saturday, October 07, 2006

Sean Lennon - Friendly Fire

"Sean Lennon tells a very personal story of love, friendship and betrayal"Friendly Fire, the second album from the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, is accompanied by a DVD of short films, one for each song.
www.seanonolennon.com

Monday, September 25, 2006

THE TORTURE DEBATE

“Can't the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim and the perpetrator who are corrupted, not only the "intelligence" that is contaminated, but also everyone who looked away and said they did not know, everyone who consented tacitly to that outrage so they could sleep a little safer at night, all the citizens who did not march in the streets by the millions to demand the resignation of whoever suggested, even whispered, that torture is inevitable in our day and age, that we must embrace its darkness?Are we so morally sick, so deaf and dumb and blind, that we do not understand this? Are we so fearful, so in love with our own security and steeped in our own pain, that we are really willing to let people be tortured in the name of America?” By Ariel Dorfman
See, The Washington Post
Sunday-September 24, 2006; Page B01
Ariel Dorfman Chilean American writer and professor at Duke University

Sunday, September 24, 2006

Los Blops - Rare & Beautiful Compilation

Photo Archive: 1970
Limited Edition: 1000 copies
"This is a 3CD compilation of the rare and beautiful complete works of Chile-based Blops.The first album from 1970 is pure underground folk with some electric moments, the second from 1971 becomes more electric and the third album from 1973 is completely electric and psychedelic with a progressive touch.
Los Blops formed in 1970 when Eduardo Gatti (vocals and guitars), Julio Villalobos (guitars), Pedro Greene (drums), Andres Orrego (keyboards) and Juan Pablo Orrego (bass) performed covers (Beatles, Rolling Stones, Animals, Cream, Kinks) in a local club in Isla Negra, with additional changes in the band with the addition of members Sergio Bezard (drums) and Juan Contreras (flute and keyboards). Their first LP was recorded in 12 hours on a two-track machine and produced by DICAP(Discoteca Del Cantar Popular )".
SHADOKS MUSIC (GERMANY)

Book Review by Hugo Chávez

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez recommended a book by Noam Chomsky to the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday. Chavez called on nations to rise up against what he called America's hegemony.
"It's an excellent book to help us understand what's been happening in the world throughout the 20th century," Chavez said, "and what's happening now."
Photo: Gabe
El Autor del Blog con
"Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance".

Esta semana la recomendacion es nada menos que de Mr. Hugo Chávez en su discurso ante el plenario de la Asamblea General de la ONU.

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

Cinco años después

"Los neoconservadores criticaron a Clinton durante su presidencia por no aprovecharla para situar a Estados Unidos en el centro de un mundo unipolar tras el fin de la guerra fría. Clinton comprendió que EE UU, con un poder militar y económico sin parangón, no podía imponer por sí solo este nuevo orden. El brutal atentado del 11-S, del que hoy se cumplen cinco años, tomó por sorpresa a Bush y su Administración, pero inmediatamente lo aprovecharon para imponer su propia agenda neocon, mediante la acción unilateral, el abandono de la diplomacia en favor de la presión militar, la erosión de las libertades públicas y la expansión de los poderes presidenciales.
El resultado, un lustro más tarde, es un mundo más peligroso. Se ha producido una invasión comprensible pero chapucera de Afganistán -de la que ahora se están pagando los resultados- y una guerra injustificada y equivocada en Irak, de donde Estados Unidos no sabe ni cómo irse ni cómo quedarse, y que ha convertido al país árabe en escuela de yihadistas y en escenario de una guerra civil entre suníes y chiíes. Los atentados de Bali, Casablanca, Madrid -del que se cumplen dos años y medio- y Londres han demostrado la expansión de un terrorismo que, en este tiempo, no ha vuelto a golpear a Estados Unidos, algo que la Casa Blanca no deja de exhibir como el principal resultado de su cruzada. Pero lo peor de todo es que los métodos de los terroristas han contaminado y erosionado la moral de las democracias que les combaten, empezando por Estados Unidos. Ahí están los casos de Guantánamo y Abu Ghraib, o las matanzas de civiles en Irak, como auténticos triunfos de la moral del terror sobre la humanidad.La muy conservadora señora Thatcher fue la primera en señalar que el mundo cambió sobre todo porque el 11-S hizo cambiar a EE UU, pero esta gran democracia y país admirable debe recuperar cuanto antes sus esencias y valores más profundos de la libertad y de la democracia, sin regresar por ello al aislacionismo.
La Administración de Bush tenía todo en su mano para impulsar un nuevo orden mundial más justo y sensato. Pero por acción (Irak) u omisión (Oriente Próximo) sólo ha sabido fomentar el desorden. Creyó que la democracia se podía imponer por decreto en el mundo árabe, pero, cuando han podido, muchos de estos ciudadanos han optado por votar a radicales, ya sea Hezbolá entre los chiíes de Líbano o Hamás entre los palestinos. Aunque no haya seguridad perfecta, especialmente cuando los terroristas están dispuestos a morir en su empeño, la cooperación internacional ha impedido muchos atentados. La guerra contra el terror de Bush es un error que debe sustituirse por políticas antiterroristas a largo plazo, conformadas sobre todo de inteligencia y de prevención policiales, y mucho menos militarizadas.
La Asamblea General de la ONU ha tardado cinco años en consensuar una estrategia global para luchar contra el terrorismo, cuyas bases las puso Kofi Annan en la conferencia sobre democracia y terrorismo organizada por el Club de Madrid en marzo de 2005. Finalmente, se opta por atender no sólo a los medios para combatir esta amenaza, sino también a hacerlo respetando el Estado de derecho, los derechos humanos y yendo a las causas de los problemas. Uno de los problemas que habrá que superar son los recelos mutuos entre el mundo occidental y el musulmán, que han aumentado como resultado de las políticas equivocadas". EL PAÍS -Opinión - 11-09-2006

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Un Pintor Clasico


"En todo caso se trata de una pintura ajena a la anécdota, al diseño y a la decoración como también a la apariencia conceptual del arte académico. Hacer este barrido en la escena local (nacional) equivale a caminar casi en solitario". Ignacioelpintor

Sunday, August 20, 2006

Radio Estudiantil-On Line

El Monje I en "El Mirador de los Pinos"
La revolution ne sera pas télévisée
Sunday 8:00 pm ET , 5:00 pm Pacific
Monday 10:00 pm ET , 7:00 pm Pacific
www.radioestudiantil.cl

Presentación de la Radio:
"El viernes 8 de septiembre a las 18.30 hrs. en el edificio Nahmías del campus de Isla Teja de la UACH. se realizará la presentación oficial de la Radio Estudiantil. Se trata de un evento audiovisual".
El Mirador de los Pinos

Joe Vasconcellos en gira por Estados Unidos

Photoposter: Alex
Joe Vascocellos, Ariel & el autor del blog- Berkeley 2006
www.joevasconcellos.cl

"After a sold-out performance at La Peña last year, this Chilean superstar returns for two amazing nights in support of his critically-acclaimed new release, Banzai. Continuing along the same path that helped him become one of the biggest artists in Chilean history, Joe is now conquering the world with his unique mix of Latin and Brazilian rhythms." La Peña

LA PEÑA
29/07/2006
Berkeley-CA
www.lapena.org

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Manu Chao in concert-Greek Theatre, Berkeley 2006

Manu Chao to Tour the USA!

Official Website: www.manuchao.net
USA Tour dates:

Tuesday, July 04, 2006

4 de Julio - Trozo de tela triste

Photo:Alex

Por cada muro un lamento

en Jerusalén la dorada
y mil vidas malgastadas
por cada mandamiento.
Yo soy polvo de tu viento
y aunque sangro de tu herida,
y cada piedra querida
guarda mi amor más profundo,
no hay una piedra en el mundo
que valga lo que una vida.

Yo soy un moro judío
que vive con los cristianos,
no sé que Dios es el mío
ni cuales son mis hermanos.

No hay muerto que no me duela,
no hay un bando ganador,
no hay nada más que dolor
y otra vida que se vuela.
La guerra es muy mala escuela
no importa el disfraz que viste,
perdonen que no me aliste
bajo ninguna bandera,
vale más cualquier quimera
que un trozo de tela triste.

Y a nadie le dí permiso
para matar en mi nombre,
un hombre no es más que un hombre
y si hay Dios, así lo quiso.
El mismo suelo que piso
seguirá, yo me habré ido;
rumbo también del olvido
no hay doctrina que no vaya,
y no hay pueblo que no se haya
creído el pueblo elegido.


"Milonga del moro judío"
Jorge Drexler
Album: Eco