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SXSW 2010 Music Day 4

Ok, last SXSW 2010 post.

Saturday was the final day of South By Southwest. Destination: Beauty Bar – or rather, a seemingly improvised venue called “Beauty Bar/Palm door” three blocks south of the real Beauty Bar. The place had three nasty problems:

  1. A serious drainage issue that made the whole place stink, even though the bathrooms were surprisingly neat.
  2. The bar had no way to charge credit cards, which is bad for today’s cash-less American society (and for my friends with cash who were nice enough to buy me beer).
  3. A horribly annoying wooden column right in front of the stage, as you can see in the photos I took.

In spite of this, it turned out to be an excellent night with one of the best shows I’ve seen in a SXSW.

SWSW at Beauty Bar

Photos and videos of the shows if you read more…

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SXSW 2010 Music Day 2 (More)

Hard to catch up with all the stuff I saw. Here are some more photos and videos from last Thursday at South By Southwest (Warning: Extreme close-ups). First, some photos of Ozomatli’s awesome dance circle finale, where they get off stage with the crowd. Then, if you read more, you can see to another video of Bajofondo and one of Ozomatli that didn’t make it into the last post.

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SXSW 2010 Music Day 1

SXSW is upon us. Last night the Music Festival got started (the Interactive and Film parts start earlier). On the first night I went dowtown with Eli to see the shows at Antone’s. The line was really long and we barely made it in. We only got to see the last two shows of the night. I apologize for the crappier-than-usual photos: I brought my pocket digital camera but not its memory card. I guess the camera wasn’t the only thing in need for better memory. So it’s all crappy iPhone photos/video.

Read more for photos, videos, some words about the bands I saw, and to be automatically entered into a random drawing for $1,000.000USD sponsored by Microsoft and AOL once you have forward this link to all your friends!…

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Moon

Moon

My first memory with your beauty does not sweep me,
I throw my guitar and my father yells at me,
My mother says: “That’s my sinner”,
And she takes me for a comforting walk in the moonlight.

My second memory: Your eyes do not sweep me,
I left home to the dangers of time,
When I asked you “Will you always be mine?”
You replied: “Look to the moon, a man’s already been there”.

After a year we rented
A room in front of the moon,
I started playing in a dark bar
On the street of the metal workshop.

And they screamed: “Take down
The short guy in the tuxedo”,
And only one said: “Kid, kid,
You shall yet bring down the moon of them”.

It was such a time
When happiness came through anger,
We laughed about everything,
Burned whatever we got our hands on,

There was nothing left
But to hug our troubles,
To say: “Yesterday was good
And tomorrow will be too”.

Yesterday was good,
Yesterday was good,
Yesterday was good,
And tomorrow will be too.

It’s hard to concentrate,
Because your beauty still haunts me,
It’s hard to say “It’s a shame”
Or to say “Maybe”.

Instead, I dance
And yell to the moon: “Come down”.
And blame the world
For my pain.

Sometimes I forget,
How I started in front of the moon,
When you forget, yes, yes,
Poor you

There’s rain in the sky
No moon in the meantime,
When it comes out we’ll walk together
Until we disappear.

It was such a time
When happiness came through anger,
We laughed about everything,
Burned whatever we got our hands on,

There was nothing left
But to hug our troubles,
To say: “Yesterday was good
And tomorrow will be too”.

Yesterday was good,
Yesterday was good,
Yesterday was good,
And tomorrow will be too.

ירח

,וזכרוני הראשון אם יופייך אינו מטעה אותי
,משליך גיטרה ואבי עלי צורח
,”ואימי אומרת “זה החוטא שלי
,ולוקחת אותי לטיול מנחם מול ירח

,וזכרוני השני, אם עינייך אינן מטעות אותי
עוזב את הבית אל סיכוני הזמן
“?כששאלתי אותך “האם תהיי לי לעולמים
.”ענית: “תביט לירח שם יש כבר אדם

ואחרי שנה שכרנו
,חדר מול ירח
מתחיל לנגן בבר קודר
.ברחוב המסגר

והם צרחו “תורידו
.”ת’נמוך עם הטוקסידו
ורק אחד אמר:”ילד ילד
“.עוד תוריד את הירח בשבילם

היתה תקופה כזו
,שהאושר בא בזעם
,צחקנו מהכל
.שרפנו את מה שבא ליד

לא נשאר לנו אלא
,לחבק את הצער
להגיד “אתמול היה טוב
.”ויהיה גם מחר

,אתמול היה טוב
,אתמול היה טוב
,אתמול היה טוב
.ויהיה גם מחר

,קשה לי להתרכז
,כי יופייך עוד מהמם אותי
קשה להגיד חבל
.או לומר אולי

במקום זה אני רוקד
.”וצועק לירח: “רד
ומאשים את העולם
.בכאבי

,לפעמים אני שוכח
,איך התחלתי מול ירח
,כשאתה שוכח כן, כן
אתה מסכן

יש גשם בשמיים
,אין ירח בינתיים
וכשיצא נלך ביחד
.עד שנעלם

היתה תקופה כזו
,שהאושר בא בזעם
,צחקנו מהכל
,שרפנו את מה שבא ליד

לא נשאר לנו אלא
,לחבק את הצער
להגיד “אתמול היה טוב
.”ויהיה גם מחר

,אתמול היה טוב
,אתמול היה טוב
,אתמול היה טוב
.ויהיה גם מחר

One of my favorite songs ever, by Shlomo Artzi. Listen on YouTube.

Disaster strikes

hard-drive-crashI started having computer problems a few days ago. They coincidentally started right after I applied the Mac OS X 10.5.7 update. So I blamed that and decided to deal with it whenever I get a chance. The symptoms: my Mac mini would lock up after I use iTunes or iPhoto for a little bit. I didn’t really think it was a problem with iTunes or iPhoto themselves nor their files since they happen to be the applications I use the most on that machine – so I assumed the computer would lock up regardless of what program I’m using.

Turns out I was wrong. What happened is that the external hard drive that I use to hold (surprise!) all of my music collection, videos, and over 8000 photos was dying. It finally stopped functioning altogether tonight. None of my computers can even see it, much less mount it or extract any data from it.

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SXSW ‘09: Day 3 at Dirty Dog Bar

For day 3 (Friday, March 20th), the original plan was to see The Proclaimers or Tricky and Devo. This is where not having a badge really hurt. So I ended up at Dirty Dog Bar to see some more Latin American bands.

Read more to check out more photos and some videos.

Superlasciva: Cool Argentinian rock band. I had never heard about them but based on the number of views on the YouTube video I posted of them, they are pretty popular. I like that they use an accordeon. Too bad none of their CDs can be found on iTunes nor Amazon.

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Superlasciva at SXSW 2009

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