Notes

Yup, it finally happen. I am back to Girona. Please allow me a slow response latency meanwhile :D

A friend sent this Flash animation link earlier today to one of the e-mail lists I am subscribed. Everybody has gone nuts trying to get farther and farther. The last thing I heard was 577.6.

As Kumara blogged here, we went to the Beale Street Music Festival that takes place during Menphis in May. Yup, as the name says it happens in May in Memphis, Tennessee. This year was an unique opportunity to see in the same festival names like B. B. King, Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Hubbert Sumlin, and James Brown—to mention a few. The picture above is B. B. King roaring on “How blue can you get”. Breathless. Oh, I almost forgot, we also paid tribute to the other Memphis King. Graceland has become a fascinating monument to the Elvis icon. It has been a long time since I was this fascinated for the eclecticism of a place—maybe roaming the streets of Las Vegas is the closest feeling. I have to admit that 60’s and 70’s iconography has always amused me. To boost the surrealistic feeling during our tour in Graceland we were not aloud to leave the King’s house. We were trap inside because they were filming the American Idol show. Fascinating. ...

José Agustín Goytisolo wrote a powerful poem named “Palabras para Julia”. The poem can be found here. Below, the song by Paco Ibáñez sings José’s poem. The mp3 is provided by www.poesia-inter.net.

Sunday night. The first tornado warning of the season is over in Champaign-Urbana. This one came pretty close. The tornado did not hit the town but strong winds touched ground and caused damages. When the tornado alarm went off I was watching “The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition”. I was deep into the movie and it took me a little while to realize that it wasn’t a whaler blowing the horn. After the proper safety stop looking for shelter and listening at the radio report, I continued with Endurance. If you have not seen it, just watch it, I am still speechless. ...