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Cristen

nobody@vox.com(Mark) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:00:06 -0500

One of my favorite people in the world (that I actually know well) has a VOX now. You can listen to her songs there if you like. This is good.

http://cristen.vox.com

Here is her version of the Gypsy Kings' song, "La Montana".

Here is a very old picture of Cristen and me that we got done in a photo booth, I think. You could choose graphics to add to the photos.

Little devils

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Fragile Amnesia

nobody@vox.com(Mark) — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:33:15 -0500

My friend, Cristen, is fluent in Portuguese and plays the guitar. She loves the song, "Fragile", by Sting. Sting did a Portuguese version ("Fragil") of the song, too, and that is the one that Cristen is singing here ...

Fragile (cover of Sting song)

Cristen

I have had the song, Amnesia, by Control Machete in my head a lot lately. It's a very relaxing, hypnotic song. It is a cover of a Jose Jose song by the same name, and it is featured on a tribute album to Jose Jose called "Un Tributo".

Here is the song ...

08 Amnesia (Control Machete)

José José

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Caetano Veloso

nobody@vox.com(Mark) — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:55:18 -0500

I talked to someone recently about Caetano Veloso, Brazilian music, Marisa Monte, and Spanish music (like Shakira, Juanes, and Julieta Venegas) so I thought I would post some Caetano Veloso songs from a CD of his that I have called Noites do Norte. I am sure there are better Veloso songs out there, but I don't know them all. If anyone wants to recommend a better song from his library, by all means go ahead in the comments section. Eu falo um pouco em portugues. ;)

Here are some from the Noites do Norte album ...

05 Rock'n'Raul

Caetano Veloso

06 Michelangelo Antonioni

Caetano Veloso

I love that the title of the above song is the name of a famous Italian director, whose movie, L'Avventura, I love.

Here is the first song on the CD ...

01 Zera A Reza

Caetano Veloso

Here is the second song from the album. I can't leave it out because it's very pretty. I used to play this song while driving back from lunch to my job, and I remember passing under the canopy of the trees while little bits of sunlight broke through the green leaves. It was a magical moment. Ha! I ususally don't talk like that. It's moments like those that make me want to travel more, but it's too damn expensive!

02 Noites Do Norte

Caetano Veloso

That's a very young Caetano above.

In other news it's inevitable (as Agent Smith said in numerous scenes of The Matrix Trilogy) that Barack Obama will be the Democratic candidate in the general election. Here is some news about him tying for the number of superdelegates with Hillary Clinton.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/11/campaign.wrap/index.html

Feel free to donate to his campaign here. ;)

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