Lana del Rey

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On one of my first nights I checked the concert calendar and realized that I just missed Cut Copy, by like an hour! So I immediately browsed Ticketmaster and found Lana del Rey. I had missed her in Paris last year, and I like her music… let’s see how Mexico City receives her. She seems […] Read More

Into the night

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Today I made my first steps into Mexico City’s night life. I spent the day mostly in different cafés and restaurants in Colonia Cuauhtémoc and in Roma, and then met up with Antonio. Antonio is a friend of Ignacio from Santiago (and also of Jimena), another example of the way one connection leads to the other. And, as […] Read More

Dancing the night away

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Yesterday Vitor and I went on a little art tour, first visiting the ruins of the once famous Sutro baths on Ocean Beach, then on to the Legion of Honor Museum, where the SF MOMA exhibits a number of its Matisse collection, while their building is being extended. It was a small exhibition, with lots of […] Read More

Burning

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Finally, after the amazing performances of the fire art its (our group was from Portland, OR), they set the Man on fire. Big bang, big fireworks….! And some flames in the right leg and at the base of the left one… I knew about the fireworks, but had not expected them to be so big […] Read More

Iced coffee and buntinis

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Our last event at the Burn: our Lemon Bunt Cakes and Iced Coffee Sober Social. When everybody is already worn out by the partying, and is getting ready to burn the man this night, we’re serving something sober. Full success, the queue was practically around the block. I am always amazed to see people queuing up that […] Read More

White-out

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Just when I thought that the playa is really friendly, and not as hard as I thought, it shows its real face. Today the winds picked up, and we had some sort of a weak white-out. It actually fits my mood, I am tired and I need to slow down. I hardly get enough sleep […] Read More

The night is alive

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Just a few more pics from tonight. We went to the Speed Bump cars and had a little race against each other.   I also saw an amazing electric art installation, where you could play music, and it would translate it into electrical currents whose noises would create the song…. I’m not sure I can […] Read More

Haim

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I don’t remember where I heard them first, but I shazamed them. Using the little app in my iPhone I found my way to Haim, somewhere along this trip around the world. I listened to a couple of songs, and then downloaded their album. Three sisters from California with guitars, making solid American pop rock music. […] Read More

GaGa’s ArtRAVE

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I’m a huge Madonna fan. 52 shows and counting. So when Lady GaGa is in town, I have to go, just to compare notes. I loved her first album, and then some songs of the following ones, but I got less involved… I guess it’s a problem of over-exposure. Honestly, what can you still expect […] Read More

Jay Brannan

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I first saw Jay Brannan in one of my favorite movies ever: Shortbus. A movie, foremost about sex, but, if you look deeper, about humanity. Since then he has made a remarkable career, with other movies, but foremost with his singing! I have missed his shows in Europe, often just by a day, as I was […] Read More

1000 forms of fear

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Have you ever been so mesmerized by a song that you played it all day long in an endless loop? I have, many times, and yesterday was such a day, that I spent walking around Seattle in a bubble created by Sia’s new album 1000 forms of fear. I first heard of Sia when, on […] Read More