Sugarpop is the club the crazy Spanish boys dragged me to the other night. Why must english take over the world? And it was just like it sounds. They have a special name for the bad spanish music, I found out: pachangeo. It was wonderful, went to bed at 10:30 in the morning again ( Read more... )

First of all, before the sunrise even, I had a BAGEL this weekend. Spain doesn't believe in bagels so it was an amazing surprise ( Read more... )

Regardless, my friends special ordered a turkey (and made special non-animal-juice stuffing for me) and beans and potatoes (¿english spelling?) (mash'em) and even apple crisp...and the entrance fee was alcohol, so we had seven people and seven bottles of wine/champaigne. Very, very different from the my normal stuffy family-ensconced thanksgiving ( Read more... )

Getting massaged while typing is lovely. Goddess bless Spain ( Read more... )

We´ve all had Nutella, correct? In Spain there is a company which produces a cheaper version of Nutella who coerced Warner Brothers into letting them use Looney Tunes in their advertising and they come in collectible glass jars...okay, regardless, one of them is of Tweety riding a suspicously phallic, flesh-colored surfboard ( Read more... )

Spent the weekend in a mountain town. Real mountains, not hills. There is nothing to do in a mountain town. Except drink. Which is a bad idea, because there are mountains, and your friends tend to fall down them. And then you get locked out of your hotel and have to scale the hotel wall and climb in through the balcony, drunk. And proceed to ( Read more... )

mm, Eshivira flamenco bar last night had jazz (go figure) and I am still completely saturated...I experienced what could be the most perfect moment in the history of music. This amazing quartet, just playing along, all happy and totally into each other and creating greatness, and then, a buildup, and then every instrument went silent but the ( Read more... )

I think those are the lyrics to the song we´re listening to in the internet café. Of course sometimes I forget to turn my Spanish switch on in my head and just turn everything into English, with results ( Read more... )

important things I forgot to mention:

I called the Eiffel Tower the Empire State Building by accident. In front of a French man.

ummm wow I guess that´s all.

see you in less than 50 days...

ps one more billy crystal joke and I´m not coming home.

That is a French Kiss reference to test the knowledge of people who think they know everything about film ( Read more... )