The rules:
1. Open a music player.
2. Go to 'all music'/'library'.
3. Hit shuffle/repeat/randomise.
4. Find photos of the first 10 artists/bands that come up [no repeats and no cheating].
5. Have people guess who the artists/bands are.

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Made it back to the states intact at approx. 1230pm cst. Been on the go since about 2am yesterday (read: nearing 48 hours) without any real sleep. Save for the 10-15 minute spurts I could steal sitting upright in airliner chairs. Its going to be hard to go back to work after falling in love with the spanish-style cafes. Me: "You want twenty ( Read more... )

Oh lord, I just went back and reread my last entry and I apologize. The timer on the computer was winding down and I didn´t have anymore change to plug in. Large swaths of events and their logical placement within the narritive were the casualties I´m afraid. Also the real moral of the story is that Karl Marx will save your life somday. Pure ( Read more... )

I've managed to arrive safely at my third and final hostel. Its hard to put a date on it as I am not too wise in the history of Barcalonean architechure, but its basically an old Spanish mansion that I can best describe as a tri-level loft sort of affair, converted in to a quirky youth hostel with an amazing interior. It can be found on the ( Read more... )

      Five delightful days brings my stay in El Raval's cramped passages to a welcome close. I'm now staying 100 yards off the Mediterranean in an area of town seemingly reserved for a curious mixture of Barca retirees and transient beach bums. I picked up a great Islamic beach towel and laid out on the sands for a bit. It felt good to walk ( Read more... )

If you,re ever wandering Barcelona and feeling a bit homesick, don,t sweat cuz I,ve found this city,s version of our favorite tavern "The Palm". It is called "Las Guindas Bar" and it is located in El Raval at C/ Sant Pau 126. A near exact facimilie right down to the seedy-cum-hipster locale, the same great music playing just slightly overhead, ( Read more... )

Just stepping in from a packed Jamacian/Northern soul all'nighter. Can't quite been a bunch of Spanish mods dancing to Frank Wilsonś "Do I Love You" and the like until 5am. Barca's got me by the gut, and, Oh America, I love you but... I don't know if I want to live in you anymore.

¡adios!

( LJ Interests meme results )

1. Maybe it's the company I've been keeping (and not keeping) but I've been listening to abnormal amounts of Bob Dylan lately. You can say what'cha like about him after he "plugged in", but those folk songs he penned as a youngster are simply untouchable. It also can't hurt that Blood on the Tracks happens to be one of the best break-up albums to ( Read more... )

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