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Here is a little taste of Max Tannone’s Project to help you make up your mind about it.

Wrong Prayer - Jaydiohead- Minty Fresh Beats.

NOTE: YOU CAN LISTEN A DIFFERENT TRACK IN THE VERSION OF THESE POST IN SPANISH

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JAYDIOHEAD

As said in my previous post recently i have been re-discovering Radiohead. In the way, i crossed paths with Jaydiohead. It is a project created by Max Tannone where he fusions Jay-Z’s voice and rythms with the instrumentation of Radiohead.

He has two albums out:”Minty Fresh Beats” which has stronger beats and is a party enhancer and “The Encore”, my favorite ,because it includes Thom Yorke voice…Simply spectacular, no more words are needed. What follows? Just to listen it and make your own verdict.

NOTE : YOU CAN DOWNLOAD ALL THE TRACKS FOR FREE AND LEGALY IN THE PROJECT’S WEB PAGE.

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GOOD BYE LENIN.

A FILM BY WOLFGANG BECKER AND MUSIC BY YANN TIERSEN.

Talking about dualities, beeing young while living in Germany… Good Bye Lenin is a film that perfectly portrays these realities. The stories surrounding the plot do a better understanding of the characters and lets you understand better why and how do they act. They give an unexpected taste to the story, becoming it more complex and allowing sublectures in these comedy.

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Berlin Block Tetris by Sergej Hein

I think of Berlin as a “weird” city. Maybe is the cultural clash that occurs in these place. Imperial memories lives with The City of Design, recently named by UNESCO because of its innovation in these field. Maybe they are trying to hide or to renew it’s communist past with new bestial constructions. But at the same time War (I and II) , post- war and the Wall Divition are present in the architecture, life, and mind of people. They want to fade away that part in time.Forgetting is not as easy for them as it is for us, the Mexicans. The World won’t aloud them to do it so.

Apparently the part that has been tried to be deleted, the new generations have incorporated it as part of the culture and POP scene in Germany, it is part of their identity, it is part of them selfs.They have been living these transition and duality.Living in a socialist building while playing TETRIS in a GAMEBOY.

This melange is one of the many contributions that allow Berlin and Germany continue to linger as a source of knowledge and ideas. The young man is right … it is best to remember to forget.

Check out the interview with Sergej and the original text in spanish

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These isn’t a quote but a question to the tumblr community :
Should i start posting photos of naked chicks , hot dudes and Twilight cast members to starts getting some attention ?

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Nina Simone - I Put a Spell On You.

For these Halloween spooky night a sexy soulful song. Nina (yeah she is my friend, just as Celia is too) is one of my favorite singers in these universe.

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Day of the Death and Halloween.

The USA on October 31st celebrates Halloween. Mexican middle ,high classes and urban society does too. Kids go out to the roads in costumes screaming while ringing to door bells instead of the traditional trick or treat: “queremos Halloween” - “we want Halloween”. And there is no penalty involved in case the person doesn’t give them candy. Some people will arrange spooky decorations in their houses and will invite Halloweeners to observe them.

I remember while being a kid there was the typical lady that would give candy to kids under the condition that the kidz would have to listen a little explanation about the Day Of The Death and watch an altar offered to the ones who already have passed away. Most of the times these ladies would give some unwrapped traditional Mexican candy which later would make all the candy sticky inside of the plastic pumpkin.

As a grown up i am starting to understand those educational ladies. They didn’t want to loose our traditions which most of them are a syncretism of the prehispanic ,colonial and, post-independence and post-revolution cultures.

The Day of the Death is officially celebrated on November the 2nd , it is a national holiday , no one goes to work nor to school. It is the day that is used to remember the ones that already passed away but at the same time is a celebration of Life.Is a duality and a contradiction if you don’t quite understand it.I think lots of cultures have a fiesta like these too but it is celebrated in different ways.

In the night of November the 1st people will gather in cemeteries around the tomb of a friend’s, family member or a loved one ; and make a guard in it for the entire night. The tomb will be previously decorated with xenpazuchitl flowers , food ,corn representing the coming back to earth,bevrage and all the terrenal pleasures that person had in life, even music is played live that night.Cause it is believed that in the night the deaths will descend and join the living ones. People don’t literally believe that but is a way to remember a person that you loved in life and a way to remember that we all are gonna die one day, Lady Death is coming for all of us and we are gonna join them. It is a way of understanding the cycle of life.

There is also the tradition of placing altars in your own home with the pictures and same terrestrial pleasures over it :food,cigarettes, alcohol etc… that the death one had. Flowers and a road of petals to call him or her with the aroma ,oil (of god ,these is where the Catholicism elements mix) to help them make the transition between living and death world into the correct place and not into hell and salt to make them remember that they are death and not alive so they can’t taste it.

In Michoacan the tradition is more alive cause it was originated over by the purepechas or also called mixtecos. People around the globe come to Patzcuaro to celebrate that day and take pictures and videos about it. So come to Mexico and join the intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity that the Day of the Day fiesta represents for the world according to the UNESCO. A holiday that is still celebrated only because of the oral tradition of generations.

Note: Photos above taken by me .

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