San Felipe, Estado de Mexico

The last weekend I went to San Felipe, a town from Estado de Mexico, Mexico, it's located at 44 kilometers (aprox) from Toluca to the north.

It's a quiet and very peaceful place, the people is very humble and pretty kind, every person that I found there just said me hello, good morning, good evening and goodbye. Maybe those are simple things, but up to day many of us have forgotten it and we are only thinking about our business without paying attention to the persons that are beside us.

There you can eat Barbacoa, a traditional dish from Mexico, in many towns from Estado de Mexico they prepare a pretty good and tasty barbacoa, if you have the oportunity just don't doubt and taste it with a good beer in your right hand :-D

I drove 1:45 hrs on the highway, it was a so nice trip, the traklist for this was:

Apocalypse release - Muse
Sing for absolution - Muse
Stockholm syndrome - Muse
Hysteria - Muse
Endlessly - Muse
Creeps me out - IMA Robot
Disconnect - IMA Robot
Happy Annie - IMA Robot
Dangerous life - IMA Robot
Seventeen seconds - The Cure
M - The Cure
A reflection - The Cure
Secrets - The Cure
Boys don't cry - The Cure
Cut here - The Cure
Lovecats - The Cure
Temptation - The Cure
Close to me - The Cure
Just like heaven - The Cure
Believer - Kill Hannah
The collapse - Kill Hannah
Crazy Angel - Kill Hannah

And others that I have forgotten but they did this trip a complete pleasure.











Obviously the Crown of the storm came with me :-D





Have fun
Diegue

Elizabeth's first Album

There's a new band named: Elizabeth, they play Indie/Punk/Rock their sound is so far so good, they are really a very good recomendation to hear if you're lookinf for new sound on your life.

Currently if you don't live in Canada and you want to hear them you can view their space or you can go to cbc radio 3 and look for their songs and even the entire album if you access this page you have tu suscribe and then you'll get complete access to a whole variety of music from Canada.

Elizabeth's elements are:
Davor K, Guitars
Reggie G, Vox, Guitars
Rory O, Bass
Paul G, Drums, Percussion

I've heard many of their songs and simply I just can say, you guys reaaaaaaaallyyyyyy roooooooocks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You can visit their official site at: http://www.elizabethelizabeth.ca


Finally you can watch one video from them, it's for the song: "War is beautiful":






I hope you enjoy this band as I did and I do since the first time that I heard them.



Diegue

Creeps me out - Ima Robot video

Reviewing sites on myspace and my friend's space, I found the new video of Ima Robot for the song "Creeps me out"

It's a funny video, and the song is so good, if you look for it in youtube.com you'll find another versions from Ima Robot's fans, they are fun.



I'm looking for "Monument to the Masses" album in México City, I just have heard their first single, and they sound pretty fine, with a re-new sound and more energy than ever.


They are having many shows in the USA, if you want to know more about them you can visit: myspace.com/imarobot



Diegue

A funny commercial from EDS trilogy

A Crimson Place: A funny commercial from EDS trilogy

The third commercial.

This is the third commercial from EDS, it's about building airplanes.

I agree more with this vision of what do the developers, software architects, programmers, testers, project managers and others do on our daily activities :-).




Have a nice week

Diegue

Veruca Salt's video

hey, looking for more information about Veruca Salt, I found the following video. I hope you enjoy it.

if you find out anything else about this group, just leave a comment with the information.



Regards

Diegue

Drovell: From Mexico To The World

This is a band from Mexico, they are four members and have a good sound. Yesterday I went to a show of them on a bar named Purpura at Mexico City.

They sound likely Dildo, Sunshine Underground, obviously with their respective diferences.

You should hear them, they are a good choice for a new sound and getting new music.


This is my advice for this week.


Diegue

A new recommendation

Hi, I found this new group reviewing www.myspace.com/radiovago, one of their members now is part of Veruca Salta (www.myspace.com/verucasalt).

They sound pretty well, I'm looking for an album of them and then I'll write more about them and principally their sounds, silences and more.

Meanwhile here's a promotional banner of their latest album (up to date)




Regards
Diegue

Malinalco

Malinalco is a beautiful place, it has a great landscape and if you like going to quiet, quiet, so quiet place you're going to really like it.

It's a small town, with a church and every sunday a "Tianguis" takes place (something like a market but it's located through 6 or 7 streets in average)

I like too much that place, is like to disconnect from the outside world, have funfor a while and enjoy the landscape :-P

here you have many pictures from there. If you have the opportunity to go I bet you won't get afraid of it.






Diegue

Kill Hannah

Looking for new and good music, I found this band named Kill Hannah.

I've heard their album: "Until there's nothing left of us."

Kill Hannah is a band with a futurist sound, they have a singular sintetizer used on their songs. Just as an example if you listen the Intro, Believer and Collapse from that album you'll get what I'm talking about. :-P

Looking for information about them I found the following directly from the wikipedia:

Members (currently):

• Mat Devine (April 16, 1974 - ), vocals, guitar
• Jonathan Radtke (September 17, 1982 - ), guitar
• Dan Wiese (February 12, 1976 - ) guitar
• Greg Corner (June 20, 1974 - ) bass
• Elias Mallin, touring drummer

The name of the band "Hannah", comes from an ex-girlfriend name of the vocalist Mat Devine. After the fallout with Hannah, Mat printed up stickers to place on "In a Jar UK" 7" records bearing the name "Kill Hannah". Several hundred un-stickered versions are known to exist, with approximately 20 bearing the Kill Hannah sticker

Their LP's are:

1. The Beauty in Sinking Ships (1996)
2. Here are the Young Moderns (1998)
3. American Jet Set (1999)
4. For Never and Ever (October 14, 2003)
5. The Curse of Kill Hannah (compilation of previously released material) (May, 2004)
6. Until There's Nothing Left Of Us (August 01, 2006)

You can get more information about them on their Official WebSite


They have a nice sound, and their lyrics are not complicated at all, I consider them a band as Garbage or similar, their sound is not so heavy and not too soft. Maybe a good band when you need something quiet but with good enough guitar rifts.

I didn't found videos of them to share, but you can watch them on their official site.

On my favorite songs are:
Collapse
Believer
Lips like Morphine
Outro
and their cover of "Under the milky way".

A funny commercial from EDS trilogy

This commercial was released a time ago, if I'm not wrong it has 4 years (at least)
hehehehehe

It tries to show an analogy about working with a lot of information, multiple programs and things like that when you are a Computational Systems Engineer (or similar) and you work for as a consultant.

I'm looking for the other ones, there should be 3 commercials in total, if you have it or you know where to watch it, please let us know :-P

What do you want to do in this 2007?

We have begun a new year, now it's time for 2007.

As usually the people say: A year with expectations, victories, success and more. More promises than in 2006.

Surprises, achievements and things like that will happen on this 2007 but don't forget desillusions, sadness and their opossite.

I hope you'll achieve all your goals on this 2007, my best from me to you.

For this year I have some of the following intentions:

• Travel to another country at least by work purposes
• Modify my car (the crow of the storm) and get a better performance
• To know more people, and more places from Mexico.
• To be an MCSD (Microsoft Certified Solution Developer), currently I'm only a MCP (Microsoft Certified Professional), obviously before I must be a MCAD (Microsoft Certified Applications Developer)
• To buy a console of third generation.
• To do more excercise and maybe I'll apply on a Sport club or something like that
• At least to run on 5 Rallies (that's why I need a better performance on my car :-P)

Well, they seem to be good enough for this year, and I hope to complete all of them.



Best Regards for you and your family.

Diegue

Outside of Mexico City

The latest days I've spent my time traveling to places near to Mexico City (1 hour of distance aprox. if you travel by car).

I got the following photos using a Sony Ericsson W810i and its 2.0 MegaPixels Camera.

I hope you enjoy them (as you can see I'm not used to take too much pictures, it's just for a brief memory)

La Marquesa, Estado de México:
the landscape is beautiful.


Picture of the: "Iztaccihuatl" a volcano from México.
Picture taken on "Ameca Meca" a nice and quiet town near to Mexico City





I'll bring more pictures on the future from Malinalco, another quiet town from Mexico, Estado de México, if you want to rest and forget about the daily stress, hehehehehe

Felicidades

Feliz Navidad
Merry Christmas

and a Happy New Year 2007
y un Feliz 2007

Keep rocking and driving

Hey, just keep rooking and driving.

I'll see you at the highway, driving the Crow of the Storm

Morningwood

Hey, a few days ago I had the opportunity to listen Morningwood and their album: Morningwood.

It's really a good band, they are a rock band, and have an original sound.

I found some information about them on the wikipedia :-P

this is some text extracted from there:

They are from New York city, and they were founded in 2001,.

Morningwood members:

• Chantal Claret -- vocalist
• Alfredo Ortiz - drummer
• Petro "Pedro" Yanowitz (formerly of the Wallflowers) -- bass
• Richard Steel (formerly of Spacehog) -- guitar

They only have one album and it's (obviously) Morningwood

From my point of view Chantal Claret has a good voice, and specially she sounds very very very good, two-thumbs-up on track 4 Jetsetter, on the other hand "Nth degree" is a softer song than Jetsetter, and she still sounds like an angel.

They seem to be a great future on the next years, and I hope to see them early in a concert, their sound is fresh and with energy. It's good to have new options and so good options.

You can buy their album at Amazon.com

If you want to hear one song from them, I let you this video from YouTube.com
Song : JetSetter



and another one
song: Nth Degree
(a soft one)


Finally if you want more information about them, you can access their official site:
http://www.morningwoodrocks.com/

Jessy Bulbo

Dentro de los grupos que existen en México como alternativos o "indie" (cómo se le dice por el momento a este tipo de música), se encuentra Jessy Bulbo.

Jessy Bulbo son (corrijanme si estoy en lo incorrecto): Jessy, Galaxy y Héctor y cómo ellos mismos lo citan en su myspace (myspace.com/jessybulbo):

jessy, galaxis y hector tuvieron una infancia dificil, pero cuando se acabo, les quedaba lo mas dificil de todo. ahora por fin reunidos en el escenario se dedican a lastimar los delicados timpanos de adolescentes avidos de aventuras

Su ritmo es bastante bueno y pegajoso, para esos momentos en lo que quieres escuchar algo que te prenda en el día, sin importar lo que digan sus letras.

Respecto a letras son sencillas aunque bastante fuertes, como diría el buen Alex Lora del Tri de México: "Mis niños, cuando pongan este CD en su casa por favor moderen el volumen para los castos oidos de sus padres", jajajajajajajajajaja

Por el momento estuvieron promoviendo su secillo: "Maldito", que en una entrevista en Reactor 105.7 f.m. la misma Jessy confesó que se la escribió a un ex-novio, jajajaja, vaya relación tan enfermiza X-D

Al parecer su siguiente sencillo en la lista es: "Sexo sin amor", la música está muuuy chida y la letra es buena, es una canción para andar rockeando (en el sentido en que quieran ver el significado de esta palabra :-P) en donde sea y con quien sea.


Saludos a Jessy Bulbo, espero les vaya bien con su nuevo disco (que no sé si es el primero) y esperemos tener más noticias de ustedes.

En cuanto pueda comprar el disco les daré una reseña más completa

Diegue

P.D. Si quieren escuchar algunas de sus canciones, no dejen de visitar su dirección en myspace, desgraciadamente no hallé forma de incluir el audio en este blog :-S

Make your choice

Sometimes in our lifetime, we have to take decisions that will change our lives forever, and it seems that it's my turn to do that decision... certainly I have a doubt.

It's not about what I should have to do (I know it very well), it's about what's going to happen.

I have a good feeling about my decision from my point of view. But it's hard to see back and leave a major part that I've done with my life. I still will have my friends and family, but I won't be beside them...

Why should I do what I choose?
Why should I fight for something that I don't know if would be worth?
Why should I begin from the begining on a foreign place?
Why should I take a high speed train and do my best?
Why should I go whenever my decisions take me?

because I want it.

P.D. Far is not the word because I'm never far enough

Champ Car Mexico

The past November 10th, 11th and 12th the Champ Car Racing took place at Mexico, Mexico City, in the Motor Racing Track "Hermanos Rodriguez" (a few years ago, the following address was the official site of champ car http://www.champcar.com/, up to date you should visit the following link: http://www.champcarworldseries.com) you can view the race's results at the following address:
http://www.champcarworldseries.com/Results/ResultsIndex.asp


Sunday's race was so good, terrific, awesome and incredible, there's a slang in Mexico for this kink of events "No apto para cardiacos", and it could be translated as: "nonapt if you are a person with cardiac problems", hahahahaha

There were many concerts and presentations of many artist (actors, singers, etc.), additionally to the girls that always are at this kind of events. It was a good weekend.

The bad part of this was the weather, it was a rainy weekend, even it was raining while the race and the pilots had to change their wheels to rain wheels.

Congratulations to Sebastian Bourdais and his great, great and awesome success, the last lap was the best lap of my life (up to date, hahahaha) . Congratulations too to Justin Wilson and Will Power cause their good perfomance and for giving us a race with too many emotions, it was greateful guys. Justin I hope you'll get better of your hand, it's incredible to believe you were driving with a painful wrist.

Attached are photos of the winner.





Diegue

Champ Car

El pasado 10, 11 y 12 de Noviembre fué en México las fechas de la Champ Car en México (este era el sitio oficial hace unos años http://www.champcar.com/pero ahora es este: http://www.champcarworldseries.com) los resultados de la carrera los puedes ver en:

http://www.champcarworldseries.com/Results/ResultsIndex.asp


La carrera del domingo estuvo muy buena, y como dicen en México: "No apta para cardiacos", jajajajaja

Hubo conciertos y presentaciones por parte de varios artistas, además de las modelos que acompañan a cualquier evento de coches. Un buen evento diría yo.

Lo malo fué el clima, estuvo lloviendo el sabado y domingo, de hecho durante la carrera principal hubo un momento en que la misma lluvia hizo que los pilotos cambiaran de llantas para dicho clima.

Felicidades a Sebastien Bourdais por su magnífica carrera y su triunfo, esa última vuelta estuvo grandiosa! y el rebase de último segundo fué geniaaaaaaaaaal. También felicidades y merecidos reconocimientos a Justin Wilson y a Will Power por tan buen espectáculo. Y un reconocimiento especial a Justin Wilson, que a pesar de tener lesinada su mano o muñeca dió una carrera como pocos en su vida.

Adjunto fotos del equipo ganador .





Diegue