Cumple 74 de Mi Mama

Hoy fue el cumpleños 74 de mi mama... parece mentira! Fue una noche super-agradable. Fuimos a visitar el terreno de la casa nueva. Esta tan adelantada que casi no me lo creo cuando lo vi. Es impresionante: todas las paredes de bloque ya estan en su sitio. Falta el techo y que empiecen a meter las "cosas" de adentro! :)

Luego de eso, fuimos a Winter Park downtown, donde pasamos a hacer un toque "tecnico" por Park Ave CDs. Ahi me compre mi copia del increible album nuevo de Air, Talkie Walkie, del cual hare un review proximamente en Amazon. Finalmente terminamos en el rico ristorante Allegria, donde conocimos a una agradable pareja italiana que parliaba molte lingue... C´e stato molto divertito! :)

Gabriel to launch musicians' union:
A courageous voice, calling "bread, bread; and wine, wine" in the musical world. It oughta have been Peter...

LOTR Nominated for a bunch of Oscars!
Specially, Best Picture: though "Mystic River" and "Lost in Translation" could turn into tough contenders.

For sure (IMO):
-Special Effecs
-Makeup
-Costume
-Sound Mixing
-Adapted Screenplay
and DIrector.

There's anothe movie (City of God) that I've heard great things about: the "Brazillian Pulp Fiction" a friend of mine called it... it's up for a few Oscars too.

Cuentos de Amor y Muerte

El libro de mi suegra, Nancy Colina, Cuentos de Amor y Muerte acaba de salir a la venta en Amazon.com.

Los invito a que compren una copia. Es altamente recomendable!

#106 in Amazon

Today, after almost a month sitting at spot #107 among Amazon.com's Top Reviewers... I moved up a notch, to #106. :|

I seriously don't know whether to laugh in joy or to cry out loud. I mean, this review writing "business" takes time... granted that I do it because I love it, but it does take some time. Now, I can't complaint, to be honest: for instance, it's allowed me to get to know some great people over e-mail, and the ocasional complimentary copies of stuff, as in the case of this week, when someone from the record label of Jacqui Naylor is sending me a copy of her latest album along with a press kit, because she liked my review about Norah Jones' debut album! How's that? I guess those things make up for the up and down of the rankings, but I admit: I am very much looking forward to that Top 100 ranking, after 4 years of writing reviews in Amazon! :)

Will you join me and check out my reviews to see if there's any that you'd like to vote for? Thanks!

weebl

Pa vaina buena el Weebl ese!!! Gracias por las buenas carcajadas, Rorro. En el mejor estilo de la clasica Super-Fly! :P

RIAA embarks on new round of piracy suits
The empire strikes back, which is to say that this nonsense is far from bound to end this year. It's only going to get worse. Interesting the view from the outside... in a recent trip abroad, I saw friends and family downloading music left and right and the idea of a lawsuit from the RIAA is obviously so foreign and funny to them, that it barely crosses their mind. In fact, they are more mindful of the files they download to avoid accidentally downloading a virus!

House of Rorro

HouSE oF RoRRo
Welcome to the world of blogging, my friend. I was VERY happy to see your spanking new blog. Indeed you are some alternate, thin, Venezuelan version of Roger Ebert.

I recommend anyone who considers him or herself to be a serious movie fan (music fan or book fan, for the matter, as well) to check out Rorro's blog periodically. You're bound to find some pretty amazing stuff. I have yet to read something lame by this dude.

Once more, bienvenido! ;)

... otra cortina mas de humo...
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(De El Universal, 01/21/04)
Presidente Chávez visitará Guyana para discutir soberanía del Esequibo

Georgetown.- El presidente de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez, visitará Guyana este mes a fin de tratar sobre un antiguo diferendo fronterizo por el cual su país reclama dos tercios de territorio guyanés, reseñó AP.

Chávez visitará la ex colonia británica del 30 al 31 de enero, informó el miércoles el ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de Guyana, Rudy Insanally.

Venezuela y Guyana han discutido por más de medio siglo por la soberanía del territorio del Esequibo, de 160.000 kilómetros cuadrados y rico en oro, bauxita, diamantes, madera y petróleo.

Las autoridades venezolanas manifiestan que no reconocen un tratado de 1899 que le concedía la región del Esequibo a Guyana, otrora colonia británica. Bajo el acuerdo de 1966, las Naciones Unidas han tratado de resolver la disputa.

La pugna ha afectado la exploración de petróleo y de gas natural en el Esequibo.

La mina aurífera Omai, de propiedad canadiense, una de las cinco más grandes de América del Sur, está situada en la región. Otras varias firmas estadounidenses y canadienses también realizan exploraciones en el lugar.

Insanally dijo que Guyana también desea pedirle a Venezuela que revise propuestas para vender gas y crudo menos costosos a Guyana.

El Diablo Suelto

Thought you guys might like El Diablo Suelto: Guitar Music of Venezuela: like the first review in the page explains, it compiles some of the best guitar work from Venezuela ever. Listen to the samples and enjoy!

Venezuela subió dos puestos en ranking de FIFA
La vinotinto llenandonos de orgullo!

There's a Gaggle Chasing Google
Google: watch out! Yahoo and MSN are after you! Very interesting perspective on the events that might unfold later in 2004 in the Search Engine arena.

Comentario interesante... La verdad es que me da una buena razon para dejar de comer carne.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_02/b3865034.htm

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Interesting commentary. It truly gives me a good reason to start skipping meat in my meals.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_02/b3865034.htm