...is mutual

Best NEW BAND of the year

Franz Ferdinand
Scotish rock boys in skinny belts get the modern-rock crowd to come dancing By Marc Spitz

These days it's practically heroic to include more than three good songs on an album. The Glasweigan art boys in Franz Ferdinand had 11 on their self-titled debut, inspiring more than 600,000 U.S. fans (only a few thousands of them hipsters) to buy it. With the slashing opening chord of the album's smash "Take Me Out", Franz announced a template shift in the hot modern-rock sound of the year --from ´60s-inspired American garage punk to '80s-inspired English new wave--that managed to be both progressive and retro.

I was initially shocked that so many people were dancing at your shows. I'd expect the crowds to be pretty arty--to cool to dance. In a way, I think that's been the curse of alternative music--this horrible plague of elitism: "I'm cool because I like music that you don't know about." I've always hated that attitude. The most important reaction is that primal reaction. The best art you appreciate on a primal level. You hear a riff or a vocal line--you don't think, you just move.

SPIN.COM THE YEAR IN MUSIC 2004. JANUARY 2005. pg. 52/53.

new vocabulary

Arrabalero-ra. Díc. de la persona, y especialmente de la mujer, que en su traje, modales o manera de hablar da muestras de poca educación.

Dicharachero. Propenso a prodigar dicharachos. Que prodiga dichos agudos y oportunos.

-Fué tanta la fama que tenían los valiente y dicharacheros del Barrio.

Ezquites. (mej. izquilt, maíz tostado). m. AM: CENTR. y Méj. Rositas de maíz o pororó.

-se cocina con: epazote ,chile de árbol y un poco de aceite.

ENCICLOPEDIA DEL IDIOMA. TOMO I y II. Diccionario Histórico y moderno de la lengua española (siglos XII al XX) etimológico, tecnológico, Regional e Hispanoamericano.

Toltec wisdom

THE FOUR AGREEMENTS

BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD

Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

DON´T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY

Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won´t be the victim of needless suffering.

DON´T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS

Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST

Your best is going to change from moment to moment, It will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgement, self- abuse, and regret.

THE FOUR AGREEMENTS

a Practical Guide to Personal Freedom.

A Toltec Wisdom Book.

by DON MIGUEL RUIZ.

¿entonces?

Mientras leo mi revista sobre Toxoplasma, espero mi torta en la fonda del centro de la ciudad y me doy cuenta que la señora mueve de lugar el bote grande de basura con sus dos manos y despues continua preparando la torta.

Quiza la misma bacteria corre por todos los puestos de comida en México llega a nuestros estómagos, vive ahí y nos vuelve inmunes, haciendonos regresar a los tacos de la esquina en forma circular como el Toxoplasma. ¿Cual es el nombre de esta bacteria? todos los mexicanos la tenemos adentro, ya estamos acostumbrados a ella.

Mi alumna Sophia de Amsterdam me tuvo que recordar esto cuando ella despues de llegar a México comenzó a comer tacos, beber tequila, y morder los hielos de las bebidas en antros, porsupuesto que le dió diarrea explosiva por varios dias, ella no supo cual bacteria fué la que le ocasionaba el problema o tal vez fué la combinación de las mismas, pero aún continua comiendo salsa en sus tacos, no puede parar.

De cualquier forma, yo quiero saber como se llama esa bacteria que yo y todos nosotros como mexicanos tenemos dentro. Paulo.