juanpe

My last trip has been to Bergen and Oslo (Norway), just a couple of weeks ago... simply spectacular... I took advantage that I was attending a university congress on my major and took some other days to spend more time there than just the congress... we visited the fiords and the towns around... amazing, never seen such a beautiful place before!

Mine was 4 years ago, when my mom still lived, and we travelled to the north of Spain to have a "different" NYE (we had always spent that night in Madrid, my home city)... and it was great to celebrate the New Year in a different place, with my beloved family... Unfortunately that will never happen again. My dear mom is not with us anymore. We will never repeat that experience again...

I have not been very active in the last months, but I hardly have time (except for work) to get online and post messages... I'm on holidays right now and I have a bit more of time... I do NOT want this to go dead: it is my only link with MG and you guys!!!

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Congrats, man! :)

Answering both questions: 1. Yes, and it worked pretty well for almost 3 years! 2. Yes, many times, when I was little... My mother usually scared me and my sister with that "man"... Night or day?

October 26th 2009, when I defended my PhD dissertation :D

I can't remember my first kiss!

believe it or not I must be one of the "weirdos" in this world who does NOT have facebook... don't like those social networks... I prefer being in contact with you guys here... I don't want this site be dead...

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Thanks for the vid, man!! At least it is as if I had been there... Is the summer tour over? How has it been?

I'd do anything for him playing somewhere in Europe... never seen him live and it's one of my "deepest desires"!

Listening to Arcade Fire.

I attended to one of the best concerts Garbage has ever performed in Spain: it was past July in the BBK Live music festival in the north of Spain. They were presenting their new album: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zbmDYsbqc4. And in the same festival, an AMAZING three-hour-concert by The Cure... the ecstasis: they had some technical problems at the beginning and instead of staying backstage, Robert Smith just picked up his guitar and played 3 acoustic songs while the problem was being fixed: that's a professional!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqKhp7WISV8

"Watching the moon" from a Spanish band called Second (singing in English): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVLHIXvFlTI

A darkwave band from Holland and pretty old (started in the late 80s). I'm in love with them! Their name is "Clan of Xymox". If you want to hear a concert, here is a YouTube like (if I'm allowed to post it here):

I know we are not many fans in Europe, but I would die to have him touring somewhere in Europe... not necessarily in Spain, I would travel anywhere in Europe just to experience a concert for the first time in my life...

Assemblage 23 and their new album "Bruise"

How is the summer tour going on? How do the new songs sound live? Hugs from Spain! Juanpe

Mine is The rat who would be king, although Champions of nothing and Blue skies over bad lands are very close :-)

"Non populus" is my favorite one... The other songs in the new CD... well, I don't know what to say, actully... I feel a bit disappointed with the new stuff... Guess I need to listen to it a bit more... Regards, Juanpe Thanks for the lyrics, by the way... For those of us who are not native speakers of English it helps a lot :-) Regards from Madrid, Juanpe

Arcade Fire - The wilderness downtown

A very funny and interesting experiment :-): http://www.chromeexperiments.com/arcadefire/ (It works better with Google Chrome)

I don't know if anyone knows Spanish bands, but there are a couple of good indie bands in Spain lately: Vetusta Morla and Zenttric. They sound pretty good, and good voices as well. Regards, Juanpe

A Spanish band (indie) called "Zenttric" and a song "S