Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Lazy lazy days....

It's a funny world we live in, I remember back when I was a wee one and brand spanking new to the workforce. Memories of hitting the pavement, climbing stairs, being way overdressed and trying to sell your ass. Luckliy for me I have been working pretty steadly since I can remember, I believe the most time I have had off was 6 months. Do I have anything to show for it? Hell no. (Was it worth it? Do I even need to answer that?) Now in the year of our lord 2005 you can do all this sitting in your underwear in the a/c. It is much nicer than walking around like a headless chicken in this heat, but eventually I need a job and I don't know what the success rate is for on line job searching. I was still looking thru newspapers (reading actual paper, not the on line editions) last time I was in need for a job.

Trust me I am not complaining. I have started to subscribe to the theory of everything happens for a reason when if something shitty happens to you, you should welcome the expierence to learn to make yourself better (except for brazillians running late for work in London, kids in Iraq, or black muslims in Darfur). God fearing folk believe that those situations are pre planned or whatever (I think they just happen) but that doesn't matter. Anywho, what I was saying was, my situation-for some-could be grim but for me is rather nice. I don't have to deal with the un believable stress of my former job anymore( I haven't had one panic attack since I got back from Ecuador) and I can take my time in finding a suitable job. No more 24 hr companies or security for me, xanax is way too addictive!!

But another thing I have been thinking about has been volunteering. What if I just left the US for a couple of months or a year and all I did was help people?? This is just an idea and it hinges on what kind of job offers I get and what happens with my un employment, but it has been something on my mind ever since I got fired. Sometimes I feel like moving out of the mansion that is the USA and going down to the humble neighboorhoods (most of the rest of the world) and not as a gringo on vacation but as someone re discovering his roots and wanting to help some of the hardest working people on earth, who despite how much they work end up with shite.

Also got to see Skampida the other night in Queens in a very weird venue/bar called La Terraza (the balcony). It was aptly named because the bands who perform there play on a friggin balcony held up by many many ropes and strings and such. Not much room to dance but I got some ok shots. Was supposed to see them last night but got a bit sidetracked....the weather outside was very frightful.....






R I P Jean Charles de Menezes

I threw in a little Brazillian just for you.

Candombe Apertura 2:03 Dusminguet
Castaneda 5:06 Skampida
La Rebelion 6:16 Joe Arroyo
El Preso 4:53 Fruko & Sus Tesos
Cumbia Del Caribe 3:14 Orquestra de Edmundo Arias
El Hijo De Tuta 4:00 Lisandro Meza Pa'gozar
El Alakran ( La Mar Está Podrida ) 3:50 Mano Negra
Sensemaya 4:58 Carlos De Nicaragua & Familia
Brain Washing (version) 2:41 Bob Marley & The Wailers
Where You Gonna Go (Soweto) 4:05 The Clash
Gunman 3:44 Michael Prophet
Vamos Farrear 2:53 Pinduca
A Minha Menina 4:36 Os Mutantes
GIRATUTTO(Sambita) 4:13 Macaco
Tanto Tempo (Peter Kruder Remix) 5:44 Bebel Gilberto
Resistance Is Futile 3:00 Jets To Brazil
Great Cop 1:52 Fugazi
God Damn Job 1:19 The Replacements

Ciao

Monday, July 18, 2005

Off the Bus!!!!


The day has finally arrived. I am now an Ex Mcroberts employee. I guess my boss didn't care that I lost my passport and my bankcard and could not get back into the country. That place thinks that all it's employees have to have this bullshit military disipline. For what they pay people, ok right.

So I think this is the right occasion to launch a brand new playlist. #12!!! Wow, who woulda known that when it all started last winter that we would be listening to the 12th installment of Beat Down Borders radio. I mean, who woulda thought that I would still be wasting my time with this shit???

This goes out to the boss who liberated me from the Mcroberts hell I was in for 3 years. Soon they will be paying me for all that mental suffering I had to endure ( ie. unemployment bitch!!). Imagine if people had to do that??? There would be some broke muthafuckas out there right now....

"Soup Is Good Food"

We're sorry
But you're no longer needed
Or wanted
Or even cared about here
Machines can do a better job than you
This is what you get for asking questions

The unions agree
'Sacrifices must be made'
Computers never go on strike
To save the working man you've got to put him out to pasture

Looks like we'll have to let you go
Doesn't it feel fulfilling to know
That you-the human being-are now obsolete
And there's nothing in hell we'll let you do about it

[Chorus]
Soup is good food-(We don't need you any more)
You made a good meal-(We don't need you any more)
Now how do you feel-(We don't need you any more)
To be shit out our ass
And thrown in the cold like a piece of trash
We're sorry
You'll just have to leave
Unemployment runs out after just six weeks
How does it feel to be a budget cut?
You're snipped
You no longer exist

Your number's been purged from our central computer
So we can rig the facts
And sweep you under the rug
See our chart? Unemployment's going down
If that ruins your life that's your problem

Soup is Good Food, Etc.
We're sorry
We hate to interrupt
But it's against the law to jump off this bridge
You'll just have to kill yourself somewhere else
A tourist might see you
And we wouldn't want that

I'm just doing my job, you know
So say uncle
And we'll take you to the mental health zoo
Force feed you mind-melting chemicals
Til even the outside world looks great

In hi-tech science research labs
It costs too much to bury all the dead
The mutilated disease-injected
Surplus rats who can't be used anymore

So they're dumped (with no minister present)
In a spiraling corkscrew dispose-all unit
Ground into sludge and flushed away
Aw geez:.

Soup is good food
You made a good meal, etc:.
We know how much you'd like to die
We joke about it on our coffee breaks
But we're paid to force you to have a nice day
In the wonderful world we made just for you
"Poor Rats", we human rodents chuckle
At least we get a dignified cremation
At yet
At 6:00 tomorrow morning
It's time to get up and go to work



BTW


I will, hopefully, be dj'ing tonight at the Raven. After 9p it all begins so come down to Heavy Manners Mondays and check it.



No cover.


Ciao.


Candombe Apertura 2:03 Dusminguet

Soup Is Good Food 4:16 Dead Kennedys

Fuente De Energía 3:38 Estopa

Llora Mi Nena 4:27 Eliades Ochoa

La Grip 4:33 Xerramequ Tiquis Miquis

The Only Redeemer 6:18 Noiseshaper

Lloraras 3:50 Oscar De Leon

La Rumba Del Solterón 4:12 Dusminguet

Mala Vida 3:08
Gogol Bordello

Chola Cuencana 2:15 Ecuador


Tanto Tiempo 3:43 La Pandilla

National Anthem of Ecuador
3:18

Sunday, July 17, 2005

Back in the Motherland!!!

Random pics from different continents...







Hey guys, more pics for your entertainment (what, am I here to amuse you?)

First pic is me in Parque Calderon in beautiful Cuenca. The 2nd pic on the right is my Cousin Esteban in the center and his son on the right and of course me all decked out.



Babies for sale, fresh babies.... Badi Sebastian Celleri













The lunacy that is futbol in South America....














My friend and fellow futbol die hard Kati from Machala. She actually went to the Ecuador V Brazil game when Ecuador won one nil!!!













Me with the lovely (and pain in the ass, lol!!) Liz, along with the beautiful and talented Joy.










Last but not least, her Highness the Web Princess. With her presents and all in one piece!!

Also check out Liz's moblog for more pics..

ciao

Friday, July 15, 2005

Not enough time...

...to post all these great photos and get a new playlist going, so I will 'cast a classic playlist I put together years ago when I first started DJ'ing at viagra, I mean Niagra. Enjoy, and hopefully I will see some of you tonight (great, more photos to post) so we can welcome the one and only Web Princess back to the NYC. If you wanna hang gimmie a ring later tonight, her highness won't be in till late .

Ciao..

BTW

If you wanna be a "team member" whatever the fuck that means, leave your e-mail in the comments. Yes I already have your e-mails but it will be fun to see who actually wants to be a fully flegded team member.



Dub Stylee 4:04 The Slackers
Smoke 2 Joints 2:53 Sublime
Sensi 3:57 Long Beach Dub All Stars
Marijuana Boogie 2:55 Manu Chao
Punky Rebel Punky Party 3:29 Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
Because I Got High 4:10 Afroman
Don't Drink Too Much 4:15 Peter Tosh
The Harder They Come (Live) 6:23 Jimmy Cliff
Roots and Culture 6:05 Mikey Dread
I Wanna Get High 2:54 Cypress Hill
Wake and Bake 4:24 The Goats
Smoke Buddah 2:34 Redman
Method Man 4:43 Wu Tang Clan
Gin and Juice 3:31 Snoop
Mad ism 4:15 KRS-One
Kill All the White Man 2:48 NoFX

Thursday, July 07, 2005

Burning Streets

Thoughts and prayers for the fallen citizens of London...

As of now I dont know of anyone I know who might of been injured or even killed but I am still numb inside. Numb that this Human Race that I am a part can be so destructive, so depraved. Numb that one of the best persons I have even known or will know (and her husband) could of been hurt or killed.

So Brits, now the war has come home what will be the reaction?? The Yankee one of more war and rape or the Spanish one qutting the orgy of violence. The ball is now in your court, but for many it is too late.


Monday, July 04, 2005

Beat Down Borders down and out

Seems like my baby girl iMac is pretty fucking pissed that I haven´t been home in a while, and has been acting up. I had to send my sister over to the house to set her ass straight, but she wouldn´t act right so my sis had to slap her around.

Anyways she has been shut down I guess until I get back. I will promise to have the best playlist yet though. Please try to go on with your lives until then.

Ciao

Friday, July 01, 2005

More pics for dat ass




Guniea pig anyone?? Cuyes are a national dish here and in Peru. Never heard of it huh?? Well, it´s not something you would put on the brochure.

Girls make a mental note: If I have ever given you the look I have on in the third pic , you were probably in my sights. These girls certainly were....

In the fourth pic we have a dam, somewhere... in the east of Ecuador, yeah that´s right (hey I´m not a fuckin tour guide, alright). This is also an aqueduct that is used by the country for most of it´s water needs. See all that moss on the water? Some of that is in my belly right now. Yum yum!!!

In the fifth pic we have my beautiful niece Gabi (on five red bulls).

Have you guys not noticed that my family is comprised of great looking folk??

Last but not least we have me and the chick I was stuck with for a night. She turned out to be an evangelical christian. I asked her if I made her cum would that make me jesus. She didn´t find it funny....