Dearly Devoted Rubie

My Chem had just played under the pouring rain and asked the audience not to be violent against "emos". We were holding on to our spot while the preteen girl audience dissolved and was substituted by people our age, speculating what would they play, talking about the last time they came to .mx and just trying to get a better viewing spot. We didn't yield an inch.

It was cold at 21:55 when we heard a security guy say "We are starting in 7 minutes" but the Mars Volta (being broadcast live from the other stage) took longer and were playing their usual "improvisations" that after five minutes started to sound like nonesense and the audience started booing them. I guess that someone got as tired as us and put on the "Coca-Cola Zero Fest" promo screen that announced that "for the second time in Mexico, reunited, from Chicago, IL... THE SMASHING PUMPKINS" and it all became dark.

We waited for a minute more, or two. Tension was in the air and expectations in our mouths... the next hour and a half I can't describe it, except for the bursting emotion that caused when we all heard that Eb chord played by Billy Corgan's 11th fret when "Today" opened the concert a lot of us were expecting (Violeta knows best, she told me that they were opening with Today) and then they played "Tarantula".

Among other songs they played "Stand Inside your Love", "Bullet with Butterfly Wings", "Ava Adore" and "United States" with a U2 like political speech but noteworthy was "Tonight, Tonight". I was expecting them to play it acusticly, like "1979" and "That's the way (my love is)" but instead, they played it with the complete band, with so much power and it brought me into tears, like Vi, like a lot of people around.

They also improvised a little and it remind me of those old '90 Lolapalloza festivals. But this is a concert I will never forget, that's a song I will never forget. Oh, by the way, I also saw Austin TV for the first time and other bands played too... and next time I play, I'll play with a long skirt made of aluminum paper

I first met Fernando Delgadillo in 1999 because of Manato. He has always been a fan and has always sung his songs. I remember him showing us songs he likes and thinks are funny and some of those songs I've got to like.

Yesterday was the first time I ever saw Delgadillo live. Manato, Viole, Fede, Yessi and me went to a venue called "La Planta de Luz" and listened an hour of songs that not even the performer knew and an hour of the songs I went to hear, among others Carta a Francia, Hoy Hace un Buen Día and Visiones (an unlikely performance). Obviously he played Ten Miedo de Mi, No Me Pidas Ser Tu Amigo and Entre Pairos y Derivas, his most famous.

I had a good time although I was very tired, I'm uploading a blurry pic of Delgadillo because the guy doesn't like to be shared on the Internet and I don't want him scolding me the next time I see him.

While reading the OC page I found a rather interesting proposal: I'm supposed to take 365 pictures (that's one a day for the next year) and post them on a daily basis on a photo album. I thought "why not?" and I started today.

Since there was no light in my house for the whole morning and part of the afternoon I decided to go out and take my first picture. You can use any feed reader, Opera browser, iPhoto to subscribe to the photocast of my 365 photo album.

Last night I attended to a virtual concert. Robbie Williams came to MX City creating huge media and marketing buzz. T1MSN broadcasted the concert online and that's where I saw it. I really don't like but 2 of his songs, one of them is Come Undone, which was the main reason why I saw the concert. Filiberto did go to the venue and Violeta saw it online too. They were both really excited about the concert.

So, let's see where this 365 stuff takes us. I'm only 2 posts away from reaching the milestone 300th post!

Mi vida entre fotografias,
se guardan y se olvidan porque dicen la verdad.
Alguna vez oí decir que la vida una película.

The night was getting thinner as the minutes passed by, latin rythms didn't help much to set up the correct mood for what was about to happen (at least not for me). A Rickenbacker guitar, a couple of Epiphones and an acoustic guitar told us that the moment was close. How can they create the same expectation as if were about to see the original Four? I don't know, but that's part of the magic.

Morsa started playing at 12:00 sharp, and immediately we were into them: the voices, the music, it was like seeing the Beatles play on a Saturday night in a pub. Beatlemania is a subculture that make generations closer, from the 60 year old lady on our left to the 13 year old girl sitting in front of me, everybody was there to live (in a synthetic sort of way) the time when the four guys from Liverpool rocked the house.

So many years after their last record and with two (three) death members, the Beatles' music can still create a whole spectrum of emotions in the listener, there are so many songs you can relate to like She Loves You, In My Life or Yesterday from the first set. "So many songs to play". How do you put a whole era in 2 hours of music?

Then another dose of latin rythms to log us off from our trance, but later, they returned with Come Together and Rain. Later on they played Let it Be that can bring me down to tears and created a paradox in time by playing Imagine. The show went on and we were still high, but Hey Jude announced the innevitable end and the "check, please!".

Fili told me it was the second thing closest to being in front of the Beatles for him. Go in peace gentlemen, the show is over. So we walked away to finish this boys' night in our trademark King of the Hill sort of way...

You have to aknowledge the importance of the Beatles in music and culture... even U2 states in Zoo-TV:

This is a song Win Wenders stole from The Beatles, we're stealing it back

I started to receive grades from my exams from last week, I'm not getting a lot of A's or something, but I'm having enough for what I've been doing. One teacher even told me, excelent for the situation

The good thing is that now I'll have a couple of free hours between 6 and 8 every Monday and Thursday, the bad thing is that I don't know what the hell am I going to do with them, it's a drag because I have to stay for the last class.

Well, we can't have everything.

Last week I went to National Auditorium to see Dream Theater for the third time. I have seen them every time they've come to MX City. The first time they came I didn't even know but a friend told me hours before and we went to buy our tickets for the same day. This time I bought my tickets in advance and I've got great seats.

The highlights were I Walk Beside you and the finale for Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. They also played The Mirror, which is their first song I heard and it was the reason I started listening to them.