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About

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I keep this blog mostly to stay in

touch with family and friends I've

been leaving here and there over

the years. I grew up in Chicago and

Monterrey, but since 2001 Madrid,

Boston, Valencia, and San Francisco,

where I've lived since 2008, have

been home at one point or another.

I sometimes post personal updates

but, as the blog's title suggests,

another topic rules this corner

of the blogosphere.

Music--listening to, reading about,

and trying to concoct--monopolizes

most of my personal time and my

conversations with friends, and thank

goodness this medium allows people

to listen to the actual music I'm

trying to write about, compensating

for my lack of flair. I mostly listen to

British indie, but you can also find

American indie, post-rock, electronica,

and Rock en español in my iTunes

library. I spend a good part of my

vacation time (and money!) going

to concerts and music festivals.

I also dig watching movies and reading,

but I have to admit most of my reading

is restricted brief pieces in magazines

and periodicals, some online, some in

print; the last decade or so I've probably

only read 3 or 4 proper books per year.

I like to travel and take pictures, too.

I studied Computer Science (and then

suffered through an MBA), so I'm into

technology and science-related matters.

I've been an Apple user most of my life.

I try to be aware of current affairs,

but mostly stay away from politics.

Eating well and staying fit are things

I wish I were better at, but ain't

disciplined enough.

music

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Listening to

Babbage
Pólýnesía
Macht parat den Apparat
123 Forever
Candy Shoppe
Double Helix
Now You See Me
It Doesn't Arrive
I Didn't Know That
A Cold Freezin' Night
Chain of Missing Links
The Story of Hip Hop
Blackberry Stone
Alpha Shallows
Goodbye England (Covered In Snow)
Hope In the Air
Mad About the Boy
Closing Scene
Liebling
We Would Fall Against the Tide
Badaboom
Freak Out
Mighty Long
On and On
Locked in the Basement
Both Sides Are Even
Step Out of the Car
No Harm
Need You Now
Take Me Over
Where I'm Going
Sun God
Is Love
Strangers
Peace & Quiet
The Power and the Glory
Discoverer
It Happened Today
Mine Smell Like Honey
Oh My Heart
Youth Knows No Pain
I Follow Rivers
Get Some
Rich Kids Blues
Rano Pano
San Pedro
Death Rays
Letters to the Metro

My Top Albums of 2011 (so far)

Shell Games
Jejune Stars
Haile Selassie
One For You, One For Me

My Top Albums of 2010

Half Light II (No Celebration)
Modern Man
City With No Children
Suburban War
Blue Blood
Total Life Forever
After Glow
Spanish Sahara
Afraid of Anyone
Bloodbuzz Ohio
Conversation 16
England
White Sky
Run
Giving Up the Gun
Taxi Cab
Indestructible
Hang With Me
Call Your Girlfriend
In My Eyes
One Touch
I Can Change
You Wanted a Hit
Home
Everlasting Light
Tighten Up
Howlin' for You
The Only One
When You Walk In the Room
Faster than the Setting Sun
Any Direction
Computer Game
I Can See Your Tracks
July Flame
When You Give Your Heart
Sleeper In the Valley
Something Good Can Work
I Can Talk
Undercover Martyn
This Is the Life
Best Friend
Let's Go Surfing
Skippin' Town
Forever and Ever Amen
Fall Hard
Walls
Throwing Stones
Play the Game
Madder Red
O.N.E.
Ambling Alp
I Remember
Peter Pan R.I.P.
All Dressed Up (And Ready To Fall In Love)
When a Brave Needs a Maid
Ruby
Marz
It's Easier
Outer Space
Caramel
I Believe In You
Ring the Alarm
Nomad
Slow Baby

My Top Albums of 2009

Intro
Crystalised
Islands
Shelter
Standing on the Shore
Walking on a Dream
We Are the People
Country
Flashing Red Light Means Go
Spitting Fire
Move On
Semi Automatic
Lisztomania
1901
Girlfriend
Love Like a Sunset (I & II)
For Beginners (aka Mt Zion)
Fisher of Men
Epistemology
Outro (aka I'm a Fool to Want You)
My Love Is Better
Bad Times
Don't Stop
Take You Home
Little Pieces
Very Strange
Bone Tired
Other Plans
Prizefighter
Fresh Blood
My Timing Is Off
That Look You Give That Guy
Drowning Men
Luna
The Walls Are Coming Down
I'm a Pilot
Fuerza Natural
Deja Vu
Desatre
Cactus
Oh No
Fitz and the Dizzyspells
Tenuousness
Natural Disaster
Ulysses
No You Girls
Live Alone
Lucid Dreams
Sleepyhead
The Reeling
Let Your Love Grow Tall
To Kingdom Come
One Wing
I'll Fight
You and I
Solitaire

My Top Albums of 2008

Presume Too Much
Call Me
Silver Moon Ladders
The First and Last Waltz
The Girls Don't Care
Could Be Worse
Apocalyptic Friend
Numerology
Mirrorball
One Day Like This
The Bones of You
Grounds for Divorce
Clowns
A & E
Caravan Girl
Happiness
Evil Urges
I'm Amazed
Sec Walkin'
Touch Me (Part 2)
Mansard Roof
A-Punk
Walcott
I Stand Corrected
Lights & Music
Hearts on Fire
Out There on the Ice
Feel the Love
Nada
Sombras
Neandertal
Luna
Halfway Home
Dancing Choose
Love Dog
Shout Me Out
Bubbles
Waterfall
Oh My Heart
I Want To Go Home
Lately
Can't Say No
Keep Your Eyes Ahead
The Captive Mind
Clarion
Get Over It
Falling Out of Reach
Words
Couleurs
Kim & Jessie
We Own the Sky
Skin of the Night
The French Open
Olympic Airways
Heavy Water
Big Big Love
Shiller
Shempi
Mirando
Gipsy Threat

My Top Albums of 2007

15 Step
House of Cards
Jigsaw Falling Into Place
Videotape
Black.../Bad.../Ocean...
Intervention
Keep the Car Running
No Cars Go
This Time
Stephanie Tells Me
Runaway
I Don't Mind
The Opposite of Hallelujah
Your Arms Around Me
Shirin
Friday Night At the Drive-In Bingo
Chicago x 12
Like I Needed
Lake Michigan
Christians In Black
3 Times and You Lose
Closer
Battleships
Big Chair
Midnight Coward
My Favorite Book
The Ghost of Genova Heights
B*****s in Tokyo
Either Way
You Are My Face
Impossible Germany
Sky Blue Sky
Miss November
Imaginary Girl
We'll Go Walking
Dream of Love/Broadway Lights
Rumbo de nadie
Como se vive se muere
Me rindo a sus pies
Overdrive
This Not the End
Every Word Is a Knife...
Bad Sun
Time Won't Let Me Go
A Strange Education
Break
Sunday Sun
Home
Get Innocuous!
North American Scum
Someone Great
Us v Them
It Will Find You
You Don't Know Her Name
Elouise
So Low, So High
Rich Wife
Fire Island, AK
Sky Is Open
Clouds
Pony Ride
Stay
Grace
Thorn In My Side
Fool that I am
Hurricane Season
Ol' Jack Tar
Second Sight
Archangel
Near Dark
UK
Raver

My Top Albums of 2006

Starlight
Supermassive Black Hole
Map of the Problematique
Knights of Cydonia
The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
My Cosmic Autumn Rebellion
The W.A.N.D.
Pompeii AM Goetterdaemmerung
Munich
Blood
Camera
All Sparks (Remix)
Postcard from a Dark Star
Dangerous Heady Love Scheme
Butterfly
Warm Cigarette Room
Roscoe
Head Home
Young Bride
We Gathered In Spring
No Me Destruyas
Corazón Atómico
Triste Sister
Paz
Made-Up Love Song #43
Trains to Brazil
If the World Ends
Annie, Let's Not Wait
Te ves sho shy
Piel Bonita
Navidad
Atenas 399 A.C.
Very Loud
Oh, Sweetheart
Go Sadness
Please Please Please
Analyse
The Clock
Black Swan
Harrowdown Hill
Goin' Against Your Mind
Liar
Gone
The Wait
Publish My Love
Salesman at the Day of the Parade
Catform
California
Alone, Jealous and Stoned
All at Once (It's Not Important)
Lightning Blue Eyes
Daddy's in the Doldrums
New English
Heavy Lifting (demo)
Sugar Pill (Remix)
Straight A's
Forever
We Can Never Say Goodbye
My House
Seasons of the Change
Lago en el cielo
Otra piel
Crimen
Jugo de luna
Luces sensacional
¿Cuál es tu rock?
(Un) Amor toda la vida
No me compares
Lloyd, I'm Ready to Be Heartbroken
If Looks Could Kill
I Need All the Friends I Can Get
Razzle Dazzle Rose
Another Sunny Day
Funny Little Frog
White Collar Boy
Dress Up In You
Young Folks
Paris 2004
The Object of My Affection
Let's Call It Off
Poem of Dead Song
Still Feels Like Tears
A Man for Atlantis
Minus Two