Hi Sugar!
It's Monday. We need a little shot. There's no video. But there is this where someone takes a great song and posts it with some video. We're just posting for the song. This will get you 'goin, not that you should watch the weird video. But you can groove to the great...
Superbad Typography
from Otago Street films in the UK.
Celia The Queen Premiere at Tribeca Film Fest – NYC
Celia played on sat night and Sunday afternoon where it screened at the Tisch School where they film inside the Actor's studio. Here's some pics from the premiere from Getty Images. Below, The films producers Antonio Gijon & Gabriel C. Mena with Co-Director Joe...
Saturday Night – New York City.
Joe, Mario, Michelle's labor of love premieres at the Tribeca Film Festival. It's been a long time comin'. Props to G. Mena and Antonio Gijon as well. Here we go. All people need a queen. Thanks for telling her story. ñ is proud of all of you.
Everything Worked Out
Christmas at the Tecks. 2007.
Now you’re ready. Willie Bobo.
Mas Willie? Flea Market Funk has the scoop. Dale.
Take it easy. This is Brasil.
It’s Monday. Let’s get started slow.
Sinatra/Jobim. Frank said he hadn't sung this softly since he was a boy. But he fell in love with Brazilian music. Francis Albert Sinatra and Antonio Carlos Jobim. Dindi.
bill teck’s host reel
Bonita Applebaum.
You gotta put me on.
Play Ball
That pic is by Oscar Hidalgo for the NY Times. Baseball Season began Last week. Welcome back. It's the last year for Yankee Stadium. The Sunday Times had gorgeous eulogies for it in a special section bidding goodbye to it (and also Shea. But good riddance to Shea....
meet Generation Y
Back in the 90s generation ñ burst to life with a credo decicated to everyone who "grew up with Santa Barbara & Captain Kirk, who went to Forrest and Casanovas, and went to 'el Farrito' with their families". Someone must have slipped a copy of gen ñ to Yoani Sanchez...
Cachao – we thank you sir.
"Cachao is our musical father. He is revered by all who have come in contact with him and his music," Andy Garcia said in a statement Saturday. "Maestro . . . you have been my teacher, and you took me in like a son. So I will continue to rejoice with your music and...
Celia Cruz doc at Tribeca
About 10 years ago Celia Cruz herself handpicked my friends Joe Cardona, Mario de Varona and Michelle Zubizarreta to tell her story. And they spent the next years filming (not videoing-filming) her story - interviewing everybody from David Byrne of Talking Heads to...
Your Love Is Neverending
All that talk about Freestyle/Hi-NRG got me thinkin’
What ever happened to .. . and then DJ de la luz sent me youtube link to some LIME stuff and a link to them on Wikipedia and it kind of went from there.Suddenly, you couldn't stop the freestyle, disco, whatever you wanna call it. Music people in Miami love. Read the...
It sounded like Robots.
Let us now praise The Flirts
Over at discoworkout.com Baron von Luxxury has a sweet appreciation of the Hi-NRG dance group (or franchise as it were) that brought 'Danger', 'Passion' and 'Don't Put Another Dime in the Jukebox' to Forrest, Casanovas, and The Beat Club. Props to the Barron -a famed...
Hansel y Raul
Are pretty much my favorite artists. You know, Beck, Leonard Cohen, Hansel y Raul. The trinity. When we launch the Miami-centric part of our site in a few weeks, you'll be able to read the big, long Rolling Stone style interviews I did with them back in the 90s....
The F – WORD
appears alot in the typography bit below. It's by Koos Dekker in the Netherlands. It's from the Big Lebowski, which Satch turned us onto, made us fans (fanatics) of, years back. Hipped to these vids by Jim Emerson at his Scanners blog. This vid contains the F WORD....
Good Goin’ Stranger
This one is for the one that turns heads when she walks into the benefit, dress cut all the way to her thigh. The one that glows like Madonna in 1985 and Lulu in Something Wild , the girl that chases it, stalks it, follows it, goes to the movies alone. She's a slight...
On Pride
From the liner notes to the Rocky Soundtrack - by Sylvester Stallone - 1976When I wrote the script for Rocky,I wanted passion music. I wanted a symphony of powerful men, of lonely women, of thick-necked losers, of human ships that crash in the night. Of love. Of...
Bill Conti
and speaking of Bill Conti, I could have uploaded Redemption, that great number that starts Rocky II or Alone in the Ring (which hundreds of people on youtube upload their homemade versions of), or his great score for The Right Stuff, but here's the end of Victory,...
What you gonna do when you get outta jail?
Too bad there's no video for Linda -one of the best songs ever as far as I'm concerned. Sampling Genius of Love waaay before that Mariah/ODB jam (but after the Grandmaster Flash sample back in the day) from Mellowman Ace's 2nd album 'The Brother With Two Tongues'....
I’m gonna do my remix
Wait till Fergie starts rappin' or scrub forward to that part. This is sweet. A mash up of London Bridge and Genius of Love. That dog is bananas.
Hamilton Bohannon, Kurtis Blow
I saw this at the Trail theater on Calle Ocho, home to Roblan for years. The company that released the film had a stratagy of renting out movie houses being used for other things and putting these massive speakers in, as if it were a concert. The sound was great....
Ay Jose!
Arielle Castillo in the Miami New Times has the straight dirt on Jose El Rey. He gives out Pastelitos and Malta at his shows. He hangs at the Jamaica Motel and Piccadilly Cafeteria in Hialeah and ¡ñoooooo Que Barato! It's a goof on Freestyle and that bad 'ol 80s, 90s,...
Milkshake Wisdom
Also gorgeous ñ crush Tina Fey hosted SNL and this milkshake sketch rocked it. Check it out at TV crunch. Better than thinking about the Raul C. farce that's goin' on in the papers. Here's the milkshake/There Will Be Blood dirt from you USA Today. Novela was ahead of...
It’s Friday, dale jamon
Machito, Graciela – en Japon. 60s.
It's Friday. And that means music. So, lets honor the great, perfect Machito & His AfroCubans with Graciela. Stick around for the interview with the Japanese host after the jam. Worth waiting for just to hear how super smooth Machito is in an int. Did a cooler person...
