Archive for December, 2006
Friday, December 29th, 2006
Rose Superstar a por la Copa de la Reina
Nuestra querida Rose Superstar ahora va a participar con su equipo el Barça en La Copa de la Reina los días 5, 6, y 7 de enero que se celebra en Jerez de la Frontera. El Barça está pasando una temporada regular de momento, pero ahora tiene una muy buena oportunidad en la Copa. Y […]
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Thursday, December 28th, 2006
The Good Tidings bring Dirty Tides
I remember from back in my days as an environmental attorney when I used to work on water pollution that a huge percentage of water pollution is directly the fault of average people, not waste water treatment plants or big industry. Just by the fact that we exist, eat, drink, consume, and produce waste (both […]
5 Comments » - Posted in Essays by eric
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
At Home: A vacation from my problems
I am at home for the holidays, and like in What About Bob?, I am taking a vacation from my problems. Not that I have so many real problems, but I have totally disconnected (yes, pun intended). I have received barely any work emails (or personal for that matter), and I feel as if all […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Digressions, Jazz by eric
Friday, December 22nd, 2006
Dhafer Youseff
Dhafer Youseff is one of my favorite artists, introduced to me by my friend Fadi. If interested, I particularly recommend Eletric Sufi.
2 Comments » - Posted in Jazz by eric
Friday, December 22nd, 2006
Great music, not so great hair
Trying to change the subject after my past few blogs, here are two great songs by artists with questionable hair. The first video is Sly and the Family Stone before Sly was completely ruined by a combination of drugs and his outfits.
Jimi Hendrix, one of my all time favorites from when I was a […]
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Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
Fears we hide in
While in Marrakech, I had a few words from my favorite lines of The English Patient running through my mind constantly like a song I just couldn’t get out of my head:
We die, we die rich with lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed … bodies we have entered and swum up like rivers, fears we have hidden in like this […]
41 Comments » - Posted in Digressions by eric
Sunday, December 17th, 2006
The Idiot
Last year at the end of November, I decided to read Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot. I had always wanted to read The Idiot, but after having gone to Wiesbaden, I was pretty close to reading The Gambler instead. Nevertheless, I was still convinced that I would relate more to an idiot than a gambler, and so […]
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Friday, December 15th, 2006
Back to having myself a Merry Little Christmas
Now that I am back from Marrakech, I am finally able to get back into my favorite Christmas caroles. I kind of lost the spirit when I went to a very non-Christmasy country. But, now that I am back and inshala on my way home for Christmas, I can return to those songs that annoy […]
16 Comments » - Posted in Digressions by eric
Friday, December 15th, 2006
Back from under the Sheltering Sky
Now I will finally try to put together my thoughts and impressions from my trip to Marrakech with my brother which was also my first trip ever to Morocco or to the African continent for that matter. I have already told the story of Casablanca, so now to Marrakech. I suppose that I could summarize […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Digressions, Friends / Family by eric
Monday, December 11th, 2006
Casablanca: As time goes by
As a child, I was similar to the majority of the world at least in that I knew of Casablanca almost exclusively through the film of the same name. Maybe even more so, for my father was a dedicated fan of the movie which he played repeatedly on video. I knew the screenplay almost by […]
