Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

It's November already

November 5, 2011

Time flies so fast, especially when you are having a great time. I cannot believe that it's November already, we will leave San Francisco very soon. You know that we have been doing so many things since we arrived. We have been to: South California and Yosemite, Napa Valley, Point Reyes, again to Yosemite, and then to Los Angeles once more. We also meet new, nice and interesting poeple, we make friends and hang out with them. Hmmm if only we could stay a little bit longer...
Anyone would like a slice of pumpkin pie?
Talking about pie, we have been to ¨Mission Pie¨ two times. We liked it. It is just right next to the famous ¨La Taquería¨ in Mission.
Banana pie is our favourite.
This is ¨Xanath¨ ice cream in Valencia street. It is organic ice cream and there you can have a frozen yogurt as well. It tastes good.
But from all frozen yogurt I have tried, ¨Fraiche¨ is absolutely the best.
¨Vosges¨ chocolate surely has several unique but strange flavour; ginger and wasabi dark chocolate, grey sea salt milk chocolate, peanut butter, burn sugar caramel, the mexican ancho and chipotles chillies dark chocolate, and also the flavour of the chocolate below. You can find them in Ferry building.
A tasty sandwich from ¨Prather ranch meat co.¨ Ferry Building.
A good friend invited us for a BBQ and I can still remember how marvellous the food was. The more we ate the hungrier we got.
We watched a Swiss horror movie ¨Sennentuntschi¨ in the famous and fabulous Castro theater. This theater is one of a kind; specially the ceiling and the organ inside the theater. I would love to go back and see perhaps classic movies or ¨The Sound of Music¨ sing-a-long.
We are so happy that we could see two great musicians; ¨Paul Simon¨ at the Greek Theater Berkeley and ¨Goran Bregovic¨ at the Paramount Theater Oakland. They are simply incredible. All the crowd ended up singing and dancing like crazy. 

Love butterflies

October 25, 2011

I love butterflies. I think they are beautiful. It is sad that nowadays you can hardly see them. Where have all they gone? Are the butterfly species in trouble? 
I visited ¨California Academy of Sciences¨ museum last week and spent most of the time in the rainforests exhibition to take pictures of butterflies. 



Me encantan las mariposas. Creo que son muy bonitas. Que lástima que hoy en día apenas se pueden ver. ¿Dónde se han ido? Las especies de mariposas están en peligro?
He visitado el museo de ¨California Academy of Sciences¨ la semana pasada y me pasé mucho tiempo en la exposición de las selvas tropicales para hacer fotos de mariposas.
A kid was trying to chase a little lost bird in the museum.
Un niño estaba persiguiendoa un pajarito perdido en el museo.

Weekend songs

July 16, 2011

Here are links to the songs for this weekend: Los enlaces a las canciones de este fin de semana: 

1. The Luyas ¨Too beautiful too work¨
2. Acid House Kings ¨Windshield¨
3. Emiliana Torrini ¨Me and Armini¨
4. She & Him ¨Thieves¨
5. The Bird and The Bee ¨Letter to Japan¨
6. Russian Red ¨Fuerteventura¨
7. Annie B Sweet ¨Take on me¨
8. Anna Laan ¨Paradise¨
9. Charlotte Gainsbourg ¨Me and Jane Doe¨

Have a nice weekend! Que tengas un buen fin de semana!

The joy of ironing

June 25, 2011

I cannot say that I love ironing but as I get going I quite enjoy it. It is relaxing sometimes especially when you have time and you are in the mood for ironing. 
No puedo decir que me gusta planchar, pero lo disfruto una vez que empiezo. Es relajante a veces, especialmente cuando tienes tiempo y le apetece a planchar.
I like to listen to music while ironing. Today I'm listening to ¨Russian Red¨ and ¨The Ting Tings¨ because I will go to their concert next month. Another group that I keep hearing recently is ¨The Go! Team¨. They have some kind of old-school hip-hop style music. Ladyfish, Huddle Formation and The Secreatry Song are on my list. Please try to listen to this: 


Me gusta escuchar música mientras planchando. Hoy estoy escuchando a Russian Red y The Ting Tings porque voy a ver su concierto el mes que viene. Otro grupo que sigo escuchando recientemente es ¨The Go! Team¨. Tienen estilo de música ¨old-school hip-hop¨. Ladyfish, Huddle Formation y The Secreatry Song están en mi lista. Por favor prueba escuchar está canción:

Watching video podcasts is another option. Documentaries are tv programs that I like to watch while ironing.
Watching vídeo podcast es otra opción. Los documentales son los programas de la tele que me gustan ver mientras planchando.

Flightless Bird, American Mouth

June 2, 2011

I have been taking pictures with analog camera recently. Nothing compares with digital camera; it is so much difficult and uncomfortable. Anyway I just do it from time to time and it's fun!
He estado haciendo fotos con la camara analogica. No tiene nada que ver con la digital; es mucho más complicado y incómodo. De todas formas, lo hago de vez en cuando y es divertido!
I'm in love with this ¨Volupté Sheer Candy¨ lipstick from YSL. It is a kind of lipbalm that gives the hydration and it smells mango. This Nº6 luscious cherry suits me best.
Estoy enamorada de esta barra de labios ¨Volupté Sheer Candy¨ de YSL. Es como cacao que da la hidratación y huele a mango. Este Nº6 rojo cereza me viene bien.Have you seen the Woody Allen new movie ¨Midnight in Paris¨? A very charming story about, of course...Paris, humor and simply magic. It's wonderful.
Habeis visto la nueva película de Woody Allen ¨Midnight in Paris¨. Una historia encantadora sobre, por supuesto...Paris, humor, y simplemente la magia. Es maravillosa.Sssstttttt do not disturb please! Sssssstttt no molestar por favor!One of the healthiest dish; lentil and vegetables with natural yoghurt. Uno de los platos más saludables; lentejas y verduras con yogurt.Mirror mirror on the wall, please tell me is the focus is ok? Espejito espejito, por favor dígame es el foco está bien?Yes indeed, I have skin writing (dermographism). Sí es cierto, tengo dermografismo.
Yesterday evening in Magdalena park Santander. Ayer por la tarde en el parque de Magdalena Santander.


Do you like the song? It's Twilight soundtrack from Iron & Wine. They have other nice songs such as ¨Rabbit will run¨ or ¨Godless brother in love¨. I like this group.
Te gusta la canción? Es la banda sonora de la pelicula ¨Crepúsculo¨ de Iron & Wine. Tienen otras buenas canciones como ¨Rabbit will run¨ o ¨Godless brother in love¨. Me gusta este grupo.

Good morning champion!

May 29, 2011

When I was a kid I didn't like football at all. I didn't understand why people was so crazy about it and I thought it's a game for boys only. Then I knew that the ¨World Cup¨ existed but I didn't care. Meanwhile I had never heard about Champions League¨ until five years ago when I came to Spain; things started  to change. Little by little I started to understand football. At that time I was amazed by ¨Ronaldinho¨ from ¨Barcelona football team¨ and there where the story began. I watched almost all their game until they won Spanish league and Champions league.
Five years have passed since then Barcelona has won another Champion league in 2007 and yesterday they did it again. This morning I enjoyed my breakfast very much while reading newspaper; the fresh orange juice, chocolate milk, toasted bread with cheese, ¨Nocilla¨ (white chocolate jam) and the details of yesterday match in Wembley, London: Manchester United vs FC. Barcelona.

Cuando era niña no me gustaba nada el fútbol. No entendía por qué la gente estaba tan loca por él y pensé que es un juego solo para los chicos. Entonces supe que ¨El mundial¨ existía pero no me importaba. Mientras tanto, nunca había oído hablar de ¨Liga de campeones¨ hasta hace cinco años cuando vine a España; las cosas empezaron a cambiar. Poco a poco empecé a entender el fútbol. En aquello momento me fascinaba ¨Ronaldinho¨ del equipo de Barcelona. Ví caso todos sus partidos hasta que ganaron la liga y la champion.
Cinco años han pasado desde entonces barcelona ha ganado otro champion en 2007 y ayer lo hizo otra vez. Está mañana disfruté mucho mi desayuno mientras leyendo el periódico; el zumo natural de naranja, leche con chocolate, pan tostado con queso, y Nocilla (chocolate blanco) and los detallos del partido de ayer en Wembley, Londres: Manchester United vs FC. Barcelona.