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otro tavella trío en bar tinkal

Otro Tavella Trio en Bar Tinkal
Originally uploaded by ladelentes.

one of the great things about montevideo is that we all know each other. so it's brave to open your box of secrets in public -- there's always bound to be someone who knows the what, who and wherefore of the tales you're telling. the threads that bind us together are also what break us apart.

abro la ventana

beautiful

mountain goats

mountain goats
Originally uploaded by ladelentes.

we missed emmy the great, but the mountain goats more than made up for it. i'll make it though this year if it kills me alright.

a proposal

micah p. hinson
Originally uploaded by ladelentes.

the last time i saw mr hinson he was pretty grumpy. wearing a back support. lonely as a goat. not the cheeriest cookie in the jar.

last night mr hinson seemed unusually chirpy as he sung us his songs and told us all about miss ashley.

and just when i thought he was being a bit of a twit by referring to his inevitable encore when he said "this is the last song, but we'll see what happens next..." well he proves me completely wrong by getting miss ashley on stage, going down on one knee and asking her to marry him. there and then.

and after much applause they quietly went off stage holding each other.

rocking

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Originally uploaded by ladelentes.

the old songs sound new. the new songs sound worn in. like a great pair of boots. stomping.

once someone said to me

that when people give each other songs, they ALWAYS choose songs to convey meanings. i'm not sure if they're right or wrong, but here is one i like and the gig was fab too



herman dune

converted!

emmy the great

i didn't really have a very good reason not to have suggested it except, i didn't know... nevermind. so it still happened which was a very good thing indeed. emmy thinks she may be coming across all lesbian tonight, but i can tell you i would have fallen in love with her either way.

emmy the great

advisory

the new barbarossa CD should come labelled:

WARNING!
THIS CD WILL MAKE YOU CRY NO MATTER WHAT YOUR CURRENT STATE OF HAPPINESS.
AVOID ENTIRELY WHEN ON SLIGHTLY SHAKEY GROUND.

and from now on, i won't worry anymore about what i'll do when i grow up

great lake swimmers - see you on the moon

on the 344 from liverpool street to vauxhall

it didn't occur to me until much later that that was the very same spot where i had decided to make up my mind about it all. i had sat there and thought to myself. yes. this is what i feel about this. this is definitely how it feels to me. it had been a fleeting, momentary decision, but it was made and there it was. sitting in front of me. named. dressed. made up. ready to go. hello, my name is decision and i have been made. who are you? hello, my name is ladelentes and i have been unmade. like a bed. all crumpled. a little bit whiffy. full of breadcrumbs from yesterday's breakfast. where are we going? well, i don't know where you, my decision, are going, but i'm just on my way to vauxhall, with my fresh pasta and my tins of soup and listening to corazon for the third time today, although really it's guard your heart you want to put in your ipod and make yours forevermore.

gotta have you

update: well it's not happening...i guess there's another one of life little messages to me...

tim ten yen

he is so seriously cheering that i'm sure the guys at the prozac factory are even now plotting ways to disappear him from the face of the earth to secure their hold on the happiness-inducing products market.

tim ten yen (and the sinister cat)

jarvis

works hard for his money. he sure makes it all worth while: the booking fee, the posting fee, the fee fee... up there on the stage he dances, he prances, he makes jokes and he sings some fucking amazing songs. one man show indeed!

jarvis

seu jorge

dancing to the tunes at the roundhouse, surrounded by writhing people of varying degrees of beauty, i remember that brazilians were created so that you don't need a dictionary to look up the word "hedonism"

seu jorge

neko case

has one of those names that antagonizes you before the word go. but. she wears these amazingly tall heels she can't really walk on, and between songs she tells us about her favourite bits from 'the birds' -- with voice impersonations and all -- and as she totters her way from one to the next, the songs grow and grow and suddenly you just want wipe the tears from your face and put her in your pocket to take home with you.

neko case

m. ward

comes onto the stage with crazy hair and a huge guitar and plays sad songs that make you smile. if all there was in the world was me and m. ward making songs i would be quite contented.

m. ward

tunng

they made the floor vibrate under our feet. they made our hearts beat in time. they made us smile and clap our hands. but they didn't get those f**king italians to shut the f**k up. still, we bought the CD.

tunng