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God save the Queen!

perpetrado por Dr Gonzo el 31.10.2008 @ 4:04 pm - diseño, música, periodismo, politiqueo, ¿?

Those of you who don’t live in Spain, you might not know why Queen Sofia is on the newspapers today. The story is very simple: she has been giving her particular opinion in a book about topics that shouldn’t be matter of a Queen: the homosexual weddings.

I’m not getting deeper in political questions, despite of the fact that I think that I don’t pay my taxes for this, but I want you to know that Publico, the newest spanish newspaper, hits the nail with his cover today. Click on the image to make it bigger.


I wanna see those guys live!

perpetrado por Dr Gonzo el 29.10.2008 @ 1:43 pm - eventos, mondo digital, música, videoclips

How many times have we said that?: “I can’t die without watching The Stones”, “I need to go to that concert” or the classic “Why don’t they come to my city?”.

Of course, Fab Channel is not the best response to the problem, but it is actually a very good alternative if you have no money for all the concerts you’d like to go. It also solves another problem: the wish of re-enjoying a show you felt in love with the first cute girl that you met who could appreciate Georges Bataille in.

That’s why they’ve just openned a spanish version of his popular live shows video service, thanks to a very profitable agreement with Apolo and Bikini, two of the most important clubs in Barcelona.


Somebody get me one of these

perpetrado por Dr Gonzo el 24.10.2008 @ 11:08 am - cacharritos, mondo digital

… right now!!

More multitouch gadgets at OBM.


This is not (just) an illusion

perpetrado por Dr Gonzo el 23.10.2008 @ 11:04 am - diseño, eventos, música, ¿?

Ok, this is an optical illusion, but a very special one. Animal Collective’s next album will be released on January 09 adorned with this lovely weird cover you can see above. Luckily we will be able to satisfy our withdrawal symptoms by watching them (plus The War on Drugs) next saturday in Valencia at Heineken Greenspace festival. The Pitchfork guys have much more new album related info.


In-Edit 2008: Let’s go dance on the movies

perpetrado por Dr Gonzo el 22.10.2008 @ 9:58 pm - cine, eventos, música

From today to november 2nd, for the sixth year in a row, In-Edit Beefeater festival 2008 edition, is turning Barcelona onto the very only city in the world where music lovers can dance in the theaters while they’re watching a documentary. It ’s actually a very weird feeling when you’re stting in front of a screen where some delicious documentary is being shown for your plessure and not to be able to stop your feet moving.

I felt that on 2006 with Awesome, I fucking shot that, the film shooted by a bunch of Beastie Boys fans during a NYC show, but also with Standing in the shadows of Motown, and repeated last year watching George Clinton: Tales of Dr. Funkestein and of course Blondie: one way or antoher, to name just a few of the last featured films.

There are some people in Irak more interested on playing music rather than fighting each other.

The line up this year includes artists like Joy Division, Nina Simone, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers and Gorillaz. Other movies set their eye on particular music scenes like The Punk in London, The Beatles in USA or the awaited Heavy Metal in Bagdhad, that records how a bunch of irak kids have decided to not to fear the war and the serious territorial problems by playing what they like the most. playing heavy metal.

Of course there is a special place on this blog for Gonzo: the life and work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. The second documentary about the Gonzo universe, released just some weeks ago on Sitges Festival.


So, what if they’re just a bunch of hippies?

perpetrado por Dr Gonzo el 16.10.2008 @ 10:04 am - autobombo, música, periodismo

Listen! Akron/Family - Ed is a portal.mp3

Just a quick note to announce that the interview I made to Akron/Family some months ago is already available on the last Vice mag issue. If you don’t leave in one of the distributed cities of Spain, you can check it on line here. Sorry foreign folks but it’s on Spanish.


Jump, motherfuckers

perpetrado por Dr Gonzo el 01.10.2008 @ 1:12 pm - eventos, marketing, me cago en dios, ¿?

This is not the first time I write about Mmmm. Mmmm is a really weird creative agency based in Madrid. They only work when they feel like to. They only express things when they have important things to say. But now, the Mmmm kids have prepared a very special guerrilla action. If you live in Madrid and you are at least a little bit upset with the idea of suffering a crisis because all the state agencies decided to speculate with the prices, then tomorrow is your day and Seseña is your place.

As Mmmm announce:

135 students from the first course at the Architecture College of the Madrid European University will get a bus and visit the “Residencia Francisco Hernando” hood, at Seseña, a litle town in Toledo, Spain. During the trip, the college Dean will introduce the new course using the bus PA system. Once they arrive to Seseña, the students will visit a show flat.

The students will leave the univeristy context and travel to a tiny city with 12.500 flats in the middle of nothing. For one hour they will face the experiencie of living on a phamtom city, as a result of the global house price crash. An urban moor with no shops and almost anyone living in. A place where finding a Bar is a hard task.

More info at Mmmm.tv

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