Friday, June 19, 2009

Average Sizes By Country

French Champagne orange label


From summer 1989 to summer 1990 is a kind of emptiness in my memory. I remember that things ran their course, that our relationship worked like a charm, which at that time I was leaving the skin in another different company earning less money but much quieter, I was doing some apartment buildings and some houses in sector 1 of Leganés, and that by then we were lucky to meet a real beautiful person, a surveyor who had the technical direction of the work in which I was, and named David Muñoz. Great person, great professional, and above all a person with a charming character, conciliatory, tolerant and great kindness. What at first was merely an employment relationship, became over time a deep friendship, both Pilar and I had the honor to keep up with David, with his wife, Ana, and Ana's cousin, Ruby, living with them. A very special relationship of friendship and affection. Since 1991, when I went back to change a company for homes in Aranjuez, started dating regularly with them, the truth is that we always kept a very pleasant. Talk about that relationship when the time comes, because at that time I met him, but the friendship came later.

I think it was a weekend of fall of 89, or maybe 90, when Pilar and I tie the blanket to the head, bought a couple of bottles of French champagne (Veuve Clicquot, or something. That of the orange label. I can not forget in my entire life), a delicatessen (quiches, canapés design and pastries), and we got a trip to the heart of the Sierra de Gredos, none other than the hostel. I remember Angel Boyo, a fellow surveyor David in the works of Leganés, who apparently knew the area well, and started to give me pamphlets explaining how to reach different peaks of such a prestigious place. I let them talk for a while, but as I saw that it was excited, probably thinking that instead of a weekend, I went to the Sierra de Gredos for a year, I had no choice but to put you in a hand of friendship in shoulder, and say "Look, Angel, do not bother, I'm a couple of days, and not even think out of the Parador." "Not even going to see the peak of nosequé?." "Well, if we have time, maybe. We'll see. " The truth is that the day we arrived we took a walk in the evening, no more than five hundred meters around the Parador, and immerse ourselves fully in the charm of a building, one of the few I've seen, in the the entrance and reception is the highest area of \u200b\u200bthe site. To access the rooms had to go down the elevator, do not rise, because the Parador, the first to be built in Spain (the first was built as a Parador, because the chain has adapted almost always much older buildings, as castles, hospitals, etc.). After Ride, Pilar and I snails for about an hour through the halls and large rooms, then we got into the room, and we held half Tona with the champagne that we lasted until the next day. One of the best weekends we spent together.

I've never seen Pilar impaired by alcohol, but it is true that, as he drank a little more, you put some rouge tremendous, "he went up the turkey," as she said, and laughter began to drop and non-stop jokes to the point where sometimes laugh so much, I started to cough. His eyes shone a lot, and spoke like humming. Hence no happened. Reached a point, unlike most people, which was joyful, but always monitor the situation. In my case it was not. Sometimes (the few times we've drunk, that in twenty years will have been three or four) I spent a little, and she scolded me. When he looked at me with piercing eyes and say "enough is enough, right?" Threw me was shaking and temptations of squares and military-style salute. On that occasion the two drank together, locked in a hotel room, in a privileged environment, and we were the happiest couple in the world. The room next door had to complain, because we got a knock on the door. After the delicatessen conveniently watered eat, we laugh the same, but muted. The next day we woke up late, with some but very bearable hangover breakfast like beasts, and know a little what the environment gave us a tour of the Sierra de Gredos before returning to Madrid.

Christmas passed very similarly to the previous year. At that time, the main parties each spent at home, and only stayed on Christmas morning, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve New Year's week apart, of course, the usual trips to purchase center gifts for the whole family, eat a bacalaitos or croquettes Home Labra, and sometimes enter the Imperial Cinema to see a film of Walt Disney, for that to maintain a tradition of which we had both enjoyed our childhood. The family was well, my father had thinned much to the fright he had given the heart earlier this year, and all was very normal. Alternated recovered our outings with friends of mine and his (Juan Antonio and Maise, Maricarmen and Emilio, Montse, Javier, Luis and Felipe, etc), and mostly spent much time alone. The fact let me work in Leganés crippled every day, especially since he came home to so many, and even some weekdays did for ourselves, the fact is that the highlight came the end of the week.

During that year, just before spending the weekend at the Parador de Gredos, I had no choice but to change my crushed red Peugeot 205 lifetime for a brand new Fiat Tempra, much larger and elegant, but still no air conditioning, no power windows, and without all the crap we've grown accustomed over the years. It helped me decide that one day, going to work in Leganes, I heard a tremendous noise came from the engine. I was lying, and take it to the workshop, told me that he had broken a rod. A breakdown large enough, it took almost a week to repair. The Fiat Tempra was on offer, and after teaching Pilar few catalogs that left her dazed, I bought from a dealer in Alcorcón. I remember the smell of new I had, which lasted a couple of weeks, and Pilar me banned smoking inside. What little smoke, because my father was in the midst of anti-smoking campaign with the whole family, and little by little we are quitting all. The fact is that I embarked on the car without spending a penny, because the new company earned less than he had been before. We did not care. We were still happier than worms.

always been so, other side.

Friday, June 12, 2009

What Surgery Did Mandingo Get

A week in Salou


It was our first outing together. Nothing less than a week in Salou, in the heart of Mediterranean beach, in the month of July, and in full swing in our relationship. We left Madrid

morning in a rickety bus, of which no longer exist or scrapping. The seats were like stone, the suspension was suspended (did not exist, go), and the air conditioning was gossiping about plastic stuck to the roof of the trunk, not even moving and, of course, threw the air. Someone had put there to hide, I suppose, like those chemical toilets that are available to all modern buses and, in circumstances that still do not know, never work. Times were different. A Pilar and I do not care the least inconvenience. To have each other and we had plenty enough for us. We spent almost the entire trip making plans for the rest of the week, mulling over how much fun it was to be Salou, and what fun we were going to happen.

After a fourteen-hour trip (would be considerably less, but we seemed to fourteen), and a couple of stops on the way to eat and to straighten out the legs, we finally arrived to Salou in the afternoon. After crossing the entire area center so famous summer resort, with their guards, their cars, their families, with umbrella, their congestion, their jobs and vacationers churros shirt tied at the belly, the bus dropped us off at a hotel in the northern or too far or too close to the hub, but yes, pretty close to the beach.

We were young, we face lovebirds, I suppose, and so we spent what we had to pass. The English picaresque has no limits, and not crooks. After going accommodating all passengers in the bus (I think we all had taken notes at the same agency) in order of age, more mature younger us was the turn of the last couple or so of our age, and us. I already had quite a while, while waiting, tired and sitting on our bags, listening to sounds of drills, miter saws, electric saws and jackhammers to that seemed to come from another wing of the hotel was under construction. Pilar, that stuff has always been very long, also realized quickly. "Here are works," he said. Anyway, the receptionist, a man with slicked, slick gray suit and more than the president of a raffle, met us at four, and without a hair cut, he said that the area was not left alone works a room, the room was another area full of rubble, bricks and cement, and we had no choice but to negotiate with us to see who was the crown jewel, the habitation of the area free of vandals. The guy from the other couple looked at us with eyes of lamb, and said OK, come on, you lot. Pilar and I looked, with that gesture between us has always meant that "and some balls" and without exchanging any comments, we headed straight to the receptionist. "Look," he said, with a very low voice, lest we hear the other couple, but very firm. A tone that has always been successful, both as a mi-Pilar, if you intend rent us both to the other couples like us, a room in a work zone, right now we're four for consumption, after passing the police station, and we put a complaint you close the stall you in half an hour. Do not you know that renting a room in a work zone is completely illegal? ". Needless to say, I had no fucking idea whether that was illegal or not, but I guess that yes he was, but the fact is that this good man "changed color" as they say in the villages. Turned white, looked again a notebook, or whatever else you have on the counter (Pillar I said then, starting to laugh, that what had was watched TV programs), and immediately he said "excuse me, but he looked bad. Are two rooms in this area. " The other couple were melted in gratitude, because despite my attempt at discretion, they heard my rant. Throughout the week, every time we found them somewhere (Salou is very small, or it was before, I mean), thanking us again what we had done for them, allowing them to sleep in a room conditions.

In Salou Pilar happened to me with something that has been repeated many times along our journey together. The fact that she had traveled a lot before he met me, not only for Spain but for many parts of Europe, enabled him to pose as knowledgeable. Of course I knew Salou, a trip he had made small with their parents. The first night I took her arm and guide our steps toward the center. "Come over here and see if we see the sources of color." Their memories were vague, as she herself said, but gave the very bloody first with fountains of Salou that change color with a sophisticated lighting system. The counterpoint to that night, like most, they put the two huge ice cream, king size, we got under his belt not entrust to anyone. During

the day we tumbábamos like lizards on the beach, to hack around and swim occasionally. Tuti We were plain, as the aristocrats, renting a straw umbrella the size of the circus tent of the Sun, and two plastic chairs to do what its name suggests, ie lie down. The first day, as they happen to urbanites, Pilar spent a bit of sun, and turned red as a tomato, but not even burn. The color of his skin took, curiously, the same red color that had the bikini she was wearing, so that when looked at with eyes closed, looked like he was naked. Luckily, no blood reached the river, and the sun was so harmful as now, what with a few hands of crema, the thing was over, and the next day we returned to enjoy the sunny day, but in moderation.

night, after dinner, we were devoted to compass the city. We've always liked all kinds of dive shops. Pilar laughed when I said that a site shop Beach without floats, buckets for sand and rubber ducks, there was a place of beach and Salou, in that sense not only meets, but surpasses all forecasts. There, and there was all kinds of shops. Clothing, ornaments, electronic gossip impossible classification, tacky, who like the foreigners, of memories made shells with pins to clothes, or painted mussel shells, leather belts, bags, shoes (to Pilar's eyes shone when she saw a shop or shoe bags) of "Guarrera" ... A complete world-compulsive consumer

Once we got into a kind of attraction that was the first time I went to Spain. Today is more than overcome, but at that time was a novelty. This was the version Saloureña "(I have no idea what the place name) of the passage of terror, which makes a journey through different rooms where there are actors portraying famous scenes horror movies of all time. The truth is that we were impressed, especially when the actress who played the girl in the Exorcist, which had a crazy look that could not with her, got out of bed, threw on the side of Pilar and me, we were the last of the group, and began to insult quietly, saying "you bastards, I'm very wrong, that really kill you, I have a knife (and noted the front), and here nobody knows, motherfuckers. .. ". When you reach the next room, the good woman turned around and went back to bed to await the next group.

never know if the woman was actually crazy, or was an actress from head to toe, but the fact is that I can hardly recall another time in our life where we have been more afraid.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Bloody Discharge Instead Of Period

AE19 - Psicocine: The psychedelia on celluloid

Igor Domsac . Periodista, video-creator and multidisciplinary artist, presented a montage of highlights of psychedelia in the film. Director of magazines and Enteogenia Consciens Alter, a member of Energy Control and collective Interzone is the author of several chapters on film in the collection Pisconaútica (Ediciones Amargord). His latest craze goes by the name Cosmikrobiosis , a sensory journey psycholytic based therapies Salvador Roquet.

your enjoyment and Enrique Manuel Carriedo Viallescusa , experts and inclusive therapeutic use of music with a concert harmonic chants mixed with instruments like the hang, the sansula and Tibetan bowls. FREE ENTRY



June 4, 2009, 19:30

in Off Limits. C / bracket, 11 (Madrid) see map




Missed the conference? not worry, here's the full video of assembly of Igor