January 2009
16 posts
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What are you looking at? Get back to work! Exams start tomorrow.
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The other day I stumbled upon Lovedaylemon’s flickr. She has a really impressive collection of vintage images, both found and belonging to her own family. I strongly recommend you have a look at…
Londres, pastel sin receta →
Last night I finished re-reading Lala Isla’s ‘Londres, Pastel sin Receta’, which translates as ‘London, a cake without a recipe’. I bought this book back when I was 18 and studying economics….
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Autosuggestion, by killingartists
“When every other thought you think is a forbidden thought and with your eyes open staring sightless you can sink into dreams that leave your…
Why I never wrote about Vicky Cristina Barcelona →
A few months ago, I went to see Vicky Cristina Barcelona and it made me very angry. If you check its imdb page, it says “Language: Catalan, English, Spanish”. Well, somebody in Spain…
Transamerica (Duncan Tucker, 2005) →
A week before her sex change operation, Bree Osbourne (formerly Stanley) finds out she fathered a son who is now a teenager that needs help. Bree’s first impulse is to ignore the fact that…
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Munich from the tower in Olympiapark Bernd: When are you going to move back to Munich forever?
Bad men →
This afternoon I was in a bookshop when one of my 2nd grade students came to say hello with her little brother while their mum was queuing at the till. The conversation went like this: Little boy:…
xkcd →
xkcd is one of my favourite webcomics. It’s clever, it’s funny and it never disappoints me. I mean, it’s “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language”, it can’t be bad. I almost…
John Crace digests High Fidelity by Nick Hornby →
I really enjoy The Digested Read podcast. John Crace summarizes books in five minutes and most of them are laugh out loud funny. I’m writing about this today because High Fidelity was…
Untitled Mix CD →
bigger cover @ flickr It snowed yesterday. I hadn’t seen snow since I was living in Munich, and that mixed together with the fact that exams are about to start and I feel a bit overwhelmed…
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Schellingstrasse, Munich “To the child, the genius with imagination, or the wholly untravelled, the approach to a great city for the first time is a wonderful thing. Particularly if it be…
Punción Occipital →
A card I made for my friend Erica for her “birthday”. I gave it to her along with her Joey Cape-themed present that I should have given her about 4 months ago.
2009: What I'm looking forward to →
This will be my last 2008/2009 post. Finishing university
Finally seeing the Get Up Kids
Moving to London
New Cursive album
Thorns of Life
New Nick Hornby book
Deciding what I want to write my…
2009: How It Began →
New Year Eve’s photos are too good not to share. All credit goes to the Fustero sisters.
l-r: Conor Oberst, Joey Cape, Kris(topher) Roe, Tyson Ritter
Things that should be present…
2008: 2007 albums that I didn't listen to until... →
According to lastfm (how much I rely on that website is starting to frighten me) the album that I listened to the most in 2008 was Nothington’s all in. Here’s a small list of some stuff that was…