Prepare yourself for a real mix of songs primarily in English and Spanish but also in Swedish, and in that French which I do not speak and much less pronunciate well.

Prepárense para una verdadera mezcla de canciones principalmente en inglés y español pero también en sueco y en ese francés que no hablo ni mucho menos pronuncio.

Out-of-the-box-thinking is often requested, but is usually accepted only when coming from within a-small-mutual-admiration-network.

Here it is: Bartering plenty of Noise for a tiny bit of Voice

My weight? Yes there is about 20 pounds, 9 kilos, difference with when I began this blog. Luckily for me it has been in a downward direction.

Friday, December 31, 2010

Thursday, December 30, 2010

Yo sólo quiero

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Vida Loca

Monday, December 27, 2010

Sunday, December 26, 2010

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Friday, December 24, 2010

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Guateque campesino

Celia Romero

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Leaving on a jet plane

John Denver

Monday, December 20, 2010

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Gavilán o paloma

Friday, December 17, 2010

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

House at Pooh Corner

Kenny Loggins

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Amor

Monday, December 13, 2010

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Friday, December 10, 2010

Adoro

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

El Reloj

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Monday, December 6, 2010

El amor de mi tierra

Carlos Vives Martin Madera

Sunday, December 5, 2010

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Volver

Friday, December 3, 2010

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Noche de ronda

Agustin Lara

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Monday, November 29, 2010

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Tu Y Las Nubes

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Friday, November 26, 2010

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

La Gata Varela

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

To try for the sun

Donovan

Monday, November 22, 2010

La Distancia

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Abrazame

Friday, November 19, 2010

Thursday, November 18, 2010

11 y 6

Fito Páez

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Perla Negra

Yordano

Monday, November 15, 2010

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Friday, November 12, 2010

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Guantanamera

Guantanamera

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Windy

Ruthann Friedman

Monday, November 8, 2010

¿Quién será?

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Un poquito de tu amor

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Eterna Soledad

Enanitos Verdes

Monday, November 1, 2010

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Friday, October 29, 2010

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Prison Song

Graham Nash

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

A media luz

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Monday, October 25, 2010

Sunday, October 24, 2010

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Bésame mucho

Friday, October 22, 2010

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Monday, October 18, 2010

The House Song

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Maria Bonita

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Friday, October 15, 2010

Garganta con arena

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Esta tarde vi llover

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Monday, October 11, 2010

Hay amores

Shakira

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Si te doy mi corazón

Friday, October 8, 2010

Proud Mary

John Fogerty

Thursday, October 7, 2010

Aquellos ojos verdes

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Nosotros

Monday, October 4, 2010

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Quiéreme mucho

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Friday, October 1, 2010

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Monday, September 27, 2010

Sunday, September 26, 2010

Saturday, September 25, 2010

La noche de anoche

Friday, September 24, 2010

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Monday, September 20, 2010

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Penélope

Joan Manuel Serrat

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Friday, September 17, 2010

Tu solo tu

Thursday, September 16, 2010

American Pie

Don McLean

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Frenesí

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Monday, September 13, 2010

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Saturday, September 11, 2010

Desesperado

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Spanish Harlem

Tuesday, September 7, 2010

El último café

Monday, September 6, 2010

Sunday, September 5, 2010

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Cycles

Friday, September 3, 2010

Perfidia

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Monday, August 30, 2010

Sunday, August 29, 2010

Fields Of Gold

Sting

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Friday, August 27, 2010

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Dias de Junio

Yordano

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Monday, August 23, 2010

Piano Man

Billy Joel

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Friday, August 13, 2010

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Tin Man

America

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Solamente una vez

Monday, August 9, 2010

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Sabor a mi

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Thursday, August 5, 2010

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Monday, August 2, 2010

Amante a la antigua

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Júrame

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Monday, July 19, 2010

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Vereda tropical

Friday, July 16, 2010

Mona Lisa - Too young

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Por una cabeza

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Norwegian Wood

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Wood_(This_Bird_Has_Flown)

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Cuando estoy contigo

Monday, July 12, 2010

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Friday, July 9, 2010

Piel Canela

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Monday, July 5, 2010

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Friday, July 2, 2010

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Yira Yira

Monday, June 28, 2010

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Emborrachame de amor

Friday, June 25, 2010

Un mundo raro

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

The weight

The Band

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Monday, June 21, 2010

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Señora

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Friday, June 18, 2010

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Monday, June 14, 2010

No me platiques mas

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Soy un tango asi

Friday, June 4, 2010

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Virgen de medianoche

Monday, May 31, 2010

Tu alma golondrina

Sunday, May 30, 2010

In my life

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_My_Life
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Communications in a polarized world… or how Speakers’ Corner speakers move to the Speakers’ Studios, primetime

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Friday, May 28, 2010

Thursday, May 27, 2010

Burbujas de amor

Un poema del poeta mas actual de la musica latinoamericana, Juan Luis Guerra

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Ferry Cross the Mercey

I never been there but I feel I know it
We need to stop the Amazon from smoking

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Barquito de papel

Una de las tantas joyas de Joan Manuel Serrat
A la Iglesia de mi pais

Sunday, May 23, 2010

No es serio este cementerio

Una buenísima de José María Cano, uno del buenísimo grupo Mecano

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Je l'aime à mourir

Un chanson par Francis Cabrel.... Moi en francais? Mon  Dieu!
Thou shall not PowerPoint

Friday, May 21, 2010

Lay Lady Lay

One of the great of del Gran Maestro Bob Dylan
To write or not write... by hand

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Creí

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

A whiter shade of pale

A wondrous song I pray I am not butchering it... too much.
In case you missed it here is the financial crisis explained to non-experts, dummies and financial regulators.

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Mia

Monday, May 17, 2010

To sing for you

Here is a great simple song from Donovan... another example of how small songs can be great songs.

And, while enjoying, read “The GPS and the AAAs” at http://bit.ly/ckNpoP

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Lamento Borincano

Aqui va la primera... me reservo el derecho de mejorarla... me reservo el derecho de sustituirla por otra si surgen problemas con permisos.

LA LETRA

May 16, 2010 today is the date!

Today is that day, my sixtieth birthday and I must confess that I find myself more than a bit surprised by that fact.

As a present to myself I will start posting one song played with guitar and harmonica, daily, for a whole year.

I mean if someone could do that with the cooking of Julia Child, how could it not be done with so much beautiful music and that, though so full of sentiments, has the added value of being low in those calories one should be careful with when hitting 60. (ok before that too)

I have not actually checked out whether there are 365 songs that I like and know how to play but, if I get to run low on inventories, perhaps you will be able to suggest some.

See you! Or, more correctly phrased... see and hear me!

PS. If this helps me spread my voice and noise on other concerns I have… the better. Imagine these things one has to do just because one is not a PhD! But, come to think of it, if a PhD I might have to behave like one, and perhaps would not be doing these other things I love.

Bartering Noise for Voice

Here I offer you plenty of noise for getting some voice… what a deal, please take it!

1st Issue Lousy Financial Regulations

In November 1999, in an Op-Ed in the Daily Journal of Caracas I wrote “The possible Big Bang that scares me the most is the one that could happen the day those genius bank regulators in Basel, playing Gods, manage to introduce a systemic error in the financial system, which will cause the collapse, of the only remaining bank in the world”

And the Big Bang, this monstrous financial crisis happened and I know exactly why, and yet, though I have written hundreds of letters to the Financial Times objecting Basel I, II and III they refuse me space to voice my arguments http://bit.ly/fa3JSH

Please have a look at http://teawithft.blogspot.com/,
especially under the label of subprime banking regulations.

You can also find many writings on this subject in
http://www.subprimeregulations.blogspot.com/

2nd Issue, Oil-Cursed Citizens

I come from an oil cursed country where the government is independently wealthy, does not need the citizen’s taxes and therefore treats the citizens as annoying beggars of favors.

The fight against the oil curse is being hijacked by some well intentioned ONGs and international organizations, many of them from oil consuming countries and who unfortunately have no real idea about what the oil curse really means.

As an example of that suffices to say that they establish among their explicit principles that oil revenues should be managed by governments in favor of the citizens, something which of course reduces the citizens to being mere recipients of whatever oil-sowing the bureaucrats feel like doing.

You can read more about this here:
http://theoilcurse.blogspot.com/

3rd Issue The environment.

The more you care or find yourself alarmed about the prospects for the environment the more you should care about that all the scarce resources are invested as efficiently as possible… and this does not seem to be the case with the majority of green groups who seem to want to throw whatever after their own pet-green solutions.

The more you believe there is a silly non-founded alarmism about the prospects for the environment, the more you should demand that all scarce resources invested in green projects meet at least some minimum standards of efficiency … and this does not seem to be the case with the majority of the skeptical who mostly shy away from their responsibility of providing some oversight.

If global warming, cooling, or just environmental degeneration is as real threat to humanity, as it could seem plausible, then even the poorest of the poor have the right as a human being in participating to confront that challenge, and should not be told… “You are too poor, innocent and irrelevant to it all to matter…. Let us the rich and develop handle it.”

You can read more about this here:
http://ourpiedaterre.blogspot.com/

4th… 5th…nth Many issues… which is why I need so many songs.

Thanks

Per