Which Tango Orchestra Are You???
Your Result: Rodolfo Biagi

Life itslef is your first and greatest love. You are intense and passionate and love to laugh, but are also intelligent and witty. Everyone in your community knows and loves you. So give me a wink, Rodolfo!
Cortina

The Gotan Project

Miguel Calo

Carlos Di Sarli

Edgardo Donato

Osvaldo ( Read more... )

Второй год подряд упустил цветение мандаринов на террассе. Зато уже собрал первый урожай огурцов... огурца.

On my recent trip to the north of Argentina I set out with stuffed sinuses. As a consequence, changes in atmospheric pressure resulting from variations in elevation above sea level had the effect of plugging up my ears. Too bad, since I had to listen to some of the local music performances in mono instead of stereo (when only one ear would pop ( Read more... )

Number One orchestra in the 2x4 BsAs radio ranking. Includes two sample mp3's. I will be bringing a bunch of CDs to the states. If anybody wants one, let me know.

We were the first pair to dance. We opened the floor that night. To the current #1 orchestra of Argentina, all 12 pieces, live. As we danced, they watched. Anyone else out there not afraid of the burning light of 250 pairs of eyes? Then they started pulling out onto the raw concrete meadow left open by the watchers. Instead of dancing, I had ( Read more... )

...of "the widest avenue in the world" is closed down to motor traffic, it makes for an amaizing high-speed bike ride.

Today we (in this case Americans) have reached 1000 casualties (counting only deaths) in Iraq. Support our troops. Bring them home.

Go Chavez! With the US State Dept, the oil industry, and the rich and powerful of his country all against him, he still won the referendum with a 17% Victory margin!

Strongly recomend watching "This Revolution Will Not Be Televised," a documentary shot by an Irish crew (as I recall) during the coup against the President.

Yesterday found a new Monday-night milonga one block from my future apartment. Second best floor of all the dance places I have been to in BA, lots of space to move, friendly people, young, hardly any tourists. Salon Canning, the most pretentious milonga in BA, has the best floor covering and used to be standars Monday night fare. No longer. At ( Read more... )

Buenos Aires zhivet svoej zhiznyu i menya tuda-zhe tyanet. Ya teper' uzhe tochno ne turist i dazhe ne puteshestvennik, a zhitel' etogo goroda. Na Milongah lyudi s kotorymi poznakomilsya bolee goda nazad. "Svoi" zabegalovki gde nikto uzhe ne sprashivaet otkuda ya takoj vzyalsya i muzhestvenno terpyat moj Castellano, ne prishlushivayas' k russkoj ( Read more... )