Juan Fernando Pacheco

Stone Temple Pilots 2008

Posted by Juan Fernando Pacheco

One of the best bands I ever heard before in my life is Stone Temple Pilots; in fact I’m fan from the band when they launch them first CD called CORE and from there until the last CD I’m always hear their music, and a lot of people called STP as the best band in Alternative genre and I’m accord with them.

But, few years after they launch their first CD they decide dissolve the band and I lost all my opportunities to see them in a show. Until this 2008 year when they come get together again and start a new tour in the US.

The good news to me is that they offer two shows nearly to NY city during the same days I’m stay in the city, May 26 and May 31, so I try to go to one of those concerts if it’s possible, but if some of the readers from this blog goes to the concert an lives in NY, could let me a message so we can go together.

And if you’re a fan of the STP, probably this song bring to you some old memories.

For a complete info about the band and concerts please visit their official Stone Temple Pilots web site.

Saltarello

Posted by Juan Fernando Pacheco

The first time when I heard Saltarello was so much time ago, maybe ten or more years ago, and I just heard but I don’t put attention on it until several months after when I back to hear again and someone told me a little bit more about the story of Saltarello.

The Saltarello was a kind of dance very popular in de middle age and it was interpreted by a group of flutes, mandolins and some other instruments, the history tells than in some rare cases to the group of instruments a woman added hers voice to give more realism to the music.

Actually it’s still possible to hear the music is possible, but the dance steps were lost in the time forever.

The version than I heard of this song was interpreted by Dead Can Dance and you can find it on the Aion Album or if you want more info about the dance you can find it in Wikipedia.

Here the Saltarello, Dead Can Dance version:

Dead Can Dance – Saltarello

Las Vegas casino tour

Posted by Juan Fernando Pacheco

As I wrote in older posts, I’m planning my vacation season during this year in USA, probably I visit New York and Washington D.C., because a good friends of mine actually living there and it looks like a good idea visit them. But today during a chat session with an older classmate via MSN, he told me, “Why you don’t visit Las Vegas, in you next trip to US?”.

Ok, probably not all my friends reads my blog, and of course that’s the reason why he told me that, or maybe he reads it and wants know my point of view about Las Vegas and Casinos after visit it.

Anyway, after of that chat session I made a search using a well know search engine using the string “Las Vegas Casinos” of course after see some results I click in one of them and I visit this website where they offer Casino Tours departing from certain cities in the US: Pittsburgh & Erie, PA and Myrtle Beach, SC, of course I don’t planning visit any of those cities, so if I decide to go Las Vegas probably I need to do my departure from New York.

It’s a good idea visit Las Vegas and spend $40,oo or $50,oo USD in some games, but I’m not sure about that.

Patrick Swayze Diagnosed With Pancreatic Cancer

Posted by Juan Fernando Pacheco

Today I was reading in some websites the story about the Patrick Swayze pancreatic cancer and how he’s fighting against it. The cancer was diagnosed few months ago, but until today it was maintained as a secret by the actor and his family.

But some malicious rumors say’s than Swayze just had 5 weeks to life, and that’s the reason why his representative Annett Wolf today claim in a statement than Swayze is continue with his normal life working day by day and of course taking his treatment in regular way. In fact Swayze’s doctor said the reports of the actor’s imminent death are unfounded.

“Patrick has a very limited amount of disease and he appears to be responding well to treatment thus far. All of the reports stating the timeframe of his prognosis and his physical side effects are absolutely untrue. We are considerably more optimistic,” Swayze’s physician, George Fisher, said in a statement.

So, I’m not fan of Patrick Swayze but I think in one of his best movies was Point break where he works with Keanu Reeves.

Rarindra Prakarsa a photographer and photoshop artist

Posted by Juan Fernando Pacheco

Via Tiny Bellows from Aesthetic Emotions and Photography blog, I found this very interesting portfolio of a photographer and Photoshop artist called Rarindra Prakarsa who is working out of Indonesia and shows us a great and rich work at Photo.net.

In fact as I can see every single image have the potential to pickup you to an imaginary world where all the elements have an special importance, rays of light, contrast, bright and colorfull nature are the components of this stories translated into photographs, besides Randira also works in B/W and I thinks this is the kind of pics with a big emotional load because just the light is the element who decides which part of the story shows to the public and of course which part no.

Linkin Park - In the End.

Posted by Juan Fernando Pacheco

This is one of those kind of songs than I can hear repeated times and didn´t feel tired of it, of course I do that when I use my earphones. Maybe is some kind of estranging association with the lyrics and my personal life or just the rhythm of it in fact I´m not really sure of that (Lyrics and/or rhythm), but one thing than I´m really sure likes about this song is this part of it.

I’ve put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
And for all this
There’s only one thing you should know

Anyway, I let here the video founded in Youtube and the respective lyrics for all of those people who want to know what they are singing.

It starts with one thing
I don’t know why
It doesn’t even matter how hard you try keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time
All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down to the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It’s so unreal
Didn’t look out below
Watch the time go right out the window
Trying to hold on, but didn’t even know
Wasted it all just to watch you go
I kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when

I tried so hard
And got so far
But in the end
It doesn’t even matter
I had to fall
To lose it all
But in the end
It doesn’t even matter

One thing, I don’t know why
It doesn’t even matter how hard you try, keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme, to explain in due time
I tried so hard
In spite of the way you were mocking me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I’m surprised it got so (far)
Things aren’t the way they were before
You wouldn’t even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me (in the end)
You kept everything inside and even though I tried, it all fell apart
What it meant to me will eventually be a memory of a time when I

Chorus

I’ve put my trust in you
Pushed as far as I can go
And for all this
There’s only one thing you should know (2x) Chorus

Fine art storage

Posted by Juan Fernando Pacheco

Last night I found an interesting service for art galleries,  Fine Art Storage.

In fact I never heard before about this kind of service but it looks very interesting, the idea is help to the artist, owners and of course art galleries to store their fine arts and help in the transport form place to place if it’s the case, and of course many others services in relation with the fine arts care.

The mainly reason for this service is just about many people around the world doesn’t know how they take care about their fine arts, some newly collectors just bought it or companies invest in fine arts thinking in the future but they don´t have any idea how take care about their investments, but as the people of Mind’s Eye say in their website:

Caring for your valuables is more than our passion.  It’s a science.

And that’s the reason why I found interesting this web site, people who takes seriously the labor to care fine arts in several ways.

So if you’re planning to buy some fine arts, or  are a fine arts collector, for sure you maybe need contact with professionals in this kind of services.

Cutie Kid Contest

Posted by Juan Fernando Pacheco

Every day you must hear about new contest around the whole world where Childs and kids are the mainly reason of them, find fresh faces to be showed in a TV commercial or new actors and actresses for the next´s big ones TV Series or a film movie is the objective of this kind of contest, of course many of them are very respectable like this Cute Kid Contest.

The process is very simple; first of all you just need to take a photo of your baby, the age at this point doesn’t matter, once you’ll be you got the picture you need to create an account at the web site cutekid.com this is a free service and then you can upload yours baby photo`s, once you have uploaded your photo, you’ll be asked if you would like to submit any photo into our online CuteKid™ photo contest, here the service leaves to be free of charge and it haves a cost of $19.95 for each photo you´ll submit to the contest.

If your baby´s photo is selected like “The CuteKid of the Month” automatically it photo goes to participate at the “2008 CuteKid of the Year” where a selected contest judges classify weveruy single photo and evaluates them under the next criteria: Appearance, Charisma, Expression, Image Concept/ setting, That special something.

Finally if your baby wins the “2008 CuteKid of the Year” price he or she wins the next products:

• Full Year of College Tuition.
• Press Exposure as “2008 CuteKid™ of the Year”.
• $500 US savings bond.
• Photo Shoot with Professional Photographer.
• Canvas Portrait of Winning Photo.

If you need more info about the contest or organizers, feel free to contact them or review their FAQs page.

Celebrity Scientologists

Posted by Juan Fernando Pacheco

Ok, lets try to take it with calm, As you must to know a lot of people around the world, every day confess their love about Scientologists (and UFO’s of course) and how their lives changed after their first sight, in fact one of the most important defenders of the Scientologists is Tom Crusie.

But today I found this list about the Celebrity Scientologists and if you read  some of their reasons to be part of it you can’t found any good idea to be join them into the church, I’m not sure if their ideas was be evangelists of the Church, but arguments as the used by Leah Remini, definitely doesn’t leave in good position the Scientologists:

“If somebody is going to get turned off about something because of what they read or heard, then that person’s not smart enough to even enter a church. If you’re really against something, then know what you’re against.”

In my point of view, definitely she have no good arguments, to inspire someone to be part of the Scientologists.

A sad song in a Quito’s cold night

Posted by Juan Fernando Pacheco

Las night I was browsing the internet searching some info about music videos and some lyrics and suddenly I found this old music video from Dobbie Brothers called You belong to me, I think a lot of people never hear this song before for sure, but if you pay a little attention to the lyrics I’m really sure than you could find in your mind that special person who is the right one to be the starring of an imaginary music video where you´re the singer of it of course.

I let you the lyrics and of course a video from youtube.

Whyd you tell me this
While you look for my reaction
What do you need to know
Dont you know Ill always be the one
You dont have to prove to me youre beautiful to strangers
Ive got lovin eyes of my own

You belong to me
In this life
Anyone could tell
Any fool can see who you need
I know you all too well
You dont have to prove to me youre beautiful to strangers
Ive got lovin eyes and I can tell

You belong to me
Tell him you were foolin
You belong to me
You belong to me
Tell him hes a stranger
You belong to me

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