Soledad en masa

I’m only posting this song because my neighbors won’t stop playing the damn song.

No blog for the time being.

I realized who here are my friends and to what extent I enjoy being their friends.

Now for a completely nonsensical video.

There are so many things I want to blog about, but I fear they may come back and hurt me in the future. Just Google my name and see what you find. My name and this blog are already bound together. Grr.

I have so much difficulty writing essays, especially for my English class. Maybe because it’s all theoretical. But about technology! That makes no sense whatsoever to me. I’d rather analyze Spanish poetry than technology.

I go back “home” to South Gate this Tuesday evening and I return to the Bridge on the 4th of January. So far, I have no plans to hang out with any high school friends and I don’t think any will be created. I have two dinners to attend (one for Milken Scholars and the other for Los Angeles Harvard Latinos). I really want to spend time with my friend from Torrance, but the thing is that Torrance is so far (neither of us has a car) and there’s nothing fun there to do! Hopefully she can figure out a day where she’s going to Disneyland with her friends and I’ll accompany them.

I don’t like my situation at all.

I always have a song I play when I am sad, feeling down. It doesn’t necessarily help me feel better, they just complete me at times when I don’t feel complete.

The first such song was the Eagles’ “Desperado,” followed by their song “Peaceful Easy Feeling.” These were my sad songs for the first three years of high school. During my senior year, I listened a lot to “A mi manera” by Vicente Fernandez (the Spanish language version Paul Anka’s “My Way,” most known as interpreted by Frank Sinatra, which I also listened to when sad). Recently, my sad song has become Valentin Elizalde’s “Hola y adios“.

My question is: What song do you play when feeling down?

Lola Beltrán y Lucha Villa cantan “Plegaria guadalupana”.

Francisco “Charro” Avitia is one of my (and my family’s) favorite Mexican singers. I found a video of him on YouTube singing Jose Alfredo Jimenez’s famous corrido “El perro negro”.

This past weekend I attended the Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza in San Antonio, Texas. Needless to say, it was a great experience. Here is the text I kept as the trip went on. Enjoy!

Room 733, St. Anthony’s Hotel, San Antonio, Texas
6:23 p.m., November 30, 2007

I’m in San Antonio for the Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza, hosted by none other than el Mariachi Vargas. Mariachi Veritas arrived in San Antonio at 10 p.m. local time after eight hours of flight from Providence, Rhode Island. We had two stops on the way – Philadelphia and Houston. All three landings were rocky, but there were no major problems with the flight. We were the only people who stayed on the plane for the duration of the flight. It had more people flying to Philly than anywhere else. The flight to Houston was the loneliest; there were no more than thirty people on the flight. We landed twenty minutes late, but that was remedied by the fact that we had finally landed and that the mother of one our members not only got each of us a rose as a welcome gift, but also rented a limo bus to take us from the airport to the hotel. We rode in it for around an hour, stopping to eat and get some drinks. This hotel is real swank, by the way. Definitely recommend it. Read the rest of this entry »