So last night...

Wow. So it all starts with the yellow "MTV Spain" book that was in my room when I got here, maybe some hip SMU student left it for anyone else to stumble upon. So naturally I look up "Clubbing" in the Madrid section. The book recommends "Nature (Mid-Day)" by saying, "Nature is absolutely worth a visit, especially on Thursdays...The metallic decor and low, red lighting make it seem like Han Solo might show up later on. Little TV's show Japanese anime." This description is perfect. PERFECT.
If you ever come to madrid, on a thursday, come here.
http://www.myspace.com/naturemadrid

We showed up it was 1230-1ish. The place was empty but the music, oh my the music. Soo bomb, this DJ was playin nothing but the best electro you've never heard, ON VINYL. HIS WHOLE SET.

So later, people showed up and the place was packed, by then this DJ:
http://www.myspace.com/cajuan

starts his set with the banger of the moment, that you, dear reader, heard about here on El Eskeleto, "Kids" MGMT (Soulwax remix). Just obliterated the place. The house was about to burn down. He goes on to play Daft Punk Digitalism Justice Crookers Michael Jackson it was like he was playing off my computer, but my favorite song was the DJ SkeetSkeet remix of "Want you Back"-Jackson 5, that just killed the place. What are the chances of hearing a song from a LA DJ remixing a 30year old song, at a club in Madrid played by a random/bossa German DJ? Slim. To none.

http://www.zshare.net/download/19466554aa808adb/ "Want you Back" (skeetskeet remix)


oh, I should give a shout out to Skeetskeet, and his bossa blog: www.eatskeet.com
I'll take the cam. next thursday so you can see Nature in all its glory.

FILM; Moving Pictures; Pelicula

So freakin blogger won't let me upload a sweet video of me walking out of my place, hopefully I can upload it later. So since you can't see my video watch the preview for the Biggie movie:

When My Camera Gets Here

I'm going to take pictures of Madrid's dogs. There are some of the most original dogs I have ever seen in my life. And they are all uber-obedient, and relate to their owners. They are mostly leash-less, but under control. I wish I had a good example to show you. soon enough.

What's up America??

Seriously. What is going on over there in the USA?? I feel like these are super important times in the country and I'm out of it. One, well, I'm in a foreign country for the next 3 months, but also in terms of an economic perspective, I don't get it. How can the government and the banks themselves allow such big banks to just lose it. There was talk of AIG going under. The fact that there was talk about this, says how dire the situation is. This economic situation seems to have put the presidential debates on a second tier.

We have become so cynical over the last eight years thanks to all these photo op's and just being lied to by the current administration, that I think they might of controlled this economic situation to put people's attention away from the election and in the end help keep the Republicans in power. Or Bush just wants whoever gets his presidency to have to deal with the mess he left. That would make Bush look not as bad as he actually was. At least in the history books. But seriously, name a worse President other than Nixon...

That was my rant. I leave you with questions and photos.

Are the Padres getting any better? How was Street Scene? Is Chappele's Show back on? LOST? Remember o-town? When Pat&Oscar's was just Oscar's?? what about ska-punk??

Lucky You, Es Domingo.

Sooooo it's finally here...the Soulwax remix of Kids-MGMT. This sounds like it still needs a bit of work, but its still fire. This is not an official release, but you get a good idea of what's in store.

http://www.zshare.net/download/1860507700f8292a/

Also!! New Kanye track?!! Sounds nothing like he's ever done, and also sounds unfinished. Interesting new direction for Mr. West, I'm not sure i buy it yet. Check it for yourself:
http://welikeitindie.com/music/kanye.mp3

And a little update of my life: Last night was Noche en Blanco here in Madrid, which means they close off the streets and people just walk around, go see art exhibits/installations. There was going to be a guy who was going to walk on a tightrope from building to building, and we waited for 40 mins and it ended up getting cancelled because there was too much wind... Bummer.
Then we just roamed Gran Via and taught Spaniards the high five variations.

Random Photos

So today was the first serious day of school, homework was assigned yadayadayada... Today has not been that exciting although I did buy a water bottle!! haha.. So not to bore you too much here are more random photos.

A Few Things..

I'm just going to start writing...The first thing I can't seem to get out of my head are how lame the kids from SMU that are at our program are. OK, I'll explain. So the school where I'm at is both USD and SMU students. Its about a 75-25 ratio with USD as the majority. They sit in the front of all the classes, shirts tucked in for dinner, hair is combed and parted. I mean, come on. Maybe I'm just too California or whatever...Anywayyyy

So there's a Che Guevara movie coming out, which apparently is very good, there's posters for it all over Madrid. Its directed by Steve Soderbergh(spelling?) and I want to see it badly.



I woke up today to the sounds of one of the neighbors blasting (literally.) rancheras. I thought i was in TJ for a sec, then spent the day trying to figure out how to and when to go to Morocco. I think I'm gonna go to Marrakesh, the other cities seem like they've been Westernized a bit too much already. So after that I cruised to Parque Eva Peron, had some strawberry ice cream (Cold Stone wassup??!!), watched some old people/dogs walk around. Then headed over to Tribunal which is like Hipster-town, Madrid. It was awesome they were all in this little plaza chillin, I forgot my camera today. But I will def go back and shoot some pics.

HELLLOOOO AGAIN!

So i was gonna post some music up, but to celebrate that I have good internet finally I will update you on my life a bit. There's a lot: Here are pictures of my room. And pictures of the best people around; Lacoste car; Patterns; Vic (my roomate) sitting in the street while filming some stuff for a movie you will all soon see. There will be more.