I used to be a huge fan of new music. Sadly, nowadays I listen to more old stuff than new and don’t even know what’s coming out…except this:
Today I sent my pre-order in to Amazon.com for Argentine Federico Aubele’s Panamericana album, scheduled to be released September 18.
Here’s a blurb from his record label, Eighteenth Street Lounge Music’s (think Thievery Corporation) website:
“The highly anticipated follow up to Federico Aubele’s critically acclaimed debut, Gran Hotel Buenos Aires. Aubele delves deeper into rich latin sounds with virtuoso guitar playing, hypnotic rhythms, smoky dub atmospherics, and the sensual vocals of Amparanoia, newcomer Natalia Clavier, and a collaboration with Calexico.”
From the few tracks I’ve heard on MySpace, I’m 100% convinced that this album purchase won’t let me down.
My days as a music reviewer are over, so I won’t try to write a whole article on this. I’ll just say that “Postales”, “Esta Noche”, and “Contigo”, are all superb songs and that Aubele’s 2004 debut, was a slick, Latin guitar-over-beats magnum opus.
Go buy it!
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I was writing a quick email to a good friend about the status of the house and realized a couple of things:
- We’ve been kind of stuck for the last few weeks because we needed the electrician to do a few more things and he was waiting on us for stuff like bathroom fans and speaker wire.
- I don’t visit the house enough in the weekday evenings to get stuff done. I was gangbusters at first but now I’ve been so wrapped up in the photography stuff that I’ve let the house stuff get shuttled to the back burner.
- I shouldn’t beat myself up much because it isn’t like I’ve been sitting on my butt playing Nintendo Wii or anything [during daylight hours at least].
Here’s what I told my friend:
“We’ve been at the almost-drywall stage for a while now. Our electrician is supposed to have everything inspected this week so we can install insulation. Then I get to get all itchy trying to put that stuff in the walls. Fun fun.
The drywall guy says it should only take a day or two to get the rough drywall up. Once that’s done we’ll actually have, like, a real house. Then I can start using my power tools (cue images of Tim “The Toolman Taylor” Allen). I’ve got a compound miter saw and a nail gun. It’s going to be crazy as hell…
We’re many months away, but I’m not sweating it. Things will start to pick up steam once the walls are up. Then we can start doing the finishing stuff and get the floor guy in to refinish the wood floors and patch some spots.
Yikes… this list keeps getting longer every time I type it.”
And by no means is the short message above a definitive list of things that need to be done even in the short term. I’ve got to rip down some drywall that we left in place because we thought we could save it (no point). I need to whittle a block to fit in the big crossbeam in the front room to fill in where the termites feasted. I need to…
So much to do. I guess I’ll be over at the house tonight destroying more drywall…
Our House
A coworker of mine just pointed me to a tool that will be extremely useful in our next phase of reconstruction: trim & finishing.
The FINECUT Flush Cut Power Hand Saw from Bosch. $99 at Lowe’s.
3.5 amps
2,000-2,800 RPM
Blades mount on left or right side for excellent visibility and total versatility
Precision sawing, including flush cutting in wood, wood composites and plastics
Variable speed, match speed to workpiece and task
Flush-cutting ability – Blade can lie flat on work surface while cutting
Extended Protection Plans are available for an additional charge
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