Chichipanguanorrea 3.0

Update: Pictures available here.

You gotta love Austin. The festival this year was great.

I arrived with my friend Luis on friday around 4:30pm and the first band we saw was Queens of the stone age. I had already seen them two years ago when they opened the NIN concert in San Antonio and I really liked their show so I wanted to check them out again. The show was great with lots of energy. It was a great start.

The second band I saw was Gotan Project. This band is awesome. The band has a pianist, a bandoneonist, a clasic guitar player, 3 or 4 violinists, a singer and two DJs. Their music is a fusion between tango and lounge music and its incredible.

Björk was the last artist I saw on friday. She was great and had a large group of musicians playing with her. Her voice is amazing and she totally gives herself to the crowd.

On Saturday I got to the festival around 2pm. I saw the band Augustana which was pretty good and then I saw Blue October which was great too. I really like their song Hate me. Then I went to see the Colombian band Aterciopelados. I was really close to the stage wearing my ‘aguadas’ hat and my colombian flag. It was a great show with lots of energy and dancing. The crowd loved them and they did 3 extra songs at the end after we screamed ‘otra!’ a few times. This normally doesn’t happen at ACL. Bands are not supposed to play longer than what is scheduled, but since they were the last band in that stage I suppose it was ok.

Muse was the last band I saw at ACL since I didn’t make it on sunday. I really really really like Muse and the sound great live. They totally made up for the White Stripes who decided last minute not to come to the festival.

The only dissapointment of the festival is the fact that I couldn’t bring my new camera. I really wanted to take nice photos but I brought my point and shot camera and the pictures aren’t that great but I’ll post them soon anyway.

To summarize, the 3 shows I liked the most were:

• Muse
• Aterciopelados
• Gotan Project

Last weekend was labor day holiday and usually different stores arrange sales. Half Price Books one of my favorite stores in Austin had all its inventory with 20% discount. This store carries used books, cds, dvds and even lps and tapes.

First I went to the photography books section and got my self a really good photography book that is currently in its 9th edition and sells for $84 at amazon. I payed $14 for the 7th edition. I also bought a smaller book called How to Photograph People for $3.

Then I went to the foreign language books and got my self two books in spanish Rumbo a la libertad y Halcones de la noche each for less than $5.

After that I went to check the music and decided to buy some Opera, so I grabbed Carmina Burana and a compilation of songs by Puccini and Verdi.

Finally and this is the most interesting part of my Half Price Books adventure I was looking at the international artists section and I found a cd from Almendra.

This is an argentinian rock band from the 60’s and Luis Alberto Spinetta was part of it. The cd includes the album “Almendra”, plus some singles. I think this is an album that you will even have trouble buying in Argentina, so the fact that the cd is in Austin is really intriguing. How the hell this cd got here? I’m probably never going to found out, but it is interesting to think about it. Maybe I should do something similar: sale my Cuarto Acto cd from Estados Alterados or Shampoo from Calle Silvestre, hide a note inside the cd cover and ask the new owner to contact me and describe what he thinks about finding a very rare album from Colombia in Austin.

Today I bought tickets for the Austin City Limits music festival 2007 and I’m really happy!

Some of the lineup bands: Björk, Bob Dylan, The White Stripes, The Killers, Muse, Queen of the Stone Age, Bloc Party, Arctic Monkeys, Aterciopelados, …

Daniel Jaramillo is my name. You will think that is not a very common name but it is. I went to elementary/middle/high school with another Daniel Jaramillo and one of my brother’s best friends is also Daniel Jaramillo. If you search on Google, there is a Daniel Jaramillo that passed out in 2005, there is one that works in real state and there is a professor working at the Universidad Nacional in Medellín.

It was also brought to my attention by my friend and Puma #2 fan Jerónimo (are you asking yourself who #1 is?) that there is a Pumas player also named Daniel Jaramillo.

Anyway, next time you look around be cautious because there could be a Daniel Jaramillo near you.