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"It's all forgotten, though, with her next question. All my life I have been waiting for this moment, and when it comes I can hardly believe it: I feel unprepared, caught short.
'What are your five favourite records of all time?' she says.
'Pardon?'"

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  • attend a Clash gig and learn how to spit;
  • wear minidresses in Swinging London;
  • see how things were before the white men arrived
  • take the streets on May '68;
  • spend New Year's eve in La Habana;
  • overhear the Boedo gang at some cafe and fall in love with Roberto Arlt;
  • party like Caligula;
  • be a flapper at the Savoy Ballroom;
  • have an infatuation with Anaïs Nin;
  • play hide and seek with Julio Cortázar;
  • throw a cake at Marie Antoinette;
  • wear blue under the industrial-grey Watt's sky;
  • get to know my grandfather;
  • go to my primary school right when the bell rings just to play those heavens one more time.
mar 7 2009 ∞
mar 7 2009 +
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  • Regret by New order: I would like a place i could call my own, have a conversation on the telephone, wake up everyday that would be a start, i would not complain of my wounded heart ;
  • No Rain by Blind Melon: You know i'd like to keep my cheeks dry today so stay with me and i'll have it made ;
  • Plainsong by The Cure: Sometimes you make me feel like I'm living at the edge of the world ;
  • Only happy when it rains by Garbage: I'm only happy when it's complicated and though I know you can't appreciate it ;
  • Zocacola by Charly García: Ella busca en los jazmines, él la busca en la ciudad .
feb 27 2009 ∞
feb 27 2009 +
  • Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots
  • L.A. Woman - The Doors
  • California Girls - The Beach Boys
  • I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better - The Byrds
  • Malibu - Hole
  • Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Tropicalia - Beck
  • Santeria - Sublime
  • California Love - 2pac
  • Paradise City - Guns n' Roses
  • Got The Life - Korn
  • Tequila Sunrise - Cypress Hill
  • Ruby Soho - Rancid
  • Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles
  • Epic - Faith No More
  • Spiderwebs - No Doubt to roll with roxy
feb 27 2009 ∞
mar 15 2009 +
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  • Marilyn Monroe: because she'll always be goose-pimply all over
  • Audrey Hepburn: because you'll find her picture as you look 'grace' on a dictionary
  • Diane Keaton: because I really believe she takes her cat for a walk in a collar and I'd like to be like her when i grow up
  • Barbara Feldon: because she sums up the best from an era -Woodstock, the TV side of the moon, Beatlemania, May '68, Mel Brooks' scripts- I miss without living
  • Shirley Manson: because, along with three bald men, she taught me how to be a woman
  • Anaïs Nin: because she was a constructor
  • Coco Chanel: because she redefined us
  • Winona Ryder: because of her lost Hollywood charm; because she dances with ghosts underneath the snow and because she refus...
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mar 16 2009 ∞
mar 17 2009 +
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  • T-Rex: Born to boogie - everyone should see Marc, Elton and Ringo playing Tutti Frutti.
  • Some like it hot - People like that just don't exist anymore and it's sad.
  • The Clash: Westway to the world - Strummer's final lesson is something every musician should learn.
  • Slumdog Millonaire - It reminds us how life is just a collection of some defining moments.
  • Bram Stoker's Dracula - I can't help falling in love with Winona.
  • Young at heart - Music saves, in every possible way.
  • The party - How to wash an elephant.
  • He's just not that into you - It's not men coming from Mars and women from Venus: it's how we watch different movies.
  • The Breakfast Club - Right from the Golden Age of teen movies.
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mar 9 2009 ∞
jun 25 2009 +
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  • she becomes all fur and legs when she bathes and right in the middle of it she stares at you and seems to ask 'what's up?';
  • she captivates the neighbors by spying on them through the balcony while virtually despises the little teckel next-door barks;
  • she plays hide and seek all the time and appears climbing from nowhere because deep inside she's a ninja;
  • you could call her all day and not even get a look or you could show her a comb and she'll be running to your arms to be all beautiful and neat;
  • she looks into your eyes first, then she miaows because she learnt well there's no point in crying if nobody is watching.
feb 27 2009 ∞
feb 27 2009 +
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  • John Frusciante 'cause he is an Artist;
  • Robert Smith because of the flanger;
  • Bernard Summer because he's all about good taste and knowing when to play rather than virtuosism;
  • George Harrison 'cause he is a Beatle;
  • My friend Waly.
mar 7 2009 ∞
may 25 2009 +
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  • my mother saying something La Maga would probably say;
  • Louis Armstrong's voice;
  • some point during an argument;
  • Sally's "...and I hate you, I really hate you" after Harry's New Year speech;
  • the sudden recognition of a smell or a taste from my childhood, which leads me for a second there and then again.
mar 7 2009 ∞
aug 25 2010 +
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