David Bisbal
A little night music. Hear the boom from your heart beat Oye el Boom!
March 5th, 2010 by Thom No comments »Still haven’t heard about fundraisers for Chile in the Bay Area.
March 5th, 2010 by Thom No comments »Anyone want to help me put one together?
So, what’s up with Chile?
March 3rd, 2010 by Thom No comments »When the crisis hit Haitai, it was non-stop news. I know that they are our neighbors. I know thay are very poor. I know we screwed them over many times. But heck, the axis of the earth changed in Chile. People are strarving there. Yes they are a wealthy country, but man they need help. So tell me, what’s happening in the city that we can all do our thing and help them out? Do you want me to put something together. I could be ingnorant, point me that way!
a little night music: from A Little Night Music
March 2nd, 2010 by Thom No comments »Dame Judith Dench gives perhaps the perfect reading of this classic angry sad, heart broken song. Enjoy:
Interesting discusson comparing Jerry Herman and Stephen Sondheim
March 2nd, 2010 by Thom 1 comment »I think I may be in trouble in San Francisco
February 28th, 2010 by Thom No comments »
gay village in Madrid
I did this little interview for a magazine in Mexico. I complemented Madrid for its vitality and nightlife, something that San Francisco is definitely declining in. Oy. Oh well, I told the truth as far as I see it, and as my friend Natacha said, “you are a bit of both cities now.”
Una encuesta publicada por el diario mexicano “Excelsior” sitúa a Madrid, y más concretamente a Chueca, como el mejor destino para el colectivo gay a nivel internacional.
Si hasta ahora San Francisco era considerada la ciudad preferida por los homosexuales, ahora es Madrid quien le quita el puesto a la ciudad americana y se pone por delante de otras como Barcelona, Berlín o Sydney.
El propio director del Centro de la Comunidad Lesbiana, Gay, Bisexual y Transexual de San Francisco, Thom Lynch, reconoce que Madrid le ha quitado el puesto a San Francisco porque es una ciudad muy abierta y muy plural, sin olvidar que la población de San Francisco tiende a envejecer. “El barrio gay, Chueca, ofrece de todo, de la discoteca a café y terrazas, pasando por restaurantes y cines. Los derechos de los homosexuales son mayores que los que tenemos en Estados Unidos”, agrega Lynch.
Así, Chueca sigue siendo uno de los mayores reclamos turísticos de Madrid.
I couldn’t sleep last night: Chile Concerns
February 28th, 2010 by Thom No comments »
from the San Francisco Sentinel
I was glued to Chilean television while the news came in about the horrible devastation experienced in the central part of that nation. Thankfully, Chile is a highly developed nation and well-prepared for earthquakes with modern standards of construction in the major cities. Still more than 200 are thought to be dead and that number is likely to go up.
My thoughts and prayers are with the people of Chile. I will update you with some options on how you can give and help in this disaster.
I will work mostly to find those support groups that are not affiliated with religious organizations.
One of the truly amazing things about talking to people around the world on the Chile TVN site was the outpouring of concern and unity from around the world. Most people were speaking in Spanish, but there were many Americans there also. It was deeply touching.
Animo, Chile. Estamos con Ustedes.
Miré televisión chilena con obsesión mientras las noticias entraron acerca de la devastación horrible experimentada en la parte central de esa nación. Agradecidamente, Chile es una nación sumamente desarrollada y bien-preparado para terremotos, con estándares modernos de construcción en las ciudades mayores. Todavía más de 200 estan considerados muertos y ese número es probable de subir. Mis pensamientos y las oraciones están con las personas de Chile. Yo le actualizaré con algunas opciones en cómo se puede dar y poder ayudar en este desastre. Trabajaré para encontrar en su mayor parte esos grupos de apoyo que no son afiliados con organizaciones religiosas. Uno de las cosas sinceramente asombrosas acerca de hablar con personas en todo partes del mundo en el sitio de Chile TVN fue la efusión de preocupación y unidad de alrededor del mundo. La mayoría de las personas hablaban en español, pero había muchos norteamericanos allí también. Tocaba profundamente.
Esquire’s wonderful talk with Roger Ebert.
February 17th, 2010 by Thom No comments »
I was surprisingly touched and moved by the portrait given in this article in Esquire Magazine. The Pulitzer Prize winning film critic has not been able to talk or eat or drink for three years now. And yet, he seems to have found a deeper freedom in the power of the word. He’s become no less of an atheist or a liberal, but he seems to have taken on that wisdom that those for whom had a great deal of suffering, find. It reminds me of talks with both of my parents before they died. Not particular conversations, but the drum beat of what they hoped to leave behind for me. The real value of life. What loss is, what our responsibility is, and how to be content.
In his dreams, his voice has never left. In his dreams, he can get out everything he didn’t get out during his waking hours: the thoughts that get trapped in paperless corners, the jokes he wanted to tell, the nuanced stories he can’t quite relate. In his dreams, he yells and chatters and whispers and exclaims. In his dreams, he’s never had cancer. In his dreams, he is whole.
These things come to us, they don’t come from us, he writes about his cancer, about sickness, on another Post-it note. Dreams come from us.
Read the article. I think you’ll find it moving, too. And I’m reminded again that this is what illness teaches us, when it is our own, or another’s:
There’s not enough time to write down what he’s angry about
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/features/roger-ebert-0310-4#ixzz0fmj6uSmN
A little night music: Cyndi Lauper
February 15th, 2010 by Thom No comments »I always thought her range on this song was amazing.
