People love music. It’s one of the first and most important means of expression known to man. People fall in love, find a cause, discover friendships and cure their ills every day thanks to the power of song. As it is with our current societies, though, sometimes being a musician (or an artist, for that matter) must come with a degree of corporate compromise: money. Virtuosos or not, an artist has to eat, and sometimes he/she has to adapt to what’s popular at the moment. In the end, the people rule even though sometimes it would seem otherwise.
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Tags: bella_vista, crimson_ghost, halloween_costume, halloween_parties, internet_portals, midnight_fireworks, october_31st, Panama, panama_city, Porto Diao and Friends, portodiao, rebels_motorcycle_club, social_calendar, social_phenomena, Video, vimeo, zombie_horde, zombie_movies, zombie_walk
October 22, 2008
Looking for something different to do this Halloween? If you’re tired of the club scene and Halloween parties that appear in the social calendar every October 31st, then you are invited to participate in a special event that will make the “dead” rise and walk the earth for one night only.
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August 30, 2008
This is the set-up: a man that’s known both online and off as Rob Rivera is lying down in bed thinking about the things people like Rob Rivera think about when they’re lying in bed (answer: chocolate) perusing the TV channels of his basic cable service. Mind you, my TV set has been busted for months.
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Memoirs / Panama Tourist Guide / Porto Diao and Friends / Video
Tags: boom, burn_marks, discovery, entertainment_factor, homebrew, ironboy, karcamo, lucha extrema nacional, lucha libre, lxn, personal_experience, plot_twists, Porto Diao and Friends, portodiao, rxw, scars, Video, violence, wrestlers, wwe, xtrema, youtube
May 23, 2008
Like a folded chair to the face, sometimes things blindside us and knock us off our shoes when we least expect it. Many of us enjoy the thrill of a pleasant surprise, but in this day and age of the Internet where we can know everything everybody is doing every second of the day, spoil [...]
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May 7, 2008
Due to an oddball series of events that I dare not discuss here, I found myself perusing the nightlife of my fair, beautiful Panama City in search of fun, sexual healing and assaults to my senses that can only be found under the multicolored lights of the many nightclubs that pepper the town. My hard-partying [...]
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Tags: call center sales, co workers, computer enterprises, dell computer, dell employee, employee of the month awards, equator, hearsay, little slice, matter of fact, mere mortals, michael dell, obsess, Panama Tourist Guide, phone conversations, quality control, sales rep, seat call center, slice of heaven, Video, viral video, youtube, youtube video
February 28, 2008
I would like to take the moment to talk about a YouTube video that is slowly (but surely) taking the internet by storm, and I’m proud to say that this bonafide viral video comes from my little slice of heaven, that S-shaped paradise smack-dab in the middle of the equator we mere mortals have come [...]
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Blog / Music / Panama Tourist Guide / Video
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January 30, 2008
I was at the production office of the 2008 Panama Jazz Festival on a sunny Friday morning getting stuff done with Yamile, putting out fires that often came throughout the course of the week we worked there, when a gentle young man, tall as a lamp post and seemingly fragile, sat down next to me [...]
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January 11, 2008
There’s not much to say about “raspaos,” universally known to English-speaking countries as shaved ice or snow cones, other than the fact that these icy slices of the highest clouds from heaven are the best thing to happen in the history of your lifetime if you are out and about on a sunny day and [...]
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Tags: Articles, Bajo-Tierra, colombia, Español, fusion_band, guitar_bass, incubus, limp_bizkit, linkin_park, Los-Dias-Adelante, Medellin, Music, myspace, rhythm_guitar, rock_fusion, underground_circuit, Video, youtube
December 26, 2007
Colombian band Bajo Tierra has apparently been rocking all the bitches in the biker shots since 1988 and all I can think is “where in the world was I?” This punk rock fusion band is right up my alley, as evidences by their first single off their 4th album in 20 years, named Los Dias [...]
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December 11, 2007
I read an interview on Marcos Beraha a couple of months ago, and in it this engineer mentioned that he’s always had the need to express himself through song and, with the advent prowess of the Internet, it allowed him to purchase nifty sound recording programs so he could record tracks right from home. Out [...]
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November 20, 2007
I have returned! After a short absence (alright, so I took a little more than a month… big whoop) I’m slowly taking back the reign of things. One of the reasons why I’ve been quiet this long is, in part, due to this year’s Zombie Walk, which was organized by the Porto Diao group. The [...]
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September 26, 2007
Neither I nor the world was ready for what was unleashed upon the earth on December 23rd, 1994. An avid fan of games as you can probably tell, a young lad named Robert was psyched when one of his favorite games at the time was getting a movie adaptation. As it was, I was an [...]
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September 20, 2007
If this comes off as ranty then it is because I feel particularly touchy when it comes to the capacity for injustice in man. I’ve been preparing an article on Noriega and the 1989 invasion to Panama, labeled “Just Cause,” and that, tangled along with things happening at work and my personal life that I [...]
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I found PostSecret in 2005, mostly by accident. I wasn’t the person I am now but I was on my way, as in I didn’t yet know why people and their struggles fascinated me so much. In some cases, I didn’t know how attracted I was to the subject of human behavior and, in that [...]
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The new Queens of the Stone Age album, entitled “Era Vulgaris,” is like a targeted cruise missile: it comes in hard and fast, unavoidable and precise in its desire to destroy it all. Unapologetic. The album is a lot of this, and a “greatest hits” of rhythms found in their previous albums from the band, [...]
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