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The bit that you skip #131 : Matchbox 20 – 3 AM
Welcome to “Maudlin week”! Part 1 is a pre-Santana-ed Rob Thomas and company banger. On one of his business trips, my dad bought me a couple of CDs. He got a sampler from a label, it was called “Rocktober” and had a bunch of bands on it. I remember The Tea Party, Sugar Ray (with…
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The bit that you skip #130: Georges Auric – Roman Holiday
The cursed movie. That’s the name my mum gave to Roman Holiday, a 1953 romantic comedy she saw as a kid. Sundays after church were for candy and cinema. My grandma would give her four children what little she could spare for them to have at least one day of carefree fun. Cinemas were divided…
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The bit that you skip #129: John Murphy – Firebombing London
Summer of 2007 was the season of disappointing sequels. Resident Evil Extinction, Spiderman 3, Pirates of the Caribbean at World’s End, Shrek the third, Die Hard 4.0, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Rush Hour 3, Evan Almighty, Ocean’s 13. From mediocre to outright terrible, it was a tough time for movie buffs like…
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The bit that you skip #128: Stu Phillips – Exploration/Theme from Battlestar Galactica
I grew up on a house that loved TV. American and British shows alike were consumed in mass quantities. Mexican TV not so much. We lived in Tula, Hidalgo, so no chance of a decent cinema to catch up on flicks. That was reserved for special occasions, like the saturdays we spent traveling to Mexico…
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The bit that you skip #127: John Williams – The River
It’s weird how some plans you have never come to play. Case in point: Mark Rydell’s The River, a drama film from 1984 starring Mel Gibson and Sissy Spacek. The first time I heard anything about the flick was in 1992, when my dad bought me a CD compiling several movie tracks. I recognised the…
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The bit that you skip #126: Babylon Zoo – Spaceman
Fame is tricky. Fame can be at your grasp and then get plucked away just like that. It could be your own fault due to hubris. It could also be out of your control, like an overexcited exec that decides to fuck up your lead single by using a shit remix. So happened to Babylon…
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The bit that you skip #125: R.E.M. – Sweetness Follows
“Readying to bury your father and your mother//what did you think when you lost another…” Another October afternoon, another deluge I get caught on. My fave umbrella broke 4 years ago, and I haven’t bothered buying a new one. That one was a gift from my aunt Tatay, who bought it for me at this…
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The bit that you skip #124: Dave Navarro – Rexall
So my job in Ericsson didn’t last long. Just a few days over the sixth month stretch and out of the hundreds of trainees hired, less than 15% were still around. All the money spent/wasted on teaching us new technologies, for what? A friend told me there was an opening at the company he worked…
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The bit that you skip #123: U2 – Zooropa
Autumn of 1993 and U2 seemed to be at weird crossroad. Achtung Baby! was successful, but the recording sessions took a big toll on the band, something that became regular on them, as seen on POP. Although I knew U2 due to them being ubiquitous in the 80s, I never owned an album of theirs.…
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The bit that you skip #122: Jane Child – Don’t Wanna Fall in Love
Cable TV and a tendency to be a loner sorta made me a latchkey kid after we moved to Mexico City from Tula. My brothers were way older than me and there weren’t any kids on my street, just retirees and childless couples. My dad’s plan for Cable TV seemed to be two-fold: All the…
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