Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Monkey Man out of Chile

Okay, this has little to do with Buenos Aires but it's mad contagious - and it's Chilean, not too far off. Straight out of Santiago is an artist I know from NYC. Sebastian paints on skateboards and apparantly makes sick music. His band is Los Mono and Kanye West is blogging about them. It's a small blog world.

Saturday, October 20, 2007

Apartment Hunting

We found some great apartments - one was here.
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We'll lock down our new home this next week and I'll let you know what happens. San Telmo is the old city with cobblestones and antique shops.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Sleeping and Meeting Babies

I may be catching up on the sleep I've missed my entire life. Is it normal to sleep so much when you are relatively happy? This month I don't have any nightlife crowd shots or smiling, beverage-in-hand pics. Besides sleep and watching the Hallmark channel in Buenos Aires, I've hung out in family settings with kids and ate large meals and relaxed a lot on couches. I'm thinking this is what well-adjusted people spend time doing.
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Maxi's new neice and four-year-old nephew.

This is okay as a novelty but not sure I can hold out sitting so much. I'm hoping there's another segment to this settling down thing. We're hunting for an apartment which is more my speed. Think I need to turn up the volume - maybe if there was some kind of sunshine going on - it's overcast here in sunny South America. The city generally has a lot of Naples, Italy going on but lately it's doing its best imitation of London.
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This month I made a trip to LA which included one funeral and three visits to the dentists. Despite those, I got to enjoy some quality time with friends and family - even some good times with family in there between the neurotic moments.
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Mindy and Mom in Malibu
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Len-dog with Maria and Hayden
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Aunt Rita with granddaughter Laila (Len-dog is jealous)
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Brandon and web wings. Carmen and Maxi have the same eyeball fixation.
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Aww yeah, I'm the jewish godmother!Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
mommies and babies are beautiful
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Okay, I did go out a little bit - forgot - just over to the Standard and Chinatown.
Crowds and cocktails.
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Richard Ray - there is no other Hollyhood
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Remember "where's waldo?" Can you find Dr. Oop and Loco in the crowd?
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And Max and I went to a big show before I left - something sponsored by soda.
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Mataplantas played at "Pepsi Music"
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Max and Mataplantas
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Argentina's star emcee - Dante. He's also the son of the most successful rock artist of the past few decades. Even the stars, and children of stars are nice here. It's an amazing culture.