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Andrés Cárdenas

🇨🇴 Thinking out-loud about Free software, privacy, Football & Rock music.

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I’m Andrés. A Colombian Autodidact, FOSS enthusiast, Liverpool FC and Spacemen 3 fan.

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Watching Liverpool play on Thursday night kinda sucks but a win is a win ⚽ Huge result for Legia Warszawa against Aston Villa too. Hoping to see LFC in Warsaw in the knockout stages of the Europa League🤞🏽

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So we were kayaking near Oniona’s hometown when, for no reason at all, from the forest someone screams at me the N word. I was so confused I couldn’t react. Coincidentally, elections are coming up next month so I’ve started seeing anti-immigrants propaganda. I wonder if there’s any relation…

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Finished reading:

Up-Tight: The Velvet Underground Story
Victor Bokris, Gerard Malanga

Had this on my “to-read” pile for a while. Finished it on my last train trip. Enjoyed particularly the bits about the infamous band reunion in the 90’s.

I knew about Lou Reed’s obnoxiousness, but in reality he was as talented as a songwriter as he was a monumental jerk. It was quite surprising to learn that The Velvet Underground were a “no girls allowed” band at the beginning. It’s hard to imagine that since the line-up on the banana album includes two of the most badass women in Rock’n’Roll: Maureen Tucker and Nico, whose biography I just picked up.

Reed might have written the songs but I think it was John Cale that gave them their edge. That’s where the real genius was. After reading this Sterling Morrison remains my favorite member and perhaps the most underrated of them all.

No mention whatsoever of “Squeeze” here and fairly so. The only people in the world to consider that a VU album are Doug Yule and Steve “breadfan” Sesnick.

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🍿 Watched Le Bonheur, 1965 - ★★★½

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🍿 Rewatched Get Out, 2017 - ★★★★

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The type of movie that let's one see a lot more with rewatches. Quite more relatable this time around and hopefully not the last time I watch it.

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🍿 Watched Asteroid City, 2023 - ★★★★

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Checked the website’s logs today and was surprised to see that GPTBot has already been around doing their thing. Brb gonna ask GPT how to update the robots.txt file to block itself then…

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Wasn’t around in 1990 for that legendary Rincón equalizer in the World Cup ⚽ But I saw a Colombian last-minute winner against Germany in the #FIFAWWC today! This is the most exciting Colombian team in years!

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🍿 Watched My Own Private Idaho, 1991 - ★★★

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This movie finishes by telling you to "have a nice day"

Need I to say more?

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My soundtrack at work for weeks. Overplayed to the point of considering a little treasure now, so I’m linking and archiving it here.

Sonic Boom’s compilation of Spacemen 3 and Spectrum influences and some of Kember’s own favorites.

Tracklist
  1. The Staples Singers – This May Be The Last Time
  2. Bo Diddley – You Don’t Care
  3. Rolf Harris – Sun Arise
  4. The Red Crayola – Transparent Radiation
  5. Sun Ra – Angels + Devils
  6. Washington Phillips – Denomination Blues
  7. Jesse Mae Hemphill – I’m So Glad
  8. Lightning Hopkins – Needed Time
  9. The Cryin’ Shames – Please Stay
  10. The Zodiacs – Stay
  11. The Wailers – She’s Coming Home
  12. Evie Sands – Can’t Let Go
  13. The Syndicats – Crawdaddy Simone
  14. The Rays – Elevator Operator
  15. Xavier Cugat – Perfidia
  16. The Fantastic Baggies – It Was I
  17. The White Noise – Firebird
  18. Daniel Johnston – True Love Will Find You
  19. Juicy Lucy – Just One Time
  20. The Riot Squad – I Take That We’re Through
  21. Honolulu Mountain Daffodils – Psychic Hitlist Victim No. 8 (Missing)
  22. John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers – Witchdoctor
  23. MC5 – Ramblin’ Rose

Pete Kember’s notes archived from sonic-boom.info.

CD/Vinyl copies of this release.

Andrés Cárdenas