Monday, March 21, 2016

Sometimes the breeze is all you need ..........and Then....

The other day I was sitting outside on the back porch smoking a cigarette just taking in the surrounding sounds . It reminded me of a time when I used to sit on a bench at the beach and listen and watch the waves . This time it was bamboo that is growing in the backyard. Yes, its a pain in the ass plant, that that is very hard to get rid of but , it has a unique appeal. 


Just sit back and watch how it moves with the breezes .Listen to how the wind gently caresses each leaf and the gently creaking of the bamboo as it dances . 


.......and then......

Its all ruined by the messy white shit that falls from the sky in the wrong season!!






There goes the nice sound of the breeze  and gentle creaking . Instead you get the sound of globs of snow dropping as it melts and the cracking of bamboo as it snaps from the weight of the snow! so much for relaxing!




Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Not a White Thing

For a long time I have heard, " Your the whitest Puerto Rican I have ever met". To be honest it makes me laugh. How do you act a color or, doing things that represent a color ? Yes you can represent a nationality , a culture, or an ethnic group but, within all of these the colors are different. So if we all acted a color then the census would have to have a lot more pages then it does to cover the entire color spectrum and, include shades to determine the severity of the color group you belong to . Where would you put all the orange  sunless tanning people?

Staying on topic. Yesterday a, gordito bean of a man from my own ethnic background , said I was a white Puerto Rican . It wasn't because I have a lighter pigment to my skin then he does but , because I like heavy metal and I have tattoos, and I don't speak Spanish. I don't expect people to enjoy what I listen to but, at least understand and not be ignorant to the fact that heavy metal music is not specific to ethnicity, gender, or color.  So I did some searching and i think the next to videos should clear things up .

Not a white Thing Part 2




If that's not enough here's a list:

Argentina
Hermética

V8 (band)
Almafuerte (band)
Rata Blanca
Tren Loco
Alakrán
Horcas
Kamikaze
Riff
El Reloj
Nepal (band)
A.N.I.M.A.L.
Arraigo
Tersivel
Bolivia
Anomalía
Dominique
Dead Memories
Ztate Of Mind
Dragón de Comodo
Delanz
Hate
L.A. Nekra

Brazil
Angra - a Power Metal band that takes occasional influence from traditional Brazilian music, especially on their Holy Land and Temple of Shadows albums, particularly the song 'The Shadow Hunter' off the latter album.
Tierramystica - a folk/power metal band that uses both native Brazilian and Portuguese instruments.

Chile
Alejandro Silva - Instrumental heavy metal guitarist of the Alejandro Silva Power Cuarteto.
All Tomorrows
Atomic Aggressor
Criminal
Coprofago
Decrepit Cadaver
Dorso
Fahrenheit
Fireland
Massakre
Necrosis
Nuclear
Pentagram Chile
Poema Arcanus
Recrucide
Six Magics
Steelrage

Colombia
Kraken - Founded in 1983.
Parabellum
Ekhymosis
Agony
Koyi k utho
Internal Suffering
Inquisition
Masacre

México

Agora
Resorte

Puerto Rico
Puya
Severe Mutilation
Athaxia
D.O.D. (Dealers of death)
Abismo Nuclear
Dantesco
Nonpoint
Back In The Day
Pit Fight Demolition
Machete
Zafakon
Death Arrangement
Outbreak Hate
Sepulchral
Godless
Rodney Infernal
Massive Destruktion
Voracious
Matriarch
Waves of Serenity
Mantarraya

Venezuela

Laberinto
Gillman
Arkángel
Cultura Tres
Freddy Marshall