Tuesday, March 13, 2007

The outside was inside, get it?

Went to a nice "chill" bar on the week-end called El Bosc de les Fades. It's very nice as the inside looks like outside; it would definitely make the guys from the movie "A night at the Roxbury" very envious. It's a dark, warm/humid forest with trees and waterfalls. I felt like at any time we would see hobbits popping up from this "Lord of the ring" like decor. Anyways, it's a very nice place and would definitely recommend it for some relaxing drinking.

Alright, it's now "show time"! From now on (actually since Monday) it's raining presentations, papers, take home mid-terms and finals, etc. Sleeping time has been brought down to a minimum. It's actually not that bad, but still...gotta go!


JP

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

JP at the Opera? What???

Last Thursday I went to the opera...yes yes, you heard right, I went to the opera! Basically I was given good tickets to the premier of Boulevard Solitude at the Liceu theater in Barcelona. All the singing was in German, a language I am very familiar with (not!) but there were subtitles in English and Catalan. Although the piece itself was visually incredible and driven by good music, I found the story quite flat (boring!). But then again, please don't rely on my critic because although I went open minded for the possibility of having my negative perception about opera changed, I left halfway through as it was just too damn boring! Yeah yeah...I don't get it...I can "appreciate" classical music and theater, but opera is just not my thing. However, I must say that the theater Liceu is quite nice!!!

Considering the week was light in terms of workload, I thought the lyrical content of this song might summarize best what I ALMOST went through (I must add it was well deserved, of course). After the first few seconds you'll get the point (very repetitive); I apologize for the visual content that might offend some.

SPANDOX - TO THE CLUB


Alright, gotta go write papers...Have a good week...

JP