The Window.

You were so broken up. I could see the tears coming down your cheeks, even with a window in between blurring my view.
I was sitting in the back of one car, you were sitting in the back of another. In fact, I'm not sure you were sitting. You were more like lying down facing me, your back against the door, legs completely straight, left one on top of the right one.
Both cars raced, left lane, right lane, and I got to see your sad face and your sad body. I put my hand on the window just like in the movies, when a visitor in a prison puts the hand on the glass window to try to feel the convict's hand. So close and yet so far away.
I was trying to touch your face so that I could clean up your tears, but I couldn't. It hurt that you hurt so much. I knew what you were going through because you told me about it, remember?
We were chatting online and you told me how sad you were, how you wished and hoped it would have worked out but it didn't. The helplessness I felt then, that's how I felt in that car.

I'm glad it was just a dream.
I really am here to help.

p.s. Things will get better.

xoxo
Cuca

Alanis, the Queen.

Yesterday I went to a Alanis Morissette show in Mexico City at the Auditorio Nacional (National Auditorium) and I can't even put into words how amazing the show was.
It's my first time seeing Alanis live and now it's for sure that I'll be seeing her again whenever I get the chance to do so. Her voice is just... unbelievable. Better live than on her records. She reaches tones that I ddidn't even think were possible to reach, and every single time she opened her mouth I felt goosebumps all over my body. The five musicians she brought with her are also amazingly talented and their energy brought a lot to the show. I'm sure it wouldn't have been the same vibe without them.

The setlist was:

Intro (The Couch)
Uninvited
All I Really Want
Versions Of Violence
Not The Doctor
Not As We
You Learn
Hand In My Pocket
You Oughta Know
Everything
Sympathetic Character
Perfect
Moratorium
Tapes
So Unsexy
Ironic
Thank U

Two hours of pure geniusness, ha. I was ecstatic.
The Auditorium is a very well organized place and even if they let you stand up, it's really made to remain seated. Everyone stood up except for the area where my friend Fabiana and I were, so we thought it would be a little rude to stand up and (maybe) block someone's view.
By the time the song "All I Really Want" started we stood up (we were too excited) and this asshole behind us yells–with a very rude tone, by the way: "Sit down!!" but every person sitting in the other areas was standing up and it was a concert so there was no fucking way we'd sit down. So I turn around and I yell back: "sit down in your house!!" (it sounds better in Spanish, haha). He didn't say anything else during the show and as a matter of fact, we kind of encouraged everyone else to stand up. Even the asshole.

Alanis is incredible and if you get the chance you should go to one of her shows. Even if you only know the song "Ironic", it's the kind of show anyone can appreciate and make you jump like crazy.

xoxo
Cuca

"Peopla Got A Lotta Nerve" by Neko Case

Today, we are especially happy to bring you “People Got A Lotta Nerve,” the first single from Neko Case’s forthcoming album Middle Cyclone (out March 3), because for every blog that reposts the song and/or iLike user who adds it to their profile, Neko Case and ANTI- will make a cash donation to Best Friends Animal Society.The promotion will run from January 13 to February 3, 2009. Five dollars will be donated for every blog post and one dollar for every user of iLike that adds the song to his/her profile. Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2009, Best Friends Animal Society is one of America’s foremost animal rescue organizations. Founded in 1984, Best Friends advances nationwide animal welfare initiatives by working with shelter and rescue groups around the country. On any given day Best Friends Animal Sanctuary, the nation’s largest facility for abused, abandoned and special needs companion animals located in southwestern Utah, is home to approximately 2,000 dogs, cats, horses, rabbits, birds, and other animals. The society also publishes Best Friends magazine, the nation’s largest general interest, pet-related magazine with approximately 300,000 subscribers. For more information, visit www.bestfriends.org.

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Jeff Buckley: It hurts every single time I listen.

Never will we have another true artist like you, Jeff Buckley. Your loss made the world spin slower. And it has never recovered.
"Because your truth was a Soul Truth".







xoxo
Cuca

Holy crap! Is it 2009 already?!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Yesterday was an amazing night and today was an amazing morning.
First, I had dinner with my–incomplete–family (about 25 of us) and got to see my most favorite cousin (more like a sister to me) after about 4 years of not seeing her. She was my accomplice in almost everything I did when I was young, she knows everything about me, I know everything about her and it's just one of those people who you love more than normal, ha.
We left the family reunion at about 1:45 a.m. and arrived home because I invited my best friends over to celebrate. I had an amazing time. I'll put it like this, I finished my New Year's partying (playing board games with my friends and occasionally drinking Whisky) today at 7 a.m.
Now, it may not seem like a big deal to you because you party a lot and every weekend you go to sleep at seven in the morning but for me it's like, a major record. Why? Well... because I'm a granny and I'm not a party animal.
Yes, in my 21 years of life I've gone to bed at four or five a few times but I don't think I've ever gone to bed at 7 a.m. I'm excited and I'm proud of myself for staying awake that long, ha.
I definitely started 2009 the way I wanted it to start.
I wish you all the best and hopefully all you wish for will come true.

Take care,

xoxo
Cuca

Merry Christmas!, Feliz Navidad!, Joyeux Noël!

Yep yep... HA!

xoxo
Cuca

The day before Christmas

It's Tuesday the 23rd of December. One day before Christmas and my mom is unusually showing off her Christmas Spirit. I think it's awesome because she never really shows any emotions regarding Christmas Day but I find it weird. I don't think I've ever seen her like this, not in my 21 years of life. We've been shopping like crazy this past week and one week ago, my mom started playing music of "the season". I think it was at a mega store that she got 5 Christmas CD's for free. It's the same songs but all in different music genres; electronica, pop, country, latin and I don't remember the other one. She's been playing them everywhere, and by that I mean the car, the house, the kitchen and she already ordered us to play them during dinner tomorrow. She's hilarious and she seems pretty happy, which makes me happy. I just hope it lasts, haha. Family dinners tend to be drama every time. This year, Christmas dinner is going to be chez nous. 20 relatives are coming and I am in charge of dessert. I'm making my already famous–among my family–vegan cupcakes and cake (I hope the little kids like them). I'm very excited because this month's celebrations have never happened in my house, they've always been in my Aunt and Uncle's house or at my late grandmother's house. It will hopefully go well and I'm looking forward to it. I bought a "granny" sweater (that's how I call it) yesterday. I've been meaning to buy one ever since the beginning of the year but I never did, so yeaterday I decided I would buy it and I am very happy with it and just for the hell of it, there's a picture at the bottom so that you can be jealous of my brand new granny sweater, haha. Merry Christmas everyone!

xoxo
Cuca