Francisca Valenzuela

Francisca Valenzuela playing a set at the Centro Cultural Amanda from her disc, Muerdete la Lengua, recorded here in Chile in 2007 (she was born and raised in San Francisco, Cali).  The songs "Dulce" (sweet) and "Peces" (fishes)(written at age 13) from said album, are the most widely recognized with the first achieving the #2 spot on Chilean national radio rankings, and the latter being nominated by Rolling Stone for being one of the best songs of 2006. 

She was mesmerizing live-- her voice sounded exactly as it does on her CD (which, duh, you should check out even if you don't speak Spanish).  And not to mention, she's super nice.  Yeah, LL and I met her.  In times like those, being a DJ has its perks, and now she has my email.  Score.

Disc available here. 

Happy listening!  

50 first days

I have, not recklessly rather strategically, been tossing a lot of "first days" in the bag lately and today was not an exception.  Let's just leave it at I did a lil switcheroo on the job front and am SO STOKED!  Working in what I dig, in an industry that will never cease to pique my interest, score + score!!

Without divulging too many details of my entry into dream-jobdom, I'll just say that this morning I collided face to face with one of my nearly forgotten, yet veritable and debilitating weaknesses:

Grocery-cart selling, $500 peso costing, on-the-go street OJ:

OMG.  Cue canine-eque salivation... You have not begun to live if you haven't gulped a glass of this goodness... Not to mention it was my first purchase here in Chilito-- ever-- on January 12, 2009, and for being a lifelong OJ hater, it's first sips up that straw knocked my prior opinions on their vitamin C negligent arses. 

SO, here's to street vendors, newness, and doin' what makes ya happy--