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Sexy Sadie, What Have You Done?

1. I have almost 30 years and there are certain things that begin to seem urgent, but only from a creative standpoint, and that the rest starts - on the contrary - to seem more a matter of patience. I mean, stories, blog entries, songs, all my work of expression begins to be adorned by a halo of urgency that makes years I had. I would like to write or record it and publish it everything and the same day. Fortunately, the weather and my colleagues (at least in the musical) become my editors. Otherwise, not having to devote time to other things - like earn my bread by the sweat of the brow - Calamaro issued as manic in its worst times. Life is wise, I better shut my half of what I have to say.

2. One of my classmates found in 1995 a great business opportunity: Became porn dealer. For those atortolados to which we were afraid to ask for a Playboy, a male, or Ebony magazine in the post nearest Barrero salvation embodied as a commission and he did it - taking a low overhead - was responsible for passing the newsstand that was outside of San Andresito and the transaction. Barrero weeks later diversified the business and what he did was to buy the magazines and rent for days or weekends, by multiplying the investment made in each form. I was dying of fright to imagine that any teacher of the school - or my Mom - surprised me with a pornographic magazine in his briefcase, but I decided on a Thursday and ordered him to a Playboy Barrero. Like all magazines were committed only thing I was Ebony was not that I have been very happy for the minutes I spent alone watching naked people of African descent in the study who shared Manuel and I (no racism, but not what I expected). A couple of weeks later I found the technological solution to my problems scanning porn: Movies on CD-Rom. Agreeing to pay the extra Barrero I ordered a movie he had seen in a candy within the transport terminal. Hide a CD was a lot easier to hide a magazine, but I did not expect that my mom would get some papers for school in my folders for technical drawing. "Perverted, depraved and sick" are I remember the three appellate session of nagging that I had prepared when he found the film. I left it on the desk and gave me the awareness that was throwing the CD because I could not give the bad example to my little brother. Today I regret having waste of the film: It was a funny parody of A Clockwork Orange (I saw several years later), dubbed by the English and starring Axel and his friends, who met at the bar "Vulva juice" to take "stiff dick" and "Double stiff cock."

3. The first person who heard about Nirvana went to Jaime Agudelo. All we got - one way or other - to train Nirvanamanía at 93. Jaime told us that Kurt Cobain hated playing Smells Like Teen Spirit and when it asked a lot of playing and that was just the concert. I wondered: How could upset about the fact that the people you really like a song you wrote? A mid-year MTV made us gringo and early 94's spent a lot of unplugged version of All Apologies. In April 94 we went to Cyprus to San Jorge and in those days was killed Kurt Cobain. I remember he gave me much grief, but as there was connected to Nirvana as I did a few years later was not so hard.

4. The alleged suicide of Michael Hutchence surprised me more. In those days INXS Elegantly Wasted was released and I had started thinking about putting together a group. Initially they said that Hutchence had committed suicide. When rumors began a few months later, that Hutchence died of a practice of choking during sex, I felt a little calmer.

5. Yesterday I was reading about Layne Staley, the frontman of Alice In Chains which coincidentally also died on April 5, as Kurt Cobain. In an article on the internet I read about five or six cats that Staley had survived without food or water during the two weeks when his decomposed body in apartment Seattle before being discovered by police. What really happened is that, at death, Staley had a cat named Sadie, who passed to Jerry Cantrell when his owner died. At the time Sadie was about 10 years old and lived eight years beside Cantrell, up dead in October 2010.

6. The creative urge me, but in any case otherwise remains a matter of patience, understanding and work. And I still like good girls (those kind Sexy Sadie), and that's final. I'm not for anything else.