Los Reyes

El pasado 6 de enero celebramos en casa el Día de Reyes. Vaya por delante que no me porté tan bien como se portaron los Reyes, pero voy a hacer un resumen del día. Por la mañana nos despertamos pronto, y fuimos a misa a la parroquia de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. De vuelta a casa terminé los regalos y nos dispusimos a abrirlos. Empecé yo, como el más pequeño de la casa, y la cosa fue excesiva! Se me juntaron los Reyes con el Papá Noel de Barcelona. De Barcelona llegaron mil cosas: unas gafas de sol, un pack de lentillas, una papelera super chula con look retro, un enfriador de botellas, una sandwichera profesional para calentar 4 sandwiches a la vez, un mini aspirador de esos que tan bien funcionan en los mini pisos, una camiseta de ayas de manga larga chulisima y un jersey rojo. Ah, y del tió de Pilarín me trajo un libro sobre el Tibidabo y un calendario. Bueno, y llegamos a los Reyes propiamente dichos. Empezamos enumerando los muchísimos regalos: un par de sartenes profesionales para que no me pueda quejar de lo mal que me sale la cena, unas zapatillas Puma de velcros, unos pantalones, dos colecciones de CDs de jazz, unos pantalones chinos, un jersey de pico verde, la colada de un día de ropa plachada y una colección de comida de chocolate. Casi nada. Ah, y desde Caracas me traje un viaje a Los Roques.

Bueno, pero lo mejor estaba por llegar: un jamón de cerdo ibérico para hacer una fiesta, con su queso curado. ¡Tremendo!

Ah, por cierto, que también estoy orgulloso de los regalos que hice. Para las niñas que tienen que llegar, les regalé unos pequeños conjuntos de Petit Bateau. A Núria le iba regalar un revistero, pero como no encontré ninguno que me molase le regalé un año de suscripción a la revista del National Geographic en su versión estadounidense. A Miguel Ángel, en conjunción con mi hermana, un conjunto de herramientas de cocina. A Jordi una batería auxiliar para su MacBook. A Mariela un conjunto de pulsera y pendientes. Y para acabar, a mis padres les regalé dos entradas para el espectáculo de magia de la sala Houdini de Madrid.

Espero que todos tuvieseis un grandisimo día de Reyes.

Cee'd Winter Festival

Last Friday I went to the Cee’d Winter Music Festival in Madrid. I got tickets as a Reyes Magos present by my brother and Mariela. It was the three of us, plus Saul, Richard and Bea (his girlfriend) and Bea’s friends. We got to Palacio de Deportes (Sport Palace, somehow our Madison Square Garden, a place where they do all kinds of things) in advance, so we had some tapas and beers before getting in. In the bar where we had them, Fangoria’s guitar player was having some beers too! I hadn’t seen Saul for almost 2 years, and I saw him again! He is completely changed, he doesn’t drink at all (who would have said it!) and he has a car with red leather haha.
The festival had 4 bands playing: Pet Shop Boys, Fangoria, Las Nancys Rubias and Pastora. The first was Pastora, a band from Barcelona which is famous for their Lola song. Only Mariela and I heard attend their concert. Meanwhile my brother and Saul were walking around, and Bea and Richard were out waiting for Bea’s girlfriends. After Pastora we had Nancys Rubias, a pop-rock band, led by the husband of Fangoria’s singer, Alaska. We had a great time with them, people started jumping and they had a curious aesthetic.
Following them we had Fangoria, the first big band. They play a different electronic-pop kind of music. Alaska (Olvido Gara) is the singer, and Nacho Canut is her partner in the band. They published their 7th album in 2006, and they were 2nd on the charts with their single Criticar por criticar. They played some of their new songs, and for 15 minuts they played some “bakalao”, hard electronic music, and people got crazy!! They didn’t play more than an hour, but it was enough to cheer us up.
Last but not least, we had Pet Shop Boys. These two “boys” from London are the gurus of pop/dance music. They played some songs from their last album Fundamentals, but the rest were part of their Greatest Hits. Their performance was astonishing, and we all had a great end of festival. Thank you Jordi and Mariela for bringing me the opportunity of attending this concert. Thank you

Los Reyes Magos

Today is the first day of my “working again in the blog” plan. I am going to talk about my Reyes presents. In Spain we have a tradition that we don’t give presents in Christmas day, but on the 6th of January. The 6th of January is the Epiphany of Our Lord, the day when Three Wise Men worshiped Jesus and brought him presents: gold, frankincense and myrrh. As a memorial of that day, we give presents to our beloveds, and I got some presents 2 days ago. We call them "los Reyes", "the Kings". I got a pair of supercool Camper shoes, a very fashionable long-sleeve tshirt, The Republic by Plato, a book of aerial African pictures, some money, a tie, a watch, and some tickets for Cee’d Winter Music Festival in Madrid. I was a very good boy this past year!